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I did a side by side comparison of Yast and Agama installers. I was actually surprised at the results. Both installers are the netinstall versions.

The TLDR is, Agama was installing before Yast was even initialized for user input. Yast still completed the task faster than Agama. I was surprised and not quite sure how to explain that.

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Gaming on Tumbleweed with SELinux

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A sneak peak at Agama 13, the next release of the upcoming installer for openSUSE.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed SELinux and Gaming fix is now in

The big controversy over openSUSE Tumbleweed changing from apparmor to SELinux should be coming to an end soon. The devs have been working hard to get a fix pushed that will allow anyone installing wine, proton, lutris, etc to be able to use these game packages without issue. The new fix is a package that modifies SELinux remain in ‘strict’ mode while simultaneously allowing gaming to work. The…

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Hi! Me again!

So I struggle the most with one thing: when I add an outline to a patch to accentuate details, I find that I struggle quite a bit to match the outline to where the colour "seams" are between two different fill areas.

Possibly due to uneven pull and pull compensation, or witchcraft and trickery, they always drift one way or another, and never equally, which makes refining the pattern a pain in the butt. I find that I waste a lot of thread just trying to line up the running stitches with the fill stitch seams.

Do you have any tips for this? Thanks!

Make sure your outline is wide enough to hide most of the push pull effect, and it should be a satin stitch. also try to keep fill angle and satin outline angle as opposite as possible.

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Set up a printer Cronjob and bash script, step by step in detail

Daughter asked if there was a way to set up her new inkjet printer to print once a week to prevent the printer heads from drying out, much like her last printer had done. She really doesn’t want to buy a printer again just because she didn’t use it enough. I said “Absolutely. I can just set up a cronjob to print to it from my Linux computer and schedule that to print once a week. Problem…

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using zypper dup --allow-vendor-change

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6 months old Tumbleweed install, Will it update (dup)?

This install was 6 months old without updating. Let’s update it and see if it bricks itself. The old Manjaro I had installed on sweeties computer bricked after I didn’t update it for too long. I’m guessing that’s because it [Manjaro] is based on Arch, and many people say never let an Arch install go for very long between updates. But what about Tumbleweed? Lets find out….

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wanted to say that your videos are always so helpful and informative, and you are single-handedly the reason I'm still making patches today!

That is awesome. Thank you for sharing :)

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Use the correct Right Arrow → in fonts for inkstitch library

It can be very tricky on certain OS’s to create the correct → right arrow → for use in the inkstitch lettering library when creating a font library, or importing an existing embroidery font design. Never fear, I have you covered. Every single → in this article is the correct → to use for the lettering library naming requirements. So just copy any of these → and paste it as the →.svg name and…

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Test file for embroidery machines, dsttest.dst

Use this file to test if your machine can use a .dst file format. Most can dsttest.dstDownload

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OpenSuse Tumbleweed KDE 1 year review, pros and cons

After a full year with OST KDE as my chosen operating system, my appreciation for it continues to grow. The experience is akin to having a wee little lap cat purring along nicely. My uses for this system are diverse, ranging from content creation on YouTube to game development with Godot, and even intricately designing machine embroidery with Inkscape/Inkstitch. Of course, I must admit a…

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OpenSuse Leap 16 confirmed, will not be immutable by default

OpenSuse devs have finally announced that Leap 16 will happen. Leap 16 will be built on SuSE ALP as opposed to Leap 15.x built on SLE. In the announcement they added that Leap 16 will not be immutable by default and should act very much like the Leap 15 series. There will be immutable as an option during install.

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Linux simple meander fill hat

This is my first meander fill for Linux design and I’ve been very happy with the result. The standard design for the this hat is a black hat with white letter thread.

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Tennessee Mountain Hat

Tennessee stitched with cursive satin font and a nice simple mountain design in the background. Choose from multiple hat colors. Basic stitching has gray thread for mountain background and a TN orange thread color for Tennessee, except for the orange hat has Tennessee with white thread.