Mattermost runs as a Docker container and is excellent. You can create channels and groups which is incredibly useful.

And amazing is is. It has almost completely replaced my use of Google Photos 👍

“Not available in your country” - am not surprised.

I was not aware Google Meet even still exists. Haven’t heard a peep about it in ages. Everyone uses MS Teams at work, and shitty whatsapp at home.

I’m with you, and we can make quite cool things in TinkerCad. To translate my question to your shape: if you decide to have larger rotors, or longer arms, you would have to fiddle with groups for a very long time, right? In comparison, with e.g. FreeCad and a shitload of parameters, that would be quick (but you’d need to spend a lot of time defining all those parameters… but only once, though).

Lofts and sweeps and pockets FTW! That does look like the right solution for single objects.

What about objects that sit at an angle relative to each other? Can you define workplanes (sketches) at arbitrary angles? Can you later slide those planes up/down, e.g. to add more distance from the face it would sit on? For instance, in the above object, the holders on the blue face are tilted 14 degrees from the blue base, and the little red holder in front is tilted an additional 5 degrees and lifted 6mm from the front of the larger red holder.

Yes, tapered in all directions at once. For instance one of the walkies has a rectangular base and an almost straight-up backside, but the front tapers outward. At the same time, the sides taper too, but different angle and height than the front. There are almost no right angles on these shapes anywhere, which is tedious to model.

I’ve looked at OpenSCAD but it’s honestly too much coding for me. TinkerCad is so rewarding because it’s fast and easy to get nearly to the finish line – but I know that any kind of parametric is a win in the long run, because changing one constraint makes everything else auto-adjust rather than having to take apart and build again.

I’m sure they meant “in the end” and not “it’s about time”.

I don’t follow you. Look at the photo, the thing is made of triangles. It’s the best shape. So I wonder, why use more than just one? Why make the shape require more than one triangle?

I take it there’s another holder on the other side.

May I ask why the complex shape, rather than just having a triangle with two points on the 4040 rail and the third point being the axle position?

Man, I feel you. I hate Mattermost for its utter inability to run on anything else than port 8065 specifically.

Thank you for the support link. It tells me I don’t have a supported phone 😭

How does one start gemini? I think I have the same beta version installed but don’t see any mention of it.

Yes, but given the fact that there can we weeks between incidents, that is going go be a long time to be without my services.

That’s a good idea, didn’t know Docker had such capability. I will read up on that - could you give me some keywords to start on?

You know you are right, and I’ve tried. I can manually monitor but it doesn’t happen just then. I don’t know yet what causes it, I can only assume it’s one of the Docker containers because the machine is doing nothing else.

I am doing this to find out how often it happens, how quickly it happens, and what’s at the top when it happens.

Thank you for these ideas, I will read up on systat+sar and give it a go.

Also smart to have the script always running, sleeping, rather than launching it at intervals.

I know all of this is a poor hack, and I must address the cause - but so far I have no clues what’s causing it. I’m running a bunch of Docker containers so it is very likely one of them painting itself into a corner, but after a reboot there’s nothing to see, so I am now starting with logging the top process. Your ideas might work better.

thank you! 🤩

Nope, haven’t. It says I have 2 GB of swap on a 16 GB RAM system, and that seems reasonable.

Why would you recommend turning swap off?

This issue doesn’t happen very often, maybe every few weeks. That’s why I think a nightly reboot is overkill, and weekly might be missing the mark? But you are right in any case: regardless of what the cron says, the machine might never get around to executing it.