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Radiator cover

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I’m making a radiator cover.

Goals

  • Hide ugly radiator
  • Extend windowsill for plants
  • Protect windowsill plants from touching hot surfaces
  • Work with fabric for a change

Steps

  • Measure
  • Find inspiration
  • Draw design
  • Buy materials
  • Cut materials to size
  • Assemble

Design

I would’ve embedded the Pinterest section I made for inspiration in this post, but apparently you can’t embed Pinterest sections, only whole boards. Here’s just the design I came up with:

It’s a simple design made out of wood, unbleached cotton and rope. Part of the wood is reused hardwood skirting boards that we had laying around. The plywood sides are closed, the bottom is open, and the plywood top has a 10mm ventilation slit. The whole thing is lightweight, which makes it easy to attach to the wall so I can vacuum under it.

I might put some reflective foil on the underside of the overhanging part of the windowsill extension, so less heat is radiated directly into the plants. I might even extend it all the way down behind the radiator, but I don’t know if the fabric I bought is dense enough to hide it.

DupeGuru on Fedora

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After many years of Ubuntu, I’m still a Linux noob. This is me typing out loud while I try to install a program.

I moved to KDE Nobara (Fedora) late last year and so far it’s been a nice experience. The only program I didn’t immediately manage to reinstall after the move (besides my wireless dongle) is DupeGuru. On their homepage they only give an option for Ubuntu as well as the source, and I’ve never compiled anything from source.

I was expecting this to be a whole adventure log with me learning to convert or to compile from source or something, but apparently they do have an .rpm package, so I installed that.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work straight away:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dupeguru", line 88, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/dupeguru", line 71, in main
    from qt.app import DupeGuru
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/qt/app.py", line 22, in <module>
    from core.app import AppMode, DupeGuru as DupeGuruModel
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/core/app.py", line 26, in <module>
    from core import se, me, pe
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from core.pe import (  # noqa
  File "/usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/block.py", line 9, in <module>
    from core.pe._block import NoBlocksError, DifferentBlockCountError, avgdiff, getblocks2  # NOQA
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'core.pe._block'

Instead of using a search engine, I asked AI (Perplexity) what to do. It told me to check if the core.pe._block Python module is installed and how to install it. That did not work and the AI kept repeating itself. So back to the search engine, the first hit was somebody with the exact same problem on the DupeGuru github. There the following was suggested:

sudo ln /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_cache.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_cache.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
sudo ln /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_block.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/share/dupeguru/core/pe/_block.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
sudo ln /usr/share/dupeguru/qt/pe/_block_qt.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/share/dupeguru/qt/pe/_block_qt.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so

I checked my Python version (3.11.6) so I changed the 310 above to 311 and ran the commands.

Now it works.

Yay.

Site updates

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2024-09-09

  • Added “recipes” page.

2024-01-31

  • Added “uncategorised ideas” pages and categories to each project category. I think I will let go of categorising by project stage and dump everything that is just an idea into these categories

2024-01-25

  • I think I’ve got my project pages to be uniform now, still want to do some CSS things though
  • I want to also sort my project pages by how far along they are. Right now I only have them sorted by theme. I’m not sure if that’s possible, because I think they can only have 1 parent

2024-01-16

  • Site moved to root
  • Issue with showing (recent) posts on project pages, not uniform. I think it’s because some pages use “Latest Posts” showing post content, and some use “Query Loop”
  • Want to implement: some sort of plugin? to automatically hide all posts in a certain category behind a single password. What I’ve tried so far asks for a password for every single post in the category. I don’t want to do anything with users, just a single password cookie

2024-01-15

  • Started with layout & first categories