Mid 90s is 94 to 96, not most of the decade. Most people don’t start reading as soon as they’re born, they usually wait a few years ;)

As I already said though I knew a few people who were in their teens in the mid 90s who were using computers to learn to read. They were my age, and are in their mid 40s now.

I can’t speak for anywhere else, but in my little corner of Wales, we didn’t have computers in junior school (the school we attended until we were 11), and there were no computers in our classrooms in the comprehensive school (11 to 15 or 18, depending on whether you did your A levels). There was a computer class, and a handful of computers in the school library. The kids who were missed by the teachers and who were found to not be able to read were given extra lessons to learn.

I doubt that OP was in a situation like that, but it’s not overly unlikely.

1994 was 30 years ago. They’re likely to be in their mid 30s to mid 40s, depending on why they used the computer.

In my school the kids who had trouble reading in their teens had additional lessons on the computer to help their reading, and the rest of us had occasional reading lessons on the computer when we were about ten years younger. This was the 80s and 90s in the UK

‘Insert clipboard’s contents’ sounds like a fancy way of saying paste 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sorry, I forgot to reply sooner >.<

I’ve been trying to get my head around this and also looking into Docker containers with Gluetun, as that looks a bit easier to start with. I think for the moment I’m going to go down the Docker route, and at least get the bulk of the programs separated, and give myself some breathing space to learn a bit more.

Docker isn’t ideal, as not everything has a Docker version, but the main programs that I originally mentioned do, and it will let me open the Minecraft servers to the kids in the extended family, especially as it’s getting colder and darker here.

I just want to say thank you to you, @[email protected], @[email protected], and everyone else who’s helped :)

I’m not giving up on this, I’m just going a bit more towards the basics and learning to walk before I try to run. This switching from Windows malarkey is hard work! ;)

Thanks for replying :)

I think I’m getting it, but my brain is definitely pickled at this point :D

I’ve also found this post and a Stack Exchange thread to go with it, and it’s sinking in slowly

https://schnouki.net/post/2014/openvpn-for-a-single-application-on-linux/

I need to go to bed for the night though, I’ve just realised that it’s gone 3 am :o

Thank you :)

The reply from @[email protected] below lead me to the man page for ip netns here:

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/ip-netns.8.html

As far as I understand it, I could run programs like this:

ip netns exec vpn ~/qbittorrent/start.sh

ip netns exec clear ~/minecraft/start.sh

but I can’t figure out how to get the VPN to only run under the namespace. When I run it now, it reroutes all connections through it. I’ve got an OpenVPN connection that I’ve set one of my network connections to connect to automatically, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. As soon as I connect the VPN, everything goes through it.

I’m still reading though, so hopefully I’ll figure it out :)

Don’t mind if I do! Woop woop woop woop!

‘No TV and no beer make Homer something something’

Apologies for the slow reply :)

These are the things that I don’t understand. When you say I need to specify the destinations, does that mean the destination of the traffic, like lemmy.dbzer0.com, or the destination network interface like tun0 or enp2s0?

I’m searching for split tunnel VPN, but the majority of results are either sales sites, or Stack Overflow with no confirmed answers.

I’ve been having a bit more luck with this page after searching for Jet’s answer below:

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/ip-netns.8.html

but I’m still confused >.<

Not if it stops my head from exploding :D

Apologies for the slow reply :)

I’m reading up on this at the moment. If I’m understanding it correctly, I would run that command to launch a program, but could I use it for something that launches at startup?

My Minecraft and Qbittorrent instances start automatically, so could I change them to something like

ip netns exec vpn ~/qbittorrent/start.sh

ip netns exec clear ~/minecraft/start.sh

or change the application’s autostart Command box to ip netns exec vpn qbittorrent %U if the current entry is just qbittorrent %U

Do these make sense?

If you’re on a time crunch, go ahead and use network namespaces under network manager to set up something like what you want as another user suggested.

I’d love to, but I have no idea how >.< :D

I have a vague idea of what they are and what they do, but everything I’ve found assumes a level of understanding that I don’t have yet. I’ve found this man page from searcing an example posted in another reply, and it’s helped, but I’m still confused :)

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/ip-netns.8.html

Apologies for the slow reply :)

To clarify, I’m happy with using either, if my network traffic is split. Ideally I want to switch a lot of my programs to containers at some point, then switch to a better server OS. In the meantime though, I just want to get everything working together.

Qbittorrent has to be behind the VPN, and that’s stopping my Minecraft servers from connecting to the outside world. If there’s a way to force Qbittorrent to be behind the VPN while leaving a non VPN connection open, I’m happy to use it. I only mentioned Gluetun because I’ve heard of it, and I know that it’s for keeping containers behind a VPN. I thought it might be the answer here :)

That’s a great idea, thanks :)

As I understand it, concrete plates, at least in the UK, tend to be quite big, like the road here:

Concrete Road

You might find though that pavements / sidewalks are made up of smaller plates, as they’re easier to transport and fit, rather than waiting for a large area of concrete to set. The only paths that I can think of right now that are concrete are on private property, so I can’t link to them. They’re things like garden paths and are continuous.

If you’re not sure though, you can always tag as surface=concrete and let someone else add any extra detail in the future. At least then the basics are there :)

This is all very helpful, thank you :)

Any Creative Commons license will require the festival to list a credit for your work. That might not be an issue for the app or website, but the festival might not be interested in listing “poster by Tippon, used under a Creative Commons 4.0 license” every time they use something you created on social media, in print, or advertising.

I didn’t know about that. I thought they might have to credit me, but didn’t know that it would need to be on the work itself. I definitely don’t want that. I hadn’t thought about third parties either. I doubt that anyone would try to rip us off, but I don’t want to leave that door open either, just in case.

I’m not overly concerned with future clients, as I’m medically retired and just doing this as a learning exercise. There’s a tiny chance that I might get future work from this, but I’m more concerned with not cutting myself off from using the website / app template if I was to fall out with the festival at some point. As you say though, I don’t want to leave either me or the festival open to having the content stolen either.

I’ve just realised that I need to double check how to handle third party images too. We have some local businesses who support the festival, so we use their logos as links on the site. If I include them in the repository, I don’t want to accidentally give them away.

I’ve got some reading to do! :D

This is a good point, thank you :)

I was thinking along the lines of not restricting myself from using my own work in the future, but I hadn’t thought about third parties being able to use it too. I’m not concerned about other people using the code behind the website, for example. I’m still learning, so it’s probably more spaghetti than anything decent, but @[email protected] pointed out in their reply, I wouldn’t be able to stop anyone from using graphics etc.

The Wiki is great for things like this. In this case the page on concrete has links to concrete slabs and concrete lanes, and both have pictures.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:surface%3Dconcrete

Hope this helps :)

That’s brilliant, thank you :)

This is very helpful, thank you both :)