Someone woke up and chose violence this morning.

Windows is easier to install because the user didn’t install it.

If it’s software that is self hosted and might be useful, I’m okay with it. We have the vote up/down to sort the wheat from the chaff. And worse case the comments can rip it apart and offer alteratives.

If it’s foss or whatever abso-fucking-lutely. I love reading about new things. I first learned of Orca Slicer in a post about Bambu Slicer on 3d printing community. I’m also all for supporting solo devs. I feel that closed source is a cromulent option that has been abused by corporations. But hey, like this is just, like my opinion dude!

The initial post might be spam, but it’s the discussion where the meat and potatoes live. Now, reposts of the same product (unless it’s to show off major new features like once a year) I do draw the line at.

Full transparency, I’m not super active in this community, but I love reading the stuff here.

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Generally speaking, I will recommend software based on the audience’s core competency.

As of FreeCAD 1.0 I can’t in good conscience recommend against trying it, especially anyone that is new and just learning the principles of parametric CAD.

I get that it is still not as easy, and it’s especially hard for old dogs to learn new tricks, but I feel anyone that is willing to learn how to use CAD in the first place can now learn how to use FreeCAD.

I have personally found it very fulfilling to learn FreeCAD in the last year and know I’m no longer tied to any source of enshittification in my 3D printing pipeline. (Shoutouts to MangoJelly and Deltahedran on YouTube btw.)

I also feel that as that audience grows for FreeCAD and its popularity rises, that in turn helps the users of the proprietary software. Healthy competition is important after all!

I just want to say this YouTuber got a sub from me last night. Went into his back catalogue and recent videos were really good and I learned a few nice things.

Regarding fc1.1, I really like the update. These guys are on the gas and making substantial updates. I can’t overstate how .9 whatever was hard to use vs 1.0 and now 1.1 is another leap again. It’s just great to see.

I speak as someone that only started learning any CAD as a hobby in the last 5 years. I’ve toyed with every (free) program short of going the pirate route and I’m really glad to see a FOSS alternative start to step up.

I do still have a laundry list of things I’d like to see them fix/change. But as is, it’s working well enough for my use cases!

I was the same way. I started with OpenSCAD and it made way more sense at first.

But what drove me to FreeCAD was when my parts started getting more and more complicated. I think it was being able to chamfer or fillet all the things that really pushed me.

I am in awe of experts of either program though. I think I still really love how openSCAD is so much easier to understand the steps someone took to get to a finished model when you look at other people’s work. And you can just lift pieces out and reuse them.

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Umm, I think they can read.

And if you objectively look at every other animal on the planet and then look at humans… how are we not pugs of our genetic family tree?

Fuckin’ humans and our weird ass pointy noses and bulbous heads. We are weird.

It’s still a risk (unlikely as it seems) and Valve realized they can’t just be at the mercy of someone else.

You are taking the comments too literal. If something is subsidized (which means cheaper than normal) and it is useful as a PC or PC parts, it will be vacuumed up by non-gamers as well.

You are technically correct about mega corps and such but missing the point being made. Every subsidized PC not bought by gamers is lost money for Valve.

Megacorps won’t sit and refresh Steam sure, but fucking scalpers absolutely will. There are lots of shady middlemen companies that will buy them up from eBay and resell to small businesses too.

Hell, I’d snap one up and resell on eBay in a heart beat myself if this thing goes for anything close to what a PS5 sells for. Let’s say $1200 in parts, I buy for $700, I resell for $900, reseller scoops up a few hundred at a time off ebay, sells in bulk to small businesses for $1100… Everyone wins… Valve fucking loses. Now, let’s say a million people do the same thing because it is free money.

This is how this works and why they can’t subsidise this thing like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have. (Also why Xbox doesn’t run actual windows for that matter.)

I suspect more than a few of us are feeling called out with this comment.

Finally! This is peak dopamine hit. Distilled and so pure. I can finally look away now.

Not this shit again!

Me, the one time I order something every year: “Oh shit oh shit oh shit are they gonna bring it to my door? the depot? Or maybe they’ll leave it at the post office again or shit maybe they’ll try to find my house but can’t because google maps sucks here and they’ll take it back and someone will give me crap for living in a place that doesn’t exist oh shit oh shit oh shit I’m never ordering something ever again it’s all gonna fail! I better call the depot and let them know that something might be dropped off with them…”

Meanwhile, my wife who orders 5 billion things that all arrive without incident: “Oh neat! Another parcel! I forgot I ordered this!”

And it’s detrimental how?

They’re very open about who sponsors. And you can’t tell me that their production quality is cheap.

Can confirm. We had an infestation of house hippos last year and didn’t even notice them until half way through winter and realizing all of our mittens were missing.

My understanding is many of their changes were merged back into Freecad for the 1.0 release.

Due to the two piece construction here you would have to wrap this whole thing in sealant to keep water out because (to para-quote Dr. Ian Malcolm) “water uhh finds a way”.

Dab of anti-sieze or stainless hardware would be my go to if I wanted to pull this apart after a couple years.

Grew up with ms-dos. Spent half my career in telnet and ssh consoles.

When I just want to play Balatro at the end of a long day fuck any system that requires more than click click to get me in.

That’s why I’m switching to Linux when windows 10 is no longer supported because fuck win 11 and the amount of regedits it’s gonna take to get that working.