CrayonRosary
@CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 1 week ago:
Fusion 360 is fantastic. It’s free for non-commercisl use. I’ve been using it for years and have zero complaints. It’s polished and powerful.
People complaining about it for ideological reasons have a point, but I disagree that it’s in some sort of “enshitification spiral”. It’s exactly as usable as it was 5 years ago. There are very few features locked behind a paywall, and they aren’t important to the average maker.
You can even use Fusion to run a CNC router. For free! With all the polish of commercial software.
Everyone I know at my local makerspace uses Fusion. I don’t know a single person who uses FreeCAD. A couple people use TinkerCAD. There’s a very large community of Fusion users and getting help is easy.
I am 100% in favor of FOSS. Give FreeCAD a try. I used it years ago because it had a plugin to make convolute gears with a couple of clicks. But don’t shy away from Fusion just because of all of the haters on here. Give it a try yourself. I think you’ll be impressed by what you get for free.
- Comment on Recommended 3d printer models? 1 week ago:
Any Prusa
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Solar Panel Questions 2 weeks ago:
That means if you have one hour of full sunlight hit your panels, it will generate 3.8kw of power.
I think you mean kWh of energy, not kW of power, since you multiplied it by time.
- Comment on Hot take: Get your game reviews from gamers, not from collectors 2 weeks ago:
I like to watch Big Ole Words on YouTube. He’s a collector, and a player. He plays every game like he’s a kid and just got it for Christmas, and it’s the only new game he has. So, he tries really hard to find the fun in it. He has way, way more patience than I do, but he won’t tell you a game is good when it’s not. At least from what I’ve seen.
I especially like the “games no one played” series of videos. I get to see exactly why no one played those games. 😄
- Comment on What If History Had Taken a Different Path? 3 weeks ago:
Even developing the next generation isn’t a guarantee of success.
The Commodore 128 was a failure. It was far superior to the 64, but they made it backwards compatible by literally embedding a Commodore 64 inside. Software developers just kept developing for the 64.
On the other hand, backward compatibility has worked well for Nintendo and Sony.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Tell that to my aluminum foil.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 1 month ago:
Native Windows UI controls for a game. Classic.
- Comment on The toothbrush is all I've ever been able to see (Friday the 13th, NES, 1989) 1 month ago:
Gotta Kill 'em All!™
- Comment on 8BitDo Has Announced The Successor To Its Ultimate Wireless Controller | Time Extension 1 month ago:
That sounds exactly like the new Gamesir controller that I just watched a review of. I wonder if one or the other has a leg up. Same price, pretty much same feature list. I await Retro Game Corps’ head to head review.
- Comment on Alien planter head 1 month ago:
It’d be cool, though, if the eyes didn’t have it. Can you mask out regions of the STL when applying fuzzy skin?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Great title screen music, too.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Even charcoal grills inside are fine with proper ventilation. So you’re right, but your also not saying very much.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
- It creates CO
- Something something.
They didn’t say CO2. They said “CO. 2. Etc”
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Induction also doesn’t work with aluminum items like a moka pot without an “induction adapter” which is just a steel plate.
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 2 months ago:
Ha, nice! Sounds about right. Something that has become fashionable again. Like 8-bit graphics. And backward looking, and all that.
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 2 months ago:
I think they meant to say they also play Steam games on it, which I will say is a really good benefit of the Steam Deck over any of the Android handheld retro systems.
If someone’s trying to decide between a Steam Deck and a $300 Retro Handheld that can play through Game Cube, PS2, etc., I would try to convince them to buy the Steam Deck because it opens up a whole world of games.
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 2 months ago:
I tried Emudeck at first and ended up uninstalling it. It doesnt do anything you can’t do manually, and it did things I didn’t like.
Disclaimer, I am not a RetroArch professional, but I’ve been using it for decades. I know a lot of its quirks, and hiw to do pretty much eveththing i want.
Emudeck has these global options to let you map hotkeys, aspect ratios, and choose whether or not you want shaders enabled for consoles (CRT shaders) or handhelds (LCD shaders). Plus other things. It’s yes or no for each thing, mostly.
The way it configures these things in RetroArch is by saving override files. I will admit I don’t fully understand override files, but I do use preset files a lot. In any case, I was unable to save any of my custom changes in RetroArch. I would find some setting I didn’t like, or some hotkey I wanted to change because Emudeck’s default didn’t suit me, and I could change it while RA was running, but then if I tried to save my options, it wouldn’t let me because “override file in use”. That was very frustrating.
So I ended up uninstalling it and manually installing RetroArch from the app store (“Discover”). And if I needed DuckStation or some other standard-alone that worked better than RA (or a Switch emulator or something), just installed the flatpack and confiured it myself.
You also done need EmuDeck to install ROM Manager which let’s you add specific ROMs to your Steam Library.
In the end, EmuDeck did nothing I couldn’t do myself, and made it worse for a RetroArch power user like myself. Just my two cents.
- Comment on Two Years Later, This Awesome 3D-Printed Film Camera Is Available to All 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think you’re right. (No sarcasm.) I should keep such opinions to myself. I’m not at all against being a maker for the sake of making, actually. I guess I’m just a camera snob. Calling my criticism “pixel peeping” kinda set me off, and I lashed out, but that’s on me. :(
- Comment on Two Years Later, This Awesome 3D-Printed Film Camera Is Available to All 2 months ago:
You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have said anything.
- Comment on Two Years Later, This Awesome 3D-Printed Film Camera Is Available to All 2 months ago:
Haha! You don’t need to peep any pixels to see how terrible that camera is.
I’m just not into Lomo crap. Spend time with a real camera and take good photos. Tinker with your skills as a photographer and not with making toy cameras that you’re going to never use again after one roll of film.
- Comment on Two Years Later, This Awesome 3D-Printed Film Camera Is Available to All 2 months ago:
“Awesome”
I don’t see the point when a used film camera would blow it away by a million miles.
- Comment on You know what Mega Man needs? A gun and the face of a middle-aged smoker. 2 months ago:
“megashat” is the word you’re looking for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How about you address my actual reply instead of changing the topic constantly?
The PGP public key still has to be shared plaintext… that makes it useless as anyone can sign it after that.
That sentence is incorrect. Just admit it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Did you even read that article? It has nothing to do with what I said. I pointed out that you don’t understand how public key encryption works, and you replied with an article about an exploit that does not refute what I said. An exploit that can be avoided by simply not clicking “load images”. An exploit that has probably been fixed in a client like Thunderbird anytime over the past six years.
I don’t know why I’m wasting my time with you. You can’t even argue in good faith.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You need the private key to sign anything. The public key is only for encrypting outgoing emails which only the person with the private key can decrypt.
People have been using PGP over email for literally decades. You do not know what you’re talking about.
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 2 months ago:
I feel very weird calling old games that I thought of as retro “vintage” now, but I guess I have to.
Nah. Maybe? Even I call them retro games sometimes. My favorite gaming hardware YouTube channel is called “Retro Game Corps”. It what gamers call them. Depending on who I’m addressing, I use either.
Like I said in my original comment, I was mostly being pedantic. Then again, if the entire gaming world shifted to calling them “vintage games”, I’d be thrilled. Someone recently started a thread here titled “What’s your favorite vintage game?” And I did a “Not bad Obama” face and nod.
in Victoria, Australia…
Well, yeah! I expect everything be upsidedown and backwards there! 😜
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 2 months ago:
Define retro.
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 2 months ago:
Oh, god. I had not heard that yet, but… Ugh…
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 2 months ago:
Retro means new things that look like they’re old. As in “looking backwards” for inspiration. Like pixel art. Prime example: VVVVVV.
I’m mostly being pedantic, but it’s a pet peeve of mine that gamers (and only gamers) use “retro” wrong. Every other type of collector correctly uses the word “vintage” instead: Vintage clothing, furniture, coins, wine, etc. And they use “retro” to mean new things that look old, like retro clothing. Only gamers call vintage things “retro”.
In my experience when I point this out, gamers just get mad. I don’t understand that. But I’m kind of a language nerd who watches linguistics videos for fun.
