olafurp
@olafurp@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 13 hours ago:
Not all companies need to grow. Some do perfectly fine by just maintaining their current output like a owner operated single person plumbing company.
Another example can be Walmart, they don’t need to grow but investors prefer growth so it becomes a focus.
There are some companies that need absolutely to grow to survive. This is seen a lot in tech where in order for the business model to make sense they would need some big quantity of users.
Let’s say you got seeded 10M and managed to get to a minimal product with 10k users that get you $2 in revenue monthly but your cost are around 50k monthly. It means you’re making a loss but with 100k users you’d make a profit. To get to 100k you need more investment but to justify that investment being sound you need show growth.
So in general if being bigger gets you economies of scale then making a loss early can get you the investor money you need to survive. So to survive as a business you need to grow.
Those are two ends of a spectrum and everything in between exists as well. So quick answer would be “Companies don’t always need to grow but some really do because their business model only works at a different scale”.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 1 day ago:
Well yeah, but some companies allow employees to choose their OS. Of course FreeCAD is good enough just like Gimp and Blender are good enough to replace Adobe stuff but sometimes people have workflows built around them or even custom scripts that only run on a specific platform.
You make a fair point but the tone might be off-putting for people thinking about switching to Linux. 100% mention FreeCAD as a fully featured CAD software that just works on Linux but we shouldn’t heckle him for wanting Fusion360.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 1 day ago:
Fusion360 has been rated Silver on WINE (windows compatability tool) so you have a decent shot of running it. Silver means “couple of minor bugs, might need tweaks to run but runs well”.
In Linux we have FreeCAD but if you’re heavily dependent on Fusion360 I’d recommend trying a Virtual Windows Machine, Bottles, Lutris, Steam Proton, the installation script posted here and so on.
If you have space for two drives on your computer then worst case you could bypass the windows whatever and have two different OSs.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 1 day ago:
That’s unhelpful. The person might be a professional in a work that mandates using Fusion360. “FreeCAD is the best Linux supported CAD program but you should try running a VM inside of Linux and see if fusion 360 works a” is way more helpful.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 day ago:
I would personally use Linux mint but yeah, good idea.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 day ago:
That Uni is just one exploited vulnerability away from a botnet. Getting hands on a PC physically could get you could use Spectre/Meltdown, get the admin pass and mine bitcoin.
- Comment on Remember: You are loved. 3 days ago:
I like thinking about spinosaurus as a chonker Image
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Then it all made sense in the end of course
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
More commonly known as Pussius
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2 weeks ago:
My Spanish speaking friends have always said that my Spanish gets much better when I’m a bit more than tipsy. Finally somebody confirms this.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 weeks ago:
Let’s argue “what in heavy” before we go there
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 weeks ago:
Depends on whether or not you count in air resistance. I was just making a shitpost
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait? 3 weeks ago:
Double orgasm increases the chances of a person getting pregnant (except for two men).
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 3 weeks ago:
Whn txtng was xpnsive af, gud tyms
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 3 weeks ago:
Jst lk ppl used 2 txt, amirite
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 4 weeks ago:
Next phone I get I’ll get fairphone and check the market for an alternative OS at that time. This might be the push that the Linux phone community needs to make it proper and good.
We currently need a KDE phone that they sell where I can buy a KDE phone and support them that way.
The pieces are coming together for Linux notably:
- SPA support instead of apps.
- Waydroid
- Core components such as calling, sim card actions, recording, speakers can be provided by fairphone via drivers.
I’m getting pretty sick of Google and other corpos locking down Android so fuck them, third best phone OS will have to do and I’ll do banking in the mobile browser page.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, capturing it from the source is way better than capturing from some random air. A capture rate of 90% as an addon to current coal/gas infra including cement production would buy us a ton of transition time
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 5 weeks ago:
Don’t count solar out, the growth trajectory is looking like it’ll supply most of the world’s electricity in a couple of decades. Solar will be the MVP that makes all these inefficient energy uses more viable.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 5 weeks ago:
Only if there was a small pipe or “smoke stack” that could emit these in super high concentrations of CO2 where we could just pipe it straight to the ground instead. Maybe we find all of those we could even stop them producing in the first place and leaving all the carbon in the ground. 🤔
/s
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to guess the cup is around 12 nuts high and 5 nuts in diameter at the center.
Let’s assume it’s a cylinder to get the volume (2/5)^2 * pi * 12 as the volume or around 236 nuts.
The packing density of a sphere is 74% but the edges do play a factor so nudge it down by a bit to get 70%
So I’m going to guess 165 nuts.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 5 weeks ago:
Will-stab-my-eye-out-to-never-see-it-again/10
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 month ago:
Tmux can make you feel all the feelings simultaneously
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
This is the way
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 1 month ago:
Couple of nuances with this that are not fully accounted for.
- Farting in a vacuum will make the scale go down because the fart has a non-zero mass.
- Direction of fart and speed of exiting will also affect the scale when farting against a base not connected to the scale such as a platform.
- Comment on Toot toot 1 month ago:
Sounds like somebody is tooting their own horn
- Comment on It's on your blood! 1 month ago:
Known also as PFAS or forever chemicals
- Comment on Arch btw 1 month ago:
Excellent distro, would be careful about going to distros without systemd for desktop setup. Alpine is absolute banging for server containers.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
It’s tricky to use in programming though for non neural network math, I can see it used in video compression and decompression or some very specialised video game math.
Video game AI could be a big one though where difficulty would be AI based instead of just stat modifiers.
