beastlykings

@beastlykings@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the 1.0 of freecad.

  I don’t use CAD professionally, and even my hobby usage is less than it was, and it was only a dozen or two small projects.

  I had never used freecad, always fusion 360. I’ve been away for awhile, and also switched to Linux in the meantime. I needed to make a simple object, and tried freecad 1.0, and I literally could not intuit how to begin. Not a single shape, I was so lost, it was very frustrating.

  I tried onshape and got a bit further, but still don’t like the corporate nature of it.

  I’m not trying to slam freecad, I really want it to work, and when I have more time to sit down and study it, I want to try again. But in the meantime I went back to fusion 360 in a VM, which was very sluggish, but at least I knew where everything was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crossbow 😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This actually got me into a car accident as a young driver.

  I had just gotten on the highway heading home, rural towns. The gas gauge was broken so I had to count miles on the odometer to know when I was low, and I realized at that moment that I was desperately in need of gas.

  So I took the first exit, and started looking for a gas station. I’m driving the speed limit, 55mph, and coming around a very large slowly sweeping curve I see what looks like a gas station up ahead on the left. There are no other businesses on the road. It had a tall sign out front. I didn’t recognize the sign, I was trying to read what it said, to see if it was a gas station or not. But I couldn’t read it. I was struggling to make sense of what I was seeing, honestly. A Martin Glass? An olive? I don’t remember all the things on it. But the point is, it was items, party items, that spelled out the word… party? It was a party store… and then I hit the guy in front of me who was stopped dead in the middle of the road waiting to turn left into a driveway.

  I was so distracted trying to read that stupid sign, I didn’t even see him until the last second. I had time to swerve a bit, and I locked the brakes. I ended up hitting his back right bumper and crushing it in, a glancing blow that didn’t even touch his trunk. Just the bumper. He drove away no problem.

  My car was a different story, it tore my lower control arm and snapped my tie-rod. Took out the front left quarter panel, hood, bumper, and headlight too. I had to get towed home, like 2 hours.

  Technically my fault, and I got the ticket. But dang it if to this day, I don’t still blame that stupid sign. The Martini glass was the Y, I think the olive was the A? I don’t remember, I should try finding it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NonPlanar Interlocking Walls for Stronger 3D-Prints⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please report back!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the information!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What filter would you use? I’ve never played with abs because I didn’t want to have to vent an enclosure outside, especially in the winter. But if it could all stay inside that’d be great.

  I have a cat. Cat tax: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just bought my FW13 last month. USA. It’s either perfect timing, because tariffs. Or terrible timing, because tariffs. I haven’t decided yet.

  Love the laptop though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to know, maybe I’ll give it a go then 👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’ll take a crack at it then, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the recommendations! PLA and PETG are all I’ve ever printed with.

  Maybe I’ll look into buying a replacement one, I’d rather not worry about it 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, I don’t remember it being this way when I bought it. I suppose it’s possible someone dropped it, I’ve had people watch my house over vacation. But then again, I didn’t align anything or even level the bed before I used it after storing it, you’d think it’d be at least a little out of whack?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a minor issue compared to the security risks. See the other comment in this thread for a good explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely you should look into Linux, it’s really gotten quite good. Especially if you don’t need games with anti cheat.

  But if you just want to use Windows 11, it’s super duper easy. Just Google “download Windows 11 iso” and grab the iso file from Microsoft website.

  Then download Rufus.

  Then pop in a thumb drive that’s at least 8gb. Open Rufus, select your thumb drive and the iso, then choose the option to remove windows requirements, then click start.

  Backup your files on Windows 10, save them somewhere. Then pop in the thumb drive and install windows 11 fresh.

  The requirements aren’t actually required. Win 11 runs fine on all sorts of hardware. Support stops at 8th Gen Intel, but I’ve installed it on 5th Gen. My work laptop is 2nd or 3rd Gen. It’s fine 🤷‍♂️

  Technically less secure? Yeah, in some ways. But it’s miles ahead of running unpatched windows 10 after September.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a new laptop about a month ago. Put Fedora Bluefin on it immediately. Couple other computers/server have been running Debian flavors for year or two.

  My main desktop is still Windows, but I literally never use it, especially since getting the laptop. I’ll switch it over when I get time.

  I’m still tied to windows for three apps. I’ve found a Linux replacement for one, I just haven’t done the work to convert the database.

  Another one I’m trying to run it’s Android version in a waydroid docker, but I’m hitting walls, no time to dig deeper.

  And the last one has no replacement, and it’s too delicate to try emulating, I don’t want to nuke the shared database it’s attached to, it’s not worth the headache. So I keep a Windows VM around for the once a month I need to use that program for 🤷‍♂️

  I’m purposely being vague about the programs, they are very identifying, but trust me there’s no alternatives.

  Even with all that, I’m not looking back win11 sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elianscript! A fun artistic way to softly encrypt your handwriting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elianscript! A fun artistic way to softly encrypt your handwriting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, wrong word used. The idea is that someone casually looking at it will not know how to read it.

  Thanks 👍

• Elianscript! A fun artistic way to softly encrypt your handwriting.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday Puzzle: Big Name in Healthcare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New York Times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just discovered Mini Metro, a puzzle game where you have to create metro lines. Very addictive, but also chill, and currently 50% off on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember. I was like, wait, people paying for this? Good times though, definitely fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally started horizon forbidden West, I like it so far

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been there, felt the pain