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- Comment on What's a good entry level printer these days? 4 days ago:
MK3S is noticeably better, I’d say.
Buying second hand usually means more tinkering and repairs, which can be a hassle.
Other than that Prusa makes good stuff.
- Comment on I built LinuxMate to kill post-install chaos (free repo + demo) 1 week ago:
Someone else will point out the typo.
- Comment on I built LinuxMate to kill post-install chaos (free repo + demo) 1 week ago:
I simply dump the installed packages into a text file and then use that on the next install.
Pseudo terminal commands:
packagemanager list installed -nodeps >> packagemanager install `cat myfacorites.txt`
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
You can always export stl or dxf files and use them with other software.
- Comment on Tradition is just bullying by dead people 1 week ago:
Tradition is loving your ancestors’ wisdom.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
Affinity Suite for Linux would be a game changer.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
The alternative to FreeCAD on Linux is OnShape running in the browser.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
Backups are a good idea.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
What communities can you recommend?
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
Leftist spaces have changed a lot over the last two decades. Not for the better.
Cancel Culture Culture is real and extremely aggressive among the left.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
Lemmy doesn’t have quality debates on politics either. The mods in the relevant communities swing the ban hammer liberally against everyone not following their opinion. Mainstream democrat talking points get banned as fascist. Antisemitic stuff is widespread as well.
You mostly get woke to extreme left echo chambers going on.
!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a good place to see this moderation in action.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
Lemmy has neither.
- Comment on Printed this extra long cat snake on my ender3v3 (this thing is longer than my 10yo!). The print came great for the most part. What do you think happened at this one spot? Bed adhesion issue? 5 weeks ago:
Snakes like that are always print in place.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Making something that goes boom is easy. Making something that can contain a boom and channel the boom into only one direction is difficult. Quality metallurgy and precision metal work is actually difficult. Making a tube and a projectile that fit each other nicely is very hard to do at scale.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
At least on two psychoactive substances to balance it out.
- Comment on Thank me later... 2 months ago:
Pyrovalerones like MDPV and alpha-PVP are even stronger and more euphoric stimulants than meth. McAffee loved that stuff.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
I’m already over 40. Thank you.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
I should have gone to the military, like I wanted to. When I finished school, I wanted to serve to learn discipline, order, and structure. My parents are both strict pacifists and had dragged me to peace protests from a young age. I didn’t want to break their heart, so an undisciplined civilian life it was. Still lacking discipline, order, and difficulty sleeping.
- Comment on card game shop 2 months ago:
10 minutes
How do you wash in that time? That’s just enough to get wet.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 3 months ago:
I’m sure someone will use rust to build a bloated reactive declarative dynamic UI framework, that wastes cycles, eats memory, and is inscrutable to debug.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 months ago:
Start a cocaine or ketamine habit and you will always remember to have it on hand.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 months ago:
B has Italian, Croatian, Pierogi, Königsberger Klopse, Käsespätzle, and Knäckebrot.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 months ago:
Yes, OpenCore Legacy Patcher.
Regarding Linux distributions, I don’t have a specific recommendation. You might be worse off with a distro that doesn’t include nonfree drivers for wifi, bluetooth, graphics by default. IIRC these MBPs use Broadcom Wifi chips. Ubuntu and derivatives would be my first try. Definitely read up on how to install Linux on MBPs. You probably might have to configure something in OpenFirmware/EFI.
- Comment on Rorschach Test: Tholian War Hero or Tellarite Genitalia? Which do you see? 4 months ago:
Looking up the nose of the person who’s sitting on my face.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 months ago:
This is also true for other people.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK 4 months ago:
Why? Israel and Saudi Arabia get along pretty well. They are natural allies against Iran. The current war in Gaza is all that stands between Saudi Arabia entering the Abraham accords.
- Comment on Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔 4 months ago:
Yes, the usability is not easy. It takes quite some practice to control the camera well.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 months ago:
The biggest issue is security updates and a current internet browser.
Of course I can use a 30 year old computer that still works with the software it can run.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 months ago:
LibreOffice is okay for some stuff, but shows its limitations pretty quickly once you use it for more serious tasks.
- Writer is the best of the suite and has deleted comments for me several times without ability to recover.
- The spreadsheet is a toy compared to Excel spreadsheets used in pretty much any business.
- The presentation software produces ugly results by default.
The only things LibreOffice has going for it, is the price and that the UI doesn’t change. LibreOffice has no good mobile apps.
Better alternatives to Microsoft Office are Google Docs etc. and Apple’s iWork suite. Both have good compatibility with Microsoft’s files and run great on mobile.
Google has ease of use, easy sharing and collaboration. Apple’s iWork has great usability and features and produces beautiful results by default. The suite comes free with every Apple device. Google Docs is free to use as well.
That’s of course ignoring the workhorse called Outlook. You can kind of approach its features with a handful of other applications, but won’t reach the same functionality.
LibreOffice has one unique application in its suite: Base local database. Microsoft Access and FileMaker used to very popular, but faded into the background over the last decade.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 months ago:
15 years is actually reasonable.
I have a ten year old laptop with an i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. It still does most things, I bought it for initially just fine. Granted this was one of the best laptops you could buy at the time.
Apple stopped supporting it with a current version of macOS a couple of years ago sadly. It’s still possible to patch newer versions to install and run on the old machine, but it’s a bit of a hassle.