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.

Came here to say the same thing! Loved that phone, was my first phone on project Fi.

The camera stunk though, always hunting for focus while recording video

1. IDK

2. Money

Yikes, kids are dumb lol.

I never grew up around waves, so when my brother and I visited family on the coast and we were playing in the waves, other people wouldn’t join us. We were going further and further out. Finally we convinced the guy to join us, and no lie, he said he jokingly said “ok I guess I’ll die too”. We didn’t know what he meant. All three of us got stuck in a mild rip current. I almost drowned trying to swim directly into it. Nobody told me any different. My brother and the other guy were stronger swimmers, they were ok. It all happened very fast. We gave that guy an earful afterwards, he was like “I thought you knew” 🤦‍♂️

Didn’t rip my hand off, but I definitely fell off one of those things, busted the back of my head open. I kind of… Fell backwards with my legs wrapped around the saddle, and hit the bottom edge with my head.

Split open like a mouth.

Rushed to the hospital. 23 stitches and 13 staples to close it up again. I have to have my hair cut a special way to hide the scar. People are always surprised when I show them.

I still rode those things afterwards. Kids were tougher back then lol, had to be 🤷‍♂️

Not a bad idea. We’ve frozen some stuff. But we’re bad about forgetting it’s there. Also we don’t have much freezer space, and our freezer is mostly full of a rotating supply of raw meats and such. We buy in bulk and freeze.

Ok that makes sense 👍

We cook big meals too, and eat them all week. But we have to change the meal every time. How can you eat the same chili every week? Don’t you get sick of it?

Again, we do this, we’re working on a pot roast right now. It’s pretty good, but it’s also day 3 or 4 and I’m already kind of sick of it. I can’t imagine cooking it again next week, and then again and again.

Do you ever mix it up?

Yeah my buddies all buy the biggest phone capacity they can get, and I barely thought about my last phones 128gb. I had to check my current phones capacity just now, thought it was 256 but I guess it’s 512.

I’m using 180 ish, but I could easily be under a hundred again if I deleted a bunch of crap that’s built up 🤷‍♂️

I do remember losing a months worth of photos years ago when my SD card died, and my Dropbox had gotten full. That was the day I upgraded my Dropbox. I’m on a yearly subscription, it’s due to renew next month, I hope to be on immich by then. Just gotta find time.

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!

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

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.

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.

Thanks for the tip!

We’ll see, so far it seems to be running ok. Anytime is misbehaved, it’s been a skill issue haha

Thanks! Yeah I’ve got a few simple ideas, and some more ambitious 😬

Thanks! Yeah I feel like I’m gonna put it to occasional use. I definitely already hand stitched repairs on my hammocks last year 😂

I have my eyes on several socks with toe holes

Preface: I don’t know how to sew.

Question: what material would one use for underwear? Boxers make sense, anything thin and light and not scratchy. But what about boxer briefs? Material with a bit of stretch to it? I imagine this would be harder to sew?

I just bought a sewing machine at Goodwill on a whim, gonna play with it, just trying to size up the difficulty here lol

This is awesome! I had no idea people were doing this, but it makes perfect sense