Yeah, didn’t want to get too deep in the weeds about it, but FreeCAD is definitely an example. I feel like I’m using a perpetually unfinished decade-old program. While it certainly qualifies as one of those older free packages it never really took off.

Part of the problem is the Big Software crushing any hobbyist software. I used to be big into 3D design. 20 years ago there were dozens and dozens of different programs of different quality available to people wanting to do 3D design, along with top tier programs like 3DSMax and Maya, and even they had “learning editions” with stripped down features for free non-professional use.

Now? Most all 3D design software is proprietary, subscription-based, and stupid expensive. Very, very few programs are available to anyone wanting to do hobby work or learn, and plenty of them are “freemium” with better features paywalled.

Point being, choice has been restricted or eliminated. 20 years ago there was a lot more to choose from both skill and price-wise. Now it’s $200/month/seat, or a couple paywalled freemium programs.

Ugh. Went to look for the scene and get this. Fuck youtube. I’m not signing in.

E: and for the record “protecting my community” would be blocking people telling objective lies. But there’s no shortage of those on youtube.

Yes please. I despise the trend to put everything in video format that seems to constitute “discussion” these days, along with a crappy comments section full of trolls, trash talkers, and “experts”.

Someone’s text description with a half dozen crappy photos is often 10x better than some 2-3 people having a BS session over a 15 minute video (like and subscribe!) to do 5 minutes of actual work on the subject you’re interested in.

Forum mods generally kept discussion on track, reeled in people who were deviating too far or kicked out trolls and assholes, and forums dedicated to a subject were a wealth of knowledge and attracted experts and experience.

Sure, there’s a few of those places left, and probably even a few /r/ that might have actual decent content and mods, but those tend to be the exception and not the rule.

Ok, how will they be less harmful, seeing as you’re so insistent on that premise.

The heat from something like a datacenter will be far more localized and could damage the immediate area. I’m not saying they’ll magically warm the entire ocean any more than they would on land dumping waste heat into the atmosphere, but local temperature changes could have an effect.

I’m far more concerned with the suggested floating datacenters. Just dumping more waste heat into the ocean. WCGW.

That’ll happen when they turn over some piece of critical infrastructure or something over to AI. Power, stock market, something that will affect tens or hundreds of millions of people and wreck lives or even kill people.

Nonetheless these clowns will push for it because profit, and some fool politicians will OK it because campaign money.

Love that Oldfield album. Had it for decades, and was thrilled to find out it was based on a book I’d read quite a long time before discovering the album.

Assuming you’re able to produce enough for the off season and have a method to store said food.

It’s called “subsistence farming” and is a crapload of work.

Yes it does. It wastes more time and is deliberately designed to make you stay in the store longer and hopefully spend more money.

They punch left to keep their positions secure and not let anyone make them look ineffective as they are.

Yes, but not just parties. Parties using red cups are historically going to be drinking parties for younger people like “keggers.” Red cups are fairly ubiquitous for lots of events like picnics, cookouts, birthday events and the like.

I can’t say they’re used at all parties, but they’re pretty common.

No we shouldn’t. Imagine where the taxes would go, and then understand where people would make sure they didn’t go. A shitload of people are racist, self serving, and shortsighted.

Other countries have camera issues because the government has turned into a nanny state. In the US it’s because some corporation has found yet another way to collect fees from regular people by injecting themselves into and extending a government program.

50¢ off your next RAM purchase and a free credit check.

Adhd will do that to you.

I wouldn’t say the party is. The party itself is very firmly neo-lib to centrist and pulling further right. I would say that individuals associated with the party are democratic socialist, but at this point they should start their own party.

Let the Republican party collapse, the dems take up the right wing reins, and then actually have a party that pulls left full of progressives and socialists. Pipe dream, I know.

That would be wild…an asteroid returning fossils (surely fossils were blasted into space, not that I’m suggesting anything balsted into space can fossilize.)

The bathroom said, “Fifty cents, please. Before turning on the water.”

Ubik, P K Dick