PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @ PorkrollPosadist @hexbear.net

Hexbear's resident machinist, absentee mastodon landlord, jack of all trade

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It's a meme.

Sending a report to the mods, "This 'THING' is not cute."

I'm tempted to create an account and reply in that thread. Not to scold them or create drama, but to simply explain a couple things. About "echo chambers" i.e. that the biggest echo chambers in the world are run by Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Steve Huffman. That the "animosity" seen on the Fediverse is driven by the underlying political economy, i.e. the only reason the Fediverse exists is because there was not enough room on the mainstream Silicon Valley platforms for us. That it is not possible for LGBT+ people and anti-LGBT+ people to "get along" with some friendly ribbing in this political environment. We cannot "agree to disagree" about matters like pogroms and genocide.

"Lemmy needs more normies," No. Yes, but that's not how this fucking works. The normies are all still on Reddit, browsing the default subs, and upvoting u/GallowBoob's reposts. Those are the last fucking people you're going to get. Those are the last people you should be interested in talking to, too. You're talking about people who (for example, among hundreds of other things) are perfectly comfortable on a website where the canonical "lesbian" community is a category of pornography instead of a community for the L in LGBT.

but honestly I would never pay for it.

Well yeah. You might as well buy a CNC mill with that money :D

I haven't tried SW, but from my experience with Creo, the workflow is very similar to FreeCAD. Designing 2D sketches driven by an algebraic constraint solver, extruding / pocketing them, and repeating indefinitely. You could run into similar problems as well, like if you make a sketch on an unreliable datum, and then go change sketches and dimensions earlier in the model tree, it is fairly easy to break the model. FreeCAD was notoriously fragile in this regard, but the 1.0 release incorporated significant improvements to what they call the "topological naming problem." None the less, I feel like these trials have made me better. There are often several ways to model the same geometry, but it helps to spend some time thinking about what is the most robust approach. What has the least likelihood to explode if you go back and change something? There is a methodology behind this which carries across to all CAD systems.

I'm kind of surprised to hear Blender CAD is in good shape. It always seemed like a cursed project to me, but I haven't taken a close look in a long time. Not to say Blender itself is bad. Like you said, It is probably the most capable free software program when it comes to doing 3D sculptures and such. I've only dabbled with it in amateur game development, and in that discipline it is incredibly solid.

One more thing... Solidworks is pretty easy to pirate of course, so is worth trying out.

Good to know. I should try it out, if only because it would help me get in the door for a CNC programming position.

For the record, the same is true for Creo Parametric. The main reason I haven't used it much at home is because of issues running it in WINE on Linux. Rebooting to run it on Windows was too inconvenient for me to invest much time in it. But if that isn't a problem, it's an option for anybody reading.

What are your thoughts on Solidworks vs. other solid modeling applications? I use FreeCAD at home to model things for my 3D printer, but I've also had the opportunity to use Creo Parametric (formerly Pro-Engineer) at work. We have Solidworks too (the software is on the computer), but I haven't gone out of my way to get IT to set up the licensing because it is a bit beyond my job description to begin with. In my humble opinion, I am pretty happy with FreeCAD, but the fillet tool will absolutely kill you at the end of the day.

In my experience, Creo is (obviously) more robust, but the gap gets smaller every year, and there have been several occasions where the engineers are hogging all the licenses so I'll just bang something out in FreeCAD. We have a couple CNC programs in production (tens of thousands of parts made) which started as a sketches in the FreeCAD sketcher workbench.

That thread quickly turned into a "What's wrong with the Fediverse" meta discussion, and there is a lot of big time ideology going on in there.

When I petittion to get Hexbear.net defederated from Discuss.Online, thereby opening up a generic instance that would be open to all incoming people fleeing from Reddit from Huffman’s shittiness, I started to have a brief hope. It did not last long, b/c the USA elections happened, and more importantly the trolls seemed to switch their strategy, no longer remaining constrained on the Triad servers and instead appearing everywhere, by which I mean Lemmy.World, lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, etc

Surely it can't be that people hate the Democrats, hate that the bar for "lesser evil" has been lowered to unlimited genocide, that this is a broadly held public sentiment, and as a result you can find evidence of this anywhere you look. Especially around election season, when all the people who still believe in American democracy are thinking about what policies they should advocate for, and what they should expect in return for their votes. It must be a conspiracy. It must be a social contagion. It must be a highly organized disinformation operation.

I have even had to resort to going back to Reddit - damnit the events happening in the world are IMPORTANT, and so when I’ve blocked most of the toxic communities on Lemmy, or even when I don’t block anything at all, that NEWS often simply is not here to be found and read, much less discussed! :-(

I blocked all the places where people discuss current events critically and now I can't find any discussions of current events.

I've been a bum for the past couple weeks and haven't been riding my bike. Got back on the horse today and worked up a good sweat. Also found the time to clean my rims and scrub them with emery paper. My breaks went from sounding like a neglected public transit bus to silence.

"My eyes are up here"

Unrealistic.

"Can I count on your $27 support to elect the next Democrat who will vote to pass a non-binding resolution to posthumously condemn my EXECUTION?"

Low fluid alarm? I'll give you some fluid you piece of shit.

This is like asking if there are any N64 games which use the D-pad (there are none, don't @ me).

We got a new toy at work.

Texas has gotten too woke!

I ran a Synapse server (the Matrix "reference implementation") for about a year and for a thing used to allow five friends to communicate, it was an abomination. Incredibly heavy application ("They're calling it the Mastodon of instant messaging."). Nowadays at least there are some other options, but at the time Synapse was the ONLY viable implementation.

Whitey's on the ground.

Motherfuckers going to make me feel sympathy for Will fucking Stancil.

Dualbooting setups are usually fickle thanks to Windows and Linux using two different programs (called bootloaders) to start themselves. If one updates and becomes incompatible the other, you may not be able to (easily) boot into one of your operating systems.

This has gotten much better since the large-scale introduction of UEFI (required by Microsoft for device certification since Windows 8). With UEFI, the boot loaders are installed in parallel, and generally don't mess with each other except for possibly changing which one is the default (and when this happens, the vast majority of UEFI firmwares allow you to choose from any of the installed bootloaders by holding a key at startup). It is a great improvement over the BIOS days, when you got one 512 byte master boot record per drive, and OSes would just clobber it.

On UEFI systems, you typically want to have only one EFI System Partition (where all the bootloaders live), even if the operating systems themselves live on separate disks.

Now, if only Windows would stop setting the hardware clock to local time...

No one is giving you the dark horse, underdog advice that you should put a spinning hard drive in there too.

Even if you just use it as a backup for your nvme you’ll be happy but spinning drives work great as “worm” disks and will almost always last longer than equivalent flash media. Having a place to put your video and audio files as well as code and other stuff that doesn’t need to go into ram fast as fuck boyee will let you stretch your nvme more as games baloon up to giant size too.

I did this. High capacity hard disk (spinning) drives have gotten pretty cheap, and with the right filesystem, the NVMe can serve as a warm cache in front of the slower HDDs. I'm not sure how it works in practice, but Windows has a feature called "Storage Spaces" to do LVM-like things along these lines. The most sophisticated options are in Windows Server, but I believe it is also available in the higher teir desktop OSes. On Linux, you can use block layer systems like LVM or BCache, or special-purpose multi-disk filesystems like BCacheFS. Not sure if I'd recommend it (for project longevity reasons), but I went the BCacheFS route with 2TB of NVMe backed by 2x6TB HDDs.

It's definitely worth looking into a solution which merges the physical drives into a logical volume, whether at the block or filesystem level. Rather than just having separate fast and slow filesystems, you can have hot files automatically promoted to the SSD and cold files automatically demoted to the HDD. My setup gives me one single 12TB filesystem with most of the upsides of the NVMe storage. It also allows me to take individual devices out of the array for replacement if e.g. the NVMe wears, or a HDD starts making noise. And because it is implemented at the filesystem layer, things like replication can be configured at the directory level, instead of being all-or-nothing like a traditional RAID or LVM configuration which operate below the filesystem layer.