wjrii

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[–] wjrii 14 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Short answer? Because it does. It doesn't take much to be visible compared to space.

[–] wjrii 3 points 6 hours ago

LOL, that question may be rather dependent on when you last tried it. It's definitely better than, say, version 0.21.

[–] wjrii 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's, oh jeez, six months old by now, but back in the spring I went through all the ones I'd tried. I ultimately settled on the middle tier for Alibre, with a permanent license. Pricier than Atom, to be sure, but feature complete for any needs I can imagine for myself as an utter amateur.

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/13801439

[–] wjrii 4 points 6 hours ago

A whole meter?!?!?!?!

[–] wjrii 3 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I don't know why Solid Edge doesn't get more love. IMO it's comparable to Fusion for basic part design, and it's fully local.

I actually got a license for Alibre, so I'll keep using that until my hair finishes turning gray.

I was running into some errors with the FreeCAD Appimage in Linux, but the Windows version is running fairly smoothly, and it's finally getting enough helper prompts and heuristic interface things to be less unwieldy, but it's still FreeCAD. For instance, I'm still trying to find the easiest of three or four kludgey ways to project a face onto a sketch, and none of them are as easy as the purpose-built tool for that in Alibre.

[–] wjrii 1 points 8 hours ago

Trivia's always been one of my things, but there was very much a luck element that I didn't have to second guess any of these.

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FreeCAD v1.0 released. (blog.freecad.org)
submitted 10 hours ago by wjrii to c/3dprinting
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22260935

Let's take her out for a spin...

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FreeCAD v1.0 released. (blog.freecad.org)
submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by wjrii to c/cad
 

Let's take her out for a spin...

EDIT: annnnnd two crashes on the x86_64 AppImage in twenty minutes, both when attempting to start a sketch on a face. Could easily be my Kubuntu install, but... sigh.

EDIT2: Seeing that some issues might be related to changes to the Appimage framework. I'll need to see if I need some system updates. Windows version is running smoother, though my middle mouse button stopped working for some reason until restarting the app. If you haven't tried FreeCAD in a while, give it a shot; you may be pleasantly surprised. If you have, it's not a vastly different experience than recent daily builds or Ondsel (RIP).

[–] wjrii 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Nov. 20, 2024 

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[–] wjrii 3 points 10 hours ago

Definitely enough sugar in THAT.

[–] wjrii 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Do tomatoes even have enough sugar to ferment into a usable amount of alcohol without "spiking" the juice first?

[–] wjrii 2 points 1 day ago
Word Chase #70
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[–] wjrii 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Nov. 19, 2024 

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[–] wjrii 32 points 1 day ago

50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said "okay, now is fine" to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.

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Jesus Christ (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by wjrii to c/exmormon
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22151827

Even Del Parson white Jesus is like, "WTF fellas?!"

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submitted 5 days ago by wjrii to c/cad
 

They expect to release 1.0 in a week or so.

 
 
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It's gonna happen. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by wjrii to c/tenforward
 
 

...despite spending more time than usual.

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Unexpected generation gap (self.casualconversation)
 

I am mid-40s. My daughter is 11. I take her to school, among other driving things, and usually play NPR. Whenever she needs to refer to what she's hearing -- usually to ask if I'll turn it off so she can pull up some godawful thing where a random Youtuber squawks discordant lyrics to a Pokémon video game score -- she calls it a podcast. I've stopped correcting her, particularly since most of the "shows" release as podcasts by the next day anyway.

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Preferences (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by wjrii to c/tenforward
 
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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by wjrii to c/cad
 

Not that it's much to brag about, or that I'm rare for having done so, but I definitely called this one. I am really not sure how they ever really thought FreeCAD just needed Cloud PDM to make a dent in the commercial market. Hell, part of me wonders if the devs actually believed that, or if this was all a low-grade Robin Hood grift to plow some VC resources into FreeCAD for a couple of years. 🤣

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