The point is: With OnShape, I’m able to wing it. Scan something, load the STL, define a few planes throughout the whole thing, freehand a few lines, extrude, offset here and there for clearance, print, forget. With FreeCAD I need to do it correctly and, as I just need a physical thing, I just don’t have the patience to find out what correctly would mean.

In my experience I have two possible decision paths: Do something using a commercial solution, OnShape in my case or try to do something using FreeCAD, get nowhere, look up tutorials, get somewhere but nowhere near what I need, give up, everything collects dust in the corner.

I get the free software idea and spirit, but I’d rather actually be able to just draw and print things I need. Between work, having a house, friends, voluntary firefighting, building automation for tasks in our little village and everything else the day only has about 24 hours and I can’t just cut sleep anymore as I did in my twenties.

Netflix enshittified their service over time for Linux users. So they reduced their service while increasing prices and thus I enshittified my payments by stopping them.

Yes. If it were just that, I’d be fine with it. But on top of paying them, every streaming service has their own app, website, whatever structure and I lose the priviledge of having my own digital library with my own search function integrated into my home automation and if we see that as a luxury, alright, then they’re giving me 720p maximum because my computer doesn’t match whatever they want me to buy and use for consuming their offers.

Piracy is a convenience problem, not a money problem.

Nix macht Geldwäsche einfacher als Kunst.

Meanwhile in the the US young men openly demand that women go back to being second class citizens without stewardship over, well, anything.

And it looks like about 40% the women elected the president and the party that supports that kind of development as well.

Yeah, no idea either.

Hm. My heated floors run at about 30°C on a very cold day. Do you think this could actually happen at that temperature?

(But yes to the drying part. We had the heat pump for the floors and multiple air dryers on full blast during our first winter, concrete floors, skreet and stucco in a house contain several m³ of water and not nearly all of that gets chemically bound)

I don’t think they like to be talked to that directly.

Wenn man später einen der NetMD-Player hatte, dann war es okay, da konnte man dann Zeug mit Sonys proprietärem Windows-Tool nach Atrac transcodieren und per USB rüberspielen. Die MP3-Player waren damals auch nicht viel komfortabler, die hatten auch parallele Schnittstellen und extra Tools, da gings schon.

Primary source: https://www.cinia.fi/en/news/a-fault-in-the-cinia-c-lion1-submarine-cable-between-finland-and-germany

(does anyone feel like those AI generated cover images are physically unpleasant? I’ve got a mild form of ADHS and I read texts and articles by jumping around a lot, recognizing patterns and forming an idea what the whole thing is about. These nonsencical drawings break that and it feels, well, that, unpleasant)

auch das Geld ist knapp

Ja wie, wat, haben die die Nummer von Onkel Vladi verlegt oder was. Weihnachten steht vor der Tür, das Schleifen der deutschen Demokratie wird dem Onkelchen doch bestimmt nochmal ein paar Scheine wert sein.

Ein großer Magnet kann helfen

Macht Sinn, wenn die Leute nicht mehr vom Parkplatz fahren können müssen sie ja wohl oder übel Zeit da verbringen.

Bei den ganzen Bauchschmerzen die die SPD die letzten Jahre so hatte - also, ich würd damit echt mal zum Arzt gehen. Das kann nicht gut sein.

Aber Potential für toxische Beziehungen gibt es auch in nicht-traditionellen Rollenverteilungen.

Ja, aber zumindest ist außerhalb dieser bubble jeder Partner wirtschaftlich unabhängig und kann eine ungesunde Beziehung verlassen. Daher ist dieses tradwife-Ding ja so attraktiv für etwas hängengebliebene Konservative: Sie müssen sich einfach weniger Mühe geben ein attraktiver und interessanter Partner zu sein, wat will die Alte denn machen, höhöhö.

IT people won’t have smart homes for example.

That’s not true. I have quite a bit of smart home stuff. It’s all hosted on premise and walled off towards the internet though.

In my Audis at least, the child safety is disabled together with the locks opening within a few milliseconds of the airbag control unit sending a crash signal across the CAN. That message is sent immediately when the decision to open at least one airbag has been made and therefore will reach all components while the crash hasn’t even had time to finish, so all wires and stuff is most likely still in place

Apart from that, the doors have an emergency mechanical release that is “just pull a bit harder and further on the handle”. Which is what you’d do anyway.

Yes. I mean, I was hoping they’re not serious about that.

I know what they mean and I know how it still makes sense to use Cloudflare when hosting everything else yourself, the comment was a bit tongue in cheek.

I do hope they have bought at least two of those Mac Minis so their service doesn’t go down every time they need to reboot something.

Old border fence, suspiciously new post feet. Everybody’s bored on sunday morning anyway, why not?