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nickwitha_k (he/him)

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  • Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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  • I have to agree with pretty much everything that you've said there. Since I don't use CAD professionally, and I'm not about to suffer through the windows experience voluntarily, I'm pretty much such with FreeCAD and (when I get around to it) CADquery. Hopefully more companies will start supporting Linux and free CAD devs from all the MS fuckery - might even get FreeCAD (or a fork) to be more productive and prioritize things necessary to be competitive for SMB/hobbyists.

  • Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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  • I hate the syntax in OpenSCAD. It LOOKS like something object-oriented but it is procedural, causing oh so many footguns, if one expects it to act like OOP.

  • Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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  • Oh definitely do. The recent improvements (in the last 1-2 years) have made it much more useable, and sometimes even intuitive.

  • Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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  • Depends on your needs. I probably wouldn't consider it good enough yet for commercial but the improvements on 1.0 take care of pretty much all of my needs. The "free" licenses for Fusion360 and OnShape are garbage and feel like nothing more than attempts to get hobbyists and small businesses locked in before changing terms. Plus, last I checked, they pull the same kinda data vacuum bullshit that social media companies did in their terms - "free" license holders should expect any and all of their work to be resold by the companies for profit.

  • Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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  • FreeCAD (for less-organic modeling)

  • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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  • I think you accidentally blockquoted the whole thing. Probably can fix by adding a new line after each quote block.

    Completely wrong.

    I'd say, maybe, oversimplified. Until the later stages, no country was as extremely embedded in global economies as has occurred between the late 20th century and now. The soviets did embed themselves in places where they saw possible advantage over the West, saw opportunity for vassal states, and engaged in some of the aul' imperialism. Even in Eastern Europe, it wasn't as embedded as the US economy has become at this point. Greater levels of industrialization and not being dependent on high tech sectors that are largely US-controlled, as well as proximity to the EU made the economic stagnation easier to weather.

    Also we're talking about Russia, not the USSR. And they certainly did make radical changes almost overnight when forced.

    Sorry. I had it framed in my head as a comparison between the breaking up of the USSR and potential dissolution of the US.

    My point is we need to untangle. We are not 'unscathed' as it is now, on the contrary, we are suffering bcs of them. The sooner we dump them the better.

    As someone living in the US, with a hard lean into anarchism, I absolutely agree with all of that. Allowing the US, with its push for unfettered, neoliberal capitalism to dig itself in and influence policy has caused extraordinary harm. Since the fall of the USSR, economic decision-makers in the US have seen no reason to improve the lives of the average citizen nor reasons not to intentionally bleed them dry for profit.

    If you don't root out neoliberalism in Europe, the same will happen there (look at the UK).

  • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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  • The USSR was not thoroughly embedded in the world economies. Nor did it have as staunch of allies in major positions in EU government as the US does today. Don't get me wrong, despite being in the US, I do think that countries divesting and becoming less dependent upon a slave state, like the US, is a good thing. However, as the "Great Recession" demonstrated, EU economies are very much entangled with the US economy, with few lessons seeming to have been learned in the last decade and a half.

    Sure, the US might be more impacted, but the EU will not be unscathed, if there isn't more effort to decouple and ditch neoliberal policies. That kind of stuff can't happen overnight.

  • What's your superpower?

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  • Probably odorous house ants (sometimes also called sugar ants). I'm fairly sensitive to their scent, myself and recall being in tears as a small child ~6 because one of them walked across my finger and no amount of washing would get the smell off. I'm not a fan.

  • What's your superpower?

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  • Ok. That's cool. I don't know if I've intentionally recalled touch in that way before. Lamb's ear and comfrey plants are interesting and satisfying to recall.

  • What's your superpower?

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  • I... Didn't know that was a thing but it makes sense. Is less than 1 something that people typically do without intent? That is, I can imagine a cartoon apple but, it's different than imagining an actual apple.

  • Walz Slams Harris’ ‘Told You So’ After Election Loss

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  • Because those Left of center tend to stay home and roll over for fascists at the ballot box, despite it being a betrayal to all vulnerable people. The Right has their religious leaders and other authority figures making sure that the vote and promising to oppress vulnerable people.

  • China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery

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  • Displayport is an open standard in name only. The specs require membership in VESA, something that requires a hefty sum of money. Even open-source projects have to restrict code that implements Displayport because of the licensing restrictions imposed on the "open" standard.

  • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • I like your take as well. My "disagreement" is mainly contrarian silliness as I felt it was rather implicit in your post :)

  • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • I disagree with your premise.

    It should be "The best thing that you can do for humanity is to be kind".

    Seriously. We're living in a time when fascism is in an upswing and at least one religious leader has publicly called empathy a sin. Kindness and empathy are rebellious acts.

  • The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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  • It's rare and I'm looking for it

    Unfortunately not that rare of a POV to find. They just generally don't do the young account thing. Some are true believers. Others likely state actors. Don't see as many bots but the greater levels of transparency and lower active population probably makes it less worthwhile of an investment.

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  • I'm AuADHD, myself, but do not experience synthesisia so that certainly colors my perspective. People with sensory sensitivities would definitely be more prone to experiencing challenges with synthesisia and sensory overload but anyone can potentially be impacted under the right circumstances. Particularly intense sensory stimuli can be stressful. Make it multi-sensory and the intensity level is effectively increased.

    Children who are otherwise neurotypical can sometimes have a little bit of a harder time with stress and intense sensations, which can manifest as meltdowns and the like.

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  • a rare condition that's seems to have no downsides and only benefits.

    A potential downside is sensory overload.

  • Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says

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  • I've found it primarily useless to harmful in my software development, making the work debugging poorly-structured code the major place that time is spent. What sort of software and language do you use it for?

  • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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  • Ease of cross-compiling is really one of my favorite things about Rust. It can run anywhere with little coaxing needed.