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I recall rumors that when it came to version 10 of Mac OS, Apple knew they needed outside help, and the choice came down to BeOS on the one hand, or NeXT (including ol' Stevie J) on the other.

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

As a white cis hetero American male, trying to have a little empathy is literally the least I can do.

I'm amazed that we could design something that flew at all, given Mars's atmosphere is something like 1/150th of Earth's, but the gravity is closer to 1/3. I'm sure many people know this, but one of the bigger bits of scientific fudging in Andy Weir's The Martian is that a windstorm would fuck up their base like that.

BLENDER'S NOT CAD! ;-)

I mean, depending on one's definition, either it is or it isn't, and with CAD extensions I imagine it's perfectly fine for 3D printing where everything ends up a mesh anyway, but pretty much everything I've ever made was better suited to a solid modeler. I downloaded it once, but there was a lot going on there, and since it wasn't my priority to learn to sculpt, I set it aside.

When is the last time you tried? 0.21 is better, and the new Ondsel build based on 0.22 is even a little bit better still. The skills (and mine are, frankly, below average) from Fusion360 should translate; under the shiny pull arrows, they're obviously very similar. It's all the same concepts, and constraints are less critical than they first appear for making one-off parts.

Then, if you don't share my concerns with OnShape, it should work very well in Linux and after hitting F11 you might just forget it's browser-based.

My B450 motherboard is pretty long in the tooth, but still firmly a "modern" component. I just added a Serial port via its built in header to use an old "Spaceball" for CAD. It only works in a few Windows apps, which is a shame because it's completely a software issue and it works PERFECTLY in the apps that still support it. Linux as well, though I've only tried that via a USB-Serial adapter on my laptop.

I think it's a nice enough idea, and I hope it sets a reasonable baseline for what enthusiast and workstation laptops will be as the entabletification of the mainstream computing device continues, but right now it's sort of a solution waiting for its problem. Economically, it doesn't make much sense for one person to buy one. In an actuarial sense, it's almost certainly better to buy something you like that's less modular, and replace it if it breaks or stops being useful for your intended tasks. Of course if no one who wishes them well buys their computers, they won't last long enough to be relevant.

Strictly speaking, just standardizing and providing the physical specifications ends up making their dongles more like headers on a desktop motherboard, potentially a commodity piece that anyone could replicate. Their other modular components seem to have a similar idea. It all seems elegant enough, and ready to "backscale" into a distributed niche industry if the big companies stop making powerful proprietary machines at the scale that keeps them cheap. As it stands, they sort of ARE de facto proprietary, but I guess the idea is that there will be enough enthusiasts, hardware hackers, and evangelists paying a sizeable, but not crippling, premium to keep them afloat and gain the mindshare to become a new standard (and hopefully halo brand) when people need to build laptops like they build towers now.

I understand the 3D experience includes some sort of browser-based riff on SW; maybe that would be a halfway useful tool for Linux. I dunno. :-)

There is a roadmap and the adults in the room are getting the Devs to eat their broccoli and fix long standing issues - looking at you topological naming issue.

To be fair, you can't really call out part-time devs working for free too harshly, but I do think there was a focus on what they wanted to be able to pull off, versus what they wanted to empower random idiots with an Ender 3 to do, much less small-to-medium businesses. I think it led to the infamous "FreeCAD way" attitude amongst devs and power users. Topological naming, for instance. That arises out of the software implementation of 3D kernels, making it an issue of proper use of inherently limited design software, not of design itself. Software that accommodates it well is is not "cheating," and it's not lazy design to rely on well-coded apps, but I've run across that sentiment before, if not the words.

The push from Ondsel (for as long a it lasts... as the CTO mentioned, they have a very narrow path to support the underlying project while finding sufficient monetization), and the structure provided by the nonprofit should help. Autodesk too seems to be doing their part by making all but the most rank beginners (and some of them too) second guess the choice to lock themselves into Fusion 360.

Ted Lasso was on point in this matter.

I’m in the “cyst” camp. We had a Sheltie who got kinda gross little sebum-filled protrusions a little like that.

Go to the vet. If its just aging skin, you need to know so you can manage and maybe get some proper ointment, and if it’s something weird like a botfly, that shit needs to be removed ASAP.

He pulled off a Carrolll.