[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've spent the better half of six months trying to answer this question. (not continuously, just passively)

For some background, I used fusion 360 for a number of years, so I witnessed it turn to absolute shit, but that means parametric CADs are my cup of tea.

Here's my thoughts.

FreeCAD: I tried this, but I'll admit I gave up quickly.
It doesn't feel like a complete solution. It feels like more and more tools have been tacked on without the realisation that people who haven't been using it for years are going to have even less of an idea of where to start.
I do want to come back and give it another shot, as it hit 1.0 recently.

Plasticity:
I was originally interested in it because if how easy it could be to model something. After having used it for a number of days, I agree that it's relatively intuitive to get something going, but it lacks the precise feeling of a parametric CAD. Don't get me wrong, you can be precise with it, but it feels something akin to a 3D paint and less like a CAD program.
I can imagine if you just want to do something small, it would be sufficient.

OpenSCAD: I've been a programmer for 15+ years, and I expected to like this.
Sadly, if you lack a strong maths background, you'll find this difficult to master.
I'll be the first to admit my maths isn't as great as it used to be.
The beauty of a parametric CAD is that I don't need to know how to position everything exactly, I can just give it the constraints and it manages it for me.
With this, it felt like I kept on testing a value, measuring the resulting dimension that I was trying to go for, tweaking it again, rinse and repeat.
Didn't feel like I was programming, it felt like I was writing the 3D model itself with a DSL.
The lack of fillets and chamfers was also frustrating.

And this brings me to my current recommendation:

SolveSpace:

I've been using it for about a month now, and I've been happy with it.
It didn't take much to understand what it's trying to do.
It's completely parametric and I felt at home pretty quickly.
You can do fillets and chamfers easily, it just requires a bit of creative work.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
I'd be happy to answer them.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

There's a book with almost the exact same premise.

Destiny's Crucible.

It's fairly good, can be a bit slow though. (I'm 7 books in)

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, shit. I've been doing this for years and haven't notice a change yet.

How long were you doing it for? Does it effect your normal vision? Do you regret doing it?

I only ask if I should start switching it up, maybe throw in the other eye every now and then.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

It does, but performance seems a lot laggier than Windows.

I've been using Linux full time for a while now, and only recently installed Windows on a secondary drive, just for those two things.

Before, on Linux, it was a bit of mixed bag. Sometimes it would start up without issue, other times sound wouldn't work, etc.

Using corectl is a must, and make sure you have a stable steam install. (iirc the steam I installed didn't come with half of the 32 bit libs it was expecting). I'm rocking a 7900xtx, so it's not exactly low-end, and half-life alyx was giving me a lot of stutters.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Sadly, steam VR and fusion360 are still tying me to windows. :(

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago

My wife is Vietnamese, so I have a basic grasp of it, but they don't really have a word for yes.
The verb itself is used to answer the question.
Want something to drink? Drink. Want to go to the park? Go.

They have a word for no, but as you can probably ascertain, it's only for the negative.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Funnily enough, that is a keyword in rust.

(it's a placeholder to remove any bikeshedding)

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago

Iirc, for those interested, it's actually a mistranslation of the original Hebrew term.
The original term is tzelas, which is a bit ambiguous.
It could be rib, but no real way of knowing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1321fhe/comment/ji30zz0/

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

I'd argue that durability isn't the same as AC.

Also, I feel like a plate could withstand a knife stab.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

The trick is to get friends to play games with.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Xfce is still wholly in xorg territory.

Iirc there's work being done for Wayland support, but last I checked, it's not nearly far enough along.

[-] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Not entirely true.
In an apartment in the middle of a city, noisy neighbours can be a problem.

In those cases, it's best to jump to 5 GHz, and leave the 2.4 band alone.

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