No need to name names or sources.
Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a “30,000 year old technology”
That using 100% free and open source software is more important than actually getting your work done.
In a thread about Affinity Photo where someone insisted that we should all use gimp and just not edit photos if gimp doesn’t have the features we need rather than asking Serif to port their software to Linux.
Also in several threads about migrating from Windows to Linux where every missing or complicated feature was brushed away with “just get used to not being able to do it, even if it’s critical to your workflow”.
That is 10,000% people who don’t do creative work especially professionally. I am fine with gimp and darktable versus anything Adobe/paid but I also barely use them lol. I would be back off Linux in a heartbeat if I honestly couldn’t use something I needed even though I prefer it.
Medical work, too. Several exam machines only work with Windows. I’ve heard once that “wine’s pretty good nowadays”, which completely ignores the detail that it isn’t tested with said equipment and its drivers.
Anything related to engineering, whether civil or mechanical, also goes with either Windows or Mac, because the free CAD options don’t hold a candle to AutoCAD and others.
Lastly, there’s no FOSS alternative to completely replace Microsoft Active Directory, so offices where 90% of the work is done on the web browser won’t bother because they’ll be losing control over individual machines.
There’s so much focus on “me” and “freedom” that they often forget there’s a whole damn world of different needs around them.
CAD options also flow over to the whole GPU debate as well. Yes, Nvidia’s company practices are awful. Yes, I’d love to have more options. But this doesn’t change that most of the heavyweight CAD options out there don’t play well with non-Nvidia GPUs.
I’d love it if there were FOSS / GPU-agnostic CAD options. But until then, focusing on what works is important, y’know?
I agree with this, outside of bs windows throws if you change the motherboard. Desktop Linux stability reminds me of Windows 7 levels of OS stability. Great for most, not for mission critical.
With that said i feel you are being overtly critical to FOSS CAD software. I use FreeCAD in a professional setting and it is extremely stable, and for my use case it is as capable with no missing features. Yes the software isn’t beginner friendly, but I honestly found it made my designs more accurate since it had more constraints for sketches.
What were you using BEFORE FreeCAD if it has MORE sketch constraints?? Man, I found it so limiting compared to NX. Especially the sketching. And surfacing appeared to be basically nonexistent. Maybe I’m too spoiled with NX, but I dont think I could function for even a day on FreeCAD. It’s worse than SolidWorks (and I hate SolidWorks). I really, really wanted to like it. I even gave it a second chance when 1.0 dropped.
Fusion 360 and before that Google Sketchup
Ah, ok. I’ve been using NX since it was still Unigraphics, so I am admittedly biased. I haven’t tried any of the newer things like Fusion or Sketchup. Might I ask what industry you use FreeCAD for at a professional level? Just curiosity. I’m automotive interiors tooling, so I’m pretty dependent on strong surfacing tools. Lots of A-surface stuff.
Also, how would you model this up in FreeCAD? This took me about 15 minutes in NX, with one sketch and some offset curves. I was making a 3D printed tag for my daughter.
I tried for over two hours in FreeCAD, but only got this far. I could not extrude individual bodies from one sketch, I had to make separate sketches for each shape. Offset curves didn’t appear to be a thing, and I couldn’t find any form of synchronous modeling tools. So, making those raised outlines was a whole other challenge. I ended up having to extrude a sheet taller than the main body, then thicken it. I couldn’t figure out how to select face edges for use in other commands, either. I ended up giving up.
I use freecad for mainly functional 3D Prints, many of which I sell on Etsy and eBay. You can see my designs here: https://www.printables.com/@16bitvirtual/models
As for how to do yourbunny. For the most part, you are falling into the biggest hurdle for FreeCAD. FreeCAD has constructing geometry which cannot interfere with the model. But it also means that if you aren’t very specific with your design it will fail. For example with the Bunny you need to define in your sketch what you’d like to pad or pocket out.
Then you work on adding details
The constructor lines are why I love FreeCAD since in other software I had to be very specific on what I can add without voids being accidentally added into my model.
I could go on for days about the problems with medical devices. I write software for one of those at my day job and as much as our team would love to port the software to something other than Windows, that would be a logistical nightmare.
The thunderbolt connection alone can break because of a thousand factors, even on the exact combination of hardware and operating system it was tested with. Processing of medical images is often very GPU-heavy which gives us the same problems as with CAD software.
Even if you get all the technical problems out of the way, medical devices need to be certified before you’re allowed to use them for diagnostics. This often includes an exact specification of the platform you run the software on. If you just take something that’s certified for “Windows 10 between 20H2 and 22H2, Intel or AMD CPU, device driver version 8.1.23” and try to run it on Wine, I would expect the American FDA, German TÜV and Chinese NMPA to fight over who gets to kick your door in first. It might be possible to get a certification for a Linux version but probably only for one specific combination of distribution, display server and desktop environment.
It’s always good to use FOSS where possible.
If it isn’t possible for you, then don’t. Perhaps try advocating for the FOSS alternatives to be better and drive up competition, forcing the software you do use to innovate.
I’d call this political as well
One that I read on Mastodon:
Every bad thing about commercial software is the programmers’ fault. Even if it was something that management decided and the programmer fought against it and lost. They claimed you should rather risk losing your job than accepting an inconvenience for your user. Weird take but okay. Then they started comparing software engineers to soldiers “just following orders” during the holocaust. That’s where I blocked them. Cherry on top: they have “if you want to hire me as a software engineer, message me” in their bio. I wonder why nobody wants to hire them…
I mean I get where they’re coming from but that’s just pushing it so far.
Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons
I think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe’s Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views.
Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn’t find a good way to phrase it.
Ward Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?
Bruh.
Everyone knows that was Jim Davis
No, that’s the creator of Heathcliff
Hmm.
“And there you go. As always, posting the wrong information gets you the real stuff (which, to be clear, is Ward Cunningham’s law)”
Ops, good catch, I mixed them up.
Sounds like something management would say
What kind of idiot can’t see the difference between “I’m going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to” and “I’m going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to”?
I guess there’s a parallel if you deliberately signed up for a job enshittifying things, although the difference of degree is obviously large. And OP was being really weird and aggro about it.
(Camp guard was a cush assignment relative to the front, you had to work for it)
That all small business owners are thieves and out to scam their customers - This was part of someone’s argument defending big box stores.
I mean I kind of assume all business owners are, though small business owners don’t have that shit baked in like megacorps.
Someone was trying to say the Van Halen’s song “Jump” was about suicide. Despite being presented with an interview with David Lee Roth (who wrote the song) explaining what the song was about. Still think about that. Idk why. Maybe because it was like one of those conversations you have with an edgy emo kid in highschool and realize they are full of shit. Some weird nostalgia I guess
It is a song influenced by seeing a report about a suicidal jumper, but repurposing the idea into a positive one. Basically, it is saying that instead of a suicide jump someone should take a leap of faith and improve things.
People fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song.
I knew someone who swore “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.
“Hallelujah” has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.
Mixed with references to Samson and Delilah
Yeah, which was its own level of toxic, but maybe doesn’t have the super gross power imbalance?
But wait! There’s more!
Cohen is reputed to have written between 80[7] and 180[8] draft verses for “Hallelujah”—a number affected by having many versions of the same line.[9] He claimed 150 draft verses, substantiated by his notebooks containing manifold revisions and additions, and by contemporary interviews.[10] In a writing session in New York’s Royalton Hotel, Cohen is famously said to have been reduced to sitting on the floor in his underwear, filling notebooks, banging his head on the floor.
I know this because I love that song and was obsessed with it for a year or two.
Hell, I can make an innuendo with the word innuendo.
“Hallelujah” is a song about sex — but it’s not dirty sex, it’s holy sex.
I wouldn’t say “holy.” David’s actions with Bathsheba were explicitly not holy.
One of the first argument I’ve got myself into was returning the shopping cart to the designated spot. This person was replying to like 5 people at once justifying why they don’t always return the cart, because the weather is hot and the corral is far, etc. while we disapproved.
Got some reddit argument PTSD from that lol
I suspect that person would also justify littering in order to “ensure street cleaners don’t lose their jobs”
Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is [Pushes glass off table] destroyed…
Robot cleaners move to clean broken glass
Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color.
Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who’ll be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain…of life.
I used to not take my cart in, but I worked at Walmart at the time and pushed carts for them when needed. I didn’t mind doing it all, and didn’t care where anyone left their carts. Now that I’ve been at a better job for a while I put them up. Don’t want to be out of touch with Cary pushing.
I didn’t think not returning a trolly was something worth defending 😂.
The only defence is “I’m a dickwad”. And I’d accept that if they owned it and we could verbally abuse them for being a dick, for only like 10 minutes after every episode.
Maybe if you’re severely mobility-impaired, but then you would probably have a device to assist you, so it still shouldn’t happen…
They weren’t defending that, the argument was whether someone who doesnt return a trolley is a bad person or not. Some people argued it was a trivial thing that meant nothing either way, some argued it meant they were evil, and some argued in the middle somewhere.
it’s a low stakes indicator.
someone who doesn’t return their cart isn’t automatically a bad person, but rather is more likely to be a bad person than someone who does return their cart.
people are lazy and in a hurry, so will often not say the full long version, and this applies to many things people often say. People then get “um actually” about it because the short version is technically wrong.
The shopping cart argument is a great place to start managing the human race. And I don’t mean in a binary manner - let’s just start with those who never bother returning the cart. To a startlingly large majority, they tend to demonstrate traits that are wholly incompatible with a polite and empathetic society.
Skee boo wee CART NARC 🚨
Shopping cart theory strikes again
Lmao I think I remember that one! Big Cart has a network of Lemmy shills, trust no one. 🕵♂️
I started an argument like that once. I made a joke about how there is literally always at least one person who defends not putting the cart back.
Only reason to not put it back is when you don’t wanna fight the homeless person bringing it back for you to keep the deposit coin.
Or when you’re drunk, going downhill with friends, crash and total it and take it home to make a grill out of it.
I don’t put the cart back because the workers at my grocery store keep telling me not to
To be fair I walk with a limp and a cane and hobbling back to my car is more of a pain then just popping the front of the cart up and hitching it on the planters. So it doesn’t roll into someone.
The workers there know me well and I show up 10 mins before closing on my way to work every day to get a snack for work.
Yeah I think that pretty clearly falls under extenuating circumstances
I seem to already have it blocked
Wow, are we the baddies? This guy must have a really bad time in the Linux communities.
Kinda unironically: yes.
Linux is great for some use cases and at least decent for most others but what I’ve experienced in some Linux communities made me understand why people don’t feel welcome. In a thread literally titled “Help me like desktop Linux” that listed a few things I was struggling with, I got hit with a bunch of “you’re an idiot for not using the exact same distro that I like”, “works on my machine” and “you want the wrong things”. Even as someone who already had over a decade of Linux server experience, that almost made me turn around and walk away.
Yes, that’s true, sometimes bug research pointed me to the arch Linux forums, and I was like: never ever I post one of my noob questions there. But that’s not all. Its just one point of view.
The skill level differences with Linux are huge. And people that wrote great wikis are sometimes frustrated if they get asked things they already explained elsewhere.
Linux is confusing for beginners, never forget this fact and be kind.
I’m sorry you had that experience.
For some reason some Linux users are strict and preachy about it instead of treating it like a piece of software/environment just like any other.
Aside from that, it’s just good practice to be kind to others and explain things to new (and not new) users in a reasonable way.
Hopefully you find a solution that works for you (for whatever OS you choose).
But some of the posts are hilarious lmao
I use Mint btw
There are legitimate reasons not not want to use or not be able to use Linux.
Calling the very real privacy issues presented by windows as a “conspiracy theory” is not one of them.
Also these people are delusional. They don’t understand why the steam deck is popular because quote “the main appeal of PC Gaming is modding and using a Keyboard and Mouse.” Which is a bold claim because I thought the point was having better control over what you play instead of hoping Microsoft, Nintendo, and PlayStation release those games on chosen console.
Do these people have an idea how many Stardew Valley Clones I can play on PC that will never touch an Xbox?
wow the ratio on those posts
And it’s not even satire, the dude generally has a hate boner for Linux.
I remember him somehow managing to get banned by his autoban-bot on that community
went there and down-voted everything
If you sort by top, there are some quite funny ones.
Any time any user comments the word “based” to the most normal and reasonable shit ever.
Based has lost all meaning.based
10BASE-T
Slides a $5 bill and smirks
Most people don’t even know what its supposed to mean
Yeah, i really just need to accept that at this point it means “lmao that’s crazy” or just “lol true”.
Shit bothers me tho.
I think it’s just become like a slightly edgy way of agreeing
Homeopathy… Oh boy, my mom believes in it. As well as crystals with special powers.
I fucking hate this.
Especially when they basically self-hypnosis themselves into the placebo affect and swear that their magic powdered crystal enema can fix everything.
There are some rocks with special powers. Like uranium, Plutonium, etc.
Yes, but those are dirty, brutish science rocks. Not special coloured crystals with the powers of emotional healing™, protection against negative auras™ or unseen life™, and the power to give a room or a house a positive atmosphere™.
You know, the kind that those doctors (who totally know nothing at all!) don’t want you to know about because it’ll put them out of business.
Replace them with colored glass for a week and see if anything happens. Then you can publish your results in Crystals Weekly if they work, or one of the science ones if they don’t.
I use very nice quartz in my daily life, and if they would have cracks or so my day would definitely be ruined
Don’t forget “promoting wellness”.
I appreciate that we’re past the days when they could make specific claims and get away with it, though.
I once got accused of having a corporate shill account after explaining how coupons work.
Man was whingeing about paying full price for Domino’s and got pissed at me when I pointed out they didn’t use the 2 for 7 deal that takes up half their homepage.
Some people just can’t admit they fucked up XD
You can’t say you like literally any product on the internet otherwise people call you a corporate shill. It’s frustrating because people sometimes like things…that’s just the nature of life in general. Sometimes you like something that was made by a company and not just already existing in nature…
Reminds me though…I recently got called a “Russian bot” by someone on Lemmy recently. I was super confused because the content of the conversation had nothing to do with Russia or the war or Russian viewpoints or anything. It was so out of left field that I had no idea what they were talking about.
Someone called me a rapist for saying that I’ve choked women during sex. Consenting, adult women.
You should have sent them a link to kink.com it would blow their minds.
Sure, only their minds, lol.
Hmmmm.
So what does it mean if I enjoy practicing hojojutsu on my consensually non-consenting partner…?
you ain’t a rapist, but you are putting them in danger breath play is incredibly dangerous
if done properly with good technique it’s not that risky. you need to trust your partner, have good communication (including both verbal and nonverbal systems of consent), and have the awareness to monitor your partner’s physical state while doing the deed.
breathplay is edgeplay but imo it’s one of the safer forms of edgeplay
Just ask David Carradine. Although, I’m still not convinced it was suicide.
I’m aware, and I know how to simulate choking without harming the person.
Please don’t choke people during sex even consenting people. If you need the sensation just put your hands on their collarbone and don’t actually cut off their windpipe.
After reading some kink books that give detailed instructions about how to suspend people, to give people piecing, fake cutting people as well as convince your sub that you have a loaded gun in their mouth with the disclaimer about how dangerous choking is really puts in perspective. There are tools to safely cut off air supply don’t choke someone
When I say “choke”, I mean I lock my fingers in a grasping position and lift up against their jaw. It’s simulated choking. I’m well aware of the danger in cutting off blood flow to the brain.
TIL.
Once knew someone who was convinced that Rage Against the Machine was a white supremacist band.
Because they liked them or because they didn’t like them?
They were trying to convince me to not listen to them. I think about this every time I listen to them.
That’s impressive. Normally, it’s media-illiterate rightwingers who like RAtM because they aren’t listening to the lyrics. Not the other way around.
that’s political I guess
That you should always keep your graphics card updated to the latest drivers, especially Nvidia
lol, I remember when I started playing No Man’s Sky, I made a post on reddit pointing out that more recent nvidia drivers fucked up the game’s framerate big time, like, if I was standing still and moved the mouse around, the framerate would tank. With a previous driver (416 or older), the whole game was butter smooth. I kept playing with that driver until the game had an update that forced you to have newer drivers. Performance was still shit.
I think there’s a limited number of optimizations that can be made and eventually some settings will conflict the old with the new at a fundamental level. And support for older or weaker hardware tends to get tossed to the wayside because it’s likely not the main money maker for them.
That’s not that ridiculous. If you’re frequently playing new games at launch (probably a bad idea for different reasons), then latest drivers often contain optimizations and fixes for specific games.
I’ve, on multiple instances had issues with newer games that were fixed with driver updates. It ain’t crazy
Windows or linux?
On linux I know that could cause lots of issues.
On windows I’m not aware of any reason not to keep the graphic drivers updated with nvidia.
I do out of habit and 99% of the time it has zero downsides and occasional positives. It only borked a game and required rolling back one time that I can remember.
I have a friend who is far more careful about doing their updates because they have frequent problems. Not sure why we have such different experiences.
Usually it’s hardware difference and compatibility between components. Small pieces with subtle variations and imperfect manufacturing often create unpredictable instability.
“Installing my driver” is a cultural relic from old Windows days where it wasn’t automatic; one needed a CD/Floppy or whatever to get your printer or ATI card working. It was good practice. Hence tons of “driver cleaner/updater” kind of shovelware exists to capitalize on that mindset.
…These days, Windows update (or the Arch/CachyOS package repos in my case) auto-update all my hardware with zero fuss. IDK why so many stray from that, unless they encounter a bug that was specifically fixed in an update.
Whatever driver Windows hands you for your nVidia/AMD card is likely to be hilariously out of date. If the driver it gives you is the one with the bug that’s bugging you, you won’t have a choice.
I’m on here enough they all blur together. Maybe that makes me the idiot.
“Fahrenheit describes the level of comfort for a human. From coldest to warmest that you may experience outside.”
0 is freezing. Can’t really get much easier than that.
Fahrenheit is cooler name than Celsius.
Disagree, ain’t nobody got time for that potatoe tumble
It needs some adjustment. 0 is fine, but 68 should be the new 100. We shouldn’t have to exist in climates warmer than that.
Why is that stupid? It’s based off salt water. You’re mostly salt water.
The arguments Fahrenheit’s defenders make are not objective, they vary from person to person. Does a hot summer’s day feel like 100%? Yes, no, maybe? For me it doesn’t, I’ve been in a sauna. Does an arbitrary distance below freezing feel like 0%? Or does 0% come earlier, i.e. once you can no longer exist without clothing?
If the defenders made arguments like “it’s neat to have 100° at body temperature” I wouldn’t say anything. But the arguments they make (see my quote) are not factual.
Oh, yeah. All temperature experience is subjective. It’s just that F is closer to “big round numbers” than C for our experiences.
50 degrees is just ok to me. Not cold, not hot
Best response to this is to ask whether 50°F is a comfortable room temperature.
Actually, no. The best response is no response.
It’s a comfortable outdoor temperature.
Combined with the trite “Fahrenheit is for humans, celsius is for water”.
My brother in Christ. You are 70° water.
And what is a Major factor in weather? Water.
My brother in Christ
Yikes.
My brother in Satan, this is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen on the fediverse. Your assumption that someone else is your brother in a superstition you were groomed into is offensive ignorant and regressive.
Bro… It’s a reference to a meme about subway sandwiches. Literally “Brother in Christ” was written over a scribbled out n word. I think you’re being a little overly heated over a meme phrase.
I think you’re being a little overly heated over a meme phrase.
Maybe. All the same, I prefer to keep people’s icky superstitions from being normalized as “just meme phrases”
There used to be a lot of those that people would say that they don’t anymore.
I’m 100% allowed to hate Christianity and not want it pointed at me in any way. I’m allowed to be overly heated about it too.
In my country Christians have made my daughters the first generation of American women to have fewer rights than their mothers did.
So “my brother in Christ” is the same to me as “my brother in the acceptable oppression of others”
Fuck that shit.
oh god, it’s just a saying, chillax
Never.
Can’t tell if serious.
Can’t tell if serious.
That’s how I feel about every Christian
They say they’re Christian but don’t seem to like Christ.
May our dark lord illuminate the path to enlightenment and freedom from the oppression of superstition. In his name we invoke power to ourselves, hail Satan.
Okay, so you are serious.
Dude, it’s a meme quote. OP is statistically very likely an atheist, since this is Lemmy.
I find it offensive
In the parlance of our time : it’s a micro-aggression
Like using “Jew” as a verb
This is lemmy shouldn’t we be more enlightened?
As an American I used to use a variation of this phrase.
Then I decided to experimentally switch to using Celsius. Took a few weeks/months to really internalize it and stop having to do on-the-fly conversions, but honestly I love it.
It’s remarkable how useful having 0 be freezing is for weather. It makes understanding sub-freezing temperatures much easier. Which also helps reinforce what a degree Celsius means.
I wish other Americans would try it. I haven’t gone back, all my devices are still on Celsius over five years later.
I might be alone on this but the freezing point of water is almost irrelevant in daily life. Any precipitation from 30°F (-1°C) to 35°F (1.5°C) results in some mix of snow/slush. Less than that and it’s snow/ice.
However if you live somewhere where they use salt as a de-icer, knowing the freezing point of saltwater (0°F, -17.7°C) is very, very important.
Make way for empirical chad.
Europeans shaking and crying at the realization that the difference between 70° and 75° is more obvious and meaningful than 21.11° and 23.88°
Americans shaking that 20-25C is more obvious than 68-77
Above 30 you just complain 25-30 you wear shorts 20-25 you wear whatever 15-20 you wear a t shirt and jeans 10-15 you consider a light jacket or a long sleeve 5-10 you firmly wear the light jacket or long sleeve 0-5 you bring a heavier coat Below 0 you complain
Beautiful 5 degree increments that perfectly describe what to wear in C Where with Fahrenheit you end up with weird numbers like 86 degrees
Take your scale and bump it down by 5 degrees C and you have my personal scale.
I like that scale, but Ottawa exists: can you give us the various levels of lament from 0 down to -40 or -50?
And is there a bonus wind scale to add to the suck?
I tried going pretty general with the first one but my personal is between 0 to -5 I wear a coat -5 to -10 consider gloves -10 to -15 wear gloves -15 to -20 wear heavy gloves -20 to -30 wear glasses and a buff/mask -30 to -40 add glove liners and question why I live in a place that gets this cold Haven’t gone below -40 but I imagine it’s just complaining
*Europeans, Asians, Africans, southamericans, australiaandoceanians and 23/24 of northamericans
*21.11°
I don’t understand why the difference between 70 ad 75 is more obvious than 21 and 24. Can you explain it?
Yep, there’s definitely nowhere it goes below 0 F. /s
Actually, the Persian Gulf gets above 100 regularly as well, if I have what that is in Celsius roughly correct.
Thinking there’s such a thing as “non-political”
I took the most diarrhoeal of diarrhoeal shits this morning. I’d like to see you make this political.
Easy! Why do you think it happened? Inadequate food regulation? Underfunded healthcare? Insufficient regulation of pollutants that can impact health and cause chronic disease?
I don’t know your individual circumstances, but given the state of the world right now, I’d bet it’s a combination of all three.
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