[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago

Fusion 360 used to be free for the hobbyist too. FreeCAD is GPL licensed, so it will always be free.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

In California, any time I have seen an Amtrack train going the same direction as me on the freeway, I was passing it, never the other way around.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

The rules are entirely arbitrary, and have no basis in science. I have been told to turn off a GPS receiver that ran on two AA batteries for 12 hours. There is no possible way that you could affect the planes electronics with the power of two AA batteries. Especially not with electronics designed to be quiet enough not to interfere with the extremely weak GPS signals it must listen to. The electronics on a plane must be horribly designed if they can be affected by any hand held electronic device.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

I used to go to a local book store, until they stopped stocking any new science fiction. Then they went out of business and I was forced to buy books at Amazon as there was no other book store to go to.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 98 points 1 year ago

I absolutely despise the following directories: Documents, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, Videos. Why? Because applications randomly dump stuff into these directories and fill them with junk files. I don't want any application putting anything into directories I actually use, unless I explicitly tell them to. It is not possible to keep your files organized if applications randomly dump trash files into them.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 93 points 1 year ago

I spent seven years living in an apartment. I so enjoyed hearing the neighbors having sex, the thumping music they played, the smell of their cigarette smoke inside my apartment with all my windows closed, the random intrusions by management to repair something unrelated to my apartment, the random rent increases. Add this to the fact that I had no space for a work shop to make anything, and paying the equivalent of a mortgage with no equivalent home equity. Some people love apartment life, but it definitely was not for me.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Even though the gui file manager shows all directories as an image of a manila folder...

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

This limitation is too easy to get around. Have AI generate a picture. Take a photo of that picture and destroy the original. Copyright is now owned by the photographer. Have an AI write some music, change one note of that music and call in your arrangement of that piece, destroy the original music, and only your arrangement that you have a copyright on exists. etc.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Some idiot is going to hang out near the camera with a boom box and play loud engine noises every time an electric vehicle drives by.

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submitted 1 year ago by AKADAP@lemmy.ml to c/teslamotors@lemmy.ml

I finally caught my Tesla ignoring a voice command it clearly heard and understood. It properly shows the command in the text box, then does nothing with it. It does this when it has no connectivity, but when it has no connectivity, nothing shows up in the text box. This is the first time I have been able to catch it where it clearly heard me, clearly understood what I said, then completely ignored me.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

The evil thing about this is that it will be at minimum hours, possibly days, before someone who did this can come back to complain.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Had to get blockchain in there somewhere to appeal to the idiot investors.

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submitted 1 year ago by AKADAP@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

Is there a good Android app for using offline OpenStreetMap maps? My primary goal is to have maps that work when I have no connectivity. I'd like to download the entire US (or perhaps another country if I am traveling) and be able to navigate hiking trails where no cell service exists.

[-] AKADAP@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

If you want people to abandon cars, make the alternatives better. Unfortunately I never see that happening, I only see attempts to make car travel worse. I hate public transport with a passion, because it is so bad. When I was commuting, it took an hour each way to go 13 miles, but if I tried to take public transport, it would have taken two hours each way, including 2 miles of walking on a state highway with no shoulder and no sidewalks. Would have had to take a bus to the light rail, and change trains at least once. This light rail shared the same road that cars use, so it was subject to all of the same traffic issues that cars suffered.

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