PorkrollPosadist

"Mom, can we have socialism?"

"We have socialism at home."

There's a pretty robust modding community for Super Mario World (SNES). Many ROM hacks ranging from casual to kaiso.

Visit a dwarven tavern and use your suspiciously high rhetorical skills to assume the position of fortress mayor. Then initiate a project to eliminate the communal dorms and give each resident their own personal bedrooms... for privacy.

Dono from Maddie Thorsten (creator of Celeste): "The SMW Kaiso community is a cesspool of beautiful sickos."

I use DDG. It's getting worse, but it is still better than Google. At some point I might switch to Yandex.

Does China have any good search engines for English content? I'd consider Baidu but it is not practical to use if you don't read Mandarin (though you can still query in English and get English results).

Also, for DDG heads looking to try something else, you might be interested in a browser plugin like this to keep DDG "bang" behavior with other search engines. I cannot vouch for this extension in particular though aside from pointing you to the same review page I just looked at.

Hell yeah.

Looks like my wireless router firmware has not been updated since Obama was in the White House.

It's a meme.

Sending a report to the mods, "This 'THING' is not cute."

I'm tempted to create an account and reply in that thread. Not to scold them or create drama, but to simply explain a couple things. About "echo chambers" i.e. that the biggest echo chambers in the world are run by Mark Zuckerburg, Elon Musk, Steve Huffman. That the "animosity" seen on the Fediverse is driven by the underlying political economy, i.e. the only reason the Fediverse exists is because there was not enough room on the mainstream Silicon Valley platforms for us. That it is not possible for LGBT+ people and anti-LGBT+ people to "get along" with some friendly ribbing in this political environment. We cannot "agree to disagree" about matters like pogroms and genocide.

"Lemmy needs more normies," No. Yes, but that's not how this fucking works. The normies are all still on Reddit, browsing the default subs, and upvoting u/GallowBoob's reposts. Those are the last fucking people you're going to get. Those are the last people you should be interested in talking to, too. You're talking about people who (for example, among hundreds of other things) are perfectly comfortable on a website where the canonical "lesbian" community is a category of pornography instead of a community for the L in LGBT.

but honestly I would never pay for it.

Well yeah. You might as well buy a CNC mill with that money :D

I haven't tried SW, but from my experience with Creo, the workflow is very similar to FreeCAD. Designing 2D sketches driven by an algebraic constraint solver, extruding / pocketing them, and repeating indefinitely. You could run into similar problems as well, like if you make a sketch on an unreliable datum, and then go change sketches and dimensions earlier in the model tree, it is fairly easy to break the model. FreeCAD was notoriously fragile in this regard, but the 1.0 release incorporated significant improvements to what they call the "topological naming problem." None the less, I feel like these trials have made me better. There are often several ways to model the same geometry, but it helps to spend some time thinking about what is the most robust approach. What has the least likelihood to explode if you go back and change something? There is a methodology behind this which carries across to all CAD systems.

I'm kind of surprised to hear Blender CAD is in good shape. It always seemed like a cursed project to me, but I haven't taken a close look in a long time. Not to say Blender itself is bad. Like you said, It is probably the most capable free software program when it comes to doing 3D sculptures and such. I've only dabbled with it in amateur game development, and in that discipline it is incredibly solid.

One more thing... Solidworks is pretty easy to pirate of course, so is worth trying out.

Good to know. I should try it out, if only because it would help me get in the door for a CNC programming position.

For the record, the same is true for Creo Parametric. The main reason I haven't used it much at home is because of issues running it in WINE on Linux. Rebooting to run it on Windows was too inconvenient for me to invest much time in it. But if that isn't a problem, it's an option for anybody reading.

What are your thoughts on Solidworks vs. other solid modeling applications? I use FreeCAD at home to model things for my 3D printer, but I've also had the opportunity to use Creo Parametric (formerly Pro-Engineer) at work. We have Solidworks too (the software is on the computer), but I haven't gone out of my way to get IT to set up the licensing because it is a bit beyond my job description to begin with. In my humble opinion, I am pretty happy with FreeCAD, but the fillet tool will absolutely kill you at the end of the day.

In my experience, Creo is (obviously) more robust, but the gap gets smaller every year, and there have been several occasions where the engineers are hogging all the licenses so I'll just bang something out in FreeCAD. We have a couple CNC programs in production (tens of thousands of parts made) which started as a sketches in the FreeCAD sketcher workbench.