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  • For me what generally happens if I stop at 9PM, I will work through the problem in my sleep (and it will prevent me from getting a good night sleep), but I will often find a breakthrough the next morning during shower time.

    I’m talking about those hard, multi-days debugging problems that nobody can figure out, but as someone else raised, that’s why I get paid good money for it.

    It still sucks though. That first response in the thread rings so true, ok now I get it, no you don’t…


  • I won’t buy my wife a Cricut for the same reason, it is a closed system that the company can decide to nickel and dime at will.

    Surprised that they switched to Evil mode so soon, now everyone talks about this, and just a few days ago nobody cared and those who did were the loonies talking crazy.

    Presumably now that the security keys are known, it is possible to jailbreak your printer and never deal with Bambu ever again.



  • I think everyone with a 3D printer starts like this (it is a self-replicating hobby after all!), but eventually I grew out of it. Making your own better printer out of the one you already have is awesome, I’m glad I did it! You learn so many new ways of failing, sometimes it’s a miracle these things work at all.

    For me though I managed to stop after 3 printers (gotta have a backup while working on the downed printer!). I mostly use my printers for functional stuff though, complimenting my other hobbies when I need something super specific. It’s great to have the skill to troubleshoot when things go wrong, but also great to just hit Print and know it will work! I am thankful for the CAD skills I picked up with this hobby.

    For the first year or two I was just constantly upgrading this or that on my lousy printer, then getting new problems due to those upgrades… I’m glad I don’t do that anymore 🤣

    Thankfully my « printing trinkets » phase did not last too long. So many benchies…


  • It is exactly my case, as HomeKit by itself is way too limited for automations.

    All of my HomeKit devices are actually exposed through HomeBridge, so I can still use HomeKit stuff if needed, and devices that do not support HomeKit can still be added to HomeKit.

    My current challenge is on the Smart Dashboard side, I don’t really want to buy a Google Pixel Tablet for this, and the Nest Hubs I have don’t really integrate with HomeAssistant except through Google cloud services.

    HomeKit dashboard is fine but too basic.


  • I need to hunt down HZD out of storage, looks like the disc must be in the drive to get the upgrade pricing for the remaster.

    No fast travel, now that is some dedication :) I know it usually pays off to walk everywhere especially in the beginning (at the very least you pick up resources that you’ll need anyway), but sometimes I just don’t want to.


  • Hey! I wanted to tell you that I came back to HFW after all due to your comment. I had logged 48 hours on it before I left, but was only 30% complete according to the PS5 dashboard.

    I found that I liked the atmosphere, but it is definitely a slow game most of the time. So much filler dialogue between characters, puzzles are instantly spoiled by Aloy talking to herself way too soon before you’ve had a chance to work through them (God of War Ragnarok is also guilty of this).

    And then there is the fact that Aloy will constantly put her life at risk at the slightest opportunity given by a stranger, even though story-wise she is literally the only one who can fix the Earth.

    That being said I play the game in a particular way, I go through all missions (main or side) in the order of their level, and I tend to prefer the stealth approach to most fights. So this does slow down the game quite a bit. I think I am halfway through?

    The overall vibe is really nice though, I might make it to the end this time. I’ve even put Burning Shores on my wish list!

    Cheers!


  • I loved HZD so much on PS4, it is a great world, really good sci-fi story and awesome character progression. It feels so good to easily take down machines that you struggle with at the beginning, it never gets old to tear off parts and weapons to use against them. The DLC for it was a great addition.

    Needless to say I jumped into Horizon Forbidden West as soon as it was released, and it did not live up to my expectations! The second go around everything feels so forced, I gave up midway through.

    Solid recommendations throughout this thread…



  • fulg@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat Ever Happened to Netscape?
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    They became a poster child for why you should never “start over from scratch” even if your current codebase is awful. Because when you do that your competitors keep going, then they have years on your now stale product. Netscape lost all on their own…

    Also: selling a browser? Man, the 90’s where wild.








  • I should have prefaced that I did not actually run this myself, but I did take a note of it, it looked promising. Sorry for the false hope!

    I would expect it to work after a lot of fussing about, and then break at the slightest update. Easier to run it in a VM (which is also not easy in order to get GPU acceleration without dedicating a card to it - I never managed to get Intel GVT-g nor GVT-d to work reliably).


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    It looks like Fusion 360 runs fine on Linux these days, I don’t know how reliable that is in practice (I would expect not very much).

    OnShape is a great option if the licensing terms are compatible with what you are doing. They used to have similar licensing terms as Fusion 360 where you could still get paid for your work with a free version (i.e. YouTube) but changed the terms to remove this loophole. Fusion still allows this with the Startup license but of course could change their mind at any time, then you’d be out of luck.

    I dislike the lockdown of Fusion 360 but its mental model works with my own (I can’t “get” SolidWorks and never remember how to do anything). Speaking of SolidWorks, they added a reasonably-priced license for DIY/hobbyists, but it’s the same lockdown as Fusion 360 and still Windows only.

    I’m in the same boat as you, just a hobbyist doing this for my own use, I have no interest in becoming an industrial engineer. For now I will keep using Fusion 360, and when that stops being an option I’ll move on to something else. I can whip out models for my prints easily enough and the 10 documents limit is just an annoyance, not a real limitation.

    At the very least whatever you design in Fusion 360 or OnShape won’t be stuck in there, you can export it out via .step files. You lose design history (if applicable) but not the model itself.