Checked out the website, it seems amateurish and the comments on the free version indicate some very lacking support and functionally. Furthermore a search into matterhackers revealed a lot of poor reviews about the companies filaments. I have major doubts.
This is actually my first hearing of mattercad, I will have to check it out. I went from tinkercad to freecad and would agree that was quite a jump, but after watching a few low level tutorials I really started getting the hang out it pretty quickly.
The Buddhist word for this is sangha or community of like minded individuals. Not necessarily to suggested a sangha but most are non denominational and not strictly religious as well as being kind welcoming individuals.
The core concept though is just finding the people you vibe with, or "your people." Try finding places that revolve around a hobby or interest of yours and you will likely find like-minded individuals.
And it's the same reason this guy's solution to not sound like an LLM isn't a real solution, because no amount of prompting can fix the inherent issue that they don't actually know anything.
It's not an artistic representation, it's worse. It's algorithmic and to that extent it actually has a pretty good idea of what a person looks like naked based on their picture. That's why it's so disturbing.
For a compsci major is recommend something with klipper that's easy to tinker with. Bambu is great for non tech people that need an appliance that just works (down vote me if you want, I'm not condoning their lockdown practices).
Qidi is good but their klipper is modified and not open source. Q1 pro is what I have and it's great but modifying the firmware is, last I checked, is a whole project not supported by the company.
Elegoo and creality are good choices but I'm not very familiar with the printers personally.
Prusa is great but they are pricey and have been falling behind in innovation.
Or maybe they just actually know diversity is a good thing that helps a company make better products. Apple never struck me as particularly stupid, just evil.
No evidence provided for the claim in the article unfortunately