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  • Depends on what stability you are talking about. For freecad, I have to redo the entire part every time I change a dimension and the program doesn’t like it. Which is my main gripe with it - parametric cad that doesn’t like its parameters changed. It was worse before the naming problem was solved, but is still a huge issue. With solidworks and the same designs, we didn’t get as much lag (though it is a huge resource hog), but changing stuff earlier was a breeze and always worked


  • Freecad is free. It’s a huge pain compared to commercial though. It is a bit better with 1.0, but still. Gets slow when the scene / part gets complicated. Solidworks is pricy, but you can get a 1yr free pass for startups, with year 2 and 3 “discounted”. Best cad I tried so far, but fuck the pricing. Fusion pissess me off, can’t do things I want to do my own way. Sketchup was a toy last time I tried it. Blender is not CAD software.



  • Orrrrrr, hear me out, just click once and get an online account because you don’t care.

    And yes, the command line is an issue to most regular users. My parents don’t grasp the concept of keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting. I get a phone call every time they try to attach a file to an email, where they say the steps when they are doing it so they don’t fuck it up. If you use the computer to access a single webpage that’s bookmarked, youtube and ebay, maybe an hour every week at most, expecting them to have to learn a new system and a command line isn’t feasible. People like icons and clicking. If you managed to get rid of a keyboard and maintain functionality, they’d switch in a heartbeat. That’s why smartphones are so popular. That’s why kids preffer touchscreen over controller, and are basically unable to play keyboard and mouse anymore.





  • I’m working with my psych for years now and most we got is to get me to sleep relatively quickly. Mostly online / via phonecall. Recently suggested that it might be something else, like a deviated septum. He asked me “you obese?” I said yea. He asked “does your partner complain about you snoring?” I said “don’t have one, but previous one did”. Asked a bunch more followup questions. He then referred me to a sleep study clinic and wished me “to finally find someone who could tell you if you are breathing at night or not”. God damn, I could look for doctors for years and not find one as brutally honest / backhanded in compliments than him. Love it.


  • To be fair humans also have that. That’s the reason so many people wake up in the middle of the night. The most “natural” pattern is to sleep 4hrs, wake up for like an hour, and sleep four hours more. Then you get cursed people like me, who sleep for 12 and are still tired