Who cares? Let people enjoy it if it makes them happy.

I vote for the murder option. People need to start conducting themselves better. We live in a society. Same goes for the ones leaving their cart out in the lot.

Ours orders the bags that are filters. Like big teabags.

It’s just funny to me how often AutoCad comes up

I suspect there’s a pretty big overlap between people willing to try jumping to Linux/wanting to get away from Microsoft’s bullshit and DIYers who find AutoCAD useful.

Yeah, that’s all beyond my abilities to figure out. Looking at my 602 it looks like the side buttons have their own board which is connected to the main board via ribbon cable. I thought it might be possible to do something similar with this one but I don’t know enough about electronics/mechanical engineering to figure that on my own. It’s still a really cool project though.

Possibly comes from experience with the shitty ones. I was involved in one for a now-defunct tech school I went to and all I got out of it was like $100. I didn’t have to put any time into it but that certainly didn’t make me whole.

That is really cool. I think there’s ways to get more switches on one port on Arduino but I don’t remember for sure.

Did you buy hardware with Linux pre-installed?

No, It’s not like there’s an abundance of options for this around. Especially if you want something with a graphics card and you want to lay hands on it first to make sure the construction isn’t shoddy. I just did a brief search for laptops with Linux on them and options were extremely limited. This is an unreasonable expectation to have as things stand.

Or is AutoCAD one of your everyday tasks?

Not every day but often. I’ve tried FreeCAD but it runs like ass on every system I’ve tried it on, and by ass I mean so slow it’s completely unusuable. I finished the entire design I was wanting to do in Fusion360 in the time it took to get a single rectangle sketched in FreeCAD last time I tried it.

We all have different definitions of “everyday”, but I haven’t had an issue web browsing on Linux in ages.

If web browsing is your only need then you can do that on a toaster. It’s not a good metric to suggest switching to Linux for most of the people looking to get off Windows. Another example of a recent problem I had was I couldn’t open pdfs off my network storage because the application didn’t understand the SMB in the path. Then there’s the fact that my secure boot enrollment randomly disappeared which somehow prevented it from booting regardless of if secureboot was on or not and I had to start from scratch with a new install just to get going again.

Garbage in, garbage out

Yeah it’s pretty frustrating to hear so many touting it as a replacement and then being met with hostility when you try to adopt it yourself and run into problems. Like I expect there to be some friction moving to a different system but when you’re hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows it gets tiresome quick and I haven’t even tried to game on it yet.

Interesting. It’s a start at least.

Hopefully not all the way…

When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I’ll gladly stop using Windows. It’s not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.

Already every commercial I hear on the radio is talking about “tariff pricing”.

Can I 3d print something like the g602 mouse? I can solder components together and do a little programming if need be but designing something like that is way over my head. Not being able to find a replacement for that thing is killing me.

Fusion 360 is a big sticking point for me too. I tried FREECAD but it ran like ass on every system I’ve tried it on. I’m currently dual booting but windows already wiped the secure boot key once which rendered the Linux os unbootable somehow even after I turned off secure boot. That was like a week after setting it up. I hadn’t even got started on the laundry list of other shot I needed to get working on Linux.

I hated them as a kid because they were uncomfortable and didn’t fit right. My mom made is wear it but I used to put the chest belt behind my back as soon as she turned around because it dug into my neck. I probably should have been in a car seat for way longer than I was. As an adult I don’t even notice it.

Yeah, it sounds like Elon but that’s because Elon sounds like a 4chan user. Not the other way around. If this could be him so could thousands of others.

Tesla: LOL our CEO owns the president.

Not if they can’t figure out the peripherals. The only thing missing with the laptop is the dual display. Having to drag around a whole keyboard, mouse, PC, and power bank like that is a lateral move at best. You could probably do what he’s doing with a laptop and it would still be just as if not more compact.