Contrary to the others here,while I love Paperless,using it for textbooks and notes only worked “somewhat” for me - it becomes quite clunky after a while.
Personally I would rather go with Calibre if I were you if you have more textbooks than notes. Even for notes, they can be attached as well and better organised than Paperless.
(And don’t get me wrong paperless is awesome and I use it heavily)
There are two sides of issues with FreeCAD: On one side it has usability issues. The comes largely from the “workbench” concept, so often you will be missing a tool unless you change workbenches which in terms leads to another tool missing. Furthermore the UI is not really consistent in how things are named, how things are done,etc. Same goes for the actual step of editing things. So while you eventually “get there”, especially as a newcomer, it will take time and a bit of try and error. Parametric solutions are also very clunky and often not as feature rich. (Which is a pain if using it for woodworking) Another thing that is the whole “derivate” thing most professional CAD solutions offer - e.g. build plans, CAM, BOM, simulation,etc. You can do them with FreeCAD, but it takes some plugins and is nearly as good or comfortable as the professional solutions.
The other side is performance and stability. FreeCAD is a nightmare when it comes to importing thing with a lot facets or large files, is unstable as fuck when working with large assemblies and generally is slower compared to other solutions. (Even the otherwise not very fast Solidworks is faster)
In the end I would recommend you to try all three of them (and a few others from the list) and then decide if you can be bothered to use FreeCAD or find another solution worth it more. (Personally I would avoid Fusion,btw. due to the fact that it gets more enshitified daily)
There are two more alternatives, sadly for Windows only.
Solidedge Free for non-commercial makers, relatively easy to learn. But fucking expensive when you want to go commercial.
Solidworks Relatively cheap for makers and students,really expensive for commercial. The maker version has a reduced feature set,but that’s not that relevant for most purposes (more towards simulation and things like that) Personally I would prefer it over Solidedge, but that’s more of a personal view.
BUT: Both are Windows only(more or less), and of course commercial.
Sadly FreeCAD is not even close to most professional products - while it can be used for a lot of things,these things will take longer, be often more unstable and less “straightforward”.Nevertheless for most non-professional uses,it will suffice.
Definitely not the best, but still worth a mention is “Stormworks: Build and rescue”. Basically a Lego like “build a ship/plane and do missions on the oceans” game - missions nowadays are also including far more than rescue.
Btw: There are USB foot keyboards on the soulless online marketing platform of your choice. They can usually be programmed to different keys or combinations. While it is not something I would use for FPS gaming, it can come handy in situations like yours. I have one with three different switches that are programmable which is quite handy.
Yeah, it’s a real pain, sadly. Tbh, I don’t think we will ever find a major CAD company support Linux again - even Siemens, who supported NX on Linux for ages have stopped.
From my POV we have two choices: Either we make FreeCAD a viable alternative that beats the competition or at least is on the same page as them - which I find highly unlikely with the current system, so a fork+someone who finances it would be needed- or we find ways to optimise/enable Windows based CAD on Linux*. The former worked for the other tool we regularly use: QGIS. That has become the de facto standard in a lot of fields and has sometimes even pushed out commercial competition.
The later is imho the better way for CAD as it is really really hard for companies to change their CAD (even within windows and with a commercial product) - I have a business estimate for an medical product company who estimated 30k € per employee under ideal conditions, possibly more if something goes wrong(Training, loss of production, licencing, converting of files, integration of external databases,etc.). We have done it for games (tbf,with a lot of help from valve) and surely can do it with CAD (which in theory should be easier).
The last option is a bad one: In theory we could use FreeCAD as a backengine and develop themes that replicate the workflow of other products. But for that FreeCAD would need to improve on so many points beforehand…
Photoshop is a professional level software that is used by hobbyists as well - we compare affinity to this level as well and that’s okay.
So we should compare FreeCAD on this level as well. And from that perspective it’s sadly exactly what I called it.
The roughness from a commercial perspective is an issue as it costs money - because it takes people much more time to do things,even when they work.
And there are still way too many issues with it that sometimes are a result of infighting within the development community and exist for5+ years. To name a few:
More complex imports are basically a nightmare especially with more complex facets
Large file handling is unstable as f***. Our CAD files are commercial building size or “complex medical product” sized and despite having more than enough resources allocated FreeCAD crashes frequently without even proving any hints to the user why. The issue behind it is known for years, though.
We had multiple issues with using older files that were saved on different OSes - really great if you can’t access files that are 16 months old. Also a known issue.
Standardised rollout is still basically impossible.
Just to name a few… It’s simply not on the level even Solidworks has in that regards (which has it’s own issues,yes, I am on the same page with you there). While I don’t really like Siemens NC (or Solidedge for that matter) it’s indeed a reasonably good software - but me disliking them might be the result of them dropping Linux support more or less unannounced. AutoCAD and it’s sister products are imho worse than Creo,but again: More of a personal thing. In the end they sadly (!) beat FreeCAD in all aspects. By far. Which is pretty much a catastrophe as FreeCAD is the only Linux alternative atm.
But we are talking about a commercial level here - Adobe Photoshop is primarily a professional software that is also used by prosumers/hobbyists,not vice versa. We all judge e.g. Affinity on that level (rightfully).
And seen from that level FreeCAD is,well, what I said. Sure,it might do for some hobbyists and even some small companies, but even then it shows it’s massive structural flaws. Which partly, and this is why I am so openly critical of it, exist for 5+ years and are there due to the ongoing infighting in the development community.
The problem with is roughness is also a problem in terms of commercial use. When I do things as a hobbyist it’s just my time that is consumed. Not ideal,but it is what it is. In a commercial setting my staff takes more time due to this roughness and that costs money - much more money than commercial solutions cost. Which is bad - especially as it forces people to stick with Windows as there are no properly working alternatives on Linux.
And yes, onshape and fusion are horrible to hobbyists in that regard, but Solidedge(free) and to some extend Solidworks(cheap) are decent.
Sadly FreeCAD is absolutely shit compared to what commercial CAD products offer - and sadly even 1.0 didn’t change their problems.
This post is incredibly well written and I can second this, both as a patient and as a healthcare professional. @Mods: We should have a wiki/halloffame or something to point people to posts like this.
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TBF: There was GTA London
Considering the shower temperatures of my wife and all the girlfriends I had before her I am almost 100% sure that’s hot water would not change much. Maybe very cold water?
That’s a bit below the level of reliability I need,sadly - before doing that I could also go for a non ECC solution.
Debatting with myself and to a lesser degree what to do in terms of our homeserver situation. While the proxmox node has more than enough CPU and RAM capacity left, the NAS, an older Synology, is full to the brim, EOL and needs replacement.And sadly being a mini PC the proxmox node is unable to get the HDs connected.
So something new is needed and I would rather have my setup streamlined and combine the two.
But that is… More difficult than anticipated. I really would like something power saving with ECC ram that can take at least two PCI-e (SFP+ and a potential graphic card for AI later on). That can take 4,better 6 HDs. And at least one,better two NVMe. …that basically means self building which I am happy with, but all current builds I calculate come out somewhere south of 2000€ (including two new HDs, as two old ones need to go). And that’s sadly out of the financial possibility at the moment.
If only the fucking Ugreen (DXP6800)would support ECC. While not ideal in terms of PCI-e it would be enough to do the trick.
Don’t go to Proton or Tuta - both are impossible to get out of basically, do not support free standards and Proton is scumy in terms of their marketing.
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Just to name a few.
Yeah, that would be favourable.
But: Blackberry has acquired multiple companies that deliver government grade android devices that are fully degooglefied and heavily secured. They are the de facto market leader.
Even if they bring out a properly secured and degooglefied Android that would be a huge step in the right direction.
To add a more recent example: The Serbians shot down a F-117 Nighthawk with a obsolete air defence system from the fifties. How? They knew the aircraft were coming, when (both due to spies), where (as they used the same routes) and that they had no anti radar escort.
You could go for Paracetamol/Acetaminophen. The lethal dose is quite low and in theory low enough someone could poison someone else with it. And once symptoms set in people’s livers are often beyond rescue and they die a very gruesome death unless we find a transplant organ in time.(And even then survival is not guaranteed)
And it’s relatively save to use in writing as it is coated/mixed with enough bittering agent these days that it actually wouldn’t work that well to secretly posing someone.
If you need something with a shorter timeframe Methanol is an option.
And of course there’s always Dihydrogen monoxide-everyone who has even had one drop of it will die eventually but the time range depends on the dose. With very high doses people die in minutes,with medium doses (this is actually sometimes used by inmates to kill themselves) they die within a day, with lower dose after decades, but some die mere days after they ingested the mere last drop of it. Nasty stuff and very available.
Yeah, actually some companies like IKEA which often are located “on the outskirts” even pay for lines from train stations to their shops - which are for public use and often it’s a mixed deal, like the company (or sometimes a few companies, sometimes even competitors) subsidies the line during business hours and the local government pays the remaining hours.
Sometimes this is mandated before business or factories can even open. That’s why a few suburban train stations in various German cities have company names (see Siemenswerke) or, more recently Tesla. (Who tried to get out of it,opened their line to late and then tried to claim it as a technical innovation)
I simply fire them if they do that.
The problem is that I work in Home Office exclusively…