I totally get that. It's like finding a programming language or personal information manager app that you like. Have to try a bunch out to find something that works for you.
A long time ago I dabbled in script-generated ray tracing. That was fun, but I never got great at it.
I also learned PostScript for a while, because I wanted to create some very intricate printable forms. Using WYSIWG tools was just not cutting it. I ended up with some large 300dpi forms that I liked, whuch were perfect for the assignment.
Sometimes a different model or approach can make a huge difference to your work flow.
I have an Anycubic 4k resin printer. I'm in the US. Most of the time I am printing miniatures for tabletop gaming using STL files I find online. However, sometimes I want to customize them. And more than once I've needed to repair some broken household object and needed to print a part for it. I've also made a few original gifts for people from scratch. I'm not a very good sculptor, but I can make funny / cute things and put their name on it, stuff like that. I can also copy stuff pretty well if I have enough photos of it from enough 90-degree angles. It's a very fun hobby, I wish I had more time for it!
Standing in a convenience store when a car comes crashing through the front, and broken glass flies all around all the customers including me. None of us got hurt, but it was scary AF. Car was being driven by an elderly person who confused the brake pedal with the gas pedal.
I do resin printing. All models get sliced into 2d layers by the slicer program. Therefore, the geometry of the mesh isn't nearly as important as it would be for something you wanted to animate or use in a game. (Pro 3d modelers take great pains to keep their meshes very clean and smooth, made up of all triangles, etc. But if you're just going to convert the thing to a bunch of 2d slices, you don't need that level of discipline.)
You can basically overlap and tweak a bunch of primitive shapes (cubes, spheres, cylinders, etc) to build a complex shape for the thing you want. Then you can export that as an STL file and load it into your slicer. Once inside the slicer you can add any needed supports and then slice it.
In order to get to this pretty basic level of competence, I just watched several tutorial videos on the basics. Like how to add shapes, scale them, modify them, mirror them for perfect symmetry, etc. I have watched some videos on texturing, lighting, etc. out of curiosity but you don't need any of that for resin printing.
And once you export it as an STL it looks like one solid thing, so it's easy to rotate it around and so on in the slicer program.
"Blender Guru" is a really well done Blender tutorial channel, but he also covers a lot of things I don't really need. Early on, I learned a lot from the "tutor4u" channel.
Blender. Not great at it, but there's so many fantastic tutorials on YouTube. I can use it good enough to design and 3d print simple things. Of course, there's may aspects / layers to it. It's both broad and deep. So it's good to kind of focus on one thing at the time, and then break that down even further.
It's been depicted as various things in old art and literature. Apple is very common. But you also find figs, grapes, pomegranates, and occasionally pears. Probably some others I missed.
Stand in front of the mirror and raise your right hand. In your imagination, trace the rays of light bouncing off of your hand, bouncing off the mirror, and entering your eyes. Your right hand is in front of the right half of the mirror (as you look at it) not the left half.
Your head, however, is on the top half of the mirror as you look at it, and your torso is on the lower part. The light is simply bouncing off the mirror at angles that align left, right, top and bottom relative to you.
The image of the human in the mirror appears to be raising the left hand, because your mind has re-oriented that person to assign "left" to that hand. But it's really just the image of the right hand coming relatively straight back at you. It appears to be the person's "left" hand because we think of the image as a person facing towards us. But it's not a person. It's just an image of you.
If it helps, move your right hand towards the mirror until it "touches the other guy's left hand" and then back it off. Do this a few times and it should click what's going on.
All of this assumes you are standing right side up. :0)
The other thing you mentioned: not having close friends and non-professional relationships. I think that's very true. A lot of people are isolated these days. And many friends will keep you at arm's length. They are happy to hang out. But if you start to open up too much, they will start to avoid you. Anything that smells remotely "clingy" is a big no-no. They'd rather look at screens than engage in real talk.
I appreciate you bringing up the money aspects. I have often felt the same way about the ubiquitousness of "just do therapy, bro". That it's just another sad aspect of late stage capitalism. It's my understanding there's not nearly enough providers to go around, yet the aggressive marketing continues. Because of course it does.
I don't know if this is true or if it's just a trope. But I've also heard that the field attracts people who usually need help themselves. Not that all therapists are "broken"...but that there's a percentage who are. So on top of finding an available one at all, you hope you land a good one. Hopefully that's just a BS stereotype.
I have only used it with American English. Oddly, it will sometimes slip into a British accent. I believe it is possible to retrain it on other languages, but I have not done the deep dive required to do so.
I've heard people call these mental health days. At least to friends. Probably not to bosses. It's good to take one once in a while (if you can) and just chill. I occasionally do so.
I'll never forget my younger brother saying that in NYC people consider it really weird if you're not in therapy. I didn't comment, but that kind of bugged me. I'm all for de-stigmatizing therapy, but that made it sound like it's some kind of flex to tell people you're in therapy...?
I've been able to generate very good results with this open source project. You need a pretty good nVidia GPU, and it takes some time and tedious work to get it working they way you want it to:
Some voices sound exactly right. Other sound like a broken robot. The main reason I like it is that I can run it local without having to sign up for some stupid cloud service.
I hate playing online multiplayer, and I only play solo games. But it doesn't bother me that online multiplayer games exist. Let people have their fun, it's not bothering us.
No conflation. It's both. It's because everything is privatized / sacrificed on the altar of capitalism. Yes, bacteria evolves quickly, but that doesn't explain the huge gap in development efforts. It's a complication, definitely. But, I reject the idea that this is the primary reason. More like an excuse.
Chicken and egg. Linux is roughly 4% of the OS space. If more people would get on board, it would become a better tool. I use both. Windows because I have to. Linux because I want to.
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I totally get that. It's like finding a programming language or personal information manager app that you like. Have to try a bunch out to find something that works for you.
A long time ago I dabbled in script-generated ray tracing. That was fun, but I never got great at it.
I also learned PostScript for a while, because I wanted to create some very intricate printable forms. Using WYSIWG tools was just not cutting it. I ended up with some large 300dpi forms that I liked, whuch were perfect for the assignment.
Sometimes a different model or approach can make a huge difference to your work flow.