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  • I know it's not a good advice, but having something very serious happen in your life might shift your perspective. In my case, getting (through) cancer made me realize it's not worth stressing for stupid little things and greatly deepened my stoicism.

  • I'm a developer, so that's a bonus for me. However, it's just ChatGPT with access to search, you can use it for anything, not just code. I tends to produce scripts rather than guides when you ask how to do something, but if you get used to it, it's just a matter of phrasing your query the right way. I don't know of any other similar service - other than Bing - that can search on web and crunch the results for you. And I find Phind to be much more reliable than Bing.

  • I'm using Phind. It's presumably using Google search, but it skips all the bloat and ads, skips clicking through the links one by one, and rummaging through articles full of more ads and annoying popups. Then it summarizes everything with sources, if I ever need to go to the page directly (which I mostly don't need to). And it supports bangs for Google and DDG, if you need to go old-school.

  • Amazing summary by Angus of Maker's Muse (imo one of the best 3D printing channels): https://youtu.be/k4Cc_3G4mpc

    Stock Ender 3 is a hassle that can be so frustrating you'd drop the hobby altogether. If you want to get it as a platform for tinkering and modding, then go ahead. If you want it as a tool, get something reliable. Even investing a little bit more upfront might save you more in the long run. A broken cheap printer doesn't make any money after all.

    And one more note: if you want to focus on minis and want a decent quality, FDM might not be the best choice.

  • I worked in China for a couple years on a banking app for lending money. The middle class in large cities over there was interested only in social status. They would happily borrow insane amounts for the newest phones and biggest cars, when they couldn't afford a dinner for their kids. I know that what we did was predatory and exploitative, and on a scale unimaginable on European markets. Our marketing predicted a collapse of the target social class in 5-7 years... That was 4 years ago.

    I'm certain other (western) markets experience similar progression - and exploits.

  • I highly recommend Powertoys Run (powered by Wox) with the Everything plugin. It brings a Spotlight-like search with lightning fast search and many features like calculator, running commands and others. I almost never use the start menu nowadays. And all of this is available through Chocolatey.

    Also there's plenty other nifty tools you get as a part of Powertoys (I couldn't live without Fancy Zones).

    https://lifehacker.com/how-to-set-up-microsofts-new-spotlight-esque-powertoy-i-1843566673

  • I switched from Fusion to OnShape a while back, because it has an Android app and works great on my tablet. It has pretty much all the features I ever used in Fusion (exclusively for 3D printing designs) and I find it as intuitive as Fusion. I recommend checking out Teaching Tech on YouTube, they have an awesome tutorial for OnShape.