directive0

2y ago

How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?

Jump

Yeah you kinda nailed it.

Lemmy taught me that I wasn't just running away from Reddit, but from the kind of content sites like Reddit engender.

2y ago

Morn, quit spawn camping!

Jump

Facing Worlds too. Solid map.

2y ago

Morn, quit spawn camping!

Jump

I was that dude who brought his iMac g4 to an all PC LAN party

Big time loser, but I regret nothing!

2y ago

The name of the place is Deep Space 5

Jump

Recently started rewatching babylon5 and man is it great but also wow can you totally tell each Babylon 5 EP is like half the budget of a DS9 one.

Cardboard sets, bad lighting. But the acting and writing totally make up for it. You get a scene with g'kar or londo and it's easy to suspend your disbelief. Definitely a great show that still holds up.

2y ago

PSA: Try FreeCAD Link Branch (it's a big improvement!)

Jump

Im not going to try and convince people who have already made their mind up, but I ditched Fusion for Blender ages ago and haven't looked back. Its completely usable for CAD and precision design for 3D printing or what have you. Its not built for it, but its capable if you learn how.

The lack of pure CAD focus is a drawback, but it is largely made up for in blenders absolutely amazing general purpose tool set. Its not just mesh manipulation, with geometry nodes you can create complex intricate shapes that are also precise to your requirements. There are countless workflows and plugins that allow you to make blender adapt your needs. You can remix existing STLs and bring in reference photos/models/etc. Simply put IMO there is no need to use any other program for almost any aspect of 3D design, and so it has become my go to.

I don't recommend it for beginners, but it really is an incredibly powerful tool if you put the work in. Is it better that FreeCAD or Fusion? I am not qualified to say, but I'm pretty confident there are few features either package has that blender does not.

2y ago

Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing

Jump

It was $79.00 USD before shipping/etc.

2y ago

Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing

Jump

For coding I almost prefer it?

I think we take for granted how much predictive magic is happening behind the scenes on capacitive touch keyboards like on smartphones. I often find coding on a smartphone kind of challenging because it starts autocorrecting natural language, but on this its pretty easy since its just what you type is what you get. Lots of mistakes still, but having modifier keys available is also helpful.

I'm not trying to say its great, its just... very fine? Very okay.

2y ago

Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing

Jump

the keyboard is definitely "fine" to type on, its just a blackberry keyboard. The driver for the keyboard is also in development so theres not much support for using the trackbutton as a mouse. The display is difficult for practical use, its a monochromatic screen, there is no backlit, and the pixel density isn't amazing so you can't see full lines of code, lots of wrapping. It's better than having NO display in the field though. I actually really like it, its quirky, but with some struggle it is very usable.

2y ago

Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing

Jump

I got the general idea from the iPod Mini

Its basically a metal flatish sort of cylinder with a central chassis that slides in and out. I've used this technique a lot for printed enclosures because it feels pretty strong to me, and usually pretty easy to print, even with overhangs, since its such a regular shape. You also dont have to worry about applying components to the inside face of the case, since the whole things just slides in.