That's good to hear about the 3d printer as I have yet to connect mine to try the same thing. I just have to learn freecad though, as i used to use fusion 360 which is not packaged for Linux.
Yes, even though I did not have a subscription, watching them do stuff like this every 2 weeks for the last year or more is what finally pushed me off to Linux as well. I got my parents moved over as well though, and they did have a subscription previously.
Way back in 1997 or so, I was not sure what to use, so I just chose "Foxtrot" from the phonetic alphabet because it sounded a little neat, and it has my favorite animal in it. It was not such an issue because you could still get that name everywhere at the time of course. Since then, I have mainly used variations of that, but at some point branched out into some others such as the one I use here.
It's always kind of funny to me though, when I go through some old backup and see one of my forum signatures with my original name on it.
Yes, I suppose I could have worded it better, but what I intend to say is that because people can do seemingly nothing (are prevented, or feel as though they will find no meaningful result from their effort), they figure there is no reason to try to do anything in the first place.
I don't mean to say that they shrug anything off or are not moved. Quite the opposite actually.
You may be right, but I'm not sure which comparisons you are making specifically and am interested to hear what they are if you are interested in explaining them to me.
The reason is apathy, which feeds inability, which feeds apathy, which feeds inability to do anything.
When our lives are taken, most people will be both ultimately unable and unwilling to do anything.
Even if people don't know it outright, they feel it.
More than this, we feel a disappointment and a shame in our bones that can't be shaken off because it is that outrageous and primal fear of losing anything more that drives our inaction, and so we feel ourselves to be cowards at our very core.
This is what grinds away at our souls daily.
When you eventually decide to do something, you will see you are no longer apathetic or unable. Your fears will begin to heal, and in this way it will save your soul. This is the power of courage. It is something you have to make for yourself, but hope is what drives it and hope is given.
No, haven't had time to trouble shoot much unfortunately. If they need a scan they just use their phones at the moment which works fine, but I still have to investigate further.
It pulls its data from open street map I believe, so it's as useful as the community is capable of making it.
The name of a side street I know was missing so I made an account on open street map and added the name, soon after when they consolidated the data it's there now.
This is both a good and bad thing. It means some stuff is not always up to date, but at the same time, for areas where people maintain it, I can see such fine detail that I can use the map to find out where there are things as small as trash cans, benches, and bike racks.
It helps to try a lot of different mediums and styles to see what works for you. I have trouble with lines/proportions so I figured "what's simpler than a line?" and the conclusion I came to was "well... a dot...".
Tried this out and while it takes longer, the quality I achieved was much better than what i had been doing previously:
That's good to hear about the 3d printer as I have yet to connect mine to try the same thing. I just have to learn freecad though, as i used to use fusion 360 which is not packaged for Linux.