Fox @ oxf @sh.itjust.works

European, trying to find a way in the Fediverse.

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It's funny, because this scenario actually happened in our CNC hall.

The guys over there were working with SolidWorks and Mastercam. I never really got too involved with their work, other than installing the software remotely for them.

It could very well have been a CNC machine that this procedure was about. I just know that they had all kinds of equipment in there, along with a hydrolic press, which peaked my interest the most because of a certain Finnish youtuber haha.

At my old workplace, there was numerous XP machines still going. They were running old machine equipment, and basically served as a controller for the entire machine.

As it turns out, it was cheaper to keep these XP stations, instead of buying a completely new Hydrolic press, or whatever it was running, which cost several hundred of thousands of dollars.

One day one of these computers stopped working, and we immediately tried to get the software to work on a brand new W10 replacement. Took us a week of drivers hell, until we eventually went to the basement, found an exact replica, and swapped the HDD over.

The company, making these heavy machineries, went bankrupt in the early 2000s, and there was literally no way of getting the software to run on anything besides that original box.

If you find contributing to OSM a chore, you might wanna look into "StreetComplete". They have managed to "gamify" contributing to the database.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

It's also available on PlayStore.

I bought a lifetime sub some years ago, and has used it for a couple of my projects.

While I would usually just set up the domain in my Proton/Tuta (or even just Cloudflare forwards), it's nice to have a place where I can allow my team members to login, for the slightly bigger projects.

Only downside is that the owner can seem to lose his cool sometimes.

Just don't try to install Steam...

OsmAnd is the Swiss army knife of Open Street Map frontends, but as I'm sure you'll agree on (if you've used it), it can be a bit of a headache setting it up, as well as getting familiar with it.

Organic Maps caters more to people seeking a pure alternative to Google/Apple Maps. It's the layman's alternative.

If you're a poweruser, and already familiar with OsmAnd, there's no point in switching. But in terms of getting other, non tech savvy, people to switch, it's a great recommendation!

This is actually incredible. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for finally providing a sane take, here on Lemmy.