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Photoshop is a professional level software that is used by hobbyists as well - we compare affinity to this level as well and that's okay.

So we should compare FreeCAD on this level as well. And from that perspective it's sadly exactly what I called it.

The roughness from a commercial perspective is an issue as it costs money - because it takes people much more time to do things,even when they work.

And there are still way too many issues with it that sometimes are a result of infighting within the development community and exist for5+ years. To name a few:

• More complex imports are basically a nightmare especially with more complex facets
• Large file handling is unstable as f***. Our CAD files are commercial building size or "complex medical product" sized and despite having more than enough resources allocated FreeCAD crashes frequently without even proving any hints to the user why. The issue behind it is known for years, though.
• We had multiple issues with using older files that were saved on different OSes - really great if you can't access files that are 16 months old. Also a known issue.
• Standardised rollout is still basically impossible.

Just to name a few... It's simply not on the level even Solidworks has in that regards (which has it's own issues,yes, I am on the same page with you there). While I don't really like Siemens NC (or Solidedge for that matter) it's indeed a reasonably good software - but me disliking them might be the result of them dropping Linux support more or less unannounced. AutoCAD and it's sister products are imho worse than Creo,but again: More of a personal thing. In the end they sadly (!) beat FreeCAD in all aspects. By far. Which is pretty much a catastrophe as FreeCAD is the only Linux alternative atm.

But we are talking about a commercial level here - Adobe Photoshop is primarily a professional software that is also used by prosumers/hobbyists,not vice versa. We all judge e.g. Affinity on that level (rightfully).

And seen from that level FreeCAD is,well, what I said. Sure,it might do for some hobbyists and even some small companies, but even then it shows it's massive structural flaws. Which partly, and this is why I am so openly critical of it, exist for 5+ years and are there due to the ongoing infighting in the development community.

The problem with is roughness is also a problem in terms of commercial use. When I do things as a hobbyist it's just my time that is consumed. Not ideal,but it is what it is. In a commercial setting my staff takes more time due to this roughness and that costs money - much more money than commercial solutions cost. Which is bad - especially as it forces people to stick with Windows as there are no properly working alternatives on Linux.

And yes, onshape and fusion are horrible to hobbyists in that regard, but Solidedge(free) and to some extend Solidworks(cheap) are decent.

Sadly FreeCAD is absolutely shit compared to what commercial CAD products offer - and sadly even 1.0 didn't change their problems.

This post is incredibly well written and I can second this, both as a patient and as a healthcare professional. @Mods: We should have a wiki/halloffame or something to point people to posts like this.

!Lemmysilver

TBF: There was GTA London

Huh? "Very south west"/"very north east" is not quite right. Füssen is very much in the middle of the south of Germany.

Black Forest is around 2,5-3h(max.)/5.5h by train from the Black Forest by car (trust me,I live there and have to travel to Füssen from time to time).

Berlin is another story, takes around 7.5h by car (and can be even faster by train, 6.5h is possible) from Füssen.

But it's nowhere near impossible, or far. Especially as there are more than enough interesting destinations for a tourist in between: Munich, Nürnberg, maybe with a detour to Rothenburg.

I can understand your reservations against Neuschwanstein, I absolutely understand every tourist that wants to see it. It's quite nice from afar and well, while it's often fairly overcrowded it can be avoided if one chooses the right season and time. And it's always quite a bummer for most people to not have seen it in a once in a lifetime trip.

And I have no idea how you come to the conclusion that the Middle Rhine valley (which is rather annoyingly to travel to) is closer - and while the German view on the Middle Rhine valley is quite romantic, it has lost its appeal for most oversea tourist nowadays. After having many clients who were,honestly, quite underwhelmed, I no longer recommend it for people with a short time to spend.

Anyway, OP, shoot me a message if you make it to the forest, always up for a beer.

Basically all European countries, all but five (South)- East Asian ones, the majority of African one as well as Australia and a few more.

The downside: A fair share them for less than 24h, often only for 45min. Oh the joys of working in retrieval medicine.

For example I have been to Greece multiple times...but I have never even seen even the Akropolis from the ground.

Don't get me wrong here,friend, the following is not a bit meant to be related to be connected to the current state of the US,but: This special kind of "force your Christianity onto others" stupidity is very much a thing the US is world leader on.

It's actually not that easy. Parts of countries can be actually be part or not part of international agreements - Greenland for example is not part of the EU, Denmark as such is. Same goes for a lot,but not all, French oversea territories.

In terms of Greenland this is actually bad for Greenland in hindsight as the EU defence accords are more far reaching as the NATO accords which take precedence, though.

If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy of certain Member States.

And this is why KNX and Home Assistant are a good idea.

Or the victim had a run in with the actual clients who now frame the left for it and kill two birds with one stone that way.

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Yeah, that is odd,but patients often do not understand their caretakers in these situations. The four days is actually a classical "lore" patients understand when they are told that they need dialysis - "if you don't have dialysis now,you will be dead within four days".

But let's start from the beginning:

• With a high velocity high mass rear impact one would expect massive if not fatal neck injuries as the primary trauma. Even if her car was not yet "fully stopped" and still moving everything above a delta-v (difference in velocity) of 30km/h usually has these injuries as their primary trauma.
• Renal failure from rear collisions can have two causes: Either direct damage to the kidneys or due to Rhabdomyolysis - basically a large enough tissue damage to overwhelm the kidneys. Now, this is the first thing that is strange: While both would definitely been possible for a crash as described, the conditions for them to occur are quite special. The kidneys are fairly well guarded within the body and in rear collisions the construction of the car seat also does protect them. The resulting impact has to overcome these "protections" and therefore has to be quite substantial - and then is extremely unlikely to be isolated. With a very very high chance it goes along with major spinal injuries,often also thoracic and other abdominal injuries. That seems not to be the case here. So that leaves Rhabdomyolysis as a possible cause. But this would require a major tissue damage (e.g. like a leg being trapped for ages,etc.) & which sure can happen,but again that is not very likely here and would be much more of a concern for her in that case.
• A bit suspicious is also the photo. It must have been taken shortly after the incident based on the state of the bruises and her clothing. Additionally we find the black substance on her face that could very likely be sooth from a airbag, even though the positioning of it looks very much unlike every sooth I ever saw and the amount of it is rather big, indicating a aftermarket or old airbag. Furthermore the lone ECG dot is a bit suspicious as well - the positioning is plainly wrong for the kind of ECG used in trauma(a six lead ECG which requires four dots in different positions) and for monitoring purposes. And while it could be a (badly placed) left over from a 12 lead ECG, it brings us to the question while there is no 6 lead ECG being seen - a renal failure patient very likely would have been monitored this way, especially shortly after such a crash. (There is something white further down that might or might not be another dot) (Not to speak of things like central lines, peripheral lines, a Sheldon shock catheter or even a endotracheal tube,,etc.) Additionally this is clearly not a ED stretcher but a more permanent full nursing bed.
• All emergency patients in the Perth Metro region are transported by St. John Ambulance. They are very strict about their trauma bypass rules - all major trauma patients are to be transported to the Royal Perth hospital (who have clarified that they haven't seen her) or as a backup to Fiona Stanley or Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Only if patients are assessed as minor to moderate on scene or they are so critical that they won't make it there they go to the other hospitals. They are really strict about it, believe me. So...that is kind of strange. Now, of course, patients get undertriaged and might not be end up in the Royal. Let's look at what the alternatives are. Fiona Stanley and Charlie's both are equipped with everything they would need to treat so the transfer she mentioned would not have been needed. Neither is the geographically most likely option (Joondalup) as they have their own renal service. The next option would be Midlands, they have no nephrology indeed, but they work with the large Fresenius Center Midlands- and it's higgly unlikely that they would even have accepted her as a patient as they are known to be "trauma averse" and the Royal isn't too far away. Armadale has a nephro service, so do Rockingham (ICU only,though)and Peel/Mandurah. There is literally no hospital within the greater Metro area, even the closer country hospitals have renal services (Northam and Bunbury). Of course there always could be the possibility that she was transferred due to a sole nephrological condition (trauma would have ended in the Royal again),but that is somewhat unlikely. (For the outsider: There is only two fully private hospital which accept emergency patients - Hollywood who has renal, and Murdoch who doesn't but is directly next to Fiona Stanley and therefore unlikely)
• She claims to have been transferred to a "urology" department - urology has nothing to do with the kidneys in that regard unless the ureters are damaged, everything else is part of Nephrology, vulgo renal service. But patients indeed misunderstand that from time to time, so not a point against her.

Now, that's for what we know or can somewhat base on facts.

Let's guess a little what might have happened:

• Scenario 0: She is correct all along and took a photo at the right time, was incredibly lucky but gave different details about the accident for some reasons.
• Scenario 1: She indeed had a little accident. Happens. She was transported to one of the smaller hospitals due to the fact that she wasn't that injured. They found out that she has a kidney condition for other reason by chance and either she or her spoksperson exaggerated the whole situation for some reason or another.
• She is the victim of an attack (kicking into ones kidneys can lead to renal failure easily) and has been "silenced" in some way or another and this is her way of telling her attacker that she will fall in line and shut up.
• The whole story is badly faked and has been done in some other hospital or nursing home setting for some reasons we cannot know. Attention? Mental health issues? A cover story? Who knows.

That's a bit below the level of reliability I need,sadly - before doing that I could also go for a non ECC solution.

Mailbox.org They could go all the way and become "cool and cloud" but decided not to.

Haix While their customer service is not what it used to be they are still more than decent to a point it hurts their sales.

With my last one I am not 100% convinced: Mikrotik. While their stuff I great and cheap for what it does, I also had one really lacking support experience with them (they forgot to pack the rack ears for a switch and neither the vendor nor they could somehow get me ones. Another premium partner of them helped me for free and since then will always get my business). But in total they are still the good guys I think.

Debatting with myself and to a lesser degree what to do in terms of our homeserver situation. While the proxmox node has more than enough CPU and RAM capacity left, the NAS, an older Synology, is full to the brim, EOL and needs replacement.And sadly being a mini PC the proxmox node is unable to get the HDs connected.

So something new is needed and I would rather have my setup streamlined and combine the two.

But that is... More difficult than anticipated. I really would like something power saving with ECC ram that can take at least two PCI-e (SFP+ and a potential graphic card for AI later on). That can take 4,better 6 HDs. And at least one,better two NVMe. ...that basically means self building which I am happy with, but all current builds I calculate come out somewhere south of 2000€ (including two new HDs, as two old ones need to go). And that's sadly out of the financial possibility at the moment.

If only the fucking Ugreen (DXP6800)would support ECC. While not ideal in terms of PCI-e it would be enough to do the trick.

Don't go to Proton or Tuta - both are impossible to get out of basically, do not support free standards and Proton is scumy in terms of their marketing.

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Just to name a few.

Yeah, that would be favourable.

But: Blackberry has acquired multiple companies that deliver government grade android devices that are fully degooglefied and heavily secured. They are the de facto market leader.

Even if they bring out a properly secured and degooglefied Android that would be a huge step in the right direction.

Yeah, Blender is one of the few points where it works. QGIS is the other.

To add a more recent example: The Serbians shot down a F-117 Nighthawk with a obsolete air defence system from the fifties. How? They knew the aircraft were coming, when (both due to spies), where (as they used the same routes) and that they had no anti radar escort.

You could go for Paracetamol/Acetaminophen. The lethal dose is quite low and in theory low enough someone could poison someone else with it. And once symptoms set in people's livers are often beyond rescue and they die a very gruesome death unless we find a transplant organ in time.(And even then survival is not guaranteed)

And it's relatively save to use in writing as it is coated/mixed with enough bittering agent these days that it actually wouldn't work that well to secretly posing someone.

If you need something with a shorter timeframe Methanol is an option.

And of course there's always Dihydrogen monoxide-everyone who has even had one drop of it will die eventually but the time range depends on the dose. With very high doses people die in minutes,with medium doses (this is actually sometimes used by inmates to kill themselves) they die within a day, with lower dose after decades, but some die mere days after they ingested the mere last drop of it. Nasty stuff and very available.