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  • Linux still is lacking in CAD/CAM

    I really wish this could be fixed.

    I have used CAD software quite a bit during my childhood and BTech and realise the great difference between Autodesk tools and OSS Alternatives. While blender has already overtaken their stuff in its domain, I feel the need for an alternative for AutoCAD ^[currently checking out QCAD] that can overthrow its crown. While I can't expect anything for stuff like ArchiCAD, Revit etc. which would require loads of domain specific knowledge.

    Never tried CAM software, but I see 3 OSS ones here, so perhaps you can check out any that you haven't. I'd be interested in knowing about your exp with these, since I don't have much to think of how to test those.

    qalculate has Windows binaries too

  • Steam ⇒ No Ubuntu

    For Word/Excel alternatives, I would suggest LibreOffice fresh. So, go with one that gives recent versions of it ^[I hated the problems with older versions, which seem to be greatly reduced in the newer ones].

    can I operate a Linux PC these days without needing to troubleshoot or type code.

    That will vary greatly depending upon your Hardware selection. I was lucky enough to manage a good enough setup (adding extra effort to check Motherboard components) for Linux support and still have a few problems. [I am unable to get CPU fan speed (tachometer reading).]

    I like Endeavour OS, but it being rolling on Arch, means, it is for someone who is happy with troubleshooting and bug reporting.

    I had tried Open SUSE for a bit (back then, I hardy knew Linux) and liked that too.

    Debian probably won't work either, because, even though it is something you probably won't need to troubleshoot for years, once setup, Steam will make it hard for you and Discord, well, no idea. I removed it after declining the new TOS.

  • Seems to me like this just has Vegetarian replaced with Vegan, because, as you see there is no row labelled vegetarian without the prefixes.
    Meat + Eggs + Dairy + Veg = Carno-ovo-lacto vegetarianism
    Same species (human meat) + meat + eggs + dairy + veg = Homo-carno-ovo-lacto vegetarianism.
    If you equate vegetarian with prefix to vegetarian without prefix, then everyone who eats anything vegetarian even once i their life is a vegetarian.
    That'd make Hannibal Lecter a vegetarian because he decorated his raw human with some basil leaves.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

  • Exactly why I suggested going to stuff like Starbucks to understand the feelings of OP.

    You won't feel what they do, if you are eating good food at reasonable places.

  • I’m not familiar with your currency symbol

    Try qalc.

    It's got both, a terminal frontend and a Qt GUI one. (Actually 3. Also a GTK one)

    You can copy the currency text along with the symbol into it and by default, it will convert it to your Locale's currency, so you can know the exchange rates at least.

    Also, ₹2000 - ₹3000 per 8 hour day tends to be what an engineering fresher would normally expect in a place like Delhi, where a Subway sub will cost around ₹400.


     zsh
        
    ❯ qalc
    > 1/0
    
      1 / 0 = 1 / 0
    
    > 
    
      
  • I didn't know "eggs" were considered vegetarian.
    Very /s apologies for my misunderstanding, which stemmed from vegetarian packets being marked with a green circle and eggs being marked with a black one, clearly stating not vegetarian.

  • ₹300 comes at around 4 euros. 4 pounds is ~₹450, so it's pretty close.
    If you check the pricing of one of the shit-listed chains, you get hardly anything filling in that price, vs ₹90 for a full meal in some places (that was somewhere in Bengaluru).

  • I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’

    With my aversion to food made out in the open, right next to running cars and open-coughing people, I stopped eating from roadside stalls by the time I started having enough autonomy.
    I tend to prefer non-chain restaurants with viewable kitchens ^[those places tend to hire cooks who actually mind their coughing], but due to lack of any such desirable place in my area, eating out nearby, usually means subway (which is just, less bad).

    Then I realise that with the amount of money I would spend to pay for the cheapest local meal place, I can actually cook with Ghee at home. And that topples the equation over its head.

    • Morning: Sandwich in Ghee/butter/peanut oil depending upon the mood
    • Afternoon: Fried rice in Ghee
    • Evening: Gram/Kidney Beans/Lentils in Ghee, with rice

    Definitely not going back to outside food with nobody knows which oil they use.

  • Just don't let them be pressed ¯(ツ)

  • sympathy for naive users, and FOSS devs mainly do not

    From what I have seen, KDE devs that I interacted with, had a higher tolerance for mistakes, than I would want to have for myself.

    I once submitted a wish for Kate, which was also submitted multiple times before and marked as Won't Fix, because: a) low demand; b) nobody to do it.
    But when I started trying to implement it, I as given more help than I should have asked for.

    So, it's probably just about chance. Don't let a few rejections stop you. If you consider it useful, even if it gets rejected now, someone will see it eventually. And some programmer might find it worth implementing.

  • But you can, write your ID and Password on a paper under your keyboard and "forget" it before death.

  • Yes.

    I absolutely hated the feeling of helplessness when I found a problem somewhere, when using Windows.
    On Linux, I am happy to give bug reports/ wishlist reports and follow through with them. Maybe even fix something, if I feel like I can. That (and the higher transparency in communication) makes me much more forgiving of problems I may find anywhere.

  • Why can't ppl just be a "vegetarian that does not drink milk", instead of making a whole new ism?
    It's because ism is a syllable of power! They shall cast it when the time is right and have control over the massesssss!

  • Start going to Starbucks for lunch, instead of the roadside stall and you'll understand.
    I'm happy with cooking at 13:00. Better than having an extra-humid, stale-feeling lunch box

  • Checkmate

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  • The sniper is loaded with a space warp bullet.
    When the bullet lodges into the enemy, being potentially healable (if the enemy bishop were to turn priest), the bishop activates the warp, taking the place of the bullet and ripping out of the enemy's body, making sure the body is unusable and making the priest useless.

    And that's why we don't have a priest in chess.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • It looked to me that he conjured up some food out of the soil, but forgot to conjure a plate and is now, too hungry to wait.

    What I don't understand is the peculiar choice of the person that the AI generated. I didn't add anything other than the exact text in the above comment and the 2 pictures generated, both had a similar looking person, in a farm-like setting.

  • I would never go back to doing those little chores to get a grade.

    So either you have finished obtaining all the academic certifications that require said chores, or you are going to fail at getting a grade.

  • Saving...

    I made my first API at work last year (still making) and always saw myself looking for input on making a consistent way to return errors, with no useful input from the senior programmers or the API users. This is my second biggest problem, the first being variable and function names of course.

    If I were to do anything related to HTTP, I now have something to look at.

  • The screenshot is of the website ietf.org , which doesn't seem to be markdown.