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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Who needs news sites when you have Grinded-Up News™!

    You can have a website that scrapes all that noise everywhere else mushes it up into a flavorless paste of no side at all for the best liberals can get. And it provide no funds or support back to the sources!

    Mmm Capitalism. Fuck everyone else that isn’t me!





  • I have trouble remembering what key pans and what key rotates view and the thought of actually figuring out how to manipulate the 3D file in FreeCAD felt like it was gonna melt my brain.

    But thank you for the recommendation. TinkerCAD made me feel like I was playing with children’s blocks but at least I understand them.

    I also think I’m gonna try get started on learning something else after I brute force this stupid single print. And I think it will just be trying some of them out.




  • Yeah I think people forget about print orientation and stuff like that with FDM.

    I think the person said they printed with supports on but didn’t have great results and my thought is how they didn’t realize they made supports inside their part to get it to print that could have been solved with some mounting points for the bridging.

    Which in theory sounds like something I could do… No animation…

    But man slicer modifiers made me want to go insane and I barely managed to learn Photoshop, gimp, and the like.

    But thanks. I’m noticing basically 2 camps for software and it helps at least narrow down what I’ll find support for using I guess.


  • I agree that we should know how to tinker or slightly modify files as well but I’d say pulling out a separate software with a huge learning curve is a step that’s hard to get people to swallow.

    I think I really wanted to put emphasis on have to learn it, cause for things that feel simple to suddenly find it will take 30 hours of study and then several additional hours of fixing suddenly feels like a jump up in ask for making sure you can actually print a part successfully that’s been posted in a 3D printer file site.

    I had experience with simple tools but they don’t seem to exist much anymore and the tools in the slicer software seem to exist to say they do which brings me back to the question of if I was missing something or had to learn a separate software.

    But some of us aren’t professional software engineers. And modifying something turns into a bigger project.

    TinkerCAD seems to be a popular answer and I hope simple enough cause I’d love to see stuff I helped design reality but not making money on it too means time needs to be spent keeping myself alive first and thus extended hobby space much further down.









  • Yeah doubtful. I think it finds something you will engage in and push on it over and over again until people get normalized to it.

    I think it’s more like cold reading from a psychic. It’s gonna use generic generalized data about the big identifiers for you like age and gender and as you respond try to change its answer to what it needs to based on what you gave it.

    That’s not new or magical in any way. And it can be really wrong about the broad stuff if you don’t fit in with generic identifying groups related to you.

    It really just feels like a sales pitch for the middle class to buy more stuff.