I only do technical CAD design, so FreeCAD works fine. It’s no AutoDesk, but it has gotten good for my project scale.

Slicing is done with Cura.

Printing I’m mostly living off copying to SD card like a barbarian, but I’ve used Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi board in the past. I even had the time lapse camera videos working. It was a nice setup.

Some of my kids do more advanced sculpture work with Blender and other tools.

“This could have been and email” I guess.

There’s still mail service happening, but it’s going to get ever more expensive to use analog.

Fingers crossed we can find a few more episodes of Doctor Who as well. The cache of tapes found a few years ago at a TV station were a wonderful find.

Nothing but the basics that way!

The hardest core version I saw someone do that was long ago. My best friend and I were using OpenBSD back in early 2000’s. He installed a minimal install. From there he pulled the source tree makefiles. Then he started running make on Mozilla (pre firefox days). He just kept building, patching, fixing, and hammering away. Eventually he built the whole GUI environment, dependencies, and Mozilla which took that computer months to complete it all.

Today, he’s the lead engineer for a massive tech company.

The annoying younger sibling?

After a run of RedHat - Fedora - OpenBSD - OSX to about 2007, I gave Debian more of a try in the form of #! Linux. That was a great minimalist distro. Ever since then it’s just one Debian variant or another. It does the job with minimal fuss.

It really helps that I don’t push the hardware with shiny new equipment or need much in 3D drivers. Linux Mint on desktops, Debian servers, Ubuntu only for driver issues, Raspian/Armbian on SBCs.

I was handed a Windows laptop. I used it for a few weeks and then quietly just upgraded to a personal Linux machine. It’s been six months and no one cares. Fine with me.

The calls are coming from inside the house

They grew up barely able to see through the smog and river fires in the US during the 60’, 70’s, and 80’s so we should be forced to suffer and choke on them too.

Planting trees and posts by the roads also helps.

Pedestrian first timing on the crossings.

Even better: roundabouts. They fucking work, even if people have to learn how to use them for a bit.

Never 51. Elbows Up, my friend.

You hate to do it, but when the other persons gloves come off Canada answers the bell.

Having PERL be a shell style environment was hilariously slow. Entertaining, but slow.

I feel bad that I read that page in Chrome. I’m a failure of a techie.

Tomorrow I must atone by teaching more students terminal commands. Maybe using web API calls with cURL. Or get and some eviloverlord.com quotes?

“I tried switching to Hannah Montana Special Arch Edition and it wasn’t easy!” – Is it ever easy? I dunno, but computers are complex things so trying any new approach is expected to take work. Picking a weird, unsupported, and possibly out of date software package isn’t going to help the effort.

Look at that: putting remotely accessible sensors in your home opens it up to attacks. Who’d have thought?

London is on the cusp of having such a wonderful treasure of a city space. Oxford Street is so beautiful and having it be pedestrian only will make it so much better to linger and stroll around.

Removing the cars will make it a jewel of England.

“trust is” says marketing.

It doesn’t matter to my perspective. The history of religion is for sub groups to spilt off over inconsequential differences, make up different doctrines and eventually go to war over them. It’s an expression of Authoritarians and cult behavior, and what leads to some of the greatest suffering that mankind has ever inflicted upon itself.

These families wanted to filter themselves to a sub group that’s a distinction without a difference.

But that’s the wrong kind of religious.

This post feels like a bot wrote it as pro Microsoft spam.

Also don’t use more than a few words or I get bored and need a Tik Tok video to keep me focused between sentences.