I have tried freecad a number of times to replace solidworks as a critical piece of closed source software in hardware development toolchains. I have always struggled. Yesterday someone spent an hour with me at a makespace saying… “FreeCAD has a different way of doing this/try realthunder branch/use symmetry condition/delete all conditions that coincide” … it has been worth years of trying alone. When I started solidworks the reseller gave me a week of training - this is often why complex FOSS software gets a reputation for being clunky, because alone you will spend ages hunting a GUI button in a complex interface.

TLDR: Go outside, go to makespace or a FREECAD conference - meet other people who use open source software - its much easier to use/learn from others than alone.

Don’t pay this! You just reinforce their predatory practices. How renewals at much higher prices are allowed - no clue!

Something similar happened to a company I know - it expired and was immediately bought by domain squatters, when they found them they were told that it couldn’t be sold back because the squatter had paid $XXXX for and had big plans (I assume it was BS, just a premise to get paid - no site was ever put on the domain)

Solution: they bought the .org version and bought the .com back a year later.

edit:grammar

Just a thought… Google wrote the ‘we have no moat’ document. Is it possible that they are intentionally trying to turn public opinion against AI? [no moat document] It’s a bit like they are intentionally churning out shit AI (it won’t damage their monopoly) to turn people against using AI (which might topple some serious business interests)… In short you’re right, but I get suspicious when big business seems to be doing the right thing. :D [edit: espirit d’escalier!]

I thought hard about whether to put it on ask lemmy, but didn’t want to look stupid. The only advice I could find was this:

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others’ questions on various topics.

thanks - I’m checking some of the live dates.

Thanks for these - really interesting stuff that I couldn’t have just happened upon!

I have been trying to remember this one.

Hmm… using google to find anti-establishment songs… ;)

I feel like I should. (edit:accent)

Its not a problem for me - I’m old :)

As it ever was?

edit: it does feel different now - but it has never been easy.

I’ll check in.

@frazorth you’ve got going down rabbit holes … I wonder what I else I can do to scare a tory

This is good. It doesn’t have to be punk - I don’t even know what people listen to now…

Is this the most recent suggestion on here?

Listening now! Thanks

These are good. Thanks

Guilty as charged. Good stuff - I’ll look out for these - my new years resolution is to see some live music.

I have a GCSE in German, what would you suggest?

I’ll give it a try - any suggestions?