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Cake day: November 22nd, 2023

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  • Its about 2 years with Linux on my laptop and about 1 year full time on all my devices, besides my work laptop with runs w11.

    I run KDE neon on both. I distro hopped around from Ubuntu, fedora, mint, KDE, pop but ended up with KDE again. I feel like it does not matter anymore what de or distro I use. I need my browser and a terminal and my tools, then i can work.

    Its nice having a reminder every time I am working with windows that I did the correct choice.

    There are some bugs, but at least tgjey are mine now.

    Only thing I miss, is ableton. I did not dabble in it with wine or winboat too much, but that’s the only thing I miss.

    But worth it. I stand behind the idiology and got a few other people around me to switch




  • Edit: this got too long. I’m sorry. But its good! And I think some hints that would have helped me!! :((((

    One that is weirdly popular with anyone I cooced it for: pasta with creamy vegan chicken, pesto sauce. Here in Germany every supermarket by now has cheap, vegan chicken chunks.

    Prep: chop onions, maybe garlic. Dice celery (root, or knot. Not the green stick things), maybe a bit of carrots very finely. If you want, you can dice a few cocktail tomatos for a bit of soureness. All while heating the pan, if you have, use stainless steal to get the most flavor (tip for better results: get it pretty hot, to where water droplets don’t stick but dance in the pan, but not too hot, so that the oil does not smoke. Put oil in only when the pan is hot (dancing water)) I don’t prefer Teflon as the don’t develop any flavour, they just get hot. You could also use a stainless steel pot I suppose, but they have a smaller bottom so things take longer and don’t end up as nicely

    You can start to boil water now.

    Put everything In the pan (maybe garlic a bit later to prevent it from burning) and add the chicken chunks. Fry everything until the carrots and celery is a bit soft and everything is nice and brown. Turn down the heat to low medium.

    Put the pasta in the water now.

    Add 2 tbs of basil pesto (I love the vegan one from Barilla), herbs (ital. Herbs, Rosemary, basil, caraway, whatever is in you spice rack). Maybe add a few tbs of soy sauce (always get the kikoman, nothing else please.) and if you want adda tea spoon of miso paste. Stir everything while scaling the bottom to get the flavours off and prevent burning. Than add about, 500ml of cream (soy or oat, whatever you want). Add veggie stock and mushroom powder (secret tip to get umami. Its addictive. Get it in most asia n supermarkets).

    Then simmer and stir and scape the bottom, add the tomatoes in the last few minutes, until pasta is done.

    Have fun with it!



  • CAD:

    • FreeCAD (bit clunky at times, it forces you into one specific workflow. Its free, open source and what you create with it will always be yours. Its what I use. It feels like C in programming language terms)
    • onshape (feels very similar to fusion. Its a smooth experience, runs in the browser and is a nice tool. I liked it and did some cool stuff with it. Only drawback: the free only allows to store files openly, so everyone can see your designs. Kind of open source if you want, but I think files can only be opened with oshape. Its by a team that worked for solidworks. It feels more like python.)
    • open s cad (you code your 3d objects. Its rough to learn and build complex parts I guess? But a pretty cool idea. Worth a try!)

    SLICERS (all open source) It does not really matter, just try and pick what you like. I used them for fdm only, idk about resin.

    • cura (by ultimaker, one of the older brands. Slicer is quite nice, nothing special I guess, just works quite well.
    • prusa slicer (by prusa. THE printer brand I think. A bit confusion interface compared to cura I think, works great tho)
    • orca slicer (based on slic3r I think? Has supposedly one of the best slicing algorithms if I remember correcly and a lot of settings. The forbidden one (baboo lab slicer) is based on this)
    • slic3r (the og slicer of sorts, never tried it)

    OTHERS: To control your printer (remotely if it does not offer it out of the box. I tried none of them):

    • octoprint (sends live g code to your printer. Offers camera stream. Runs on a raspberry pi)
    • mainsail is (controls your printer, if it runs clipper. Supposed to be one for the best I think. Runs on a raspberry as well I think?)
    • many new ones have remote controll stuff build in. Prusa offer remote management, same as bamboo, sovol, some enders and anycubic ad well I suppose. Some run in the browser.

    To control your printer when fiddling with it, you can send gcode to the printer over serial, if you can connect to it via usb. Can’t name a CLI tool for that from the top of my head.

    There are python tools to generate 3d meshes from 2d images. Look at huggingface how to install and use it. There are also tools in the browser. Pretty cool stuff!






  • If i understand you correctly, I suppose you come from another cad program. In freecad you can’t select a shape of a drawing to extrude or pocket. Each operation like pad needs its own, simple sketch to extrude.

    Here is the workflow:

    • create scetch
    • create rectangle (70*100) in it
    • exit sketch
    • select sketch and click pad, make it 30mm
    • close and click the top face, create new sketch
    • in the sketch create a rectangle
    • get the top edge with the transfer tool
    • make the 3 sides 10mm spaced from the border
    • make the last side of the rectangle vertical to the right side of the imported line (select the point at the end)
    • exit sketch
    • select the sketch and select pocket
    • make it 10mm or so
    • exit, select the face and then click draft
    • angle it the way you want

    Should be done

    I don’t know if that helps or what your error is exactly, if you need more help please be more specific what you did and what did not work and what you expected to happen








  • I just glanced over it and skipped some parts.

    But I like it, and I think its actually what you set out to create. Its very long though, I imagine if its a video, it will be 40 mins long? Which is too long for someone not quite invested in switching to Linux imo

    Maybe make the “why windows sucks” 'why Linux is better" “Linux Options” in 3 distinct parts, so its a few smaller bites of information, always pointing to the next one in the series?