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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldCompliments
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    1 month ago

    It tends to get better with younger generations. I’ve gotten a lot of good and bad feedback about some changes I made during the last months but pretty much exclusively from friends and co-workers under 40.

    Was never weird though. Just smile and say something like “Right? I’m trying that out. Thank you :)”

    Accepting compliments can be learned.










  • Yep, that’s how I know by now a depressive episode is coming on.

    Recognizing them earlier helps me to give myself a mixture of slack and forced “that’s good for you so do it fucker” that usually gets me through them quicker and with less collateral damage than just waiting them out.


  • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldResources to learn FreeCAD
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    4 months ago

    The point is: With OnShape, I’m able to wing it. Scan something, load the STL, define a few planes throughout the whole thing, freehand a few lines, extrude, offset here and there for clearance, print, forget. With FreeCAD I need to do it correctly and, as I just need a physical thing, I just don’t have the patience to find out what correctly would mean.


  • varyingExpertise@feddit.orgto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldResources to learn FreeCAD
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    4 months ago

    In my experience I have two possible decision paths: Do something using a commercial solution, OnShape in my case or try to do something using FreeCAD, get nowhere, look up tutorials, get somewhere but nowhere near what I need, give up, everything collects dust in the corner.

    I get the free software idea and spirit, but I’d rather actually be able to just draw and print things I need. Between work, having a house, friends, voluntary firefighting, building automation for tasks in our little village and everything else the day only has about 24 hours and I can’t just cut sleep anymore as I did in my twenties.