I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I’m using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.

All of that is backed up on Backblaze

I requested a code snippet and instructions for work, I got an email, with a word document attached.

In the word document there was a screenshot of the code I needed.

It looks like they are still selling almost 7000 copies per week !

https://gamalytic.com/game/427520

I would look into the Surfaces, you can find a cheap second hand one and install Linux on it.

I recently found one of the liveCD I received with Ubuntu 8.04 on it. Canonical was sending them for free for people interested in Linux.

I was in high school and tried it on my first computer, it was my first connect with Linux and honestly I think that without Ubuntu I would not have discovered Linux until much later in life.

I was thinking exactly that yesterday, I looked for a way to have few web apps without using ferdium.

Global clipboard synced with the smartphone thanks to KDE connect !

I understand you’re argument but I disagree. If the goal is to use FreeCAD then yeah, it’s probably better to start as a beginner.

If the goal is design parts using CAD then Onshape is a much better option in my opinion.

I would definitely recommend Onshape, this is what I use.

It’s great that FreeCAD exist but I would not recommend it for a beginner in CAD, there is a very steep learning curve before being able to create anything in it.

No,

There is all the backup of all my family pictures in the drives.

If something happens to me I want to make due that they will have access to it.

It’s a real story!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/

At the beginning of the 20th century Henry Ford’s electrical engineers had issues they could not solve with a gigantic generator. Henry Ford called Steimmetz, a genius mathematician working for GE to help them.

When he arrive at the factory he spent 2 days and night listening to the generator and scribbling on his notebook.

After that he asked for a ladder, climbed on it, put a chalk mark on a specific spot and explain to the engineers that they needed to remove the plate and replace sixteen windings behind the plate. After that the generator worked perfectly and Ford received a $10 000 bill.

Ford asked for an itemized bill and Steinmetz sent this

• Making chalk mark on generator $1.
• Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

I find that Onshape is quite good and is all browser based so it runs quite well on linux.

I was doing some blacksmithing in high school, mostly knifes.

When reaching 800°C steel is not magnetic anymore, it’s also a good temperature to start forging the steel. So I needed a atrong magnet to know when the steel was hot enough, I used what I have available: a hard drive magnet.

It felt quite “mad-maxy” to disassemble a broken hard drive to use it as a tool to forge knifes

I’ve lost some of my sanity reading this !

Tailscale is amazing, I work with a small company and we were battling with our IT contractor to have a VPN running for remote work.

After a while of things not working as it should I just set up tailscaled because I was using it with my home server and it just works.

We are now on a paid plan and everyone else is using it when working remotely.

NixOS too. I really like having a “fresh” install every time I restart.

A friend in high school gave me an Ubuntu live CD and told me I should try it.

I will try it.

It’s more expensive than Fusion360 but if its working well I might be interested.

I really want FreeCAD to work so I can get away from paying Autodesk for Fusion360.

My impression on FreeCAD is that I could probably get the result I want but I would spend most of my time fighting the software. I can’t justify to spend 3 time longer on FreeCAD than Fusion360

Yeah this was my issue too.