@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

captain_aggravated

@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah if you want to be reductive about it, FreeCAD is a GUI wrapper for OpenCASCADE, its CAD engine. FreeCAD is designed to be extensible; the workbench system allows for several different workflows, and using the Python API it’s not that far out there to make your own workbench for specialized tasks. You could build a clockwork workbench if you were interested in designing escapements and such.

The tradeoff is it can seem overhwelming because there’s a LOT of functionality in there. I do almost all of my work in the Spreadsheet, Sketcher and Part Design workbench, plus the A2Plus assembly workbench from the addon manager.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Marching band was considered a varsity sport at my high school. Because if the golf team are considered athletes, so am I.

What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I uninstalled Python.

I was playing around with Pygame of all things, and it wasn’t behaving as the (apparently out of date) documentation was saying it should, so I figured I’d just uninstall and reinstall Python.

EVERYTHING borked. APT wouldn’t even work.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think there may be a factor of sample size; There’s something like 40 million Canadians, 40 million Australians, 60 million British, and 340 million Americans. So if you take a random sample of English speech on any topic, it’s statistically most likely to be from an American.

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m going to mention two:

Manjaro. I’ve attempted to use Manjaro a few different times, and outside of a VM it just didn’t work properly; on my laptop it would boot loop for reasons I don’t understand, it had poor hardware support and optimization on a Raspberry Pi, and it didn’t last long on my desktop. It’s had its chances, I’m done trying.

I really did not hitch horses with Pop!_OS, and it’s almost entirely because Pop!_OS started at Gnome and kept fucking going. Just thinking about the two miserable weeks I spent trying to get Gnome to do anything is making me physically angry. Words like disobedient and belligerent come to mind when I think of what it’s like to use Pop!_OS. Linux Mint is designed to feel familiar to anyone coming from Windows. Pop!_OS feels like it’s designed to be the opposite of that, it deliberately doesn’t work the way you think it does. YOU have to conform to IT. And I FUCKING hate it. It is never welcome on my hardware ever again.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

As a woodworker, my first thought is 'I can build my own casket for a tenth of that price."

My second thought is “Damn I need to get into the casket industry.”

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

In the 20 minutes since reading the meme, posting a comment elsewhere in the thread, then posting this one? Took a few more bites of my lunch and watched some of a retrospective about the TV show Farscape on Youtube.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Star Wars fans did not ruin Star Wars. George Lucas’ complete lack of people who could say no to him ruined Star Wars.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

A bunch of them saw Valve say “We’re coming out with a gaming PC that vaguely resembles an adult Nintendo Switch” and went “uh yeah us too!” I know Asus and Lenovo have one.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

“Count your blessings.”

Useless fucking platitude that’s synonymous with “You aren’t the person who is absolutely the worst off, so being upset with your lot is inappropriate.”

See also “At least you have your health.”

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I just installed chirp on my Linux Mint machine from the GUI package manager. It’s packaged as a .deb file. Don’t know what your issue is.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I don’t know, “Frighteningly sudden” has a certain magic to it.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

You cannot shame a cat.

You can shame a dog. “Rover, did you break the lamp? Did you break the lamp?” Rover bows his head, looks guilty as hell, whines.

You cannot shame a cat. “Fluffy, did you break the lamp?” Fluffy looks up, says “Yes I did, it was louder than the slamming gates of hell. You’re gonna need a new one.” and starts washing a paw.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

streaming service has a random selection of episodes from a show

Way back when Mythbusters was on Netflix, they’d have just a random smattering of episodes and not the complete series. Suxx0red.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think this speaks to why I have a total of 5 years of college and no degree.

Starting at about 7th grade, math class is taught to every single American school child as if they’re going to grow up to become mathematicians. Formal definitions, proofs, long sets of rules for how you manipulate squiggles to become other squiggles that you’re supposed to obey because that’s what the book says.

Early my 7th grade year, my teacher wrote a long string of numbers and operators on the board, something like 6 + 4 - 7 * 8 + 3 / 9. Then told us to work this problem and then say what we came up with. This divided us into two groups: Those who hadn’t learned Order of Operations on our own time who did (six plus four is ten, minus seven is three, times eight is 24, plus three is 27, divided by nine is three) Three, and who were then told we were wrong and stupid, and those who somehow had, who did (seven times eight is 56, three divided by nine is some tiny fraction…) got a very different number, and were told they were right. Terrible method of teaching, because it alienates the students who need to do the learning right off the bat. And this basically set the tone until I dropped out of college for the second time.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I emphatically would NOT download a child.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hmm. Hey ChatGPT, write a sci-fi space-themed stereotypical country song.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar
  1. From days 8 to 12 your true love gives you milkmaids, dancing ladies, leaping lords, pipers and drummers. Human beings. As gifts. Which makes eating the birds feel a lot more okay.
  2. This carol was written back when Christmas was a mere 12 days long. Now Christmas starts in mid-October. “On the eightieth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…”
captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

There does seem to be a significant German contingent on Lemmy, as there was on Reddit. I have a very in-my-head Reddit moment I need to share.

Remember when “The Nations of the World brought to you by Yakko Warner” was a meme and people were making all kinds of permutations of it? I saw one that was like “the nations of the world if Germany won WWII” which was basically “Germany Germany Germany Germany Portugal Spain, Spain, Germany, Germany…”

On the most recent r/place I remember, the Germans had a habit of taking their tricolor flag all the way across the canvas, which made me think “Germany Germany Germany Germany” in Yakko Warner’s voice.

c/coolstorybro@sh.itjust.works or however Lemmy links work I still don’t know.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Send the folks complaining about wokeness in “NuTrek” over to my house and we’ll watch the episode of TOS where the aliens hated each other because “they’re black on the right side.”

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Can you give us specific examples of the programs you use, and what you use them for?

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Didn’t they also establish that Ocampan women only go into heat once in their lives, and have human size litters aka usually just one child, meaning they would be at Chinese levels of birth deficit?

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I actually did this one.

I was having my wisdom teeth removed. I was like 23. The anesthesiologist was a cute little blonde chick. Apparently the last thing I said before I went under was “Man this girl is a real…knockout…”

I didn’t get her number.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

We’d fire no guns, shed no tears!

Anheuser-Busch Says It Has Stopped Amputating Tails of Budweiser Clydesdales (www.nytimes.com)

Facing pressure from animal rights activists, Anheuser-Busch announced on Wednesday that it had ended the practice of amputating the tails of its Budweiser Clydesdales, the familiar equine figures in the brewing company’s advertising campaigns for nearly a century....

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Anhauser-Busch announces that until recently it routinely amputated its horses tails for some stupid reason.

There, I fixed the title.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • localhost
  • All magazines
    •
    Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #