llothar

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[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative

CAD. Free solutions compared to commercial ones (SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360, Onshape) are like comparing Photoshop to an open source Paint clone.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they dont care on purpose. Dual boot is a gateway drug, so the more problems with it the better for Microsoft.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I think you may like Expeditionary Force series, there is quite a bit of what you are looking for.

I guess Asimov Foundation series would also be a good candidate for world building.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is this the Lemmy that is said to be less toxic than Reddit? Maybe it wasn't Subway, maybe it was something different. It was 10years ago, I may be misremembering the details.

Did I remember everything correctly? Dunno. Are you being a dick? That's 100%.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Damn it! Last year I upgraded to blockchain PC since my original Cloud-Native one was a disappointment.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Crypto as currency = good.

Crypto as investment = bad.

First one is technological progress, the other is a Ponzi scheme.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The architecture can easily be open source - as long as repo is missing just the training data. Just like there are Doom engines that are open source, even though they do not provide WAD files, which are still copyrighted. The code is there, but it is somewhat useless without the data. Analogy is not perfect, but let's assume it compiles to a single binary containing everything, maps included.

If ID Software gives you a compiled Doom with maps free to use it is freeware. If they open source the engine (they actually did), but do not release the WAD files as open source, the compiled game is not open source - it is still freeware.

It is not complicated really.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yesterday I've spent an hour to figure out how to make Cities Skylines use my RTX 2070 instead of the integrated one on PopOS. For me this is the main issue I face with games. Is having a dedicated AMD card instead better?

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

As a mechanical engineer - there is no serviceable free CAD. The only thing you can hope for is Linux compatibility - and you have 100% of that with Onshape only (cloud based).

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Nothing is happening in Norway. Source: I live in Norway.

I've met only a handful people that use Linux on their desktop, plus some developers that use it at work.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Not in a million years. The next generation will though, they won’t see any issue with it.

I guess they will anwser such calls with AI to get a summary anyway...

Great points overall. I guess previous generations thought that a hand-written letter cant be replaced by a digital one, yet here we are.

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