try lemmy.dbzer0.com. (totally unbiased)

we have pirates, memes, and shitposts galore (ahoy, matey!)

I’ve been pirating for a looooooong time. I’ve never once gotten viruses. stick to private trackers, and proven uploaders for software (fitgirlrepacks, solidsquad, etc) and you won’t get viruses.

damn, that thing must be like, a Scottish castle or something LOL.

super cool that you live there!

now I’m confused about onshape though, as anything digital that’s “free” has long since enshittefied, and sold you as the product… could the seriously be one of the last bastions of good free software? it may not be OSS, but if its really that good… hmmm, food for thought. I’ll have to do more research on it.

you don’t need windows, but that is how I have my install set up, as WINE can be kind of buggy with the program. it doesn’t need networking, so no risk of m$ taking info, and SW2024 can run on 8GB and some CPU passthrough.

speaking as someone who’s tried just about ever 3dCAD program under the sun, SW is the best on the market for ease of use, documentation, and available plugins.

openSCAD is absolute hell for ease-of-use, onshape sells your data, freecad has the same issues as openscad, and AutoCAD, while good, still is worse than SW due to poorer documentation, and more annoying interface.

of course, there is always the option of doing the drawings by hand on paper, with a ruler, a compass, and a protractor. this may be your best option for sharability, as your local municipality may want to have it for their records as well, assuming that a) they don’t already have it, and b) if they do, you were unable to procure the original blueprints.

its the right tool for everything engineering related; you can do drafting very easily, its built-in.

onshape may have a free tier, but piracy is better than free, due to “free” meaning that your information is the product being sold (to other vendors).

pirate solidworks. fuck dassault systemes, but they make a damned good cad program, with excellent documentation on how to do just about everything under the sun (and some stuff that even the sun don’t shine on)

use a win10 ltsc VM with device passthru for running it, it won’t know the difference.

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awesome as fuck.

haha, I think I got a worldwide high score at the time, or at was close to one back then.

that’s how I learned firewalls and networking lmao

couldn’t access my games, so I found ways around the firewalls and network blocks, just to play on coolmathgames lmao

let me know if they’re worth the price, been looking for an ereader tablet that has a long lasting battery - currently have a oukitel rt7 titan, the thing is a fucking BRICC (something like 2.3kg I think) but hey, its battery lasts literally weeks (28ish hrs ScreenOnTime, but thats about 17days of usage for me)

have you looked at the color e-ink tablets? A cursory look reveals the boox air3, which might be a good fit for your use case

fuck, this is way better than my current naming scheme of "customer-<devicepurpose>, I’m stealing it for my next setup.

+1, we all love our little manic book-lover :)

+1 for The Faraway Paladin,and Ascendance of a Bookworm

everything else is shonen trash, and shouldn’t be watched unless you want to turn off your brain and go watch shit tier storytelling

obligatory ‘go watch boku no pico’

in all seriousness though, Spice And Wolf (Ookami to Koushinryou) (both the OG and remake) is very good, and worth your time. other good ones are Legend Of The Galactic Heroes (Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu), the OG Gundam, “GUNSMITH CATS”" (yes, it is all caps, don’t ask why, we don’t know lol), “TRIGUN” (another all caps one, its stylistic), along with it’s sequel, “TRIGUN STAMPEDE”, Kill La Kill, and of course, the ever-classic Uchyuu Senkan Yamato (I think the romanization was " star blazers" or something? I watched the OG JP back in the day, don’t remember how it got localized to America) and MACROSS (the western title is “ROBOTECH”, if memory serves. don’t recall why they went with that title though)