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I think you were cheating and watching my CAD designs today – felt very finger paint shabby chic

There must be some rules of thumb, or name for styles, reputable designers to follow, or something.

I think you’re right in some cases, but also somewhat attributing malice to stupidity. There are primitive people that are far too scared to risk abandoning their mutually exclusive social support network. They exhibit angst at the unknown and unfamiliar and sway in the direction of fight from their fight or flight mechanism. None of this behavior is within the scope of their self awareness. They exist in a fixated cult like state of tribal ignorance and stupidity, and are wholely incapable of curiosity and learning from sources outside the scope of their tribal isolation.

I was this way before my self awareness grew past the point of reflection. My entire family is like this as are my former and abandoned social support network I am now ostracized from as a result.

This is the actual barrier in place that enables cult like isolation and fixation. Meanwhile, these systems are wholly built upon outsourcing ethics to an organization that only wields shame to keep members in line. Shame can never motivate positive action. Shame can only negatively curb behaviors. Without positive feedback, these systems can only produce depression and negative austere conservative people able to cope with the lack of endorphins. It is truly sadistic in nature. Those that are still out of balance are considered undesirable when their cognitive dissonance pushes back in actions the person may not even understand or register.

Religion is largely a cognitive dissonance factory because of these factors. This does not excuse actions that harm others. But it is this antiquated system of subtle harm in the religious tribal structure and its cult like exclusivity of social network isolation that create people with no independent ethics, unable to learn and reason well, and scared of everything outside of their tiny bubble of a life.

I’m no help, but more out of curiosity, why not run a container for OpenGL 3.2 or a flatpak/snap or just the older version?

Edit: oh you probably mean the physical hardware is not supported for some reason, and I’m thinking at the OS level

Funny, my last job as the Buyer for a chain of bike shops was much the same straight talk. I told the owner, “Look, I’ve already worked in a high end shop, and I have owned my own business twice. I spend all money like it is my own regardless of the amount. If I make a purchase, regardless of the amount of money involved, I’m mentally spending my own money and thinking in terms of paying back your loan. I have real independent ethics and self awareness. I hold myself to the standard of employees I wish I had been able to find for my own business. I expect freedom, flexibility, respect, and autonomy, but I offer a conservatively consistent and reliable person that will always defer to you when I am unsure about an investment or a sum of money I cannot backup with my own finances.”

I find that people who fail to understand that kind of directness, and honesty without all of the insane courtship rituals that now underpin the hiring process are terrible to work for in the first place. I’d rather die than do the debasing mockery of a HR department or some circlejerk clown show of an interview like whores in a brothel. These things are valueless. Look at any large company and you’ll find a range of skills and aptitudes that do not reflect some great filter of value begotten by HR inventing a reason for its own existence as a malignant tumor growth out of the role of an accountant managing payroll in a back office.

When I was asked why in hell I worked for such garbage pay, I told people straight, I can’t run a business with fluctuating income and keep up with paying child services payments. I need rock solid consistency to rebuild my life from the ashes they create for the profit of their agents that are paid on commission. They couldn’t take a bike from me like how they wrecked my commercial driver’s license and business.

I always kinda implied the obvious that I work to survive. Anyone that feels the need to say otherwise would be a prime reason I would walk away. Only a useless clown like a malignant HR tumor would ever question a thing like this. As a business owner twice – of course my employees work for their own survival. And of fucking course I have an ethical and moral responsibility implied by that relationship. If I feel the need to say otherwise, I’m a worthless piece of shit you should never work for and anyone that says such a thing while working for another person is the responsibility of that higher up and absolutely reflective of their moral and ethical depravity. No one should ever put up with such a malignant cancer of a person at any level. They are blatantly telling you “This is a terrible place to work because it produced or failed to filter out me.”

Voron carries the original community torch that started all of this with RepRap and Adrian Bowyer. That is not some minor guerilla thing around Voron specifically. It grew out of the era when Prusa started making excuses and doing anti community stuff. Like they are still great, but not for the same reasons that built them. You can’t build Prusa firmware and mod it easily like with a Marlin config or Klipper. And the Mini is a custom hacked Marlin config that looks nothing like Marlin at all. That killed community contributions and the iterative nature of open source. The offshoots and side projects of Voron used to exist around Prusa and were around RepRap before that. Joseph got his start with RepRap selling kits on the side. That is where the MKx nomenclature comes from.

Adrian Bowyer broke what was a stratasys commercial monopoly and singlehandedly built the open source community and entire hobby. If Adrian did not exist, there would be no hobby 3d printing at all. The whole thing is due to this open source project and the community it built. That is why Bambu is hated so much. They are a stratasys like parasite here to exploit and oppress as a capitalist cancer. They are the ultimate type of leopard eating face buy.

As them out on a date first

Cheapest Chinese Bluetooth headphones from AliEx around 2019. I think it is an AC6905 chip. The toolchain is rather obscure and piecemeal with write-ups on GitHub and eevblog, but that is beyond my interest. This one was too weak to be useful or one of the audio drivers went out or wire was bad. I have a half dozen of these sports ear buds style headphones that have gone bad over the last decade. Even ones that come from the same brand end up having different boards.

It does what Bluetooth headphones do but with regular headphones. More usefully, it is a Bluetooth line-output to plug into an amplifier which is what I am actually working on. This will go into an amplifier that can connect to my laptop and is integrated into my bedside laptop stand (I’m physically disabled so in bed most of the time). I’m working on making several parts of my laptop stand more modular. I want this to be removable to use elsewhere if I want and charged when not in use. It therefore has a use, a place of storage, and is always available.

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Oh wow, so we are in kinda similar places but from vastly different paths and capabilities. Back before I was disabled I was a rather extreme outlier of a car enthusiast, like I painted (owned) ported and machined professionally. I was really good with carburetors, but had a chance to get some specially made direct injection race heads with mechanical injector ports in the combustion chamber… I knew some of the Hilborn guys… real edgy race stuff. I was looking at building a supercharged motor with a mini blower and a very custom open source Megasquirt fuel injection setup using a bunch of hacked parts from some junkyard Mercedes direct injection Bosch diesel cars. I had no idea how complex computing and microcontrollers are, but I figured it couldn’t be much worse than how I had figured out all automotive systems and mechanics. After I was disabled 11 years ago riding a bicycle to work while the heads were off of my Camaro, I got into Arduino and just trying to figure out how to build sensors and gauges. I never fully recovered from the broken neck and back, but am still chipping away at compute. Naturally, I started with a mix of digital functionality and interfacing with analog.

From this perspective, I don’t really like API like interfaces. I often have trouble wrapping my head around them. I want to know what is actually happening under the hood. I have a ton of discrete logic for breadboards and have built stuff like Ben Eater’s breadboard computer. At one point I played with CPLDs in Quartus. I have an ICE40 around but have only barely gotten the open source toolchain running before losing interest and moving on to other stuff. I prefer something like Flash Forth or Micropython running on a microcontroller so that I am independent of some proprietary IDE nonsense. But I am primarily a Maker and prefer fabrication or CAD over programming. I struggle to manage complexity and the advanced algorithms I would know if I had a formal CS background.

So from that perspective, what I find baffling about RISC under CISC is specifically the timing involved. Your API mindset is likely handwaving this as black box, but I am in this box. Like, I understand how there should be a pipeline of steps involved for the complex instruction to happen. What I do not understand is the reason or mechanisms that separate CISC from RISC in this pipeline. If my goal is to do A…E, and A-B and C-D are RISC instructions, I have a ton of questions. Like why is there still any divide at all for x86 if direct emulation is a translation and subdivision of two instructions? Or how is the timing of this RISC compilation as efficient as if the logic is built as an integrated monolith? How could that ever be more efficient? Is this incompetent cost cutting, backwards compatibility constrained, or some fundamental issue with the topology like RLC issues with the required real estate on the die?

As far as the Chips and Cheese article, if I recall correctly, that was saved once upon a time in Infinity on my last phone, but Infinity got locked by the dev. The reddit post link would have been a month or two before June of 2023, but your search is as good as mine. I’m pretty good at reading and remembering the abstract bits of info I found useful, but I’m not great about saving citations, so take it as water cooler hearsay if you like. It was said in good faith with no attempt to intentionally mislead.

I treat this place just like real life. The feed is not tailored to me, so I block lots of stuff. Rude people, people that down vote, narcissists, communities with bad vibes, if I interact with moderators after interacting in good faith, or if I post something I know to be factually correct but get some negative cascade in response I simply block the whole community or individual. I’ve blocked 200+ users and at least as many communities. I only care about real people that have the decency to interact cordially.

They have all been chased off or banned mostly in response to and protection of this refuge for diversity.

Yeah, then 2 parts and a gap is best. If you are not using Mesh WB, do so and manually mesh stuff. The default export mesh resolution is quite course by comparison.

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If you go to the Draft Workbench, there is a special Clone tool there and only there. Clones made in Draft can be resized in the data tab. This is super useful for creating offsets.

What I’m talking about with ‘alignment of parts so that they can be imported’ has more to do with complex assemblies. If you transform a Part Design body, and then build your thing in multiple bodies, they will be meshed in the local origin of the body’s 0,0 coordinate plane. I do this kind of thing a lot. I use a Part Design sketches/bodies/parts workflow almost exclusively. I have to be conscientious of building both parts on the same 0,0 origin.

So with inserts like I was mentioning before, think like the Prusa parts prints for the LCD surround on their printers where they are printing the letters in recessed voids.

Second, – a completely different technique. Think about how you can print a part and setup a void and pause in the middle of printing to insert a bearing or nut, then continue the print, thus embedding the object into the print.

Third, let’s combine these two concepts. You print the recessed lettering and a small void behind it, like with the Prusa print plus a void, and then add a pause to the print. Now you take another print that is only the positive lettering and small backing material. You insert this print as you would with a nut or bearing inserted into the paused print and continue the print. You could print the insert at the same time on the same build plate or print it separate in advance. This method also allows you to mix first layer bed textures, filament materials, or even patterns you design into the lettering to be inserted. Like you can print on glass and have gloss smooth lettering inserted into a print on a course bed texture. Or, look up CNC Kitchen’s guide on printing nearly optically clear PETG by fine tuning the settings. Then you can create lettering that can be lit from behind.

If you have trouble with first layer crispness, print the lettering face up and use ironing to get a flatter crisper edge.

Someone else mentioned a 0.2mm nozzle. They are not as slow as one might imagine. If you’ve never tried it, get one. I have a 0.25 and really like it. I use 0.6mm most of the time, but the 0.25mm is not just for cosmetic details. It will really push your understanding of wall thickness and infill strength. With Prusament PC blend, a 0.25mm nozzle is a lot of fun for designing small and putting materials only where they are needed. If you learn to use the Lattice 2 workbench for creating patterns, things get even more fun as you can skip infill all together and start creating more intentional structures in patterns quickly without bogging down FreeCAD. It is fun to transition into design-thinking in terms of single wall shells and connections. That is one step away from an intuitive grasp of flexures and compliant mechanisms. Like my present little Bluetooth enclosure design uses the flex of curved walls and the thickness of material to press a little dome button on the center of a PCB inside. I didn’t make any cutouts or separate parts to actuate. It is just the flex of the design. I spent today getting it ready to print with a 0.25mm nozzle and clear PETG too. Anyways, GL and happy printing.

Make two separate parts in CAD. You can join them as separate shapes in a Parts Workbench compound or using the Mesh Workbench tools. Then upload the meshed file into the slicer. Empirically tune the gaps to suit your printer.

Just be absolutely sure that the two parts do not overlap in some intersection. The slicer will absolutely try to print twice in the same place.

Personally, I like to use manual inserts or layer changes. Print your text separately in one color. Recess the text in negative for a few layers. Then add a print pause where you drop the lettering into the designed voids and continue the print, letting the voids and bridging bond the inserted letters.

I was messing with a similar issue with my laptop GPU cover design from a few weeks ago. I wanted the layers to separate between the patterns and how the slicer was pathing . I did a bunch of tests and still need to print a final version but uploading the first layer as multiple compounded meshes is the solution.

If you design the 0,0 location of the parts so that they import into PS already aligned but as separate meshes, you can also use the elephants foot or other unique settings to manipulate how each section prints.