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Cake day: February 2nd, 2024

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  • Don’t you dare suggest FreeCAD.

    I have a Hope/Hate relationship with FreeCAD. Sometimes I can get it to do something useful and I get hopeful. Then I try to do something simple and ruin the entire design and have to start from scratch and I curse the developers lineage for all of time. I want it to be great, and it is closer than it has ever been. But it isn’t a replacement for professional design suites.






  • We just spent way too much on a new couch and we had three requirements:

    1. It had to fit our space.
    2. It had to be easily cleanable.
    3. Tennis balls could not fit under it.

    Those last two were specifically because our dogs belong on the couch with us. They are partners in our life’s journey.

    (Warning: gets dark from here)

    If you’ve ever had to hold your dog as it was dying and have any ounce of humanity, every dog you meet from then on will be treated like the precious gift they are. There will be no doubt when my dogs pass that they were loved and had the best life I could give them. Dirty couch be damned.

    Excuse me, I have to go aggressively snuggle my doodle.




  • I think that those who would tolerate the additional “effort” of solving the puzzle of joining Lemmy have already done so. Reddit may drive more people away but unless Lemmy becomes somehow more accessible there won’t be an influx, IMO.

    That said, I think it is a good thing. I know I don’t want Lemmy to be a clone of Reddit. I like the smaller communities and the higher quality interactions I get with Lemmy users. The Reddit “circle jerk” meta was fun but got tiresome and felt like it was spiraling to a lowest common denominator.


  • Not sure why you’re getting down voted… These things are true. Maybe amended to “way too complex for most people to easily understand” would be less controversial.

    The vast majority of people’s relationship with technology ends with an email address and a credit card. Here on Lemmy there tends to be a more sophisticated understanding of social media and the underlying social and technical aspects. But the idea that you have to do anything more than decide to join something and at most you need an email and a credit card would be a significant barrier to entry for most.