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[…] FreeCAD is trash […]
What issues have you had? What features do you wish it had?
Not OP, but FreeCAD auto-constraints in sketches are all over the place, and figuring out which constraint is a problem and selecting the right element in the UI is terrible.
I wish the UI/UX wasn’t made by people who still live in 1995, as a major start.
This is probably slightly off topic from the intent of this post but I wish any device that produced sound, like your coffee maker pinging when your coffee is ready or your washer/dryer audibly notifying you when a cycle is complete, had at least a small ability to modify or change that sound. Even just a small way to change the frequency or pitch of the sound would help. Today manufacturers take the approach of 'it's important that someone knows when their spin cycle is complete!', rather than 'let's let the consumer have some control over their audio environment'.
I suggest:
Household Acoustic Notification Standard (HANS)
Where it’s a standard protocol or noise making system you can configure with some kind of device. Perhaps it also outlines LORA notifications as well.
I didn't know about this. Thank you!
Another mobile OS. Something that isn't built entirely to exploit me.
Honestly, I would really fuck with a comprehensive Linux mobile experience. I know some things exist, but they aren't yet fully rounded off. I say this now, but know damn well I'd tinker with something I shouldn't and wind up needing to reinstall the OS like five times.
I'd be all over it. Hopefully we could get an open cellular modem with that at some point, too.
We do have some similar things, like Meshtastic for messages, but that's just texting via radio. As far as calls go, it's mostly also just radio for now.
Session tried to get a call and text system setup whereby anyone can host a node, similar to a TOR node, but their foundation didn't reach the funding total. The work is done, but some services are gonna be scaled back a bit. There is definitely a considerable push for systems like that, but they'll take a bit of time for implementation as it'd otherwise just be another company owned service that's outside our control.
I hear you. With Android turning into a closed OS like iOS later this year things are not looking very bright for people like me that uses alternative stores a lot.
Theres always e/os, iodeos, grapheneos and other forks
that is still android though
Tell me about it. Like Linux Phone hurry up!
I miss the FirefoxOS concept. Ahead of its time. Basically ran PWAs for everything.
I reccomend donating to postmarketos then. They do awsome work reverse engeeniering phones. Oneplus 6 is usable with pmos. Of course it has multiple problems but its nice seeing people make so much things for on old phones.
There are of course graphenos, calyxos, e/os/ of course. Unfortunatly the issue with every alternative os is that you need specific model of phone to even open bootloader.
I really liked my Jolla phone back in the days. I hope they make a good comeback.
When's the last time you tried FreeCAD? I also used to think it's trash, but version 1.0 really changed that and now 1.1 is freaking amazing.
Like last week. It’s cad software from 20 years ago that’s trying to be everything and not really mastering anything.
I want an open source option that focuses on UI/UX and not… well, whatever freeCAD is doing.
I have the same UI issues with GIMP and Inkscape. When programmers try to make human interface. (No offense to programmers)
I've been using GIMP long enough that I've learned where things are. It's not intuitive, but I can usually accomplish what I set out to do without swapping to another program.
Inkscape feels like a foreign language that I don't speak.
I started using it after 1.0, still haven't gotten anywhere with it because it's just not intuitive and I'm constantly running into problems where I have to go into the documentation. If it was good someone familiar with other CAD software would be able to switch to it without so many issues. I found a YouTube series that someone recommended that looks pretty good though so I'm going to lock in and go through that and try again because I really don't have any other choice. At least it doesn't crash every time you fuck up constraints anymore.
If it was good someone familiar with other CAD software would be able to switch to it without so many issues.
I don't think this is true. Professional software is usually very hard to switch between. Be it CAD, video editing, 3D modeling, animation, programming, painting, freaking file sharing, or pretty much any other field of endeavor. Each program/tool/suite prescribes a certain workflow, and it almost never matches the workflow of another tool designed for the exact same purpose.
For exactly the same reason, it's hard to switch between operating systems, especially if you're a power user who knows a lot about how things work in the OS you're used to. It's not a sign that either OS is better than the other, it's just how used the user is to a certain way of doing things.
I think this is also why Adobe and Autodesk are still doing alright. A large part of their customer base are just people who would have too much friction switching to a different, better (imo) suite of tools, so staying with the tool they know is worth the cost.
I don't know your situation, but from your comment I think I can recommend pushing through the re-learning period with FreeCAD. It's good.
I understand things not being the same. I've switched between software and OS's before and dealt with these kinds of issues. I worked in IT support for years and have had to learn about how all sorts of software works on the fly. I've switched between several CAD programs I used successfully before landing on Fusion360. FreeCAD is a whole other level compared to pretty much anything else I've dealt with. Blender is the only other app I can think of that I've had so much trouble with.
Forgot to say: 1.1 has quite a lot of QoL improvements, so make sure you learn from a source made for 1.1 and not 1.0 or earlier.
A really different approach to CAD is OpenSCAD. I was not happy with FreeCAD either.
Excel. There are other options, sure, but excel is really hard to beat.
Email. Gmail really does it well. However, I have switched mostly to Proton, so maybe that'll stick.
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Paint.net. I so wish for something simple with a competent UI on Linux.
Pinta is the closest, but it's too far behind modern paint.net.
GIMP lacks a competent UI, and Krita is too advanced for basic photo editing.
Anything closed where the update is "throw it away, buy the new model". Industrial electronics, car stereo, any gen 1/old product.
Most recently Amazon deprecated older Kindles for no apparent reason except the fact that they were still being in use for over a decade.
Yeah I have several old tablets that would be perfectly serviceable if I could get to the app store. But because they're on such an old version of Android it won't let me download apps.
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Literally anything that you have to pay monthly for. I do not care what it is.
I have an old version of Sony Movie Studio Platinum that, legally, they still have to provide me a download for. But, holy absolute hell if they didn't make it nearly impossible to just download the version I paid for. Of course, the new one is subscription only. Costs so much I'd have paid more in 3 months than the single one time payment I did for the old version a decade ago.
To flip the CAD thing on its head, if I want a Python API for AutoCAD, Creo, or SolidWorks, their response is "fuck you, use our GUI cuz that's easier for us to implement license verification with. And oh yeah, it's all Window only." The only CAD software I find remotely useful is FreeCAD. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's the baseline that all other CAD softwares somehow fail to match.
Operating systems.
Windows is a collection of legacy code with trash strewn over top, but it is ubiquitous.
Apple’s offerings are typically decent and reliable, but the executives spent a lot of time lately kissing the ring.
Linux is simply not something I’m interested in supporting for my family.
I’d just like something that’s easy to use, common enough I don’t need to teach people to use it, secure by design, and not owned by an evil megacorp.
I’d just like something that’s easy to use, common enough I don’t need to teach people to use it, secure by design, and not owned by an evil megacorp.
Hey I don't want to preach but if many people were able to learn how to use Chrome OS over the last decade they will be able to learn how to use the latest Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux is now considered the most intuitive and fully featured for new users).
I believe Mint is the current "beginner edition" of Linux. Ubuntu has been getting a lot of hate lately from what I've seen.
My latest build is running Bazzite on an HTPC, but it's still a project and not fully up and running quite yet.
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Photoshop. GIMP is serviceable, but just give me damn Photoshop circa like, 2015?
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RCS messaging. The important bits are closed source so you have to use google services.
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