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pantheon is one of the best DEs out there.

having to reformat for every upgrade is a pain though.

bugs so bad they make the game unplayable at launch, can’t forget that one.

the pdf only works on chrome 🤢 and the pregnancy test is kind of cheating, because the dude hollowed it out and replaced the hardware in it with more powerful stuff.

and doesn’t have the risk of burn in!

it’s been a while, but ill try to contextualize some of the great suggestions here. i use cura to slice, then octoprint through usb to actually control and interface with the printer. there are many good slicers, octoprint is the standard for most printers unless you have something odd or too proprietary.

blender has a CAD mode or some plugin that makes it much easier to use for certain 3d printing applications, a bunch like autodesk, just not quite as refined. that’s what i sometimes use when i need it. openscad and a couple other foss options that run on linux work but aren’t very intuitive or easy to use, trust me.

as a last resort running other established windows software could work on wine with a bit of banging around, but may or may not be that simple to setup. those tend to be much heavier than foss apps though, so if your computer is already struggling you will have a worse time.

my suggestion is to first and foremost confirm if 3d acceleration and stuff is enabled and working in blender and nothing overheats or anything, it shouldn’t be that hard to run on a regular laptop made in the last decade for simple beginner stuff. it’s worth trying to get it to work just because it’s the best option on linux imho, and not that hard once you grasp the basics.

and yeah software discoverability is not that great on linux, but we got you.

might as well not even bother with a prize!

proxmox can be used on a desktop. if you don’t like qubes, virt-manager or virtualbox on a regular distro could be up your alley too.

that is i understood correctly and you want to actually sit at it, just that it is running many guest oses instead of just your desktop?

what’s wrong with their eyes, is this a frog?

don’t worry, they will block china off their market to try and prop up their crumbling industry.

more broadly than ram, from what i’ve been reading, they are already gearing up to do just that. semiconductors are one of the few industries they are behind on and it wouldn’t even be wise to depend on their rivals for their computing.

whether or not they will be able to pull it off before the couple of years it would take for western manufacturers to meet demand, or the ai bubble to burst is anyone’s guess, but i don’t think so.

a bit of speculation but i don’t think they would hate to be the gatekeepers of rented cloud computing to recoup costs after ai busts either so who knows, maybe we do need china to come sooner rather than later and flood the market with cheap computer chips.

stealing intellectual property from billion dollar corporations to be morally neutral

i consider it to be beautiful and commendably moral to steal back what they basically made us do for money/survival then claimed as their secrets only they can profit from, causing the whole predicament we are in in the first place.

ctrl+r on bash will let you quickly search and execute previous commands by typing the first few characters usually.

it’s much more of a game changer than it first meets the eye.

being surveilled is always bad. difference being one of them are constantly starting conflicts and meddling with foreign elections, the other haven’t been at war for decades.

told this story before but windows 10 force rebooted overnight after spending hours fucking with it so it doesn’t, while still being able to update manually.

lost me quite a bunch of work that was rendering in the background and the important deadline. lost the will to further put up with microsoft.

Unless the US does the thing where they decide to violently lash out

yeah they are already gearing up for it 🫩

the global south will have another chance and the east will eventually shine. and a period of peace after the storm passes. quite a lot of nuance and drama and death all along the way.

climate change fucking everything up for the worse somewhere in the middle of all this.

who wants to bet personal computers will become permanently unaffordable for regular people, and they will sell it back to us through a cloud subscription?

yay, big win! :)

shoutout to diolinux! dude is doing a lot of heavy lifting to help out new linux users over in brazil. and photogimp is quite useful everywhere.

we should be looking for solutions to this conundrum though.

that’s not low key at all. living the dream.