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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • What I did was I went to the thrift store and I found a laptop. It was the Asus Transformer Book T100han.

    I had one when it was new. It was a POS but hey it worked really well in my use case I was thinking of.

    Got it home booted it, has Windows 10 1501 installed on it. Refused the update. (The perfect windows machine does exists)

    Updated it to 22h2 bricked it by running out of the limited 32GB of storage.

    Said screw it got Linux Mint on a USB installer. Installer crashes. Tries Ubuntu… also crashes. Tries OpenSuse, also crashes. Tries Fedora also crashes.

    Turns out the installer requires more than 2GB of ram. Laptop only has 2 and it’s soldered. (The e waste special)

    Gets Debian installs it. Gets to desktop, no Bluetooth, no audio, but everything else runs better than I ever saw it. Needs older distro.

    Gets Q4OS installs fine, runs as well and audio works. No Bluetooth. My very specific use case requires Bluetooth.

    Forces myself to go back to windows. No recovery image. Downloads from MS, can’t create media because my PC is on Linux. Boots into VM, makes installer. Installs Windows. No audio no Bluetooth.

    Gets drivers from asus website. Everything works but audio. Calls asus support gets drivers. PC is back to when I got it.

    Pair Bluetooth controller, installs auto hotkeys, installs libre office. Best teleprompter I’ve ever used.

    Shoves into box until it’s needed again.



  • The bunny 20-30 minutes since I don’t use Eclipses too much, and how to do Eclipse arcs to make a solid outline. I’d say if I was more familiar it should take less time. Since this Bunny looks way rougher than I intended too, but it was a proof of concept.

    The interception geometry issue was the biggest learning hurdle for FreeCAD for myself. However since moving I’ve grown to prefer it since it avoid voids being created by tiny intersections which are difficult to see. For example for the skatch bellow, if you are not careful you may miss the middle and create a random hole in your model. Had this on many of my earliest designs and spent a lot of time trying to fix it since the software wouldn’t render out the shape right.

    I also I love how FreeCAD changes the color of a sketch’s lines green and a brighter green when everything is contained. I see it like a game and it forces me to think about how the shape should be rather than what’s close enough to what I need.

    That said, while I was like you and worked with a single sketch and padded, pushes and constrained my way to make the model I needed. FreeCAD does like you import existing geometry into a design. In the current BETA they are allowing that geometry to even be constructor geometry to make modeling easier. So you can continue to base your current sketch upon the previous one, and it’ll update as you move along.

    While it’s not in a single sketch, I found doing it this way makes it much easier for myself to maintain a model and go back into it to fix parts of it when needed.

    I also know FreeCAD isn’t for everyone, and there are hurdles to move to it. But I personally found it works with my workflow, and not being tied to yearly licenses is a relief for me.






  • Underneath they are similar, however I was in the same boat as you. Lutris first however after installing a few apps I moved towards heroic.

    Heroic is easier to manage your library requires less tinkering and as a benefit for steam deck owners, has controller support in the gui by default and native integration with epic games store.

    Lutris works better for non platform games, like old PC games from CDs or EA App.

    How I’ve been moving my games over is rebuying games I would be gutted to loose like Fallout 3, and Doom 2016. Then waiting on sales for the rest. Also Amazon Prime has free gog games so you maybe able to get a handful of games every month to move over