I think is people don’t like it they don’t need to use it.

Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity. They have no say in the matter.

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
• Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
• Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
• CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why

This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.

Layaway on groceries, doordash, and now on paying your friends. Do we need any more recession indicators?

Read the article.

Raising the recommended RAM requirements is not because the Resolute Raccoon requires more resources than before, not directly – this is not a 2GB RAM jump solely to load the OS and nothing else.

Rather, it’s more of an honesty bump. Components that make up the distro – the GNOME desktop and extensions, modern web browsers (and the sites we load in them) and the kinds of apps we use (and keep running) whilst multitasking are more demanding.

Assuming you’re asking in good faith, here’s a few to get you started:

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
• Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
• Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
• CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why

This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.

Edit: fixed a link format

Literally do not use it if you don’t like it, it’s really that simple.

Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity.

I didn’t see it until you pointed it out. Imo looks unintentional, just an unfortunate result of the circuit traces being arranged as they are.

Well, it will work… until it suddenly doesn’t.

Blender, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Catia, and any other modelling software of your choice all ultimately do the same thing: build digital representations of objects based on our understanding of how they might exist in physical reality. They differ in the workflow to get there, which is why we have terms like surface modelling programs and parametric CAD to differentiate their function or workflow.

OP literally used Blender to manufacture a physical thing- the qualification of Blender as “not CAD” is what’s actually muddying the water. If it isn’t a CAD program, how could they have physically manufactured their design?

To suggest that only some types of programs that do this are CAD is unnecessarily reductionist and doesn’t actually help anyone understand the difference between them. There is legitimate differentiation to be made with things like CAM programs, rendering software, etc., where you are now using that digital representation to achieve some end goal. CAD is about creating those digital assets that could ostensibly exist in the real world, regardless of whether it’s meant for animation, manufacturing, simulation, or whatever else.

Edit: Blender is even listed on the CAD Wikipedia page

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in many applications, including automotive, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries, industrial and architectural design (building information modeling), prosthetics, and many more. CAD is also widely used to produce computer animation for special effects in movies, advertising and technical manuals, often called DCC digital content creation.

I was being facetious about the literal use of a computer

CAD software is meant for precise dimentioned designs made from extruded 2D sketches

This exactly what I’m arguing against. Parametric CAD like Solidworks and whatever you’d call AutoCAD don’t get to own the term.

What I was trying to say, and was not very clear, is that CAD is an umbrella term for a wide variety of programs that generate digital models for use elsewhere, whether that’s manufacturing or animation. There are different subdomains, like surface modeling (blender) and parametric modeling (solidworks), but no single subgroup is necessarily the ‘true’ CAD. They’re all computer-assisted design programs, just specialized with different approaches for different purposes.

I will say that LTSC runs way smoother than regular windows, but that’s almost certainly because it’s got a lot of the bullshit stripped out.

Lmao. Are you offering pay my bills and provide health insurance?

Oh god don’t even get me started on our network drives lol. Searching for part drawings can take HOURS

It’s not really a matter of preference. I’m a mechanical engineer, not a developer, and several industry-standard programs are only available for windows. Bugs that come from running in WINE or another emulation layer are unacceptable when they can potentially cause delays in production, scrap parts from a misprint or miscalculation, or lead to a part failure that kills someone.

Looks good! That aside, is blender not a Computer-Aided Design program? You used a computer program to aid in designing an asset, no?

I know some would argue that only parametric modeling programs ‘count’, but that’s fucking dumb- by that logic, AutoCAD* and plenty of other CAD programs get excluded too. We wouldn’t need to append the ‘parametric’ qualifier to the acronym if it were an inherent part of the definition.

* yes, I’m aware they’ve added a parametric tool suite to AutoCAD. That doesn’t make it a parametric CAD program

Edit: fixed a typo

I actually have a batch script (might be a powershell script?) with this and some other stuff in it for when I’m doing a fresh install on my pc.

My work pc is locked the fuck down though, I can’t even change my wallpaper or the color of the taskbar lol.

Oh man I forgot about that one. Dumbest shit ever, I love it

Unfortunately, I have literally zero control over what’s installed on my computer at work

Lmao yup, the desktop app ‘new’ outlook takes up to 30 minutes to load sometimes

Windows+L locks it directly, fyi

Today it took almost 30 seconds for the context menu to appear when I right clicked on a file in windows explorer. I mean ffs, if I wanted everything to be a browser, I’d use a chromebook.

(Inb4 “install linux”, it’s a work computer and I don’t get a say in OS)