I was looking for a comment like yours. Same issue, in my case only eating up half of my cores but with 100% utilization, webUI not working.

If you're interested in the topic someone is streaming the whole process: https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking

Would highly recommend Dave Bull's YouTube channel as well - https://youtube.com/@seseragistudio

I took a class at his workshop in Tokyo and highly recommend the experience. So much thought and detail goes into preparing the wood blocks and even into "just" printing them.

I've switched my work laptop from W10 to Fedora about 9 months ago, using KDE during this time. The past month switched to Niri + DMS and I'm extremely happy, which is odd to say. I've a stacked external monitor setup 2 x 4k monitors on top of each other. Top one is the main, runs mostly just the IDE. The bottom one with 7 named workspaces:

- chat: teams / discord - work: assisting workspace for Main screen - git : sourcegit - terminal: for general terminal stuff - claudecode - work related browsing - personal browsing

All workspaces are accessible their own hotkey, so I can work on something on the main, and instantly switch to a specific application. I had the exact setup with KDE, but I had to do some trickery to get this working with Virtual Desktops Only on Primary Display https://store.kde.org/p/2143363. Niri enables to have the same setup, + display independent workspace setup which I really wanted. The same feature was requested 20! years ago in KDE, and we still don't have it. This kinda shows the power of independent projects like Hyprland and Niri.

I find it comical that OpenAI with all the power of CharGPT even them are unable to release an app for both iOS and Android at the same time. Wow, good marketing for Codex.

That is more of a statement of the complete dominance of iPhones among gen z.

Google sold Tim Cook their search engine for $-25B per year

Not even for all regions for iOS

And then you move to Linux. Not kidding when I say that the only reason why I have a W11 VM is to run LinqPad, at least until November.

Well, my organization still isn't mature/large enough to administer linux machines for employee use and I prefer Win+WSL to Mac, so.

Fusion360 has a free tier and it's enough for most people.

The Fusion360 free-tier has been getting ever more restrictive over time. At the moment it is at:

> users who generate less than $1,000 USD in annual revenue and use for home-based, non-commercial projects only.

Which already makes it unsuitable for any Open Source work. While one might still accept those restrictions for quick one-off projects, those projects are also the ones that FreeCAD can handle fine.

and only 10 editable projects :/

Editable files! A project might have tens of files in it and you’ll find yourself having to toggle which ones are in the active set. It’s maddening!

I had no idea it was at this fine-grained a level.

You’re permitted 10 files - total - that can be editable at any one time.

For simple things you can have all your components in a single file and make do but I rather dislike working this way for a ton of reasons.

I’m thinking about solid works when my fusion license expires. At least I’ll own my files and be able to manage them on my own ssd.

Solidworks for Makers is currently $25/yr I think (discount code).

I'm a pretty happy FreeCAD guy, actually -- my issues are not FreeCAD but learning design -- but I will be trying it too.

oh man! I didn't realize - that's so much worse!

I'll reconsider the $24/yr Solidworks deal now...

Freecad is fully free and after 1.0 release it's enough for most people.

I switched off of Fusion360 on to OnShape when Autodesk started mucking around with the free tier.

I do a lot in amateur rocketry and took the fusion360 route. One thing that’s nice about it is its popularity. Whenever I have questions most of the other people in my hobby are ready with answers or guidance.

Vfx subreddit reaction to this

https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1grgyps/affleck_on_ai_...

>Vfx subreddit reaction to this

An amazing amount of angry finger pointing and very little actual reflection on the points raised. Burn the messenger! He's a witch!

More video content is going to get made, at lower cost. The skills required will change. The economics will change.

The VFX industry has struggled financially for many years. AI will not improve the financial prospects of the VFX industry.

https://www.youtube.com/@BPSspace has a video on this exact topic, but can't seem to find it. I pretty sure he mentioned that there is a publicly open book on guidance and navigation.

I'm a hobbyist who has used PS for 20 something years now. My issue with Affinity Photo is that you can use 85% of your PS knowledge and workflow, everything is the same but that last 15% is awfully, unlogically different and will drive you mad. That last 15% feels like it was made by people who do not understand why PS does things the way it does. Meanwhile my statement cannot be true, because Affinity nailed the firat 85%, but just cannot comprehend why they couldn't copy the last 15%.

That's the true cost of Photoshop. It's not the subscription. It's the time you spent learning how to do everything.

That's why I support Krita, If I'm going to pay that cost, I want to invest it in software that is by the people, for the people.

The keyboard actions alone are maddening. Trying to switch tools, exit a text editing mode, change tool properties, all can be very frustrating to do with the keyboard.

This is my experience too. After buying Affinity licenses, I don't want to pay Adobe their monthly rake too, but I do.

I've replaced an industrial windows workstation with PI + Avalonia in a factory. Way more compact, you don't have to care about Windows anymore. Is the PI industrial grade? No, but we have a spare PI ready, and SSD with preinstalled OS. So you can fix everything in a matter of minutes.

Although I had to rewrite the software, because the original was WinForms, it was a pretty simple application.