Ah, get a mainstream distro like Mint or Fedora, throw Steam on it and start gaming.

The first video game I ever played was a Lode Runner clone for the IBM PC called Freddy’s Rescue Roundup.

Those are coveralls. Or a jumpsuit, depending.

These are overalls:

Somehow, it’s a surprise to people that I’m a competent trumpet player. As if every high school in the state doesn’t have a band class. Fully half of my graduating class in high school were musicians of some kind between chorus, orchestra and band classes. But somehow nobody expects a random dude in his mid-30’s to pick up a trumpet and play a few bars of Ravel’s Bolero.

Learn how to echolocate!

Well, that’ll piss some folks off I think. I actually appreciate things like the crowd at the opening joust rocking out to We Will Rock You. The banquet dance scene is better executed; they start out with the old time dance and then fade into modern club dancing, as if to say “Here’s what’s actually taking place” versus “Here’s how the characters feel about it in terms a modern audience can understand.”

I think I’m more talking about how a lot of the sets look like styrofoam? Especially castle interiors or other masonry? There’s just something very 80’s Gragthar The Destroyer about it.

websites that scroll wrong, and then they stop dead on some animation. Automatic nope on the product.

Clue didn’t work in the theater because they did this gimmick where they made three versions with three different endings. So because it had to be consistent with three contradictory endings, you CAN’T solve it as you go; it doesn’t function as a mystery movie. And, it was kind of short.

The TV cut crammed all three endings at the end with the “Here’s what REALLY happened” cards inserted, so one ending is now canonical while the others are plausible alternatives, it runs longer, especially the frantic, energetic ending plays longer, so while it still doesn’t function as a mystery movie, it is now an excellent farce.

I think it also found its audience in young millennials on television; it was made for and by my parents’ generation but they don’t like it, while a lot of people my age love it.

That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can’t quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.

Oh probably Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod.

first that I used was an IBM PS/2 dual booting OS/2 and Windows 3.1. first that was actually mine was a NEC made Windows 98 laptop.

Do NOT stop to talk in doorways.

What you’re going through right now is the process of discovering the phone numbers you can stop answering. The flat tires you can stop changing, the computers you can stop fixing, the lunches you can stop lending, the favors you can stop doing.

You’re a man. No one has ever, or will ever care about you. That’s how it works.

Maru the Scottish Fold.

Hobby: Video gaming.

Try to determine what kind of video game a movie character is playing by what they’re doing to the controller.

The only other package even remotely compatible with Linux is OnShape and their licensing terms are a non-starter. Frankly so are AutoDesk’s.

Why the fuck should an end user of mechanical engineering software know how to use Git? Does Blender leave entire features completely undocumented expecting their audience of 3D animators to write their APIs for them given nothing but the app’s source code? Does GIMP? Does KDENLIVE? Does Arch Linux? Hell no, Arch has a massive and detailed wiki. Imagine if there just was no documentation for how to script in Bash and the Arch devs were like “Oh yeah think you could write that for us? You know, while you’re trying to get something fairly basic done?”

Okay, how much effort should an end user be expected to put into learning how to use software? The standard used to be RTFM. Oh us Linux users get bitched at when we tell people to RTFM.

Well I Read The Fucking Manual. The macro scripting API isn’t anywhere in The Fucking Manual. You ask how you’re supposed to learn how to use a feature that isn’t in The Fucking Manual, and you get asked why you haven’t Written The Fucking Manual.

You’re told “The Python console has a help feature. Type help() to enter the help mode.” Yeah, that’s a standard feature, here’s the thing: It’s broken in FreeCAD. If you type anything at the help prompt, it exits the help system. You can’t get a list of modules to browse it that way. So you have to know the name of the module that the function you’re looking for is in. Somehow.

I think it’s somewhere around this point that the end user has done what tehy reasonably should have and the ball is in the developer’s court. There is a difference between “Hey it would be great if you guys could help us flesh out the tutorial section on our website a bit!” and “We outright refuse to document our scripting API in any way, if the busted automated help system isn’t good enough, you write it.”

I’m not Writing Their Fucking Manual for them. That is utterly insane.

They have what looks like documentation. That manual is out of date and incomplete.

FreeCAD exposes a Python console as an end-user feature. It has a macro recording system for automating repetitive tasks, much like MS Office does, it uses Python as a scripting language. Can you show me an API reference for this feature?

I want to write a macro that will insert some text into the cell of a spreadsheet I have selected. Click a cell, click the macro button, and it puts some text into that cell. It can do this. There are macros published that do this kind of thing. Show me where in their published documentation the functions necessary to do that are described.

They don’t help people in that forum. For some reason, FreeCAD’s forums default to English, but no one in the community speaks English as a first langauge. So you ask a detailed technical question, and some French guy babelfishes a couple of the key words and posts a random paragraph about the workbench you mentioned and a random unrelated code snippet. I’ve paid to have someone help me work on this software, that went nowhere.