I’m not using it for the incentive. I’m using it to avoid punishment. The company I work for made it mandatory to use it daily. So I’m tokenmaxxing bullshit tasks so I can focus on interesting ones, but yeah I already feel it’s making me lazy because I sometimes can’t be bothered to read a lot anymore. We are truly fucked.

This company is working on terrible assumptions. They spent years hunting for the best engineers in the country (or so they pretend to anyway) and suddenly decided that

• we are average at best and it is better and faster than most of us (it’s not)
• software engineers don’t like to write code anyway (we do, at least when the challenge is interesting)
• it will forever be more affordable than properly qualified engineers (oh boy it won’t)
• a PM with Claude is as qualified as us to bring features to production (talk about tech stack suicide)
• etc.

They either have drunk the propaganda koolaid and betting everything on this lie, or are so arrogant they think we can succeed where the largest AI investors in the world utterly failed (see GitHub that can’t even get 3 nines of availability since the switched to full-ai-code).

It’s either a political move (nobody wants to be responsible for and/or depend on another ministry), or 4D chess where they would prevent a single vulnerability to expose the entire user base.

Fun fact, Orange (former France Telecom) has developed its own distro for the best part of the last 25 years. It’s… very peculiar.

By who are we kidding. The actual work will be offloaded to the shittiest contractor available (Capgemini/Atos/SopraSteria), it will take 5 years of the planned 2 and will cost 3.5 times the initial budget, for something sensibly shittier than an uBlue script.

And guess what, the company I work in proudly announced today they will replace our internal chatbot with ChatGpt Enterprise. It’s like they gladly and actively increase their dependency on an enemy state.

Not true. 500Mb models suck ass and are just here for fun. A lot of local models in the 2.5Gb range can run on a phone and produce very coherent output on par with free-to-use LLMs without actually destroying the planet (while using them I mean, training is still a nightmare).

“Fun” fact, political bias is baked in the local models too, don’t ask Qwen3 about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989…

Ah shame, I did a quick simulation and shipping rates + taxes would more than double the cost.

Ah damn. Although if your local manufacturer ships to the rest of Europe, I’d be happy to try it out ;)

That’s a very low price. Is it quality filament ? Have any links ?

Thanks !

Yeah the most valuable skill when designing parts is to learn how to design for the process. Print orientation should be decided in the earliest stage so as to maximize strength where it counts, reinforcements to compensate for layer lines weakness should be baked in. FDM prints behave like wood: strong across the grain, weak through the grain.

If it wasn’t for the groove, my first advice would have been to redesign the part so it could be printed sideways.

Yeah sure.

Something like that:

The triangular cross section would be much easier on the printer.

There are a few major issues with your design that we could fix to make it work.

• your feet connect to the frame at a right angle. You’re concentrating all the forces on a single layer line that would easily fail. Spread the forces by adding a fillet between the feet and the frame
• your vertical and free standing parts are waaaaay too thin. From empirical observation, I’d say anything free standing under 5mm thickness is guaranteed to fail. You could easily add strength by using a triangular or U-shaped cross section. Not only the part will be much more rigid and solid, but also more stable while printing. Think I-beams or U-beams vs. flat stock in construction, with the added issue of the massive anisotropy of FDM fabrication.
• As others have said, if you absolutely want to keep it thin, print the frame separately from the feet flat on the back so the forces are perpendicular to the layers. A V-shaped groove will print without supports. 45degs will be fine, depending on your printer you might event get away with shallower angles.
• if you want to keep it as a single part, you might consider printing it at 45 degrees from vertical. Layers would have much more surface area compared to the current flimsy ones, and you might even not need as much bulk as vertical printing. Most usual forces would be spread at 45 degrees too, which, while not ideal, would be much more solid than parallel from them.

Yeah this one is much more recent.

https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux

There’s a Wine fork tweaked especially for Affinity that works amazingly well.

Have you tried recalibrating the probe? I had the same issue with my Sovol SV08 where no matter how much I tried, nothing would stick, until I recalibrated it.

Also, how long do you preheat before printing? Depending on the beds material things can move quite a bit with heat. Sometimes 0.01mm can make the difference between a successful and a failed print. Try heat soaking your bed and nozzle at working temperature for at least 1/2h before calibrating and printing to give time to everything to expand.

TinkerCAD is ok for simple shapes and basic functional parts. It works by adding or subtracting simple shapes together (cubes, cylinders etc) to make more complex shapes. It’s quick, easy and instinctive but anything slightly more complex than a dozen shapes grouped together and/or iterative designs quickly become a time consuming nightmare. It’s like trying to format a magazine in Word.

FreeCAD (or Fusion, OnShape, SolidWorks or any “serious” CAD software) use a parametric workflow. You start with a technical drawing by setting shapes, dimensions, angles and relationships (“constraints”), extrude or revolve this shape to create a solid, then continue by drawing another sketch on a face and adding more constraints, extruding this sketch, then… you get it. It has a much steeper learning curve, but once understood it’s much quicker and easier to build very complex shapes. Plus iterative designs are usually a breeze since everything is constrained together, so changing any dimension or angle in any sketch means the whole design will follow. It’s also trivial to add chamfers, filets, working with mirror and central symmetry etc. When designing functional parts, parametric design is the proper tool for the job.

Nice!

Honestly I don’t understand either. I can’t find anything remotely similar to this.

I’m just hoping it’s not some kind of exploit hidden as a “new” UI component.

That’s the point. I can’t reproduce this behavior so I can’t understand what the hell this was.

The only extension I use is AdGuard.

True.

First I just want to reproduce this behavior to understand it though.

The logo looks like a stylized interpretation of his glorious curly hair.

I’m too white and nerdy to have thought about that.