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> I didn't know that there was a FreeCAD Day!

Being the first one, and with some concern about limited space, we did not broadcast it super-widely. With good reason, too, since it was packed.

You can also sideload via ADB.

Another good example: the real-but-extinct animal aurochs = "ur-ox."

> Never used LXD, but LXC does not have layers per-se.

It's kind of a similar situation in LXD, where that sort of functionality being available depends on the storage backend/driver in use, for example LVM thin provisioning, various options via ZFS, or btrfs like you mentioned.

> Unfortunately, the easiest way to get it running is by installing Snap;

The Debian package for LXD just entered the archive about 2 weeks ago:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1361535/accepted-lxd-500-1-s...

This means the next Debian release will make for stable LXD hosts without needing snap.

Interesting to note also the use of ã as shorthand for an, i.e. "the reſidue is in hãd" -> "the residue is in hand"

NetBSD is used for sdf.org, the SDF Public Access UNIX System.

OpenCASCADE, the C++ CAD library used by FreeCAD and others, has official bindings available in Tcl. (Bindings, for example, in Python, are available from 3rd parties.)

> And that's before you consider things like Docker, which will let you run linux software just about anywhere including windows, mac

Might be worth remarking that (historically, and AFAIK also currently) Docker on Windows and Mac used a Linux VM under the hood.

In logic terms, the government in this scenario is sufficient but not necessary for these outcomes.

The drawback to using sid in this way is that every 2 years during the release freeze, regular uploads to it taper off or halt. Depending on the maintainer, uploads of new releases etc. may continue into the experimental branch, but those packages have to be pulled in manually, and continuing to upload in this manner is not always done. In principle, though, sid+experimental has the capacity to be analogous to a true rolling release.

The word pretender ("to reach/stretch out") in this context simply means a claimant for a position that is occupied or gone. It has nothing to do with the modern connotation of someone making something up.

Just for an example, the OpenFOAM codebase has 'em.

That's not the correct quote, you're missing two key modifiers. It's "essential liberty" for "temporary security"... which is not the case here.

> In a world context, beginning the year in spring is normal; beginning it in the middle of winter is very weird indeed.

The character of the seasons is rather local. For example take the Greek legend of Persephone and Demeter and the Sumerian legend of Dumuzid and Inanna. Both explain the seasons by a god being trapped in the underworld for half the year, but the Greeks considered winter the dead time while for the Sumerians it was summer.

Why would anyone post guards around a field of potatoes, widely known as worthless? Maybe I should go see if they'll take a bribe, perhaps there is something to these potatoes after all.

This is a fairly common occurrence for anyone running a Debian-family Linux distribution with unattended-upgrades turned on.

The combat system in Achaea was always so fascinating to me in terms of balance, but back when I was still playing it I was on bad dialup or satellite internet, which gave me a pretty big disadvantage against other people.

LXD recently added support for QEMU virtual machines in addition to its existing support for LXC containers, and it's almost completely replaced libvirt for me. It's great, pretty much just a matter of adding a `--vm` flag to normal `lxc launch` usage, e.g. `lxc launch images:debian/buster --vm`.

> like rotating a part requires a left mouse + center mouse press in order

That behavior is controlled by the Mouse Model [1] which can be changed with a selection menu in the bottom right of the window, or by right clicking anywhere in the viewport. I generally use Touchpad. While the default behavior is not desirable for you or me, it is based on a sort of standard interface type, so it's desirable for some. It could be possible to start a discussion about changing the default, but I just wanted to mention that this behavior is not set in stone.

> civil feedback on the forum about it got a dev response of "Those are just our quirks, go back to Solidworks if you don't like it."

Yes, this can be very frustrating to me sometimes too seeing people dismissed this way. There are several issues at play in the forums. Besides the most obvious one of expert blindness from people who have been using FreeCAD as it evolved, you have the problem of people who have the time and ability to help newcomers but not necessarily to fix tough underlying problems. At some point a certain jadedness creeps in and their desire to help can actually be harmful.

Hopefully after some time you'll be willing to give FreeCAD another shot as it is improving rapidly, although the problem space is so big it can seem to happen in spurts.

[1] https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Mouse_Model

Re: sudo, not exactly: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/02/msg00234.html

Your quote chopped off an important qualifier present in the original comment.

> NO ONE said "don't wear a mask because it does nothing" .

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted in February 2020, "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"

https://www.axios.com/surgeon-general-reversal-face-mask-d38...

Interesting, I've never heard of earlyssh as an option--I've used dropbear-initramfs for this in the past.

That is how I pronounce it.

There is:

https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html

Plus regular famines and accompanying social unrest.

Surely some portion of that can be attributed to agency ("doing") but I'd contend a non-trivial amount is due to being recipients of American hegemony ("being")

It seems like you're attacking a point you made for the person you're replying to instead of anything in their actual comment here.