Thanks, very detailed answer. I’ll check out the lenspec option, that seems like a nice addition, especially when adding older windows programs from questionable sources, which is something that won’t happen often, but may be necessary.

Yeah, I’m fine without one two, I just:

1: want my wife to feel secure with her system, which I am setting up for her.

2. believe that desktop Linux is becoming steadily more attractive as a target

Thanks! I wasn’t aware that it was such a fire-and - forget software.

My wife was, yes. She tried to keep Microsoft software out of her PC as much as possible, and was used to using such software from her past experience.

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Awesome guide! I’ve saved it locally, and I’ll pay more attention to these menus moving forward.

This looks great! I’m not into self-hosting, I just don’t have much use for it right now. But this’d is exactly the kind of tool I’d be looking for if I did.

Oh really? I had no idea that fusion360 did toolpath stuff. Oops.

OpenSCAD is a great program, but it’s not like blender or fusion 360. the input is a text file, and you need to describe the object you want to model as geometrical shapes in text. It also only renders when you tell it to, not constantly.

But if you are willing to dive into it, you can get great results. There are libraries available for threads and gears and curbed shapes and such.

It does take some getting used to, even more so if you have never done any programing, but it’s FOSS and can create the same output as the graphical-menu counterparts.

Edit: I had originally posted a link to some stl files I made, but my read name is on there so I removed it.

I’m never going to buy/make something like this myself, but I am nonetheless very happy to see this in my feed and read about it. Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

For me the most important aspects of terminal commands is that (1) you are forced to learn how your OS really works and (2) the terminal will always be able to do things that your GUI isn’t programmed to do.

For example, I use brew commands to install brew packages on bazzite because there is no GUI frontend available. I also use it to start ollama LLMs on my machine even though there is a GUI frontend available, because I don’t need a frontend for two commands.

“Little to no” gender-affirming surgeries are being performed on minors in the United States, and those that are performed are overwhelmingly on cisgender minors.

Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males, according to a new study published in JAMA. Out of the 636 breast reductions performed on adults, 507 (80 percent) were performed on cisgender males.

The study used data from 47,437,919 adults and 22,827,194 minors who were insured that year, finding that chest-related operations accounted for 1,591 out of 2,664 (59.7 percent) of surgical procedures performed on adults, and 82 of 85 (96.4 percent) of surgical procedures performed on minors.

I’d bet that you were one of those cis kids that got his breasts reduced, and like a closeted priest you are publicly shaming what you privately do. But there is no shame in it. It is a non-issue, used by the ultra-wealthy to distract from their hubris.

I hope this holds. There have been several such migrations in the past, and they didn’t last. Seeing as it is just email and not the entire OS/software landscape, it will probably hold.