Now I'm super curious how people thought it grew 🤔

Occasionally I have moments of nervousness when I realize that in a few years I likely won't remember how to manage my server, then I remember that, fingers crossed, I won't need to

Well actually, like with success, it's okay for you to have some farts, as long as mine are clearly the best.

Poor performance? 😁

I feel like, this too, at least for some of us, is related to having not getten into Bitcoin 10 plus years ago. 😂 If my bones weren't so old and cruddy, so I could still be backpacking professionally while on sabbatical from mechanical engineering, I would be, but they are old and cruddy so my opinions are to work some bullshit job, or do something that most people describe as being "too hard" or "too complicated", so I choose the one that at least pays well that I can do from home, where I can be, at best, questionably professional because I'm a fucking wizard with shapes and numbers 😂 That said, I do put a fair bit of thought into preventing my personal life from turning into an unnecessarily complicated self-made prison.

"Wow, falling down those stairs really helped increase the flexibility and mobility of the middle of my femur, and the back of my skull!"

Given that this sort of stuff is typically coming from people who talk about how all you have to do is have gotten in a decade ago and held for a few cycles (and they used to say one, but now they say a few), it always has an "I'm not sad that I'm poor, I'm just taking some time to work on myself" sort of vibe 😂

Wait, many of us recently learned that Europe, for no good reason, doesn't have air conditioners. Does Canada not have dish washers? And if you're right now thinking "of course we have people who wash dishes", boy do I have some exciting news for you!

I'm a mechanical engineer, I have a well regarded degree from a well regarded school, and most day's my jobs to quietly sit at a desk and think or debate ideas, and I love the way my want-to-be elite friends, neighbors, and coworkers look at me when I say things like: "we way overvalue the expertise of knowing and way undervalue the expertise of doing", "unless a person's from a field that involves lots of relevant experiments, and deference to experimental results, I don't care what they think; I care what surgeons, farmers, and plumbers think; I generally don't care what social scientists, philosophers, or public health people think", "for most academics and experts, their expertise is in reading the room regarding their own field, but nothing more", "like with many religious figures, there's a chicken and egg problem among many experts; while they're the most knowledgeable ones on their topics, they typically only ended up that way because they started out naive but sufficiently passionate to spend years getting credentialed, so they're clearly biased and typically seem to have an agenda", or "for the most part, an expert is just a person for whom it's socially acceptable to lazily, mindlessly outsource your thinking to and blindly follow.". They look at me like I'm a bad person, or a trader, and I suppose that in a way I am, because I want to acknowledge reality, and do what works, not what sounds nice, or brings prestige 😆

yeah, that's where I ultimately come down. These are rights, not vehicles for colective punishments.

If one of my co-workers made an argument that was this riddled with flaws, I'd pretty much refuse to work with them 😂

Generally speaking I'm a huge 2A proponent, but given how violent the left is, sometimes I feel like we should let them vote their rights away.

Well done! I'm curious to see where you take this!

Ha, I basically only use pla.

I'm a mechanical engineer, so like with software engineering vs. vibe coding conversations, definitions of "good enough", and goals and assumptions can vary widely. So with that said, my take is that blender's the obvious option if you want to make art, and the stuff I previously mentioned (different tiers of engineering design software) are the obvious choices if you primarily want to make functional gizmos or objects (stuff where exact sizes, shapes, contours, etc matter (things with hinges, levers, screw holes, latches, precise fits, etc)).