What have you 3D printed for your TJ?

[lBasket]

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I miss having my taskbar along the side of my screen. Good thing w11 is only on my work machine

 

[k1n3k]

As a somewhat related mini-rant, I'd love to meet the dickhead that thought centering the start menu button, and then having it move position frequently depending on what you have open and where you're navigating in a particular window. What an incredibly stupid idea. Didn't there use to be rules people followed when developing GUI's...as in NOT moving core user controls?

Don't even get me started on webpages that are rendered from javascript with buttons that 'run away' as it loads... I miss the days of static HTML pages.

 

[chili_pepper]

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Is it possible that was added in a later build? Been months but I do not recall that setting anywhere, and it wasn't for lack of looking. Either way, I stand by my remarks regarding it being the default, much less that it's even an option. Lower left has been the default since the first versions of the OS (before @lBasket was born, likely).

 

[lBasket]

Is it possible that was added in a later build? Been months but I do not recall that setting anywhere, and it wasn't for lack of looking. Either way, I stand by my remarks regarding it being the default, much less that it's even an option.

This was here when we first moved to w11 at work last year

 

[sab]

"The cloud" does have its uses - such as offsite backups - but otherwise its just a return to centralized computing that the "microcomputer revolution" of the late 70s did away with. Now, as then, it has its attendant problems of cost, lack of security, and latency - a solution in search of a problem. No thank you.

To get us back on topic: with Fusion, latency is not noticeable. I don't sell anything I design/make, so I don't really care about the security of the models being in the cloud. The only concern I have with Fusion being cloud-based is losing my models if their servers all crash (like, from a UPS plane flying into it to relate a recent news story). I don't trust a software company to have an iron-clad backup system in place. They put out a product full of bugs, why would I trust their backup system? I keep all my personal files on a backup NAS at home and for off-site, I keep a backup on a portable hard drive kept at the office.

You're not wrong, I've been into it for about the same length of time. With that said, open-source has gotten a LOT better, and I've seen a sharp increase in crap software coming from the "big names" as well. Shitty programming, "feeping creaturitis", and latency, latency, latency everywhere. I think some of these code monkeys not only didn't pass CS-101, but never saw the inside of a CS-101 class - and that's from some of the biggest names in the business! There is crapware being put out these days that I would have been FIRED FOR CAUSE if I had written something that bad, etc, etc, etc. {Insert rant here}

I think you'd be surprised at how things have changed in the college courses we took in the decades since we graduated. I think I've mentioned on here before that a very important class for me was a human factors in design course, which covered the user interface. I recently checked, and they no longer have a class like this. It's no wonder we have such horrible user interfaces these days. Perhaps the CS-101 course of which you speak no longer exists or has been changed so much that it's not the same course.

 

[sab]

Its also my understanding that SolidWorks has some kind of "hobbyist" deal going.

Yeah, they've got a hobbyist deal.

That's good news and explains something to me. I've used AutoDesk products for decades and generally have a strong dislike for that company due to their strong-arm license changes and substantial price increases over the years. It is surprising to me 1) that they have a free version of Fusion, and 2) how often I get substantial discount offers (30-50%) on Fusion from them. If SolidWorks also has a free version, that would explain it. Competition is good!

 

[chili_pepper]

I've used AutoDesk products for decades and generally have a strong dislike for that company due to their strong-arm license changes and substantial price increases over the years.

Sing it, brother @sab...

I would add bugs, bloat and stupid features to that hate list.

 

[sab]

I would add bugs, bloat and stupid features to that hate list.

Agreed - this isn't the Piss and Moan thread, so I was trying to stay on topic (but not very well).

 

[NashvilleTJ]

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I think you'd be surprised at how things have changed in the college courses we took in the decades since we graduated. I think I've mentioned on here before that a very important class for me was a human factors in design course, which covered the user interface. I recently checked, and they no longer have a class like this. It's no wonder we have such horrible user interfaces these days. Perhaps the CS-101 course of which you speak no longer exists or has been changed so much that it's not the same course.

Same approach, different name. Today it's referred t as "User Experience," or UX. And there is specialized training available, and is very much a part of proper software design.

 

[Zorba]

I think you'd be surprised at how things have changed in the college courses we took in the decades since we graduated. I think I've mentioned on here before that a very important class for me was a human factors in design course, which covered the user interface. I recently checked, and they no longer have a class like this. It's no wonder we have such horrible user interfaces these days. Perhaps the CS-101 course of which you speak no longer exists or has been changed so much that it's not the same course.

I'd probably be shocked. I worked for THE leading EPROM programmer company (at the time), and the amount of thought and effort that went into the UI was staggering. Now, nobody seems to care much - and once their customers learn their system, why, they change it!

Its pretty bad when I can look at an embedded system (my specialty) and pretty much be able to tell you what mistakes were made by the way the thing acts - unless its like a certain Coke machine at my work that just crashed all the time with no pattern. But even a code monkey should know the basics like "don't read from a non-existent I/O port and make run-time decisions based on what the data bus floats to" (Microsoft compiler!), or "Friggin' CLOSE a file when you're done with it." to "Check for stack balance problems involving interrupt/exception handling routines", blah, blah, blah. And latency everywhere because of piss poor programming and/or piss poor compilers. Entering a PIN in a gas pump keypad - press, delay, beep, press, delay beep. You can't just input it at speed because its either using polled I/O, or their ISR isn't re-entrant - you have to stand there and spoon feed the thing 1 digit at a time. I can write far better code on a 1MHZ 6800, and as I said, I'd have been fired if I wrote crap like I see every day...

 

[Zorba]

Don't even get me started on webpages that are rendered from javascript with buttons that 'run away' as it loads... I miss the days of static HTML pages.

Oh yea. I have a somewhat janky internet connection on this computer, the JS crap takes 10X as long to load too.

 

[Apparition]

I'd probably be shocked. I worked for THE leading EPROM programmer company (at the time), and the amount of thought and effort that went into the UI was staggering. Now, nobody seems to care much - and once their customers learn their system, why, they change it!

Its pretty bad when I can look at an embedded system (my specialty) and pretty much be able to tell you what mistakes were made by the way the thing acts - unless its like a certain Coke machine at my work that just crashed all the time with no pattern. But even a code monkey should know the basics like "don't read from a non-existent I/O port and make run-time decisions based on what the data bus floats to" (Microsoft compiler!), or "Friggin' CLOSE a file when you're done with it." to "Check for stack balance problems involving interrupt/exception handling routines", blah, blah, blah. And latency everywhere because of piss poor programming and/or piss poor compilers. Entering a PIN in a gas pump keypad - press, delay, beep, press, delay beep. You can't just input it at speed because its either using polled I/O, or their ISR isn't re-entrant - you have to stand there and spoon feed the thing 1 digit at a time. I can write far better code on a 1MHZ 6800, and as I said, I'd have been fired if I wrote crap like I see every day...

It's OK AI is going to fix it all.

 

[Zorba]

As a somewhat related mini-rant, I'd love to meet the dickhead that thought centering the start menu button, and then having it move position frequently depending on what you have open and where you're navigating in a particular window. What an incredibly stupid idea. Didn't there use to be rules people followed when developing GUI's...as in NOT moving core user controls?

Probably the son of the dickwad that used the wrong slash in CLI directory paths...

 

[Zorba]

It's OK AI is going to fix it all.

Oh, I'm waiting for that! I'm sure a lot of it will be fine, but I'm expecting a shitstorm of crap software that makes smartphone "apps" look good. And how the hell do you debug a mess like that?

 

[lBasket]

Same approach, different name. Today it's referred t as "User Experience," or UX. And there is specialized training available, and is very much a part of proper software design.

I don't want to experience the damn interface

 

[hear]

I was looking for something in Makerworld and ran across this. I don't follow F1 but I thought it was cool.

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I bought one of those for one of my kids off marketplace for $15.

 

[Apparition]

Oh, I'm waiting for that! I'm sure a lot of it will be fine, but I'm expecting a shitstorm of crap software that makes smartphone "apps" look good. And how the hell do you debug a mess like that?

Have you used the Bambu app? It's Handy.

 

[Apparition]

I bought one of those for one of my kids off marketplace for $15.

I wonder if they make a Nascar one? Be boring looking in comparison.

 

[sab]

Same approach, different name. Today it's referred t as "User Experience," or UX. And there is specialized training available, and is very much a part of proper software design.

Well, User Experience is not a course in the two engineering curricula I reviewed. I didn't see anything remotely close, either.

 

[sab]

And how the hell do you debug a mess like that?

A stronger opponent of AI than I you will not find. However, I think AI will debug far better than humans do. When I wrote software full-time (as an engineer, not a programmer), I debugged by mapping every possible way the code could run, and then I came up with input combinations to test every single possibility. It was painstaking, but worked very well. I think AI will do that quicker and better than I could. What I don't think AI will do well is creativity in design and consideration of emotions when required.