Can I use a VLAN network and a VPN to retain the wireless capabilities without china seeing my shit 
What have you 3D printed for your TJ?
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Weren't you the one that remotely printed a human hand with middle finger extended, then texted your wife to check on the print?
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Can I use a VLAN network and a VPN to retain the wireless capabilities without china seeing my shit
Mine is WiFi connected to my router.
I was looking for something in Makerworld and ran across this. I don't follow F1 but I thought it was cool.
Ditto that - I switched back to Linux after a 25 year hiatus with Mac. I didn't know Fusion forced cloud connectivity - that's just a solution for a non-existent problem, like so much else is these days.
Its also my understanding that SolidWorks has some kind of "hobbyist" deal going. If that's the case, and you can run it, as far as I'm concerned the buck stops there. Dunno if they force cloud stuff or not - they didn't when I retired 8+ years ago.
I do need to install FreeCAD - I'm not much on appimages, snaps, etc, preferring a native install - but ya gotta do whatcha gotta do!
"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.
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}
Truthfully, after the latest update I need to take a second look at it. I'm 100% solidworks for modeling, then Fusion360 for cam. There were some weird things in Freecad last time I tried it that just made it totally unpalatable for me. The update may have changed some of the stuff in it that I couldn't tolerate.
If it weren't for Solidworks, I'd go back to Linux for my DD/gaming rig. Windows 11 burned me when I was doing a CTF for a pentest job interview. There is a bug that caused my VM to inexplicably lose connectivity every hours and no rhyme or reason to getting it working again... Plus with the Copilot bullshit, telemetry and everything else, i'm done with windows. But there is hope!
https://github.com/cryinkfly/SOLIDWORKS-for-Linux
What distro you running? I'm seriously considering Fedora as someone has been working to get hyprland running on it.
I'm DONE with windows AND Mac. Win 7 was "Peak windows".
This solidworks for Linux looks interesting for sure!
I'm running Ubuntu - its the closest to "Just works" that I've found, although I may switch it to Kubuntu eventually. I've never really cared for Gnome, and the latest version is a bit smartphone-esque.
I hear ya, but I've resorted to running a NAS with RAID for local network. If I need something offsite, I own a domain and pay for a chunk of server space, my own personal, private cloud, if you will.
Indeed. And don't forget TPM. Feels like they just want you to pay to buy and run it, they'll control what's installed, where it can go and what it's allowed to do...
Have you tried Mint? Its been my go-to for the other machines I've got floating around. It seems more solid than Ubuntu has been for me.
I too have a NAS/RAID setup - and I still backup to a cloud service as well. Offsite backups are important.
you can bypass the TPM requirement if you use Rufus to create your installation media. Another thing you can do to really help with the bloat is look for the win11 IoT LTSC iso image. I found it on massgrave.dev and the sha256 hashs matched what windows published, so I used that on my main PC. it lets you strip out a lot of crap, but not quite everything.
also can use some scripts hosted on massgrave.dev to get uhh.... "extremely affordable" windows licenses.
I bought my Bambu to make 3D printing easy. You guys are making it sound unnecessarily difficult. 
I use Kubuntu! Love it. Gnome is too mac-like in its philosophy. KDE is more Win-7ish in it's design philosophy, and unlike Gnome will still let you tweak everything to your hearts content.
I do similar, but I also use Duplicati w/ Backblaze B2 as a backend for offsite. Just in case the building burns down.
Yeah, they've got a hobbyist deal. But the limit is you must not make more than $1k from your designs or you're in violation of the license. And then it becomes $680/yr. I know I'm not making any money but I have a few models I want to start selling and I don't want my cheap plastic crap tied to that. I am by no means a professional, I don't want to pay professional prices.
The Topo naming problem has basically been fixed as much as it can, so editing nodes up the tree don't break things anymore, unless you do something really dumb. The new official Assembly workbench is nice too. The cheap plastic crap I want to sell, I actually broke it down into lego-like pieces, and use the Assembly workbench to snap it all together, and then from there I can take the final assembly and export it as an STL. I won't lie, it can be a bit fiddly and slow because it's still Python under the covers and many things are still single-threaded. But it gets the job done for me.
This Solidworks for Linux, report back. But I wouldn't get your hopes up. Here's similar for Fusion https://github.com/cryinkfly/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux. Someone's also tried packaging it up as a Snap https://github.com/Thermionix/fusion360. I forget which one I finally got mostly working, but things like right-click menus don't display right. It's annoying enough that I gave up.
Suppose I'd have to recreate that then, my installation is off an OEM Win 11 Pro CD. I built the machine at the beginning of the year and I rarely turn it on, in fact, I'm not completely sure I ever finished setting it up. Was still trying to hunt down ways to eliminate the garbage and kill telemetry, I got irritated and then bored...though I do need to dig into so as to get my scanner working.
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?
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