aloofPenguin

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[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'd say yes, as this is what i'm currently experiencing (by comparing myself to others). I'd agree with @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works's stance. If you're not trying to improve and just bashing yourself, you will go down a spiral of misery. I feel like the self-improvement part requires some balance though. You can use this comparison as a source of intrinsic motivation, but you need to keep it from becoming too much to where you become demotivated, keep telling yourself that it is possible, that you can do this.

[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yeah, makes sense. The cynical part of my mind also led me to your 2nd explanation. :)

[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

My pleasure! I'm happy to help out

[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd do a PR. Although I would understand forking if the project maintainers wouldn't merge a PR. (or create an issue (for the fix/ addition) if the README says that it's an option)

 

I've seen some projects on GitHub (howdy being one of them that came to mind) where there are forks, but when I check the forks out they are either unchanged, or are behind by a few commits. I was wondering why this would happen. It couldn't be for archival purposes, could it?

[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

what are the implications? Does it have anything to do with the "i bought this before musk went crazy" stickers? Or something else?

[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd agree that blender is very good. I find that it would be more suited to static stuff and renderings, as well as animations. FreeCAD is more like the commercial CAD software you'd find (Fusion 360, Solidworks).

On the topic of blender, It has some amazing features, and I am amazed at what people do with it (I also find it a bit tricky, but I probably just need to put a few more hours into learning)

[–] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If you mean CAD, I found that FreeCAD works nicely as a parametric 3D modeler with some nice macros and addons, with the perk of also running on Linux

E: added info