The spoiler effect is absolutely a fixable problem. It would be great if our current third party candidates actually put in effort to exist in the political eye and work for said reform, outside of crawling out of their hole every 4 years to run for President.
That's my justification at least! And I can use it to do small scale contract print jobs for locals and make a little extra side cash, so I guess it works out too.
Fusion free has a ton of limitations though, namely on model exports and drawing creation and commercial use (so e.g in my case, I can't use it to make contract models to print and recoup my costs from buying the printer, and I also like to make drawings for everything I model esp. if it requires machining). And I'm extremely not fond of the "cloud" model stuff it depends on.
It admittedly is one of the most affordable subscriptions out there, but it is still a subscription. I use it if I have to, but Autodesk is liable to pull the plug on the free part at any time.
Modelling really is the difficult part. I'm an engineer and CAD is a large part of my day job so I use printing almost exclusively as a way to refine my modelling skills, but it's taken me years to get good enough at it to be quick. Then on top of that, most "good" software is gated behind insane subscription costs that no normal user can afford. So you get stuck with stuff like FreeCAD, which admittedly is OK but very very clunky for anything other than simple geometric shapes, and it makes it much harder than it needs to be.
If it works, it works. Really any old cheap pcie card will work, if you just need video out of any kind the card type need not be specific. Glad you got it to work.
Hmm, this is something I haven't heard about. Can you actually register as an instance hoster with the FBI or equivalent to say "hey I have a service that may be exposed to CSAM, I do not condone this and will report any cases of it that I see"? If so that could reduce a lot of people's specific legal fears of hosting.
By default a fresh new instance will federate with no other instances period.
Instances only "learn" about the existence of an outside instance or community after a user enters a community+instance address in the search bar. After that, the home instance will sync with the remote instance and begin getting all new push data from that point on.
I don't know if Lemmy allows "whitelisting" of synced instances, such that it will auto synchronize with a provided list and ignore all others even if users search for them. I feel like it does, but I am not familiar enough with the backend to say yay or nay.
Get a used SFF office PC low profile card off Ebay. They often have chipset wattages around 25 or so and easily run on slot power only
Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/p/1958445856 (idea only, not endorsing this seller).
Anything of a semi modern format with a pcie interface thata not an outright scam card will be fine for VGA no-driver video output. IME older AMD/ATI cards seem to boot better than oder NVidia cards...
Was on an instance that had too much downtime/inactive admins, had to move, incremented the username number
You can have multiple obliterators
I should know, I have quite a few in my night stand drawer too
It keeps them warm and moist
The spoilers rarely show up, if ever, during midterms, which is very telling.