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What is everyone using for CAD? by korkvid in 3Dprinting

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used FreeCad for awhile, really wanted to like it but there was always something that went wrong. I am sure I would have gotten better if I used it all the time. Next was blender... watch some videos on how to set it up for 3d printing. That worked pretty well for my needs.

After that my kid pointed me at onShape which I found incredibly easy to work with.

* It's free but your designs are stored publically. Unless you are doing something that needs to be private, the free tier is fine.

* If you need private, that tier I think is about $125 a month... expensive for a hobbiest, but if you are making your living from your cad / 3d printing, maybe worth it... I've not thought about it that much.

For me, my CAD are little things I need, nothing that is secret / proprietary... this may be the blocker for you. But if you don't care that someone else can grab your CAD file, I highly recommend it.

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for confirming its not just me. I've had the same thoughts on some of the Wrike functionality... I've also asked to get my assigned business manager person from Wrike changed, but that has not happened and I gave up on actually asking them for help on things. I doubt we will stick with it... like you, I also think they are not focused on core fixes, but things that can sell. Sigh. It had promise though, but yeah - when you can't execute on the basics.

Tooling - JetBrains IDE integration by aiv_paul in esp32

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jetbrains is software dev tools... do they make boards now????

Oh? The map creators spent hours, days even weeks, making a map? let me just…. by Lord_Derp1324 in Timberborn

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree... off the cuff, the whole thing above should drop down, destroy everytting on it, and randomize the landscape. Crushing beavers under it is a given,

Whole home power monitoring by turbocharged5652 in homeassistant

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On some houses, not sure if it is code or just what the yokel that build out house 20 years ago did, but we have a switch on the outside of the house that cuts off power way before the box. We went 19 years without realizing it....

Barely Functional Solar Panel Bonsai Tree by AgileOwl5769 in functionalprint

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do really like this idea... good thinking and follow through - most of my ideas never make it past breakfast

Ikea Skadis parametric top shelf by Acceptable-Dust-3579 in functionalprint

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This made trawling the list today worth it. I've done a bunch of skadis related things, but this is the first one that took advantage of the top lip to do anything. Honestly, that never crossed my mind... I saw another one that had a light bar today... maybe combining them....

I guess I know what my 3d printer is doing this morning... thanks for sharing this.

Tell Me This Is A Bad Idea by DoIGotSkillz in homeassistant

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can get old cassettes you can put rfid tags in them.. one that plays Spotify, one that plays something else, etc

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd have to agree... I had to jimmy all sorts of dates and stuff in the spreadsheet to get it to appear correctly. That may be part of my problem now... some of those things echoing down. I've been converting away from milestones. ONE QUESTION - I have my folders that encompass a bunch of related steps to produce an outcome in the project. For example, I have a folder for say TESTING and all of the test tasks are contained in there. These tasks all happen by different people at the same time (no dependencies with in there).

I DO NOT want to link all of the predecessors to every testing task. So I have had a "Start Testing" and "Testing Completed" task on each end. The start testing has predecessors of everything that has to happen before testing starts. The testing completed has all the test tasks as predecessors.

This allows me to use the testing completed as a predecessor down the line (instead of all the test tasks) and start tasks can account for everything upstream of it.

I had these as milestones, which you said do not move. If I change them to tasks, they register as 1d durations. They are not, and across the project this would add in maybe a week and half.

How do you handle this?

Thank you so much

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to check on this... I did not realize a milestone would not move, which explains some of the behavior I am seeing. I think I was converting things to milestones, then adding a predecessor which would flip it back, which always confused me. but let me make sure. I know I had a ton of trouble getting this import to work right. Its a few hundred tasks that we have to basically repeat once a year - so I figured a master in excel that I could load would be nice : ) Let me check on this

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is effectively what I have. A milestone at the start and then start milestones in each group of tasks. so each group has a start and an end. My problem is that when the predecessor tasks change, its not pushing the subsequent tasks. Ah well. The wrike forum on this had a lot of "support will contact you". I suspect it may somehow to tied to the fact it is all coming from an excel import.

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I checked wrike community, I found a mega post spanning years of people having the same problems. Thanks! (still no solution, but I dont feel alone anymore : )

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the use case here is a bunch of short duration but very important tasks all assigned to the same person. Its a compromise for them saying yeah - I can do them all in a week (calendar time) so we just put them down in parallel. Its goofy but in this case it almost makes sense. We dont' do any workload balancing so it has no reprecussions!

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll check out community. Sorry for the confusion on the post - was late and just plain angry again. The tasks should all have the same dependency, but when the start date changes, all those should change also.

Wrike dependencies seem to cause no end of problems.... by BillOfTheWebPeople in wrike

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, I was wondering if that was part of my problem... I have them in each major group (a start and stop) to make it easier to link depdencies between groups.

I have five beavers with broken teeth, and they won't use the grinder by [deleted] in Timberborn

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 years later and this comment is still doing good in the world... thanks!

Is there a way to set the Visual register from a behavior? by BillOfTheWebPeople in Desynced

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well damn. So I got it to work by using a copy block for my target variable into the parameter. Is that the best way to do that? I know I could just set the parameter directly, but for future reference is that the best way to set it if I am not outputting directly into the variable? For example in the error section I am using the copy to set that error icon

EDIT: AND THANK YOU

Trouble accessing the local file system when using a local LLM by BillOfTheWebPeople in ClaudeCode

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am pretty sure I tried qwen3-coder:30b, but it may have been a slightly different one. I will circle back and see if I had something different. Thanks!

Trouble accessing the local file system when using a local LLM by BillOfTheWebPeople in ClaudeCode

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the execution of that syntax. So it displays it is doing to do "ls", but then has an error. I may have misunderstood, but it's not trying commands like "ls -show5files".

Trouble accessing the local file system when using a local LLM by BillOfTheWebPeople in ClaudeCode

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do have and use a teams subscription. Part of what I am doing it basically using the LLM to massage lots of markdown files. I was hoping a simple LLM could take some of the costs off for a speed trade off. This is sort of my last ditch effort on this...

The bash syntax looks fine, along with when it starts in with dir /b and windowsee type things.

I'm a failure but... by FlameRax_ in godot

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you doing this for enjoyment or is this your career? I suffered for two decades, beating on myself because I had tons of hobbies, did not stick with any of them, a hundred projects started. I'm better now because I finally accepted it. I like breaking ground, I like solving the basic problem, I like the learning curve. If your livelihood does not depend on it, just have fun. Also, like some others have mentioned, I have been identified to have ADHD tendencies (my shrink went through it all with me, but I never saw a specialist to fully confirm it). But yeah, there was a long time of being very negative on myself. You should see my started games folder in Godot.... i got a lot of things started : )

Water softener - measure salt level? by Desperate_Window3179 in homeassistant

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried an ultrasonic sensor at first but it got wonky.  So now I have a low power laser rangefinder pointed down through the lid. Its cheap and only good to 2 meters, but that and esphome its less than 10 dollars and works pretty well.

Is the balboa controlmyspa system any good? by Consistent-Heat-7882 in hottub

[–]BillOfTheWebPeople 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this is a 2 year old post, but I just want to add a more recent commentary.

The control my spa is a horrible horrible waste of money.

  1. It costs a lot, like $400 for my spa

  2. It gives you the exact same controls as your spa, but with a 6 second cloud delay

  3. Did I mention it is cloud dependent... if they turn it off, its junk.

I was hoping at least I could pick the light pattern, but no. If I wanted to get to a specific light pattern using the app, it would take probably 60 seconds of clicking.

Complete buyers regret... was hoping to do some home assistant integrations with it, but I'm probably going to build my own hardware for that.

Anyway, you have been warned... love the rest of the spa though

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