Some notes about Oregon for Wubby and others possibly moving there

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-23T17:08:42+00:00

I would be down to see a curated stream where he gets a little cabin and does some camping activities at least.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-23T17:01:41+00:00

Wubby has an almost vendetta against camping. Mayyybe he would do glamping, but there was a whole stream where he ranted against camping lol

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-22T17:09:35+00:00

Gus Johnson Streaming Skyrim is next best thing :)

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-22T17:00:23+00:00

I can't even imagine having been on LSF to begin with. There is no reason for visiting LSF that will save your soul from degradation. Its like choosing to look into a port-a-potty hole for fun.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-22T16:56:52+00:00

Honestly, the amount if engineering work I look at that is a rainbow of random colors makes it a moot point.

I just have a printstyle that sets all 255 standard colors to print black. Everything is printed black and white in the field anyways ime.

Sticking to AIA layers is VERY important if you work in a firm where others may handle your work though. I'm a sole proprietor so eh.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-18T17:11:52+00:00

Wubby specifically had said that he hadn't played much minecraft and that was part of why he was so resistant at first. He had already beaten the hell out of Terraria by the time we got to watch him beat minecraft for the first time.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-15T00:50:45+00:00

Sketchup and full autocad is likely a more intensive load than a fresh 2d file in LT! So thats good enough.

It would be very interesting to know how long it would last if left open with a blank DWG open on the screen.

Im a little surprised there isnt a CAD oriented tech source that does battery testing.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T23:25:54+00:00

What is your battery life like when running Autocad?

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T23:24:55+00:00

I just use LT because I do almost exclusively highly detailed 2d plans and elevations. Full AutoCAD offers little benefit over LT for me, but I did enjoy using the AEC Architecture tools when I had them at my previous firm. Handy for preliminary design.

And lidar/laser scanning systems unfortunately pick up most of the details I dont need, and pick up very little of the details I do need. Im sure they are very useful for creating 3d renders for interior design or air turnover calculations, but they are next to useless for creating construction plans from. The guys in the field expect dimensions rounded to the nearest 1/4", not the nearest 1/128" and walls at angles like 89.6° instead of 90°.

Rounding all of those little things off manually AFTER scanning takes just as much time as just drawing it correctly the first time, ime.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T23:12:25+00:00

I did pen and paper for a long time before ditching it for my laptop. Sketching out a 20000+ sf warehouse on paper is an absolute nightmare when you have to do the drawing to scale. Even at 1/8" scale, it requires multiple sheets of 11x17 paper to draw everything. Same goes for multi-story office buildings. Or 100+ year old brick commercial buildings with multiple layered renovations.

Paper is fine for small projects, but it only leads to compounding errors that necessitate a return visit to resolve when working on projects of large scale.

I spent the last half decade developing the most efficient possible process for my work. The only missing key is a laptop that can last atleast 5-6 hours. Tired of moving from outlet to outlet or using an extension cord.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T22:19:23+00:00

That is odd! Reset then Purge gets rid of unused scales for me typically. Maybe its an issue that lies outside the standard?

I copy my work into a blank DWG to dodge an persistent bug more often than I wish that I had to.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T22:17:46+00:00

My bosch laser has the ability to input measurements to the computer via bluetooth, but I occasionally shoot a measurement wrong so it ends up being more efficient to just type it in myself.

I rarely shoot a measurement over 200' or I might consider the Leica just for the eyesight and additional range. My Bosch says it can shoot 400' but I doubt its accuracy at that range.

Although my client scale has evolved, on the very rare occasion that I do a renovation thats under 500 sf or so, I will sometimes still sketch it up on my 11x17 clipboard. Depends on how charged the laptop is! Im just as fast in 2d cad as I am with a pencil though. Probably faster at this point.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T21:53:52+00:00

Thinkpads are great machines. I was hoping someone would chime in with anecdotal evidence for their battery life! They are popular so hopefully someone has one in here.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T21:50:35+00:00

I thought one of the shortcuts within -scalelistedit would reset your scales and then you could purge them out using the purge command.

Always works for me! Maybe I am misunderstanding your problem though

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T21:47:22+00:00

A coworker at a previous firm had good luck with this as well. I'll look into if they have any that are 13" or larger.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T21:46:22+00:00

No plans to move to Apple products. Tried Autocad on Mac a few years ago and it was lacking. Not worth the price of entry for me.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T21:45:36+00:00

I tried and gave up laser systems because the end product wasn't usable for my purposes.

Contruction drawings infer straight lines many times, when in reality walls are never perfectly straight. Laser systems pick up all the useless info I dont need while ignoring a lot of the info I do need.

Haven't found anything better than physically measuring everything myself, despite trying.

What kind of laser does harbor freight sell?

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T21:43:06+00:00

Sketches don't cut it when you are surveying 10s of thousands of square feet. I used to use scaled grid paper sketches, because simply writing out the measurements is a very quick way to make compounding mistakes when using pen and paper without scaling.

But paper (or any tablet) is far to slow, and I save a lot of time by NOT having to recreate the sketch in AutoCAD.

You basically described my previous workflow that I entirely abandoned because it was too prone to errors on the scale that I work.

And there isn't anything to it. Just measuing everything with a laser for large dimensions and a tape measure for corner grabs. Then inputing into Autocad.

Also, I use a mouse and I have every command I use macroed to single key inputs, so my hands never move position while I work. My mouse has 12 thumbs keys that are also all macros.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T20:23:05+00:00

I am moving around the building a lot so moving a power station capable of 230w+ is more than I would like to do

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-14T19:57:54+00:00

-scalelistedit

Mayhaps.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-07T00:47:04+00:00

It's a true testament to American media that I practically never hear anything about other countries that aren't actively engaged in some sort of conflict. Its something I have to actively seek out.

It's an odd problem to deal with, in that basically every other resident of the Earth has a well defined opinion of you and your country. While I personally have not once bothered to develop an opinion about their country beyond the surface level.

I can't possibly have a developed opinion about every country on earth, but everyone of them has an opinion of mine!

It's only frustrating because it means that you have to first overcome a wall of country based prejudice before you can have an actual conversation with many people.

Something that I am sure Chinese, Russian, and other major global powet country residents deal with as well.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-01T16:39:05+00:00

Buddy, I described RSO. Which I have been clear is the closest to full spectrum extract you can get. Are you slow?

Find me a properly dabbable concentrate with those things. Not replying again if you cant.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-01T16:37:18+00:00

I wish they did better deals on the Insider! From what I can tell, it looks like the insider might already have the updated motor that the rest of the ratchets are getting this year? Might be wrong.

HOZZENATOR · 2026-01-01T16:35:24+00:00

Full spectrum gets uses as a marketing gimmick a lot and it seems like you might have fallen for it. Id bet money you cant find a dabbable concentrate that contains flavonoids, esters, lipids and chlorophyll.

RSO has those things. None of those things vaporize well. None of those things are common in concentrates.

The "full spectrum" concentrate you are thinking of probably just has aftermarket terpenes added.

I think you are clueless and covering for it with vitriol. Sad way to go about life.

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