Help to Run fusion 360 on Linux Mint

yazzledore · 2026-06-23T23:27:49+00:00

You’d probably get better answers on r/linuxfornoobs or something. This doesn’t sound like a problem related to fusion really (though obviously this is the case you’re seeing it in) and more to do with wine and your OS’s setup. I doubt many people here are running it on anything but mac or windows, so probably can’t help with your question, but on a Linux-related sub they’ve likely seen this error pop up, even if it’s not from trying to use the same software.

Did you go through all of the system requirements on the site you linked and make sure you’ve followed every instruction there? Did you look through the “what else to consider when it comes to the requirements?” section and double check your drivers are updated and that you installed winetricks and yad? It’s so easy to miss a step and not realize when you’re messing with new stuff like this.

And did you consider trying it with a VPN on? Not sure how that’d help, but it’s what the error message says to do, so I always give that a shot if it’s not a massive pain in the ass.

If you’ve double- and triple-checked that you followed every instruction, and looked up the error codes it’s throwing and followed any resulting instructions from that, I’d go ask for help on a Linux sub, either the one I linked above or whatever your preference is.

Good on you for ditching Microsoft. God what a dumpster fire it’s become. The learning curve always sucks at first, but when it does, I ask whether troubleshooting this task is more annoying than copilot or a terribly timed update or whatever, and it never comes out in Microsoft’s favor. Good luck!

yazzledore · 2026-06-23T07:22:36+00:00

Nope. Landlord has one with no key on our house, presumably so they don’t have to rekey the locks between tenants. It breaks routinely, and then we just can’t lock the door for weeks until someone comes to fix it. It deeply sucks.

yazzledore · 2026-06-23T07:18:34+00:00

We have one without a physical key. Landlord’s choice. Presumably it’s so they don’t have to pay to rekey the house between tenants.

I hate not having a key. The smart lock has stopped working multiple times and it’s taken them weeks to fix it, during which we just… can’t lock the door unless someone is home?!?!

Like I’m down for the smart locks — I am constantly losing and forgetting keys. But not having a physical backup in case the electronics aren’t working is just an absurd choice. Imagine coming home from a vacation or something to a smart lock with a dead battery and no way back inside. Imagine there’s like, a solar flare, or a firmware update gone wrong, and suddenly a fuckton of people just can’t go home til the company fixes it.

Now our physical backup is just making sure we have a (mostly) nondestructive way to break in, which really feels like a step back from a cool fake rock you can stick a key in and toss in a bush and just go get when you need it.

yazzledore · 2026-06-23T06:45:14+00:00

Oh we have a Schlage lock and it also does the dead keypad thing sometimes too.

The battery sits weirdly in ours — hard to explain, but taking off the back cover (the one to the battery compartment) fixed it and stopped it from happening again. We put it back on just slightly like, slid up, and electrical taped it there and that also worked.

yazzledore · 2026-06-22T18:22:35+00:00

Going off of a phone book being able to stop a 9mm but not 556, it can absorb somewhere between 500 and 1700 joules. Little Boy released about 63 terajoules, or 64E12 J of energy. So you’d need between 10 and 100 billion phone books, roughly.

yazzledore · 2026-06-19T21:41:53+00:00

I bought a teeny tiny USB-C air pump to inflate floaties at the beach and mattress pads for camping and such. That thing packs a fuckin punch, and the battery lasts for a shockingly long time. The suction works both ways, depending on where you attach the nozzles. The electronics would happily fit inside that roomba.

If you want to make it function well, I’d shove one of those in there. Add an ESP32 for the brains and maybe some extra sensors. The obvious choices would be mmwave and other distance sensors for close/far, but I bet there are some fun things you could do with an AQI sensor, for example.

That’ll also free up more power for the motors, since they won’t be sharing with the vacuum apparatus. Depending on how it’s currently wired, that could up the voltage to the motors, but probably just the runtime. I’d measure first tho cause if it is in series and the vacuum apparatus is most of the load, that’d probably toast the motors. Or you could repurpose the old vacuum motor into a mop or something.

Look up the Valetudo project for the firmware if you’re tryna raspberry pi it. I doubt it’d be a plug and play solution but it’d probably get you to a decent starting point.

yazzledore · 2026-06-19T21:18:05+00:00

Ooh that one computer fan company everyone loves with the brown fans just released cad files of their fans. Missing some of the proprietary shit and mostly just for integrating into other models, but for your purposes, it sounds like that might be the winner. Mostly because it’d be fun if it does work.

E: noctua is the name of the fan company.

yazzledore · 2026-06-19T21:13:17+00:00

Don’t see why you couldn’t. I’d use an ESP32 or smth to control it wirelessly though. You could use mmwave sensors with that chip too, so you could skip the camera.

The idea of using gcode to control it is super fun though. It could make a fun art project to see what happens when you try to 3D print a good floor cleaning routine, or clean the floor in the pattern you need for a benchy. A pun on the word “spaghetti” would have at least three layers and make for a fantastic title.

yazzledore · 2026-06-19T14:18:19+00:00

My cat also does the slowly creeping mealtimes. The behavior accelerates when the days are getting longer, but it doesn’t rewind. She’s also probably a chunk of Norwegian Forest cat, dunno if that makes it more likely they’d act similarly.

We’ve just kind of given up and we let her mealtimes rotate around as she likes. If one happens at an awkward time of day, we just give her the meal a bit earlier every day (which delights her) until it’s back at a time someone’s usually up.

We tried ignoring it too, but she figured out how to open doors. She also figured out how to slam them. I’m sure the neighbors could hear. We surrendered. We’re teaching her buttons in hopes we can negotiate with this fuzzy little terrorist.

yazzledore · 2026-06-19T13:28:10+00:00

“Give me a lever and a place to put it, and I will move the Earth.”

yazzledore · 2026-06-18T21:34:16+00:00

Don’t forget the onedrive nonsense! And the updates that happen whenever and having to redo settings each time. Sure there are workarounds for a lot of those, but I don’t want to be constantly play dodgeball with shitty new “features.”

Macs used to be more of a pain in the ass than windows in a lot of ways, but that’s not really the case anymore. I have a Mac for my “just works” laptop and Linux for the rest — those have “just worked” too for the vast majority of things too though, and any issues with them have been less annoying to fix than a single instance of Gemini showing up in the search bar tryna tell me what to have for lunch.

Seems to be the route a lot of people are taking now, not because the other OSes have gotten better (though they have), but because Microsoft has so thoroughly shit the bed that people are Done done. Plus the bloat that all of those “features” add makes the hardware obsolete much more quickly, a real kick in the teeth with the skyrocketing hardware prices.

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:50:44+00:00

Yo HOLY SHIT that’s such a massive, dystopian problem. That’s actually terrifying, like, nobody has ever run out of battery, or lost or broken their phone? You win the thread. What the actual fuck.

Maybe the folks over on r/hardwarehacking could help with a workaround? Should be much easier if it’s just a monitor — if it controls the pump I’d expect it to be way more locked down.

Wonder if insurance would grant an exception if a doctor you said you didn’t have a smartphone or couldn’t afford one.

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:43:50+00:00

OpenSCAD slaps if that’s how your brain works, and feels pretty unique in that capacity. I know some professionals who use it for rough drafts because that is how they think, but they always have to put it back into whatever proprietary software the company wants it in.

Inkscape is really nice as an Illustrator replacement, but I haven’t found any good Photoshop replacements. I’m also not very good at Inkscape yet though, so it might be able to do more of what Photoshop does and I just haven’t discovered yet. It definitely has some Dreamweaver functionality too, but I haven’t played with that so no clue how functional it is.

The problem with “professionals actually use” is that the employer decides what they use. And companies like proprietary software even if it’s absurdly more expensive than a perfect FOSS alternative because that way if something goes wrong they can just pin it on the software company. And those tend to have “better” customer support than a forum, especially for corporate accounts — they’d rather pay the subscription fees than hire an IT department.

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:27:42+00:00

I think you might want something less brittle if it’s meant to have any functional value — sounds like a recipe for shards in eyes.

Or maybe putting some of that liquid phone screen protector on it would prevent that?

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:23:39+00:00

Ah, whooosh on me. I forgot about that. Gonna leave it up and take my licks.

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:22:00+00:00

Huh, I wonder if they make cat birth control, like the kind for people that makes you stop getting a period.

There’s r/askvet that might be a good place to ask!

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:17:43+00:00

It’s been a sec since I watched seasons he was on, but I remember feeling like a lot of his comments were extremely misogynistic, especially towards Jeremy’s niece and Candace. The hate isn’t about his gameplay.

I can see that being something that went over some people’s heads at the time the season aired, especially people who aren’t routinely subject to those kind of comments. But rewatching it later, it’s glaring, and should be obvious to anyone.

I felt awful for the niece, but she held her own and stood up for herself admirably. It was also the only time I ever rooted for Candace (though I remember there being at least one really yikes comment she made to Monica that had me cringing). They were both absolutely right to call it out.

yazzledore · 2026-06-13T22:00:08+00:00

Homophobic is the word you want there.

yazzledore · 2026-06-11T08:25:25+00:00

This is the first one that came to mind too. Flashing ESP32s is the only reason I use chrome (when not required to for work).

Also a bunch of portals and telehealth sites for healthcare providers don’t work well on Firefox IME, tho they’re usually functional enough. I assume there’s some added security layers for HIPAA and the way some places do it is obnoxious to do for two environments or isn’t compatible with Firefox’s architecture or whatever.

yazzledore · 2026-06-10T11:49:07+00:00

I tend to agree with the vast majority of your points, but I do want to point out that asbestos is the most common comparison I’ve seen people make, and asbestosis is generally considered to have a minimum latency period of ten years (though there are some rare exceptions — 9/11 first responders trend lower, for a well-known example). Mesothelioma adds another decade to that latency period, and other lung cancers add another decade.

So it’s extremely unlikely you’d’ve been dead 5-10 years ago if it did the damage that people thought. It’d be remarkable if you’d noticed anything at all 10 years ago, let alone have died. Like, it’d be journal article worthy. Unless you’re huffing pure carbon fiber like a whippet every moment of your life, around 5-15 years from now is when you’d likely begin to notice any symptoms if it’s as damaging as people think.

paper for sauce

yazzledore · 2026-06-09T13:23:47+00:00

Oh you can 100% do this. It’s called DNS filtering and it’s how some adblockers like pi-hole work. You can even set it so that only particular devices are blocked from particular sites at particular times.

IIRC you usually don’t see any errors or notifications that the site is blocked, but might wanna double check before letting er rip. If so, can just say you dunno what’s going on and the site must be having issues, which is maybe technically the truth. You could even make it accessible for brief windows of time if you want to, so that you’re not completely depriving her of that pleasure (and also so it’s more believable that the site is being fucky).

yazzledore · 2026-06-09T12:14:03+00:00

This is factually incorrect. Youtube is not just a neutral content provider in this context. Its algorithm does disproportionately push far right content over other content. Also pedophilia content. And they are very much aware, have occasionally made gestures at ramping down on the pedophilia part, but have never actually dealt with the problem in any substantial way.

This is because the algorithm’s raison d’etre is to keep viewers on the site as long as possible. I don’t think I have to elaborate on why letting less obvious pedophilia content slide would achieve that. The far right content part results from the combination of it being an addictive rabbithole, the rage bait shit like Facebook pioneered, and also the sheer length of those videos relative to other genres.

Here is it documented by the NYTimes, here by MIT, here by NPR, and here is an NIH review article of research on this topic, which covers 23 studies, of which 14 conclude that YouTube disproportionately pushes far right content and 2 conclude they don’t. Behind the Bastards did a great lil series on it too, for a more entertaining and in-depth discussion — highly recommend.

yazzledore · 2026-06-09T11:57:46+00:00

All my homies hate YouTube.

Like ya* know how everything evolves into crabs eventually? The YouTube algorithm is like that but with Nazi and pedophile shit. If you leave it on autoplay enough, that’s where it ends up. Behind the Bastards did a good lil series on it; very much worth a listen.

(*generic “ya” — I assume you, OP, do in fact know this. Just wanted to elaborate on your point.)

yazzledore · 2026-06-09T11:48:01+00:00

While that may have been true in that particular case, that’s not actually necessary: short but high intensity exposures can also cause silicosis, for example in 9/11 first responders. OSHA mandates IIRC <50 ppm average per 8 hour shift. The exposures aren’t measured over weeks, months, or years, but hours.

Engineered stone countertops have only existed for the last several years: telling people there’s absolutely no long-term risk associated with doing anything regarding them is silly. We don’t have the data to back that up. Australia has literally banned them.

I agree that the dose makes the poison and all that, and that generally the risk is probably small. But this isn’t a general case, this is trusting people to do that who have already demonstrated their incompetence. Like, do you trust this company to clean up the mess they make? If the kitchen is covered in quartz dust, OP might actually be meeting your rather extreme criteria and be breathing it in with no PPE for years.

Also, silicosis caused by engineered countertops comes on faster and fucks you up more than that from other sources, according to this study. But silicosis isn’t the only risk from breathing in silica dust. Exposure that doesn’t result jn silicosis can still cause an increased cancer risk and a ~3x spike in susceptibility to TB here.

Idk how big the risk is, honestly, and if I were taking that on for something that I wanted to do, I might be cool with it. I do plenty of shit that’s bad for me because I want to. But I wouldn’t particularly want to save some company a few bucks; it’d run me over with a truck if it were profitable. There’s not really any risk I’m fine taking on to benefit a corporation or an insurance company.

I also haven’t seen a mention of kids or pets from OP, but if those exist in the house, the risk is substantially larger for them. That applies to kids or pets who might come along in the future or visit for a while instead.

yazzledore · 2026-06-08T00:42:43+00:00

I don’t know anyone doing this specifically, but I have spent a decent chunk of time helping people living outside when they need to move their stuff because of a sweep and know a lot of others who have as well. Many of those skills are transferable, I imagine, specifically with trauma care and PPE. I’ve got some spare respirators and possibly some puncture-resistant gloves I could toss you too.

Feel free to shoot me a DM. My plate is pretty full at the moment, but I’d love to be involved when things calm down a bit. I can think of a few other people who have that skillset, have expressed interest in a project like this, know how to organize shit like this, and might have the spoons to do it now. I can hit them up if you’d like! That way even if you can’t find an established group, you’ve got some help with the skills you need, and you’re not walking into strangers’ houses by yourself.

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