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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Brain" is more famous, but "learned" is just so much more quotable.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mine has always been a delicious-looking rectangular prism. Maybe they're geomephiles?

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was delirious and frustrated with my crappy mattress six years ago, during my initial Covid infection, and impulse bought a new one. Surprisingly good decision, in retrospect. Hope yours is just as comfortable!

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now that sounds like an Avengers-level team up!

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(Er, point on object. It's late.)

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

P.S. Dear #FreeCAD, including the Point-on-point constraint in the default constraints toolbar might be worth considering, too; I honestly use it far more often than perpendicular or tangent in most projects.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

and some visibility issues that need to be tweaked a bit in dark mode (at least, for someone in their late 40's who's been staring at computer screens as long as I have). But even with those in mind, I find #FreeCAD easier to use than Fusion, for me. I didn't think I'd ever see this in FOSS CAD.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It always gets deleted when I get rid of unwanted, "extra" (from my POV) geometry. There are a few other annoyances; lack of auto-constraints on fillets and chamfers in a sketch, difficulty interacting with overlapping geometry (this may just be something I need to learn how to handle better), ...

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If there were a mode that only offset in a single direction like pretty much all other CAD software, it would save quite a bit of time. Half of the point of offset in 3D software is an automatic constraint for offset distance, and I've yet to be able to keep one on anything I've done...

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There are a few pain points I would love to see change. The most frustrating from a regular CAD user's perspective is probably how an Offset command works in the sketcher with open lines / arcs / polylines. It always creates a closed wire, creating arcs where you offset a point if needed.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When I say "usable," I don't mean you can do simple things at a much slower pace. I mean I have yet to run into anything that took much longer to do than it would take in, say, Solidworks. (Well, minus a learning curve & Google searches, of course.)

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While I've tried FreeCAD in the past, I gave up fairly quickly; it was far too difficult and frustrating to use, at least to someone used to a fairly user-friendly workflow. However, that has changed massively since the 1.0 release. It's often a bit clunkier and slower, but it is usable.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So, I'm about a year into my 3D printing journey, and I'm finally giving FreeCAD a thorough try. For anyone who doesn't know me, these are thoughts from someone who has done professional CAD design for a living for 20+ years. While I've mostly used 2D CAD, much of the same principles apply.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Current events have led to a lot of folks reminiscing on the early days of the Covid pandemic, but those of us with Long Covid don't need the news to remind us - we live there every moment of every day. I can only hope that one day, we can look back wistfully, rather than sorrowfuly.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We actually loved that thing, it certainly did its job. Of course, that's in a time before mobile devices — even before our household had a computer, and our video game time was very limited.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

OMG I totally had a matching binder folder in the 90's! Awesome.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I think the vast majority of these devices' sensors use nickel, at least in small amounts in various alloys. :(

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Are you using the paid or free version? Very curious to know if the free version is useful and / or if the paid version is worth it.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

As someone who's had cats most of my life (of varying personalities), I also assume something is wrong with that woman.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

OMG this is the 2nd post I've seen reporting this ... I assumed the 1st was satire. That's really where we are, isn't it?

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Bah, I prefer 2611. You kids and your fancy "stroke width variation." 🤣

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Oh they're closely monitoring, all right... just not in a good way.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Dear Congress; Please do everything in your power to stop the genocidal madman from starting WW3. Thanks, Person who would really prefer that life as we know it doesn't cease to exist.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Finally, I should review my entire text before committing to the word "finally."

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Swiss water process decaf and freeze dried instant coffee both have very little histamine. Finally, brew method makes a difference: cold brew has far less than other methods. Finally, grinding while beans is going to be much safer than ore-ground.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

There are actually quite a few things with coffee that make a difference on histamine levels. Getting higher quality beans is big, as it's more the preparation of beans into coffee than the beans itself that matters; look for a local roaster. (1)

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If the White House participates with an April Fools post or similar, would anyone be able to tell?

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I tried soldering for the first time today. Definitely have some room for improvement, but I'm glad I tried something new.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

As long as you don't need to add the "I didn't test this nearly well enough" letter suffix. 🤣

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Done! Thanks for letting me know about it.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

So relieved. My group got dismissed from jury duty, don't need to show up at all. What is normally a mild annoyance had me completely panicking thanks to Long Covid - between messed up sleep and fatigue, I was very worried about how things would go.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Very appropriate date, too, as I do often feel like I've been ambushed by a mob with knives.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Can't keep destroying the environment with fossil fuels if we extinct ourselves! *sigh*

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

He's constantly losing at tic-tac-toe, and claiming to be a chess star quarterback.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

To be fair, AI devs have made FAR worse choices.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

For someone in their late 40s, I'm fairly immersed in YouTube, and have been a fan of Physics Girl since the Before Times. Watching her first video in years was one of the few highlights of the last couple of extra-depressing Long Covid days.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm firmly convinced that the final test this country will be given is how we deal with all of these horrible people once this admin is gone. If we do the usual "let's just move on," without real consequences, we're done. Assuming we make it that far.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

They keep on using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Could of been worse, write? (I'm so sorry.)

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I have shorter (9 1/2 to 10) 4E to 6E extra-wide feet (depends on brands), unfortunately. Going up in size doesn't really do the trick. ☹️

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ugh, this makes me wish I didn't have Hobbit feet.

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Jason Wood @saintdoodle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Oh, I believe he worships alright... just not any diety

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