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  • We always had a truck on the farm growing up, back then it was just a practical day-to-day tool.
    It was small, dirty, scratched, dented, peeling, among other things.
    It also smelled like cigarettes and only tuned to AM radio baseball, but whatever.

    Sure, it was still higher and bigger than a car but also so much lower than these modern absurdities. And SO much more practical.
    When you have to load the bed a million times, those new lifted pavement princess truck are just dumb af.
    It towed more than most of these things too, although I’m pretty sure nobody even looked at how much it was supposed to haul on paper.
    There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
    You can lose sight of a grown up adult in the huge blind spots that it has.
    100% impractical.
    It’s dumb as fuck.





  • Sadly, the CAD software I have the most experience with is SolidWorks. It has its quirks, but I like it and I know my way around.
    Which is too bad, because it’s completely absolutely fucking stupidly expensive for any home use.

    Not to mention I’ve heard stories of people getting caugth through exported models’ metadata and getting sued for publishing models made with pirated or student versions or whatnot.
    I’m not even a business and whilr I have no moral qualms pirating software, I don’t exactly wanna deal with an actively hostile company either.

    I’ve switched to onshape for now, but I know enshittification will eventually butcher it too.
    There’s a few others I’ve tried that I either can’t get good at, or that simply lack functionality.

    I’ve been meaning to try Alibre CAD, but last I checked, their trial thing required back and forth with a rep and I just never bothered.

    I don’t even mind paying, yet not $5k yearly or some shit.
    If you ever find something, ping me.