So, work and home.

Work, therefore Windows: has to be a tie between (new) Outlook and VMWare workstation. New outlook is absolute crap, just like all new windows app, I guess it must be Electron-based as it crashes or fails to load sometimes when you open it without connecting to the internet, and displays a blank window. VMware is such crap with poor performance, hang-ups and their fucking “this VM is already in use, take ownership?” dialogs that never work.

Home: I’d say FreeCAD. I mean, I love that they’re developing it, I donated and I hope it’ll have a similar trajectory to Blender, but right now it’s really frustrating to use. Frequent crashes, solving errors, even adding a simple bevel is often a challenge, many simple things require complex procedures that make little sense to new users. It’s crazy how, when you add a feature it can’t solve, your model just disappears, and you have to open up the diagnostic buffer to find out why.

I would ask on their discord: https://universal-blue.org/#community

Why do you have a library of kiss’s shoes?

People who design physical thingies professionally do not use OpenSCAD. Maybe a handful do all over the world.

It still works quite well, but it has been complemented by economic violence

I mean, isn’t that part of the point? Decentralization to smaller systems

I also self host, but I can’t claim to have better uptime than Cloudflare

Maybe it’s regional

NAT may be insecure but it keeps chugging on

Weird, must be regional

Can you open the website? I can’t:

The dev has a specific vision and that’s it. If you don’t like it you can use something else.

Yes, that’s what I wrote as well.

Valetudo is not a community is on the website.

If your answer to my comment is: “well, you can create your own community, with blackjack and hookers!”, well… There’d be so much to discuss that I don’t think it’s worth it.

And as for the second paragraph, communities aren’t “nice”. They’re communities, made of people, who are all flawed, just like everyone is, in different ways, but manage to make the puzzle of human interaction fit. If all you want is people communicating and behaving in a specific way that you approve of, that’s not a community.

Nobody’s forcing you out of your space and I’ve never proposed it, I just said that I won’t be using your software, we’re both making our choices, hopefully in respect of each other.

Yeah, the one cloud-connected device I had in my house, my Neato D7 Botvac, was lobotomized just last week when Vorwerk switched off its servers. I’m quite pissed off. It still works if I press the button and let it roam, but I lost scheduling, cleaning maps, no-go zones… I’m MORE than quite pissed off.

Idk, the dev seems… hostile. And prevents the project from becoming a community effort. Also:

Feature-parity is a non-goal for Valetudo, and if you’re wondering which features “you might lose”, Valetudo is not for you.

I mean, I do wonder if I will lose features, therefore I guess I should look elsewhere.

Unplugging the internet is also an option…

I thought you meant attachments

Windows upgrades sound like a nightmare anyway, no way I’d trust an upgraded installation. Fresh install or nothing.

(I don’t think it works for audio/video?)

it does