It is a pune, or a play on words, relating to what a honing steel does.

Filament hinges. Filament hinges everywhere.

(Riffling through my Rolodex of ancient webcomics.)

Ah, here we are:

No, it’s specifically for Windows 2000. That should about tell you how useful it will be at this point, or really any point in the foreseeable future.

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I will be 100 years old and trying to remember my own social security number, and all I’ll be able to come up with is this goddamn thing. I can already see it.

Not until somebody shuts off the investor money faucet for AI. Then they’ll come crawling back — although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world’s governments about wanting a bailout.

But hey, look at the bright side. We’ve already had the cryptocurrency mining boom and bust, and “AI” boom and soon to be bust. There’s still time for some idiot to invent the next tech scam fad which will conveniently require a shitload of hardware for no recognizably useful purpose.

Is it little endian or Bag Endian?

If you register independent that prevents you from participating in the large party primaries in many (most/all?) states. You can only vote in the primary for your registered party. So that also locks you out of at least attempting to prevent the Democrats from incessantly fielding dumbass GOP-lite candidates like they’ve been doing.

Theoretically if you register as Republican that also allows you to surreptitiously torpedo their worst candidates in their primaries, but it’s unlikely we’ll get enough trolls on board to swing the needle meaningfully with that strategy.

Basically all life on Earth that’s not some bacteria or fungi originally developed in the oceans, and only later adapted to life on land. If you go back far enough, the common ancestor of anything that walks, crawls, or flies ultimately originally swam.

Hey, man. I am four stars at least.

“Everything I don’t like is terrorism.”

What is this, 2001 again?

Elysium actually had some semblance of working technology, though.

You said “Spock” twice.

…We like Spock.

I’m not going through all that BS just to reward the manufacturer with a sale. It went back, fuck 'em, and I replaced it with a normal cheap computer monitor which is what I told him to buy in the first place.

That won’t save you anymore. My boss bought a smallish smart TV in contravention of my explicit instructions for use as a CCTV monitor because it was “cheap.” It nags you on power up with a popup whining about not being able to access the internet, and if you don’t feed it your Wifi password it will subsequently display that same popup every 30 minutes or so requiring you to dismiss it again. And again. And again. Apparently the play is to just annoy you into caving and letting it access your network.

Instead I packed it up and returned it. Fuck that.

Based on what little I know of this, myself only being versed in Bird Law, doesn’t the IRS enjoy sovereign immunity as a governmental entity? They can just declare that they do not agree to being sued.

I think before any technical aspects are considered, you need to figure out what to do with the gibbering hordes of idiotic users who seem to be drawn to these sorts of forums as if by powerful magnetism.

I have been led in desperation many times to a Quora thread in my search results. I have never in many years, not even once, arrived at a Quora thread that actually contained the correct answer to the question being asked at the top. It’s useless cesspit and insofar as I can be bothered to determine it always was.

FWIW, FreeCAD does not use the GPU for geometry calculation at all. That’s done purely in software and insofar as I’m aware it’s not even multithreaded. Your GPU is only used in any capacity for final display, i.e. spinning the already calculated model(s) around in the preview window which it does via OpenGL. Otherwise it’s all CPU.

Spinning a complicated model around at 244 FPS (my monitor’s maximum display frequency) makes my GPU peak at all of… around 3.5%. Doing a total recalculation on said model or changing a feature on it spikes CPU load momentarily but doesn’t register on GPU usage at all. Doing the same on my laptop which instead has the usual early-gen Intel Graphics Decelerator in it doesn’t provide much of anything different in the speed and usability department. OP’s problem therefore surely lies elsewhere.

Well, I guess if I ever move to Italy I’ll be screwed…

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