It sounds that way on first listen! But it’s actually about his daughter.

If I remember correctly: during a holiday and a large family gathering, his young daughter fell and hit her head very seriously. She lost consciousness and it seemed like she was in mortal danger. Gave them (her parents) the scare of their life! They put her in the car and sped all the way to the hospital emergency room.

This song is about that incident. “I wanted to tell you how much I love you” is what he kept thinking on that drive.

She’s alright now :)

Try this: https://youtu.be/oOFdWRZr2uM

גיא מזיג - כמה אני אוהב אותך

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/4RyainOBqMazNOuSU2BMfx

There’s a line of clocks where each hour is a different bird and the chime at each hour is what that bird sounds like. It has a light sensor to control its volume so at night it’s very quiet, never gonna give wake you up. Completely analog, for better and for worse.

https://www.audubon.org/marketplace/singing-bird-clock

It’s not adjustable so I’m not sure it’s a perfect fit, but it’s lovely. They’ve been around for ages, I had one since I was a kid, I’m surprised they’re still available.

Edit: it does tick like most analog clocks, which could be a deal breaker with ADHD. I know it’s sometimes a bother for me.

It’s obviously been painted over and the word “Copper” in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.

Thanks! I’ve sent it to him and I’ll try to skim it myself.

Must be some simple tutos out there now how to make millimeter precise stuff & boolean operations on volumes for my 3D printing…

Sounds like you need CAD software instead of 3D modeling software. Very different!

FreeCAD exists and is FOSS but IMO is not very user-friendly. Then again I never seriously tried using it or watching tutorials or anything, so this might be unfair. Give it a shot I suppose!

The few times I needed to design something in CAD, I had success with Fusion 360. It’s easy to use and gets the job done, but it’s kinda gross with its confusing (mandatory?) cloud integration.

You can ask in 3D printing circles what CAD software people use and recommend, they’ll certainly know better than me! If you’re up for giving FreeCAD a shot, I’ll be happy to hear your experience with it. I’d really like to know if it’s better than I give it credit for.

Edit: seems like a lot has changed since I last checked out FreeCAD. Version 1.0 was released and I’m sure it’s better since I tried it. So forget what I said, it’s probably good!

I’ve recently heard of Bevy, which is a new FOSS game engine made with Rust! I don’t know a lot about it but my gamedev friend is excited about it. He doesn’t care as much about it being FOSS (he’s using Unreal for his current game) but it’s supposed to just be good. Unreal is an absolute pain to work with.

That said, it’s still in early stages. It’s usable from what I understand, but even their quick start introduction warns about it and advises people to use Godot if they’re looking for a mature, stable engine.

I’m going to have to say OpenStreetMap, it’s always going to have a place in my heart.

Blender is a contender for the best go-to example in the history of open-source software. It’s easy for any layperson to understand what it is (unlike, say, Linux), and it’s genuinely better than the for-profit competition in a lot of aspects. There’s nothing else like it.

It’s been growing for decades, and its community is the best.

I’m really not in that space so I only get to watch from the sidelines, but I’ve always been in awe of Blender.

The post. The email in the screenshot.

I call bullshit. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this seems fake to me.

Edit: I initially assumed OP created the fake email deliberately for ragebait. But most other people are assuming OP thinks (or thought) this email was real, meaning it’s a scam email and OP’s friend might be actively falling for the scam. I now agree with this interpretation. Sorry my initial comments were a bit rude.

I assume Windows is inexplicably a typo of QI?

I totally agree. I believe they make some effort to get their facts right, but it’s not their highest priority by any stretch. I also suspect they might sometimes leave crucial details on the cutting room floor.

In this instance I get the impression that Sandi actually meant the arms are still swung but just kept straight, like a Minecraft run. But then Bill interpreted it as the arms kept straight and motionless, like that one Seinfeld episode, and Sandi didn’t correct him.

once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make so much difference.

[Citation needed]. You’re still fighting gravity so being lighter makes each step easier. There is also less air drag (but I don’t know how much difference this makes).

I have seen claims that this isn’t actually true, swinging our arms to counterbalance the legs is less efficient than just keeping them in place.

Where did I see this claim? Why, it was in this peer-reviewed scientific paper: https://youtu.be/-QW25fJ34nA , where by “peer-reviewed” I mean filmed with a live studio audience, and by “scientific paper” I mean segment of a TV panel show.

So uhhh yeah I’m not buying it but I can’t be bothered to check their sources.

A quick glance at the summary table can answer that. Planck units seem to do the trick.

Come on, you are able to analize words!

No, you can’t. Believe me, I’ve tried. I did everything I could to analyze this topic. There are many things that are possible to analize. Many household items. But not words.

There are various systems of units where select physical constants are set to 1. A handy comparison chart is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units?wprov=sfla1

It turns out you can’t harmonize all the physical constants. Some will necessarily end up as some non-round number.

Most of them have speed of light = 1, but some have it as 1/α where α is the fine-structure constant (α = e² / 4πε₀ħc ≈ 0.007297)

I think (not 100% sure) that UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. All modern computers use UEFI.

People still colloquially call it “BIOS” because it serves a similar purpose, but there is a technical difference.

They’ve come a long way. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-25

(click above link for full comic)