Still a commendable act

All totally true! It’s definitely not great, but I try to find the silver linings rather than beat myself up about the hard parts. Good point about my ADHD being different than others’

I don’t see a specific place to report an offensive plate, but I did send an email to the Indiana BMV. They review personalized plates and reject some, so this must have slipped past their radar.

https://www.in.gov/bmv/registration-plates/license-plates-overview/personalized-license-plates/

https://faqs.in.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new

Okay. They do have port forwarding though

ProtonVPN

On the tracking and phoning home: gross, I wish they didn’t do that. I’ll stick with FreeCAD.

It makes sense though, that they don’t care about pirated software unless you’re making money off it. It’s probably in their interest of hobbyists can learn how to use the software from pirated copies - that’s just a potential future paid user, if they develop the skills to eventually want to use it professionally.

How would Autodesk or Dassault discover that you are using a pirated copy of their software in the first place?

It’s what brought me over! And then I learned so many more reasons to hate it that I hadn’t even known about lol

I don’t yet, I was working on the prototype this weekend. How soon is his birthday? I can do my best to finish it and share the file in time!

A base to convert my plain Pax charger into a charging dock. I might include pockets for Budkups too

Stonetoss is a Nazi

Yes, that is what I do with the same setup

Maybe the decision to have children is highly personal and should be left up to individual people to decide, either way?

Thanks!

Can you explain more? I don’t really use Windows - is balenaEtcher injecting something into my Linux ISOs to get telemetry after I install the OS?

What makes it spyware? I’ve seen it recommended a lot and never come across this before

That’s where I’m at, I think. I’ve used both with success, but I’m a relative newbie, so I don’t think I understand the cases where the greater flexibility of Rufus is helpful

Is there a reason to prefer Rufus over balenaEtcher?