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Cake day: March 29th, 2024

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  • I’ve been reading the other comments, and while people are encouraging, their comments seem a bit too “you HAVE to learn CAD.” You definitely don’t NEED to know CAD. I made basic parts and modifications in the slicer for nearly a year after I started printing, and it worked really well. However, if you are considering learning a full CAD program, I have two pieces of advice.

    First pertains to if you are working with functional parts. Then you are talking about a parametric CAD program (fusion, onshape, FreeCAD, etc.). In this case, I think it’s worth learning for you, and it’s not as hard as it seems. You say you have SketchUp experience, so I’m assuming you have decent spatial reasoning. I know someone with no tech literacy nor programming experience who learned a CAD program very well in less than a month of following tutorials in her free time. Just give it a try, and it’s a skill you’ll be happy to have.

    If you are working with cosmetic parts like miniatures and helmets, then you might need to use something like Blender. Admittedly, that can be even more challenging than the other CAD programs I mentioned. However, if you spend a few hours learning some basics from YouTube, you should be able to do fundemental things like fixing holes.

    Hope this helps. Good luck with your printing endeavors!


  • I try to buy things on GOG when I can just for the sake of diversifying my dependence on one company.

    There are plenty of guides to setting up Heroic Launcher on the Deck. Once its set up, it’s easy to install games.

    I’ve found GOG games to run perfectly fine, and cloud saves work perfectly.

    Lastly, I saw some other people saying GOG doesn’t have the latest version of this game specifically, so definitely check that before buying.


  • Admittedly, some of the games I’m about to mention take time to get good enough at to turn your brain off, but here’s some of my favorites for listening to audiobooks.

    Bloons TD6

    Any roguelite - currently I’m loving balatro and spelunky 2

    Backpack battles

    Tetris Effect

    Mario sports games

    Mini Metro

    Kingdom

    In general, I find it helpful to tell yourself that it’s totally okay to “lose.” When you are listening to an audiobook, you should be spending most of your attention on that. You don’t need to take the game seriously.