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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:43:51 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:49:30 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

     @dragonarchitect seeing "FreeCAD" in the list is amusing to me because i found it so unusable for basic tasks that i spent five years and upwards of $15k of my own cash making an alternative CAD a reality

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     King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:49:31 JST King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

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     @whitequark My list of (close enough to be) flawless OSS applications includes (but is not limited to):
     - KeePassXC
     - Notepad++
     - vim (RIP Bram Moolenaar 😔)
     - OBS Studio
     - OpenRCT2
     - Krita
     - FreeCAD
     - KiCAD
     - Python. *Especially* Python.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:56:45 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

     @dragonarchitect back when i started working with it the solution for making an assembly was "manually enter the coordinates"

     that wasn't what pushed me over the edge though. it was when it crashed and corrupted the savefile 2nd or 3rd time in a row, completely destroying my work. unforgivable; i haven't touched it since

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     King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:56:46 JST King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

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     @whitequark After the third time AutoDesk burned me in my life I was like "Nah fuck this. Thrice you make a fool out of me." and I broke the cycle of capitalism abuse and forced myself to learn enough of FreeCAD to start doing at least some slightly more than basic stuff.

     I've not yet seriously poked at it after 1.0 dropped, though. I know there's been some workflow changes, UX overhauls, and the TNP finally got fixed in the main branch after carefully merging RealThunder's codebase in.

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     King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:59:20 JST King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

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     @whitequark I've... never had that problem at all. o.O The crashing or file corruption, that is.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:59:20 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

     @dragonarchitect yeah, I figured based on the inclusion in the list

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 07:11:25 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @virtulis dunno, today?

     #ThankAnOpenSourceDeveloperDay

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     lick here for more info (virtulis@loud.computer)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 07:11:27 JST lick here for more info

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     @whitequark started writing a list in replies and yeah, i think i'd need a whole day to remember and thank every project that i depend on daily (let alone each person).

     soo when is it exactly and what's the hashtag? :blobcatupsidedown:

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     James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺 (freequaybuoy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 07:15:18 JST James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺

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     @whitequark 01/01? Oh wait, that's taken. 10/10?

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     contranym (makeitmythic@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 11:59:42 JST contranym

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     @whitequark or even if they dont, thanks for not being microsoft, etc.

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     Qvntum (qvntum@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 14:49:01 JST Qvntum

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     @whitequark
     the paradox is that the better the tool is, the more invisible the developer becomes, flawless tools don't get issues often

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 14:56:04 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Qvntum

     @qvntum https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/115624283395160759

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     Qvntum (qvntum@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 15:05:42 JST Qvntum

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     @whitequark
     next time, sprinkle in an easy-to-fix bug just to remind them you exist, you know, for "user engagement" (one shouldn't) jk