I would have a 1 on 1 conversation with one of the psychologists running the group about what you’re going through. Maybe this something you can work through or maybe this kind of group therapy isn’t for you. In any case, it is better to talk about what you’re experiencing.

I didn’t take the photos.

I know, but my response sparked further discussion so it’s cool.

Both programs were developed to work on high end consumer laptops, which meant being able to work on IBM PC and therefore DOS.

Those programs also were likely 2D in their initial versions in the 1980’s. They were also competing against human drafting, which was considered to be industry standard at the time.

Cost and ease of use were likely more important than other potential users of 3D software, so they went with DOS and made the transition to Windows.

Neither Autodesk nor Bentley had a good economic reason to develop in Linux. Those companies also spend a lot of money on major clients to produce tools for them, which they then force all contractors to use.

At minimum, we would need AutoCAD, Microstation, and Projectwise. We also need these exact programs as our clients require our CAD submittals to be in specific formats.

We also need Bluebeam Revu for other client coordination.

Yeah, but I don’t want to flip through photos in GIMP.

This is a work problem and a lot of software we use isn’t supported on Linux.

It becomes a problem if you didn’t take the photos.

Not every sector has.

What is showing itself as a major weakness in retirement saving is that a lot of retirement account managers think that bonds are relatively safe when they really aren’t.

The Great Recession went bad because they miscalculated the risk of two unrelated mortgages going bad.

When Covid hit, the increase in interest rates devalued a lot of bonds, something that wasn’t seen since the 1980’s.

Most of the people here who are confused by your accounts’ performance probably have a mix of index funds tied to a basket of stocks.

That’s messed up.

Romans had a basic understanding of proportions and general vibes of design, but they couldn’t really create calculations to verify their design as we do today. For instance, the designers of the Pantheon understood they needed to lighten the concrete as it went up and had novel techniques of doing so that we use today, but they didn’t really know.

The state of the art for understanding basic stresses didn’t become known until the 19th century. The design of the Eiffel Tower was impressive, in part, because that structure has a calc book defending it. A lot of early railroad bridges were still designed based on ratios and vibes.

That said, not all loads were understood by that time. The Tacoma-Narrows Bridge collapsed in part because of a gross misunderstanding of wind loads combined with the ability to design structures light enough that wind loads controlled.

If someone doesn’t want to talk, that is ok. However, people are more likely to talk if they feel listened to.

That may be the way consoles go.

We aren’t seeing the kinds of innovation happening in hardware that justifies dropping backward compatibility and the AAA gaming market hasn’t released games in the quantity they did before.

So Sony and Microsoft can update the hardware in a way to maintain backwards comparability and game companies have the option of developing to the current generation only, both generations with different graphics, or the older generation.

It kind of does.

You get user lock-in as users buy more games, making it so Steam is always a store to buy from. You can’t deplatform from Steam. At that point, you can’t replace Steam with another DRM platform to pay existing games. That creates a large customer base which becomes a must add for vending new games.

It isn’t a hard monopoly, but it helps create a soft monopoly.

The Nintendo 64 was really the last time Nintendo tried competing on hardware specs for the console market.

After that, you had a major electronics company subsidizing hardware to gain market share and a major software company subsidizing development and software graphics tools to be used also on their computer systems as the two different competitors.

It is even worse in public bathrooms.

Europeans give Americans shit on public bathroom design, but the smell is a lot worse in European bathrooms generally.

You just had regular and weird. Now there are flavors of weird.

What about whatever spikes truck drivers put on their bolts? They look sharper than acorns.