I cannot, in good conscience, recommend a project with a lead that is as verbally abusive and utterly unable to appreciate even highly constructive criticism as Micay, technical merits notwithstanding. I am fine when others recommend it though.
Let’s call a spade a spade: He is a raging asshole with severe clinical paranoia. I’m literally certain that if he saw this post he’d accuse me of being a shill for calyxos and to never fucking again interact with any grapheneos account. Both have happened to me before (Hence I refuse to ever interact with his troupe again, even though I use graphene and agree with the vast majority of its technical decisions; I have also stopped actively recommending it to anyone, the social media experience is simply way too attrocious).
If you can find a way, so can “the bad guys™”. If you feel charitable towards MS do a “responsible disclosure” and inform them and agree to a release embargo, so they can fix it first; If you don’t, do a “full disclosure” and just publish =^_^=
In my experience (Germany, during the naughties) it was almost the opposite… All these folk that had been told “Go into CS, they make loads of money!”, while having near zero actual inclination for tech, were quite happy to let others write the code and then contribute mostly fluff (it’s not like they were enthusiastic about the reports either) otherwise… I’ve been filtering them out during interviews all the time and I guess they must be the enthusiastic users of LLMs for coding nowadays :-P
Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.
Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…
“Its social network”? Ewwww…
Mostly stuff around the house, so replacement parts (broken stuff, missing caps, etc.,) or useful crap like a pen holder that fits into the hole left in my ikea desk from one of their qi-chargers that turned out to be less convenient than I thought :-P Turns out having a 3d printer one tends to find use-cases all over, just like one does having a 2d printer. You just didn’t consider those before you had one and now, poof, you can just make it when you have an idea.
I mostly do very technical designs, mathematical curves rather than organic ones, if at all. I’m a programmer so the concept of “writing” my models instead of 'drawing" them feels more natural to me, hence OpenSCAD instead of the usual CAD tools or even blender (it certainly helps that I did a lot of raytracing stuff with povray years ago). It ain’t art, but figuring out the real-world strength of different geometries, how to design screw-holes that work even when sagging somewhat in one axis, creating an exact mathematical description of the thread for a nut and bolt that work despite the crude resolution of a FDM printer… all these tickle my brain and I enjoy them.
As to learning there are many decent tutorials on designing “production ready” parts (think small-scale manufacturing runs), e.g. “Slant 3D” on youtube. But ultimately my answer has always been “becoming fascinated, trying stuff out, and trying to find resources on specific problems I encounter” Not because it is fast or efficient, but because I tremendously enjoy the experience ;-)
printables, thingiverse, but mostly I make stuff myself with openscad (I do mostly technical/functional stuff)
Sure, just not something I am comfortable actively recommending myself.