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I'm going leave it a year or so and then start selling stuff that hasn't been enshittified with AI. I'll be laughing all the way to the bank as it'll be a niche market by then. Just imagine the the novelty of being able to trust something that's been written or spoken.

Have I pointed out that AI is shit this week? A mate (solicitor) was over looking at a legal thing with me the other day. "Hang on. I'll put it through chat GPT." "Don't bother. It's shit. You can't trust it." "I use it all the time. It's fine as long as you verify the answers." So he puts it through chap GPT, looks puzzled at his phone for about 30 seconds and then reads something utterly unrelated. In the mean time, I've found the answer the longer-form way and am making a mental note to never pay him for anything on billable hours. Or indeed at all.

You can of course relax, there was a list on the news yesterday Microsoft have made a list of the professions that AI are going to wipe out, manual work (ie. tree stuff) is safe, customers service phone reps are screwed. Entry level graduate jobs have been wiped out - managers just use AI - but are not hiring anyone to to become experienced to do the stuff AI cannot. (onto topic, one of the very few things Trump (or his advisers at least) has done is try to encouraging chip manufacturers to return to the US - AI chips are the next big thing)

A while ago we had a guy with a macro that would screw up a drawing he was sending out - not every drawing of course, just the really really important ones - text and hatches converted to lines, random elevations (on 2d drawings) - but only by tiny amounts so it was still useable but drove the customers CAD guys mad (CAD guys all have 'special interests' type of people).

It kinda ment something before 2000s. Now it's definitely more a pigeon hole for Z. As X & Y were easy to separate those that lived as tech was becoming useful but was very analogue Vs those like myself where technology was evolving at such a rate. If you get my clumsy explanation, now it's all AI & nonsensical social media guff and mostly nonsense.

Thanks, I will have a look at that. I don't do much develoment stuff, when I do I have been using Axiscape, which also relies on dxfs. My pet peeve is when they throw in a 3D layer onto an otherwise 2D model.

Apps are old school mate, it's all about finding an AI Tool to do everything for you now. It doesn't seem like many in any of those groups knows how to feed themselves. Just look at the ubiquitous UPF/junk "food" that we're surrounded by. Or the flocks of Deliverpoo riders feeding people poo 24/7. Crazy world when you step back and look at it.

I've always been unsure about all these wacky cohort names that get bandied around, so that was a useful reference. I doubt I'll remember by tomorrow though. In the interests of the all important transparency; I'm a solid Gen X. Before 43 (ND) gets his knickers in a twist about internet anonymity or something!

oh, it's another way of pigeonholing people into various invented sections, like alphabet idiots, and fecking mentally ill twats who think they are animals. looking at it the only thing that leaps out is fact each successive generation loses more of the ability to think for themselves, and a reliance on gadgets and tech, how many of those groups know how to feed themselves? the animal kingdom adapts to survive, the human race looks for the latest "app" oh well not long now and I can give less ****************s about it than I do currently.

Cue, the almost mandatory "okay boomer" comments 😄

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I'm glad to hear this, I have been advocating biochar for a long time now, over 15 years.

easy to access drive, will accept any decent wood that can be cut/split for firewood, don't want brush please! please call before hand to check!

WTF is gen z??? or gen x???

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I can see the problem, any wood needs drying and processing to become firewood but arb arisings are of a size that are much more readily handled and transported by non-professionals and it is not readily handled by wood processors either so not much commercial interest. Still if sawmill was local to me and I didn't have my arb arisings source I'd be interested in such wood. Anyone home processing needs a saw so as long as the sawmill is OK with it, wood can be cut before transport home in multiple trips.

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Thanks everyone! Interesting to hear that the Rhodie should work well, better than just having bonfires of the stuff. There is quite a bit so should get a decent amount of charcoal and fines/biochar from it. I didn't know that Alder was specifically used for gunpowder making, good to know. Definitely should be different now with everyone wanting biochar.

Yeap, it's almost as ridiculous as sugar free lucozade.

It's all the syrups and flavours BS that gets me. If they don't like coffee, maybe it's too bitter, then don't order coffee. Order a fizzy drink with lots of sugar or sugar free crap instead.

Currently getting by with QCAD ($40 perpetual). Some of the recommendations I got were not quite what I need. A lot of CAD packages are massive and complex, whereas I just need 2D site plans and dxf compatibility. The real issue seems to be that dxfs are not used much any more and the format hasn't been updated for years. But I am stuck with it because I use PT Mapper and Pocket GIS. The one problem remains, PT Mapper rejects or messes up some layers from dxfs that have originated as dwgs. Developers regulary throw drawings across that have shadings and hatching and bespoke symbols for cars, trees, whirlygigs, paviours etc. and these do not convert or if they do you end up with a dwg expanded form 4mb to a dxf at 40mb.

I'm a plain black coffee sorta guy, without all the faffing, bs, customer experience wankery. Plus, I'm technically a millennial but have more in common with X.

@daltontrees What did you end up going for?