You won’t be able to from a lemmy.world account like that.

I guess that’s my whole issue here. People don’t use the system “properly.”

I think you’ve missed my point here. Something that is 6,300 mm long should be listed as 6.3 meters. Doing otherwise completely eliminates the purpose of a pure decimal system. People don’t even use the system properly, completely omitting things like decimeters.

I have to say that this is the first split design that I’d use. I have no clue how anyone would willingly go without a numpad. This also looks great.

Yeah. I was just making a stupid joke.

This is the good stuff!

3G? This is what I think of:

I’ve been a machinist for over 20 years. Just no. You get specs from the customer, and yeah the tolerances are usually in mm. However, listing dimensions in thousands of mm makes no sense. The tolerances are always specified. If it wasn’t for NDA, I could show you a print from Siemens Medical that shows this.

I have to say that I do this professionally. There is no reason at all to specify tolerances like that. You very much should use at least centimeters with the +/- in decimals. This is the whole point of the metric system. And it aggravates me. We are not stupid as manufacturers. It is very simple division. I am American and have to deal with German and Japanese tolerances quite literally every day. Sure, there are different required ISO tolerances based on millimeters, but as far as prints go? Every company usually specifies their own tolerances. Complying with ISO mostly means that you understand what they require overall. It is my professional opinion that not using the breadth of the metric system is absolutely absurd.

I see millimeters listed by the thousands and hundreds all the time. It really annoys me.

This took over a day. My whole concern was that it was very bad and was making the org behind the instance look horrible.

SDF admins are paid through the non-profit. So are most in a similar way on larger instances.

I am more than willing to do this. I really love the culture we have on SDF. Problem is that they are sysadmins, not instance admins.

We spammed all communication channels to wake the admin up. Just a bit ago, the troll activated again with and the admin was ontop of it within the hour

I only have content ;(

I’ll give you -1 funhole content.

180’000? That’s some kind of BSD number.

I have to really disagree. Someone went to school to do this; that’s cool. It is the companies that hire them that push stuff in this direction.

You’re right. I think that Lemmy was, at most, an afterthought. We’ve had to wake up the admins to the fact that there is a substantial number of people here and that their easy sign up policies here can easily be abused.

If you’d maybe like to donate: here’s the link. They do things like making learning computing available to people that can’t do it otherwise. Anyone can sign up for the public UNIX, which means potentially thousands of people can learn how to operate FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)