I had a pretty bad mental break down. It wasn’t pretty. I said a lot of stupid stuff. I walked away and got help, though. I appreciate the kind words <3

Iwish I could bring myself to this, but I actually rely give a fuck and have some pride in what I do. I wish I wasn’t principled, but I spent years as an apprentice to get to where I am at and I’ll be damned if I put my name on shoddy work.

The machinist union is one of the largest in the US at 600,000 members.

I have, and that is part of why I am mentally collapsing over this.

This is hard to describe, but I will try on this broken phone. I can’t turn on the machine for less than $75 per hour. This is due to the way things get quoted like my time, materials etc. Buy also since it is purely bid and contract based, good luck getting to pay yourself more than $20 an hour overall. The steady contracts simply will not pay you more. This also by the hour, fixed - not a quote per job and that is a massive difference.

Tool paths, video, and physical products.

I don’t disagree at all, but things start to feel weird when you potentially send 600,000 people to near revolution to enrich yourself.

It is on purpose. It is an experiment on art getting steadily more complicated as well as drawing on lore from https://analognowhere.com/ via @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org and the lore he has built

Thanks for the link, truly!

Earning less is the problem here. I’ve had large contracts making literal nuclear power plant parts for GE for $75/hr - that’s just above machine/power cost. This would actually set me up to be a potential millionaire. I hate it.

I don’t think so, because they want a viable physical product which can be measured accurately.

My problem with that is that if I do this correctly, it could mean hundreds of thousands of jobs from people that have potentially spent decades making a trade. It’s harder than just me wanting money.

I agree in principle, but, wow I have to admit it’s hard. I hate this :(

There are generic CNC emulators. They’ve been around for a long time (like 15 years, as you said). The difference is that that they will do the grunt work, but a human needs to make the tool paths actually viable. The difference is that with actual professional tools like MasterCAM, it has been cutting out that intern for just as long but a cost of thousands of dollars per seat. What this has the potential to do, if I do it correctly, is even push out those incredibly expensive MasterCAM seats. I could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs if I do this correctly.

If I poison this, it could quite literally take down the manufacturing ability of two continents.

Sure, by an ethical/moral standpoint that works. From the legal standpoint, however, if I did that I’d be sued to the point where I have no option but to live out my life in prison. This kind of thing sounds great on paper. In practice? I’m not fucking going back.

Ok, thanks for that - but that’s an hour-long video. I’m busy trying to keep my laptop from melting. Is there a tl;dw?

It really is. I’m admittedly good enough to the point if I train this thing to the best of my ability - either MasterCam is going to buy it or maybe thousands of machinists are maybe gonna lose their jobs. I fucking hate it. I also want to not work :(

It really sucks. I hate it, but you’re probably right. I have no family at all, and even if it is a 1 year contract I can live for years off of $300k

It’s not that big a deal because I’m getting new fans on Friday, I just need to keep the thing cool enough to browse the web etc.