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  • Sadly, the CAD software I have the most experience with is SolidWorks. It has its quirks, but I like it and I know my way around.
    Which is too bad, because it’s completely absolutely fucking stupidly expensive for any home use.

    Not to mention I’ve heard stories of people getting caugth through exported models’ metadata and getting sued for publishing models made with pirated or student versions or whatnot.
    I’m not even a business and whilr I have no moral qualms pirating software, I don’t exactly wanna deal with an actively hostile company either.

    I’ve switched to onshape for now, but I know enshittification will eventually butcher it too.
    There’s a few others I’ve tried that I either can’t get good at, or that simply lack functionality.

    I’ve been meaning to try Alibre CAD, but last I checked, their trial thing required back and forth with a rep and I just never bothered.

    I don’t even mind paying, yet not $5k yearly or some shit.
    If you ever find something, ping me.


  • Honestly, I’d just use whatever the ISP provides.
    Sure, it’s not open source and it kinda sucks… But I mean, if you don’t trust the ISP modem, you can’t trust the rest of their infrastructure either anyway, so it’s kinda moot.
    At least that way you have a vague chance of having a modicum of support when shit breaks.

    If it can’t be put into bridge mode, it probably has some sort of DMZ function where it basically does port forwarding for any/all possible ports.
    Double NAT isn’t as bad as it sounds these days.

    Now to your question…
    They exist, they’re mostly targeted at ISPs though, so might be a harder find than other things.
    They might also be older, as basically all customers also want their ISP to provide Wi-Fi, which a bridge modem won’t.
    Anyway,
    You’ll have to know what DSL were talking about, there’s… ADSL, ADSL2+, VDSL, VDSL2, etc

    One old-ass model we used to use back in the day was… a Siemens 5200, but that’s ADSL2 at best, definitely not VDSL.