[bvanderveen]

For anyone who has ever had the laptop out in the garage next to the CNC machine, yeah, no, those things are extremely onerous.

You're in the machine shop outside of town and you literally have everything you need locally to make the computer drive the 4000lb hunk of cast iron around to cut the hunk of metal into the shape and then when you open your laptop Fusion 360 randomly decides you're not logged in and you need to 2FA to get to your own damn data that's local to your box—except there is no cell service here.

Fuck. B-double-e-double-r-U-N beer run! Bring the laptop into town and make a hotspot at the gas station so you can get back into your damn cloud account and then drive back to the shop in the hills and finally send G-code to the mill. Using data and software you had on your laptop the whole damn time.

Looks like that cut isn't finishing up until 3am.

The point is, you're doing an activity that doesn't require the internet. When an application that provides functionality that doesn't require internet connectivity introduces a hard dependency on the internet, it's user-hating design, plain and simple.

[ShadowBanThis01]

Great, that's all the clarification I asked for. I totally agree! I detest pointless online accounts and won't even consider Web-based tools for local tasks.

Unfortunately some self-appointed spokesdouches decided to intervene and create a toxic atmosphere here before you could even answer.