Sometimes I hate this future

[forgotten_aria]

I finally decided to take the plunge and get a cricut maker for two reasons, the fact it can do (3/32") thin wood and that it can do craft foam which should help with my costume this year (which I'll go back to working on in June.) I am annoyed by a handful of things.

1) you must use either a tablet app or a web page app and, unless you have iOS, you must have a good net connection to their servers. For a piece of hardware that expensive, this feels unacceptable. Apparently there used to be alternative software, but they kind of put a stop to that.

2) the browser crashed during my first test cut and as far as I can tell there is no way to ask it to resume midcut. I accidentally started with likely the worst image possible to test it with, but still, since cutting wood takes 6 passes, the application needs to keep running it without falling over.

I sent it another test image, and it did that one in 20 seconds, which was an impressive change. I really did pick a horrible image for it, I think. I'm trying again in IE with a cropped version of the hellish image. It's about 44% done so far.