• OS: NixOS

  • Compositor: Sway

  • GTK Theme: TwoStepsBack (modified)

  • Terminal: alacritty (sometimes also kitty)

  • Terminal Font: terminus

  • Editor: helix

  • Music Player: quod libet

  • File Manager: ranger

flake/dotfiles: https://codeberg.org/xiaolizhi/flake

Went from Hyprland to Gnome to Sway, and I think I’ll stay. I really like the retro GTK theme, but it does not work well with GTK4/libadwaita. So I gotta put in some more work (or avoid those apps :). I also seem to move away from having a uniform theme for everything and just embracing the chaos

Here’s some more things being productive (or pretending to be):

    • xiaolizhi@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Thanks!! I worked in hardware engineering for about two years, designed PCBs, did testing and so on, but I thought it was quite boring to be honest, which is the danger of turning your hobby into your profession, I learned. You don’t end up doing the fun things (designing circuits and layouting) and most of your time is spent with documentation, meetings, and reading and following technical standards. I always wanted to do RF professionally but it didnt quite work out, which is OK. I somehow slipped into writing embedded software and some embedded Linux things. Anyway, this is good because I now enjoy doing hardware as a hobby a lot more while still having some professional knowledge to apply. (am OP, this is an alt account)

      • FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        That’s very interesting, thanks for the insight! Personally I could never fathom how small groups of hobby hackers (e.g. Krikzz) could create and mass-manufacture custom PCBs just like that. But then again, I have no experience in that field.

        You don’t end up doing the fun things (designing circuits and layouting) and most of your time is spent with documentation, meetings, and reading and following technical standards

        This holds true to so many professions, unfortunately

        • xiaolizhi@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 hours ago

          Designing PCBs is typically decoupled from manufacturing. And once you get a feeling for it, modern PCB design is like playing Legos, as you just pick and connect a lot of different ICs together (unless you’re doing some very specialized analogue stuff).

  • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Ay it’s the first time I see someone else using SolveSpace. How do you like it?

    • fleck@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      1 day ago

      It’s awesome! I used FreeCAD and OpenSCAD before and I think I will stick to solvespace for new projects. FreeCAD is OK but quite buggy and the parametric design is a pain. OpenSCAD is also great and I still use it for some things. I think parametric design is cool, but 99/100 times it is completely unnecessary for me and solvespace made me realize this. I initially disliked being unable to define variables for dimensions (and re-using them) but again it’s often overkill and disrupts the flow quite a bit, so suddenly you would spend hours defining parameters and calculations that you wouldn’t use anyways. TLDR: YAGNI basically. Also, solvespace is pretty :) What about you?

      • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I also really like SolveSpace for its simplicity in the available tools and the “no fuss” look. There are not three ways to do something but one and that one works. I modeled some things in it but mainly used it multiple times to check geometric calculations I did in some code I wrote. And it’s a really good tool for that.

        However there are some features I’d need for it to be a CAD program to do everything I need. For example lofting and sweeping as week as chamfers and fillets are lacking for creating more complex shapes and tools for working with freeform faces. Also the ability to reference other dimensions similar to Fusion360 would be nice and yeah also having custom parameters.

        And yeah I have tried FreeCAD but it didn’t feel right. Have you tried Dune3D? I recently did and also liked it for its simplicity but found it to also be limiting in certain ways. So I guess a mixture between SolveSpace, Dune3D and classic CAD software like Catia would be my dream.

        • xiaolizhi@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          oh I have not heard of Dune3d before, I’ll definietly check it out. According to the docs it was initally created for electronics enclosures, which is is also my typical use case. Let’s see! I also missed chamfers/fillets in solvespacd which is why my recent creation looks a bit rough. I tried to import it into freecad to do it in post processing but that caused all kinds of other issues haha. (am OP, this is an alt account on-the-go)