Notices by Snaketember King Naga Calyo (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)

@inthehands I need to internalize this, especially about drawing

@MarkHoltom Dyson also just makes shit products that can't even do a good job to begin with.

Not just the vacuums, either.

Also those stupid "Air blade" hand "dryers" that some businesses have in lieu of paper (I HATE HATE HATE air hand dryers; I NEED COMPLETELY DRY HANDS or they're going to feel icky and gross for the rest of the day) that have also been proven objectively to not work at all.

Here at my place we have a Kirby vacuum and those things are rock solid dead reliable.

@whitequark Tbh I've gotten a strong impression that you're very much a software hacker, so that path is undoubtedly the more satisfying and productive one for you to take. x3

Enduring and acclimating myself to the jank of KiCAD is, regrettably, the more productive path for me to take, but I get satisfying results out of it. 💙

@whitequark tbh I don't blame you

It's jank as shit but at least it works and it gives me a full feature set without attempting to extract money I can't afford to pay out of me.

@whitequark EE is my main jam so like... I kinda have to use *some* kind of EDA.

KiCAD is the only option that's not going to potentially try to screw me at any point in the future and it Just Works™ in Linux which is where I plan to go when I eventually get around to it. 🤷♀️

And looking at https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2799 I REALLY do not want to rip my rubber dreads out trying to get Altium to work in Wine if so many versions of it are rated Garbage. My ADHD executive function cringes in pain at that.

@whitequark I force myself to keep using it out of pure spite because I now hate AutoDesk with every fiber of my being and I don't want to subject myself to the enshittification of software I depend upon for my main hobby because the profiteering corporation behind it wants to make more money at my expense.

@whitequark This makes me feel a bit vindicated that I opted to go the proxmox vms route for the friends & damily server @.@

(Even though proxmox is its own royal pain in the ass)

@whitequark Oh gods I loathe undocumented anything because that becomes a complete project blocker for me.

@whitequark At least you have the skills to be able to do that.

I don't.

So any API that is not well-documented becomes a hard project blocker for me.

It's literally why I noped away from the entire node.js ecosystem because the documentation is abysmal.

@whitequark Good grief you're really cooking on all of these git-powerup projects. (This is admiration.)

@whitequark I've... never had that problem at all. o.O The crashing or file corruption, that is.

@whitequark After the third time AutoDesk burned me in my life I was like "Nah fuck this. Thrice you make a fool out of me." and I broke the cycle of capitalism abuse and forced myself to learn enough of FreeCAD to start doing at least some slightly more than basic stuff.

I've not yet seriously poked at it after 1.0 dropped, though. I know there's been some workflow changes, UX overhauls, and the TNP finally got fixed in the main branch after carefully merging RealThunder's codebase in.

@whitequark My list of (close enough to be) flawless OSS applications includes (but is not limited to):
- KeePassXC
- Notepad++
- vim (RIP Bram Moolenaar 😔)
- OBS Studio
- OpenRCT2
- Krita
- FreeCAD
- KiCAD
- Python. *Especially* Python.

@whitequark I want one!!! I want SIX!!! 8)

@whitequark OMFG THAT GRUB PLUSHIE IS SO CUTE!!! 🤩

@whitequark Ouuuhhhh okay, that connected the dots faster than I was drawing the lines in my head.

Fwiw can I take a moment to express a lot of gratitude for your swift and detailed replies? They're wonderful to help someone like me understand the context. 🙏💞

@whitequark Might you be willing to expand the acronym/initialism? I don't recognize offhand what ZIRP is supposed to mean. 😅

@whitequark Question: Is grebedoc intended to also be a more actively maintained alternative to codeberg pages as well? Codeberg has kinda put their pages feature into maintenance mode with no intentions to develop its featureset further.

@ash Numeronyms are inaccessible by design and that is a hill I am willing to die on.

@whitequark What's happening to github?