[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Nope. Where I live employees' salary is included in the food prices.

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Recently had an electric Fiat 500 as a replacement while my car (Mazda 3) was in service and I absolutely loved how it drives. Nice consistent acceleration, immediate reaction to the throttle. Much better than the automatic transmission cars I drove before. 3 problems though:

  • range (duh): I often need to drive for 280km in one go, vast majority of EVs can't do that reliably (with AC and going 130km/h). If you can survive a day on one charge it is awesome though: plug it overnight and you're ready to go in the morning
  • the price of the car (it felt waaay too simple and plastic-y inside compared to 30K euro price I googled)
  • big brother software on the headunit, although there is no escape from it with any new car these days
[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

and/or getting your games from places like gog.com

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd go for HLS due to its simplicity: just files over http(s). VPN or not - depends on your network. If your machine is accessible from the internet, just putting the files into a webserver subdirectory with a long random path and using https will be secure enough for the usecase. Can be done with an ffmpeg oneliner.

The downside of HLS is the lag (practically -- 10s or more, maybe 5 if you squeeze it hard). It is in no way realtime. Webrtc does it better (and other things too), but it is also a bigger pain to set up and forward.

Also, just in case, test that the webcam works fine if left active 24/7. I had (a cheapo) one that required a powercycle after a week or so...

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Freecad is... rough. But, it has python API, and that's what I ended up using for almost all my stuff (there also was a period of using cadquery, but installing it is a horrible pain, so I gve up).

Also using onshape every now and then, but many things are just too annoying to do with a gui.

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

For me it's GOG first. Using lgogdownloader and wine directly (in a custom apparmor profile). No DRM, no forced updates, no annoying client that takes forever to start. Games are also dramatically much easier to isolate and sandbox this way.

If the game is not there, then yes, Steam (as a separate unix user).

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So, I decided to resurrect a thing I was working on a ~year ago.

There I had to update a library (one of the Compose ones), I don't even remember the reason why anymore. And then all the hell broke loose: AGP, kotlin compiler, compose compiler, something-kotlin-stdlib, a billion of tiny separate androidx.* libs, even the damn Android Studio itself, all incompatible with each other, some renamed, some replaced by a different thing, some having version coming from unknown depths.

Couple of hours of "copypaste meaningless error message to google, get some 'change version of X to Y' from stackoverflow, click the elephant of misery button, wait, maybe click the run button, goto 1" later I wonder, how (if?) is it even feasible to "just" make and maintain an app for Android as a single developer.

How do you guys deal with it? Reading changelogs every morning on the toilet? Using some secret thirdparty BOM? Maybe a template project one can copypaste the gradle stuff from? Or just use Qt/flutter/godot/raw opengl and forget about all this misery?

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Whatever works for you. Just do it. It is convenient as f when you are just starting. You can always improve incrementally later on when (if) you encounter a problem.

Too much noise/power costs to run a small thing - get a pi and run it there. Too much impct on your desktop performance - okay, buy a dedicated monster. Want to deep dive into isolating things (and VMs are too much of a hassle) - get multiple devices.

No need to spend money (maybe sponsoring more e-waste) and time until it's justified for your usecases.

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Depends on your local waste service. I'd go for the "everything else" dumpster. Here in NL it is incinerated, which is a decent option for such a mix.

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

+1, mine is great too

Finding them depends on where you live, I guess.I got to see a few models in local mediamarkt. Extrapolating from tgose few to choose among the ones available online was tough though.

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Food grade stuff. Cookie cutters, spares for cat drinking fountain. I guess hardened could've worked too. Printed with ColorFabb HT, so it can just go to dishwasher.

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

create graph on the UI

that's something I want to avoid

hard for me to imagine a situation where graphs need to be edited so often

the whole system is under development (trying new views, changing how the data is represented, etc), so I don't need to imagine it, I have it right in front of me ;)

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To be precise, the page explains how to configure some things and how to upload the config. I also tried that.

The problem is in the dashboard jsons. They are not well documented (docs on specific plots are missing), and are a pain to edit (as any json). The grafanalib tool I mentioned tries to help with that by implementing a sort of DSL for dashboards, but it is not ideal. (edit: lost a word)

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I currently use Grafana to view how all sorts of stuff changes over time. It gets the job done, but is far from ideal:

  • edititng the data queries is intended to only be done in the web ui (so I end up just copypasting stuff to/from pycharm to at least have a nice text editor)
  • can't store config in a git repo (yes, I can dump & restore the config as a huge json, but AFAIK the json structure is considered an internal api, so it can change at any time making versioning useless)
  • all plot parameters other than the data query have to be configured via gui

I did try grafanalib some time ago and it didn't feel right. It was quite behind in plot types (Grafana screamed at me "don't use this plot type, use the new one instead"), and is using unofficial api (the json config again).

Any suggestions? It doesn't even have to be a ready-to-use tool, a library/framework for making dashboards will also do.

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