WestwardWind

joined 1 year ago
[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My pixel 7 Pro's vector motion sensor is broken. How the hell does that even happen? I've never even heard of it and there's like nothing online about it.

I can't do anything that requires tracking how the phone is moved- no compass calibration, no Map's guidance arrow, etc.

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These are all on my list of cool things I tell people about Japan. It really is a bunch of small stuff that I found great.

Another small one - most grocery stores have a packing area past payment and there's usually a little bottle with a light temporary glue next to the plastic bags. So the line moves faster and you never fumble opening the thin plastic bags

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Proprietary software I use on a regular basis with no Linux alternative:

Revit, AutoCAD, Houdini, 3dsMAX, SolidWorks, Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign (and/or their Affinity alternatives), CUDA optimized simulation and rendering plugins, etc.

I use at least one of these every day, almost none of them have any functioning compatibility with Wine or other emulation. Even just using Affinity has caused some issues with team projects when someone picks up where I left off and there's no layer information and a ton of clipping groups instead.

If all you do with your computer is program, work with documents, use a web browser, and play video games sure go wild don't use Windows on any of your machines. But I just don't understand how some people in the FOSS community cannot fathom that there are entire professional workflows and industries that just have zero possibility of moving to Linux.

Do I like using Windows? No. But I do like being able to use all the programs my work and research requires.

I contribute actual, tangible research into FOSS CAD/CAM/BIM software development and implementation. I love it and want to see FOSS options grow and become widely adopted. But it just isn't anywhere close to having feature parity. And that matters, just as much as industry interoperability matters.

I'm just so tired of this thought process in the community that the only reason someone isn't using Linux/FOSS is because they're some fanboy or something

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

IIRC only iOS has that because apple holds a patent on that specific implementation. Which sucks because on Gboard the space bar can be quite small and the timing between activating the cursor scroll and opening the language menu seems like 0.15 seconds

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was the prompt that you used for this or is this edited afterwards?

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched over to MacOs about 3 months ago now for dev work and I've really been enjoying it so far. Except when there are weird hiccups, but they've been getting better as I get more familiar with it

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It just turns into such a slog for so long. The highs are great but the meandering lows are so frustrating. I read them all back to back over about 8-10 months and it gets really noticeable when you do that

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which Mac are you running on? I haven't gone through the game porting kit setup yet because it seemed like a real pain in the ass and I want confident the performance would be worth it in the end on my m2pro

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have used Foxit/Phantom both personally and professionally for years now with no complaints