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  • 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

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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

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[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hot damn, that's a pretty setup.

I see you design PCB boards; just a hobby or professional?

[–] xiaolizhi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 3 months 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).