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OS: NixOS
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Compositor: Sway
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GTK Theme: TwoStepsBack (modified)
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Terminal: alacritty (sometimes also kitty)
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Terminal Font: terminus
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Editor: helix
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Music Player: quod libet
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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):
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)
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.
This holds true to so many professions, unfortunately
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).