UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some editors can embed neovim, for example: vscode-neovim. Not sure how well that works though as I never tried it.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well personally if a package is not on aur I first check if there's an appimage available, or if there's a flatpak. If neither exist, I generally make a package for myself.

It sounds intimidating, but for most software the package description is just gonna be a single file of maybe 10-15 lines. It's a useful skill to learn and there's lots of tutorials explaining how to get into it, as well as the arch wiki serving as documentation. Not to mention, every aur or arch package can be looked at as an example, just click the "view PKGBUILD" link on the side on the package view. You can even simply download an existing package with git clone and just change some bits.

Alternatively you can just make it locally and use it like that, i.e. just run make without install.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 26 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Aur and pacman are 90% of why I use arch.

Also fyi to OP: never install software system-wide without your package manager. No sudo make install, no curl .. | sudo bash or whatever the readme calls for. Not because it's unsafe, but because eventually you're likely to end up with a broken system, and then you'll blame your distro for it, or just Linux in general.

My desktop install is about a decade old now, and never broke because I only ever use the package manager.

Of course in your home folder anything goes.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

I think they meant you don't know what the binary is called because it doesn't match the package name. I usually list the package files to see what it put in /use/bin in such cases.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's up with the abuse of the word open lately. I had a look at that project to see how they were doing the conversion, but I couldn't find it. But I found this:

Short answer, yes! OpenScanCloud (OSC) is and will stay closed source...

Your data will be transferred through Dropbox and stored/processed on my local servers. I will use those image sets and resulting 3d models for further research, but none of your data will be published without your explicit consent!

I feel like I'd rather use Autodesk at that point. At least I know what I'm dealing with right out of the gate.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

But check that it has all the features you need because it lags behind gitea in some aspects (like ci).

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A few months ago I needed to install Google home for something Chromecast related, so I quickly searched the play store and installed it. Loaded it up and I see an ad, what the hell. App opens and I realise it isn't Google Home, it's something made to trick me into thinking it was when I wasn't paying attention.

Google is letting their ads steal their own users from them.

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

At least it's symmetrical so it won't rock, unlike every other phone out there now, including the one I'm typing on.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago

You say that as if solving grid storage wasn't one of the most important problems humanity faces right now.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well I'm not sure it takes an expert to master a plug.

But I'd understand the hate if it was universal (pun maybe intended), but everyone that hates micro-usb seems to adore usb-c, while I feel like it's potentially much more fragile. When handling usb-c I always use a lot more delicate care than I ever did with micro-usb. Mostly because even though I'm pretty good at soldering very tiny things, I'm not confident I could replace most usb-c receptacles without messing it up.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website -3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I've used more usb gadgets than most people, as I deal with electronics a lot, but I never had a single problem with micro usb. Not sure why people hate it so much.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean I learned it in a few days and found it very intuitive as well. Far more intuitive than I found fusion when I tried that years later. Inventor and onshape also feel more pleasant to use.

The issue seems to be that the fusion interface is very non-standard when compared to other cad suites, so people that get used to it first find everything else unintuitive.

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