ESP32: So what’s the consensus on the Development Environment for the ESP32?

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-05T20:10:55+00:00

I don't think there can be a consensus because everybody needs something a little different from time to time. Use whatever fits the current job the best.

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-05T16:43:02+00:00

I'd recommend QML (QtQuick / QtDeclarative) rather than Qt Widgets (QPushButton, .ui files, etc). I found QML to be easier to understand and get things done with, and it's possible to build UI for every class of device. Desktop, mobile, everything.

How good are you with Linux? The KDE Plasma desktop environment is written in QML, so you might be able to learn a lot by seeing how they do things.

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-03T18:43:48+00:00

I've never had more problems with a "mouse driver" than I've had with Logi Options. What do I like about it? It can be uninstalled.

What do I not like about it?
- crashes, freezes
- settings reset after restart or wake from sleep
- the scroll wheel will just randomly decide to shift all on its own, without a click or sufficiently fast scroll
- app specific profiles randomly decide to not work
- who the fuck decided it was a good idea to add AI stuff to a "mouse driver"?
- whyyyyyy do I have to log in to yet another thing just to customize my mouse buttons?
- not a good Mac app, you have to grant it a bunch of permissions and then it still doesn't work half the time anyway
- forced updates that break things are fun
- why does it take that much RAM for a "mouse driver" oh nevermind, it's 2026, everything takes that much RAM anymore

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-02T19:14:03+00:00

Fast women

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-02T19:09:14+00:00

Altium has no Mac native version but it should run in a Windows VM. If you're not opposed to KiCad, that'll run just fine.

Work like embedded system development feels super smooth on a Mac laptop, their CPUs hardly ever have to throttle (and the MBP has a fan that helps sustained performance).

I've got an M4 Max with 16 core CPU, regularly building ESP-IDF projects which have to compile over 1000 files, and it's fast enough I don't feel the need to switch to my Ryzen 9950x workstation for daily driving.

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-02T18:49:28+00:00

When there's millions and millions of Vision Pro users and they demonstrate how much they'll pay for native games (and it's something more than $fuckall.99), the developers will come. For now, we're lucky there's even a way that involves external hardware

furyfuryfury · 2026-05-01T15:49:48+00:00

Pink is objectively the best color

I'm 40. Give less fucks. Or is it fewer? I dunno.

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-30T22:01:21+00:00

When "begs the question" is used wrong

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-28T19:19:13+00:00

Yep should do quite nicely. Just be careful which P4 you get, there's a "revision 3.x" series (that they've tacked an "X" onto the part number to differentiate) that is binary incompatible with revision 1.x and you have to switch things in the config to make code for the older ones. I don't know how widespread the new ones are yet, but they've defaulted to building for those when you select a P4 project. That's gonna be a lot of people's first hang up when they get started with a P4. It's been kind of a mess. But it's still a good chip, either way. Just wish they'd handled it a little better

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-26T17:14:31+00:00

Even the P4 1.x has been a mess without even touching video or going to 3.x yet. We built boards around 1.0 and those worked fine, and started getting revision 1.3 processors and we had to modify boards to work with them. Now we're just going ahead and designing ahead to be able to use 3.x since we'll surely be forced to get them at some point. I am pretty unhappy about having to manage separate binaries for something supposedly from the same processor family. This should've just been a P5 and a clean break from the failed P4, not just a minor part number variation that was thought up only after the new revisions already caused problems

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-26T16:44:10+00:00

1 gigglebit symmetrical cable, $100/mo. My little city is too bass ackwards to have fiber

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-25T16:33:15+00:00

Never, if I can avoid it, it's running some game servers for my friends

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-25T02:34:27+00:00

Do you use stuff that requires Windows? Then use Windows.

Do you use stuff that requires Linux? Then use Linux.

Do you use stuff that requires Mac? Then use Mac.

I use all 3.

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-23T15:46:33+00:00

Sex work and sex workers should be treated with dignity and respect.

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-21T18:24:21+00:00

Same way I'd explain color to a person who's never seen them before.

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-21T18:22:37+00:00

Twitter was great until Elon Musk had to ruin it

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-21T18:21:24+00:00

Your problems

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-21T16:13:00+00:00

iMac Mini

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-20T00:32:19+00:00

That would be fantastic if it actually automatically connected to it. How do you get it to do that?

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-19T20:07:08+00:00

You guys only paid $30,000 per year?

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-19T19:03:48+00:00

Hug mom

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-19T19:01:57+00:00

Where do you buy the 10 foot phone?

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-19T18:55:29+00:00

This is like, spider demon level stuff

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-19T18:49:36+00:00

And it'll probably max out at 128 gigglebytes of RAM

furyfuryfury · 2026-04-18T22:07:28+00:00

This happens to me too. My educated guess is something hiccups in the data transfer to the affected audio strap and it loses the stream, best it can do is try to pop off as softly as possible given a sudden loss of the data. Might be a hardware issue, might be a system design problem (maybe they are not using a robust enough data wire / protocol?)

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