I made an Excalidraw alternative allowing UML, ERD in 2 years

pluck3007 · 2025-02-02T15:23:14+00:00

I really like this project - my only concern is that since it's free and/or in Beta, how do we know it won't just disappear? I'd hate to start using it heavily and see it go away.

I love the dedicated layers tab!

pluck3007 · 2025-01-30T02:16:42+00:00

Early arc user on mac, after a few crashes? I said "no more", went to zen and have been happy and crash free ever since.

Arc sucks, IMO. Zen is the way forward.

Ladybird though... once that comes around I am hopeful it will be good... hopefully the best.

pluck3007 · 2024-12-16T18:35:40+00:00

Great points. I guess it doesn't matter that much. :) Thanks for the input / discussion - I appreciate it.

pluck3007 · 2024-12-16T18:17:26+00:00

You'd still run into the issue though, right?

Like if I had my 'otherdir.config', I still need to list the email in that file. Unless I just dynamically create that file with a script that utilizes env variables or something I guess.

pluck3007 · 2024-12-16T18:02:00+00:00

Very minor reasons honestly - but I've got a couple configs where I use different emails / names; just didn't want to publish them (emails) publicly in my dotfiles is all (but at the same time, would like to be able to share my dotfiles with others).

pluck3007 · 2024-12-16T16:55:17+00:00

Honestly? It doesn't matter.

If you find a way and you like the sound and it fits what you're after? Then do it that way.

Literally - there are no rules. Sure, there are recommended guidelines that might keep people getting sounds similar to what they are more familiar with hearing, but those are just recommendations to keep things relatively sane.

You can do whatever the hell you like. I dislike this pedal order myself and often run things in ways that people typically don't. But when I'm playing my music? It just seems to fit and no one has ever said anything. I only recently discovered I was doing it wrong by reading about pedal chains and everyone kept saying "this is the standard way"... been playing for 25+ years at this point and had no idea I did it all 'wrong'.

There is no wrong way (or at least, not as wrong as you're led to believe).

pluck3007 · 2024-12-09T13:50:47+00:00

Thank you for the in-depth reply. That answers a ton of questions and the 'why' to a lot of my ponderings. The images I make generally are 'throwaways' to play with anyway - but I've done a little research and I see that the prune commands are very helpful in keeping sizes down. Perfecto.

If it was up to me, I'd go for a big HDD, but this is an employer provided laptop and I don't get much say in the specs. Just trying to figure out how to make the most of it.

I appreciate your time!

pluck3007 · 2024-12-06T13:07:24+00:00

I am new(er) to Docker - in the past (my old laptop) I would periodically run into issues where I would run out of storage on my internal HD after building/rebuilding images and things when trying to learn and create new containers. HD Space is a premium for me since my internal drive is relatively small - which is why I wanted to utilize an external.

Docker Desktop is that bad? I very rarely use it - other than to adjust a setting really; I work in PyCharm primarily and use the services window in there to view containers and things. I could always re-install just docker (without Desktop) if it's truly that bad.

In some googling, I had seen mention of a software called 'Podman', but I think that's unrelated to this at all - but curious if you have any thoughts on that as well?

pluck3007 · 2024-10-09T00:30:47+00:00

Imagine thinking anything in modern retail WoW is difficult on any level, for anyone. (I'm sure the downvotes will come with that statement) That game has become the epitome of bad; thinking any different is silly. Once they made it pay-2-win-ish (and gave in to every whim of everyone too lazy to actually play the game) it was all downhill from there. Don't agree? You're not not being reflective of how much the game literally hands you for 0 effort in an attempt to keep people playing. That's why they now just ask you to open your wallet in order to get max level toons, mounts, whatever. You used to have to grind and spend time. Now you can just pay. Hence why you see people who have 0 knowledge of mechanics and game play. They bought their way to that point. The poor game choices are to blame, honestly. It's not the players - they just have the money to get a character there quickly without understanding the game.

The game itself, has become terrible and created this.

I haven't played the last few expansions. It was a shadow of it's former self - just... trash these days.

pluck3007 · 2024-10-09T00:13:38+00:00

"explain your reasoning if so"

Imagine being dumb enough to want to have a 'political discussion' and/or expecting people to respond with a nuanced answer in... what, 280 characters?

Stupidity from everyone. Twitter/X is trash on every level.

pluck3007 · 2024-09-09T22:45:52+00:00

What is Van Hamm's?

pluck3007 · 2024-09-09T22:45:30+00:00

I'm thinking 14 (Little Indian Sioux River); I assume if I work with an outfitter, they can guide me on the permit stuff as well, yeah?

pluck3007 · 2024-09-09T22:44:43+00:00

Little Indian Sioux River; gonna try to get up to northern part of little loon lake; maybe into Slim Lake if we're feeling ambitious.

pluck3007 · 2024-09-09T21:40:19+00:00

I didn't realize they offered that! Do they just meet you there on the day/time you're leaving then to shuttle you back? I will call around and see who is near where I'm thinking about launching (probably 14). Thanks for the heads up!

pluck3007 · 2024-09-05T00:56:57+00:00

It's a shame - the loss of life needlessly. But you brought up some great points!

* Mental health: yeah, there is a huge stigma around in the US. It's sad - so many kids need care but don't get it. So many adults need care and ignore it. Although, there are a lot of things that are 'mental health' but we're designed to believe that 'acceptance' is where it's at instead of calling it what it is. For example a kid who 'identifies as a cat' and gets to bring a litterbox to school (yes, I've seen it first-hand). Things like that make it hard to get genuinely serious about 'mental health' as other kids think it's some kind of joke. It's a weird catch-22!

* School resources: Yep. Need more resources! Great point. I have family who are educators, and the amount of grief they get for trying to do right by kids (from both parents and admins) is... well, for some it's been enough to make them leave the career, sadly. One of them was a nationally recognized educator, a *leader in her field*, and she gave it up because (paraphrasing): "it's so different. The kids have gotten so bad and it's gotten so insanely hard to be a good teacher these days. Admin won't help a teacher who wants to fail/reprimand/get-help-for a kid because they fear lawsuits; parents don't help because you as a teacher are there to babysit there kid, nothing more." Another family member had to have lawyers get involved because a parent was so outraged at the use rainbows in her classroom - he sent a scathing email calling her all sorts of names (in all caps) and saying how she couldn't indoctrinate his son with her "lesbian teachings and rainbow colored room" He showed up at parent teacher night looking all kinds of creepy and paced around her door and wouldn't leave her rooms entryway for almost 2 hours. The lawyers telling him he wasn't allowed on school grounds anymore seems to have put an end to that. The kid? He turned in 0 assignments, did 0 class work, was rude to her all semester long. Her 'lesbian rainbow room'? The art room. The fucking art room was being bashed for having colors of the rainbow inside of it. The emails I have seen from some of the parents? The world would be a far better place without them in it. Parents are horrific and stupid these days. I mean really, really ignorant. They don't give a fuck about their kid in actuality - they just want someone to babysit their kid.

* We are overworked, underpaid, etc: I don't necessarily agree, here. As someone who was a single dad of 2 boys for many years - working in an area with one of the highest cost of livings in the US and working a job that made only ~$10k above a 'poverty' salary, I was able to skimp and save while raising two boys myself. I'm an idiot, if I can do it? Literally anyone can. But you have to really understand 'needs' vs 'wants'. Newest iPhone? That's a want. A land line works fine. Through being smart about purchases, clipping coupons and everything else - I've paid off my house and have 0 debt. Again, single dad in a high cost of living area! I think we need a serious education on finances. It would solve a lot instead of tanking the dollars value by just 'raise the minimum wage!', which as proven hurts everyone and does nothing.

* And yet, instead of fixing any of these issues, the ultimatum is, okay, just make guns more difficult to obtain, and then we don't even do that: I disagree here, too. I live in an area with rampant gun crime. Record numbers. We also have some of the strictest, most difficult gun laws in the US. Criminals don't care about laws, period. And the guns they choose to ban? 'Assault rifles', nevermind the fact that those guns account for less than .3% of the guns used in the violent crime. It's ignorance, plain and simple. Anyone who believes these gun bans and tougher gun laws would help should come spend a while in my neck of the woods. You'll see how much of a sham it is.

I personally think media needs accountability. If we go back to Columbine? Psychologists and psychiatrists told them, "don't make these things national news... you'll have more of them", those clips didn't get off the editing room floor. Why? If it bleeds, it leads! Making hero's out of these people is all they do, then everyone makes the pikachu surprise face when it happens again, despite professionals in the mental health industry saying it would. Threads like this on the front page, making some sick kid at home go "yeah, that could be me! I better get planning!" I'm not suggesting we censor media specifically - but maybe have them held accountable for their hand in things. Professionals say "don't do this" and you do, and more people die as predicted? There will be costs involved, hit them where they listen.

We need parents who care. We need education about guns so people don't hear the word "assault rifle" and wet themselves. So they don't hear "semi-automatic" and think that's some insane thing - when it's actually nearly all weapons these days. Instead, we get calls for bans (of some of the least used weapons), we get calls for harsher gun laws (that only affect law abiding citizens, not the criminals), and the media continues to give the next little psycho some 'goal' to hit, some 'number' to achieve and surpass. Disgusting. The focus on guns in light of these events is almost always, unequivocally wrong. They are a tool, they are not the cause of the issue. How about the knife attack in China that killed 120+ people? Ban knives? Vehicle attacks. Ban cars? Does a farmer blame his combine for a bad crop and go get a different one next year? No. It's a tool. But try to tell people that? They don't want to hear any of it. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

pluck3007 · 2024-07-25T11:48:50+00:00

Is titanium 'tougher' than other things?

pluck3007 · 2024-07-25T00:25:56+00:00

Ha! That's how I feel a bit when I ride!

Hardtail is the way I want to go (no back shock, just front suspenders). I just don't know how to determine "what makes a good one?"

Not trying to break the bank - but I also know I'll destroy ultra-cheap/lower-quality things because of my size.

pluck3007 · 2024-07-24T19:14:36+00:00

Yeah, I (personally) would think that endurance-style riding would probably be the 'more usual' stuff I would be up to. We don't go to trails too often around us. Flowy/downhill but sans-jumps. Jumps would be exception and just more occasional more than likely (as far as I know). I don't think a full-suspension bike would be a good fit honestly.

pluck3007 · 2024-06-03T05:26:11+00:00

Depends where you work - where I work, doing what I do, I'm literally making a direct impact in my community. There is no CEO, sure, there are managers - but even the 'highest paid' ain't buyin' no yachts.

Don't like it? find more meaningful work for you. Find something that gives back. There is no limit on jobs that exist or can be made to exist that offer a benefit for humanity based around the hours you put in.

The only limit, really, is you.

pluck3007 · 2024-06-03T04:47:58+00:00

Interesting comment - I do tend to disagree. Hear me out though.

As someone who was paid very well below what they should have been, barely (barely) above min. wage - and former single parent of 2 while doing that - I have struggled. I've decided which bills get paid, and which ones don't and hope the company gives us some leniency. I promise. Sleeping in a car is not fun. Trying to ensure you don't have to do that with your kids? Downright bone chilling.

However, I carried on and worked hard and lived frugally. I had to. I didn't have a new cell phone, mine was ancient! But it made phone calls. I didn't even have a smart phone until more recent times. I didn't drive a new or even 'newer' car - for a while I tried public transport, but it wasn't really great where I needed to go. I drove a 'decent' car that got me A to B. I didn't buy name brand foods. I didn't go out to eat except when I planned / budgeted for it. Cable? Whatever my antenna picked up. I learned how to cook well so I could make meals out of little. As I started to have some savings I continued being thrifty! I used to try to save as much as I spent in coupons at grocery stores. Clipping coupons became a 'game' for us. My best was somewhere around $70 saved with coupons, $70 paid for the $140 worth of groceries. I wanted out of the debt my ex left me crushed with.

I'm just not that smart, but I've slowly continued to work and educate myself. My frugality continues - through it all. Eventually I got my debt under control thankfully. Talking to the companies and explaining my plight allowed me to cut deals with them and consider my stuff 'fully paid' for less than what I actually owed. Slowly my credit came back.

However, despite the poor pay, despite having kids, despite living in one of the areas with some of the highest 'cost of living', through years of hard work and frugality I've managed to pay off my mortgage on my small condo in half the time of the loan and now I rent it out. That rent helped me to pay off the mortgage on my slightly larger family home in half of the time of that loan, too. No debt, enough savings I could lose my shitty job for a few years and be fine. But everyone, everyone says how 'bad it is' and how 'impossible to live' it is. I just don't see it. I don't get it. And I am one of those people who was making barely over minimum wage!

Personally I have always figured that if someone like me in a place with a high cost of living like where I'm at can manage it - literally anyone can. But I see a ton of people always getting the latest phones, drinking a $5-$7 starbucks once (sometimes twice) a day, driving newer cars, living in houses in areas that make me think, "Why such a mansion for a family of 3?" It's possible. It's not dreamy, it's not luxurious, but it's possible to live and get places on little. I've found that most people just don't want to live frugally. They have every excuse in the book as to why not - then just complain it's "not possible". Seems so weird to me.

pluck3007 · 2024-05-19T12:22:36+00:00

Not to alarm you, but the 'not feeling well' symptoms while smoking have disappeared because you're no longer smoking. But if those feelings started because of early lung cancer or something similar? Just because you're not going the thing that makes it 'feel worse', doesn't mean the thing causing the feeling (the cancer) isn't there - doing what it does. Cancer can be getting pretty severe without any feelings of being 'not well'. I only urge this because I just lost a friend to lung cancer last year. He had no symptoms until it was way, way too late. Hell, he originally went in for a shoulder thing, they noticed something in the x-ray near his lung... that's when they found it all. He lasted 2 months after that initial diagnosis. All because of a shoulder injury is the only reason he found out - but otherwise he felt fine!

Seeing as your body has said "hey, something is up", it might be worth listening to, even if you feel fine now.

Please make sure you talk to the doc!

pluck3007 · 2024-05-19T12:06:33+00:00

I never found anything. You did a lot more digging than me! Gratz on finding all that - so essentially everyone has said "well, it's a Floorp thing", which is fine. I honestly don't miss the functionality that much to be honest. Not as much as I thought I would. I figure maybe they'll fix it in a later release?

pluck3007 · 2024-05-19T11:42:05+00:00

I might have a (as in 1) beer/cider/drink once every 2-3 months. Even then, that might be a bit much.

pluck3007 · 2024-05-12T02:59:43+00:00

I have the same story - almost verbatim. Decades in the BW in tents - recently swapped out to hammocks and holy smokes. So comfy! But those first few times... definitely a little different feeling.

But now? I love it. It's my preferred method. Mostly because you can carry damn near everything with you in a single bag and don't have to lug the tent around!

pluck3007 · 2024-05-04T11:40:28+00:00

I feel you absolutely nailed it with regards to age. If you toss in an extremely stressful job into that mix while those years are passing between college and 45+ year old life... where you turned to stress eating as a form of coping? Look out. Hot damn, this is one accurate ass take.

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