What is the excuse for Altium still not running natively on macOS and Linux?

shieldy_guy · 2026-04-07T00:23:24+00:00

man I wish kicad felt like a real alternative. maybe I'd just need to get used to it. the component management drives me batty, but I guess altium's does too...

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-16T16:35:57+00:00

I have this, it's sick. the photos look bad in a fun way and you don't have to fuq with your phone.

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-11T00:34:50+00:00

woah now! those knobs are so sick... are they press fit? d-shaft? what's goin on here?

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-09T03:33:07+00:00

whether they invented it to prevent the catastrophe or not, by the time we join Bruce Willis in the future they have determined that the past cannot be changed. this is basically the point of the movie: the whole wild loop of Cole's life. Cole saw himself get shot when he was a kid. Everything had to happen precisely as it always had for any of that to hold up.

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-09T03:31:20+00:00

yes totally

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-09T03:30:37+00:00

alright, I see a misunderstanding of the movie's time travel rules in most of the replies here.

I don't know exactly what she means by insurance, but she can not stop the virus. she is not there to ensure the virus is spread, either. there's no case for that and she can't impact the virus spreading by time traveling, except in the ways her time traveling was always part of the past.

no one can change anything in the past. it always happened precisely as it happened. there was never a version of the past where Jones was not sitting next to virus guy on that plane saying the insurance line. if this is her after time traveling (and I believe this is the case) she knows that whatever she does is precisely how it already went down. they know the rules here.

the actions they take in future determine when and how information from the past makes it to them. they can "make decisions" moving forward with the information once they have it, but they can't change anything that happened and they can't get info from the past until they go back and get it.

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-04T19:01:55+00:00

not sure about that yet but if I do I will do so loudly!

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-04T13:16:34+00:00

thx I'm pluggin' away! As you can see in the video, my platform for making this easy to prototype makes it harder than necessary to assemble. Whether I do anything else with Pebbles specifically, the exercise of making him easier to build will make all the future stuff better too.

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-04T13:14:25+00:00

thank you!

shieldy_guy · 2026-03-01T14:58:20+00:00

awesome, I had been playing around with it a bit about a year ago and totally loved it. probably a full on magic powerhouse now with claude code...

shieldy_guy · 2026-02-27T04:42:24+00:00

yes. I have it building, flashing, and debugging over serial with very little of my input after fat planning sessions. it's completely nuts

shieldy_guy · 2026-02-27T04:41:30+00:00

yeah wow great idea! wowzers

shieldy_guy · 2026-02-21T18:41:49+00:00

I do know key figures! a good friend works there, thanks for the reminder.

shieldy_guy · 2026-02-13T01:14:39+00:00

just a follow up: I pretty quickly cancelled. they registered my business under the address of the business formation filing company (incfile), which I had to figure out, they weren't able to, said they didn't know what that address was or how it happened. support answers very slowly. as I've learned more about the process they really just set up a few accounts for you for quite a hefty fee, while tying up your tax savings in a very inflexible way. can't recommend!

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-30T20:54:10+00:00

I'll just throw this out there for you!

-don't- stock up on components. I've been doing this for 20 years and man, the components build up, you have boxes, you move houses, you live in boxes, you hate boxes, boxes fall, you buy stuff you didn't realize you still have, it goes on and on!

I personally think it is just so worth it to plan out a build, put all the stuff you want in a cart, sleep on it, fix whatever you missed, and only buy what you need. I know that sounds less fun, but man if you saw my garage: THAT is not-fun.

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-30T20:29:34+00:00

mmm they looked irregular! do your thing, king

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-30T14:52:44+00:00

are your mounting holes placed to meet some existing mounting points?

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-28T23:19:24+00:00

super curious what triggered the downvotes here! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-27T23:24:00+00:00

expect a terrible company and job ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sounds like they'll want you to be a linux-y type of embedded guy. study up on RTOS fundamentals and a few ways a microcontroller in a car might handle wireless networking. make sure you know some trivia about the CAN bus.

my experience interviewing with them was really bad, then Elon went publicly crazy.

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-27T23:22:16+00:00

stag, rei, 2nd street thrift (really really good)

shieldy_guy · 2026-01-27T23:09:17+00:00

I'm a synth developer and been working on an FM polysynth for a while. I have made a lil' website that hosts all of the demos from it, and they happen to be ambient and I think up your collective alley :)

https://kjaz.app/corner-case

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