@croccifixio !!!!! THAT'S AWESOME MAN! Thank you for letting me know! I hope you are as happy with your new planck as I am with mine! Now, just take it easy experimenting with new layouts, I lost almost two weeks playing with mine

I once had the displeasure to clean a Dell laptop. It was a Vostro 3550. I found out that in this model they used only 1 small heatsink for both the gpu and cpu. It would get so hot while using the gpu that the wrist rest area was like a frying pan. Mean while my ASUS K555 also with a dedicated gpu (GTX 940M) is like a breeze.

Give other laptop brands another chance in the future. 😁

@acerspyro @linuxxx Have to take back everything I said. Just installed atom and it's blazing fast.

I had to edit a huge JavaScript project, Webstorm became unusable (indexing, 2+ instances open), Emacs would take too long to prepare (js2-mode, ternjs, etc), so I decided to give atom another try! Just perfect!

Don't know if my fresh Arch installation has something to do with this, but I really don't care. Loving it!

The Wii got shy and didn't want to take the picture...

@dieterdw 😂😂 I'm a full on gamer, my 190+ games on steam... My setup is a little old, AMD FX 8350 with a R9 280X

@alkuzad I love the LinuxSucks videos, it's a pity that he did the last one though. I'm aware it's the same complaints for a long time, but he is very good saying the same shit every year 😂

@DeveloperACE oh yeah man, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what they are trying to say/do...

I don't know if it's bullshit or ingenuity... But I refuse to think that they are so naive.

To think at the amount of copyright they would have to break to get this stuff working.

Not even counting the FPGA shit that will magically run .exe files... An awesome hardware that can interpret windows games, all this without libraries and DirectX and stuff... At HW level... Amazing!!!

@wolt Yeah, I know, been using Linux for a loooong time now. I'm just saying some famous distributions doesn't even ship it by default. In fact, I used su way more than sudo, It changed after I began to use Ubuntu. Now that I'm using Arch su is back to the top.

@RevThwack awesome man!

If you use Arch you don't even start with sudo. You can choose not to install it at all.

I would consider this a first world problem 😂😂

Saying that C# is pointless is like saying that Twitter is nothing... Sure you may not like it, but it is one of the most popular things in the world. Respect and be respected man.

Having said that, be strong and learn by yourself! The community is here for you.

This is so cool. I just remember how much rants I would have posted if devRant existed when I was trying to install winmodem drivers on Conectiva Linux back in the days... And then proceeding to install Napster... And then fucking with the windows dual boot... So many rants it brings tears to my eyes...

@acerspyro I keep trying to use it from time to time. I think the last shot was in December. It is very cool and I love some of the plugins. But in a large project it gets really slow when compared to sublime/emacs/vim or even vscode, that uses the same tech stack.

I'm not even considering the last attempt to use it with a large typescript project. The typescript plugin just stood there collecting requests. I even opened an issue ages ago, but it stills painfully slow. Meanwhile the vscode implementation is just smooth and blazing fast, faster than the sublime plugin.

I look forward for it to get better, really think is a good idea and was very excited with everything I could accomplish with it. But was very disappointed with the performance when compared to the others editors I know.

@acerspyro kidding, atom is good, but taking a look in the competition it kinda fades.

The community rocks though.

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@linuxxx the problem is not the distro, is the video card (old af). I had to downgrade the Xorg server for it to work.

On the plus side, I finally motivated myself to dive in the Arch Linux. I'm loving it. Don't know why I postponed this so much (using Linux since '99, it was about time to man up!)

+1'd for fellow Brazilian.

@StefanH the mouse mode is very useful. I use mostly on my laptop. It has acceleration control (I use 3 levels - 0, 1 and 2) so you can adjust the movement precision.

Very convenient to avoid that touch pad or moving your hand around. I browse and get around menus and stuff like that with it. Not so good for things like image editing, of course.

@jackhumbert just +1'd this rant! He is the owner of olkb.com and creator of the planck keyboards! I think he just joined devRant!

Welcome and thank you for such amazing keyboards! I'm honored!

@Ashkin It really looks like that, but when you make your own rules, it really gets pretty easy. I love it and can't see myself without a programmable keyboard right now.

But you're right. You'll need to invest some time in defining the layout and getting used to it. I took about 3 days to finish my layout and about one week to get used to it (to get typing as fast as I did in my previous keyboard). Don't regret that though, it was way faster than learning Dvorak.

Funny thing is that I think that the preonic (the larger one, with 5 rows) has way too much keys, I don't even use the top row. Just assigned the Fn's keys there and forget they exist most of the time.

For those who need more keys, I recommend the Ergodox. It uses the same controller (same firmware) but it is a split keyboard. Also incredible but pricey. http://ergodox-ez.com

@StefanH just edited my comment. Take a look. I thought that It was going to be difficult to get used to it when I first bought it, but when you can define every aspect of the layout, and make it comfortable for your coding style, it actually is pretty awesome.

My typing speed improved and my hands don't even move from the typing position (I don't have to move them to get to de numpad or the directional keys). I know it isn't for everyone, just my two cents here.

@StefanH actually, we can define layers. Up to 32 layers I think. Take a look in my previous config. You can see something like Ent/Shf, this means that if you tap the key it will register ENTER, but if you hold, it will apply the SHIFT modifier. There are many more functions like this in the firmware, like the tap dance (tap once for X, tap twice for Y).

Just found out that they don't come assembled in this drop. You will have to solder the switches to the board and that's it. Sorry for the confusion.

@croccifixio

Great! Happy Pi day.

P.S.: In electrical engineering we use 'j' instead of 'i' to avoid mistakes with current representation. 😂

I switched from sublime text to Emacs. Miss him all the time, but org-mode is amazing. I deleted sublime text to force myself to learn the emacs way and not get tempted to use it.

I read the article and, from what I remember, they are actually running a virtual machine inside the iPhone 7. They stated that the iOS cannot be removed.

@jonjo Glad to hear that you are getting close to your goals. I'm a Electrical Engineering student, so I'm very excited in that kind of project (control systems are a huge part of my current classes). If you need more suggestions, please let me know, I'll be glad to help.

I agree with the other comments about the RAM and stuff. But an upgrade like that really feels great! Congratulations.

In my opinion the n.1 cause of devRant is underpowered machines. It really makes THE difference. Waiting ages for that thing to compile and just realizing you made a typo in the end is just sad...

I think you are overlooking some inputs in the PID controller design. Maybe you should model your system taking into account the valve position, flow speed, etc. This means more sensors, so more inputs in your transfer function for your system. If you choose to only measure your temperature and then take some action based on that, the system will be way more unstable, even reaching the point of complete oscillation. These overlooked variables might be your problem.

To choose the right gains (kp, kd, ki), you need to model the system, define the parameters that the system must observe and then you can have a pretty solid controller.