https://www.ni.com/nl-nl/shop/product/multisim.html

^^^^^

The above worthless trash known as “multisim”, used for simulating circuits costs 905 EUR and

  1. Doesn’t have a linux version
  2. Is missing 90% of new commercially available parts
  3. Doesn’t have a method of easily adding those parts (except manually, 1 by 1) (as far as I know)
  4. Has garbage UI (you can only undo 4 times) (adding or removing a single component can easily use up more than 4 moves)
  5. Inconsistent simulations (making the sims work feels like trying to appease a capricious God to not curse you with famine)

The free open source software (qucs-studio) seems to have none of these problems, though I have barely used it.

  • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    The FOSS sphere is pretty nice. More and more of my stuff is running off of self-hosted FOSS software lately. Holdouts are my workstation OS and email because I’m really lazy and those require a bunch of boring work

    • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      Same. I can understand why professionals are locked into particular (shitty) tools and that certain features are always going to land in the FOSS equivalent later, but now I’m in deep enough, I:

      a) have toys that make most people jealous (stuff like Jellyfin and the *arr stack, my Calibre and airsonic libraries, or a personal website), and

      b) can be a jack of all trades in ways that would be way out of economic reach for those who assume that FOSS just isn’t good enough. Need someone to make an amateur photo edit, put together a video, or record a quick meme song? I can do all that because I’ve been able to afford the price ($0) of having those tools around for a decade and learning my way around them at my own pace.

      • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Same. I can understand why professionals are locked into particular (shitty) tools and that certain features are always going to land in the FOSS equivalent later, but now I’m in deep enough, I:

        Also running the arr suite, jellyfin with torrenting and Usenet here. I spent a lot upfront but frankly, I’ll probably never have to buy a subscription service again outside of music (I’ve been too lazy to setup music automatically). I want to get into ripping my own content from blue-ray discs etc but have not had the motivation to work on any personal projects lately