melimosa

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[–] melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

Thanks !

Yes I've been thinking a lot about lighting. My sight problems are greatly impacted by the lack of light.

I already have a 2 led lamps, they provide enough light and have a great range of motion.

Maybe one day I'll go with a ring lamp w/ or w/out a magnifier on it, but I already know that for soldering this is not enough for me (a friend of mine lent me one a couple of years ago).

[–] melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks !

That's the kind that most friends advised me. But their is a lot of models, and I'm not entirely sure which one are wearable with glasses or not.

I guess I'll go with a on-table device later.

 

Hello,

I am a student / cleaner worker in EU. I do digital (mainly Intel 8051 and 6502) and analog (for mod synth) electronic, in a very low budget DIY way.

The thing is, I mainly work on breadboards, because my bad sight don't allow me to do very good soldering. However, I've been desoldering, scrapping and repairing PCB and electronics for like 5/6 years now, and it is still very hard despite this (little) experience.

I have success on THT with big components, although this is not the cleanest work. I would like to reduce the form factor of my work / stabilise it, but this often means smaller components, maybe SMD, and tight spaces, which I currently can't work well with.

In the last 2 years I've been searching for accommodations, things like better soldering iron, smaller tips (Currently for tight spaces and small pads I use thin Pinecil tips), better quality tin (with lead), flux, building helping hands, desolderings tools and consumables etc... This helps a lot but this is really not enough. I know that, in the end, I need some sort of magnification device.

The thing is, magnification devices are not cheap, at least for good quality and usability. I also don't have the money to "just try" one. I've been reading review, watching videos about some, talking to some friends etc.. but most people either don't have sight issues, or have "this very expensive microscope that only engineers can afford". This also comes with the fact that I fear to need to wear my glasses when using the device.

Soooo, I was wondering if there was some people out here with the same issues, or with experiences on some tools etc... any tips is welcome :)

I'm sorry if this question has already been answered, I didn't find it. If so, please link to the thread I'll be very happy :)

xoxo
~melimosa

Was high, and reading the journal. Phased on the name of somebody and then choose.

It was like "Yeah... this one, I like it"

Oh thanks, didn't know about this community, I might post it there :)

[–] melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So I come up with a way better solution, remember that I'm not a JS/CSS dev at all. This is done through some flex container manipulation, height manipulation and :hover magic.

It hides the sidebar below the main panel, and by hovering the grey rectangle it allows you to show it. I find it to work really well.

.main_pane, #side_pane {
  order: 1;
  width: 90%;
  max-width: unset !important;
  margin: 0 auto !important;
  overflow-y: hidden;
}

#side_pane {
  order: 0;
  
  display: flex;
  
  flex-direction: row;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  
  margin-top: 1rem !important;
  gap: 1em 0.5em;
  
  height: 3rem;
}

#side_pane:before {
    display: block;
    content: close-quote;
    height: 3em;
    width: 95%;
    margin: 0 auto;
    background-color: #eee;
}
  
#side_pane .card {
    order: 1;
    margin-top: unset !important;
    height: fit-content;
    max-width: calc(100% - 1em);
    width: 100%;
}
  
#side_pane .card#about_community {
    order: 0;
    width: 100%;
}

#side_pane:hover {
    height: unset;
    margin-bottom: 1rem !important;
}
    
#side_pane:hover:before {
  display: none;
}

PieFed custom CSS system doesn't allow & and ' symbols, which is pretty inconvenient for recursives selectors and for content clauses.

[–] melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

here is some screenshots, notice how the filters for the post feed are not properly aligned. This is not much of an issue for me, but can be improved

Screenshot of a feed using the CSS, the middle column now takes the full width, without the right bar

Screenshot of the community message feed, the filters are not properly aligned, but are usable

Screenshot of comments, those are correctly aligned and takes the full width

[–] melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Hey,

I'm new to piefed, and this is already an issue for me.

Currently I am using a simple custom CSS, which is not completely tested. Instead of collapsing the bar, it put it at the bottom of the page, and attribute the whole width to the main column :

div.row {  
  display: block;  
}  
div.row .col-lg-8,  
.side_pane {  
  width: 90%;  
  margin: 0 auto;  
}  

Hope it will help :3

~melimosa

[–] melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey !

On the last 4 years I've been working full time / having a lot of occupations the rest of the time, and yeah ... it sucks.

Depending on my social situation I have two main solutions :

  1. Organizing with people : when I live w/ people we often organize for food preparation. Someday somebody will pack lunch for everybody in the house in the morning / the evening, or the week-end for the week.
  2. Doing biiiig meal on the week-end, for the whole week / half the week: Things like broths can be really well conserved, as well as sandwich ingredients etc... You are not obligated to do full meal, you can also prep some parts to lightweight meal prep during the week etc... This ofc depends on when and how you have free-time.

This also comes with alarm clock, reminder etc... so I don't fck up my rhythm.

Also, I am vegetarian and had a lot of financial issues lately, this was also a strategy I / we used to buy food from wholesale merchants.

~melimosa