PhD graduate in #Physics. Loves #scalemodels , #electronics , #Astronomy , #reading and #gardening. Can't forget #coffee !
I'm taking time off with my parents to get healthy and find a new career path.
You will rarely hear me talk about religion or politics here. But do not assume I am apathetic or uninformed. Quite the opposite.
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Nah. If you ever need to vent then do it.
I sometimes think people don't do it enough. They just bottle it up and be too hard on themselves.
Yes ... you can grab it from the github and probably build it yourself.
But if you want a pre-built or installer you'll have to donate it seems.
I donated twice back in the early days, and there used to be an option saying "I already donated," but it seems to be gone now.
I guess it was being abused? I dunno.
But like I said, I'm moving to KiCAD so I just needed some version for a short while to help transition over.
Turns out Fritzing can still be had with standard sudo apt and thus bypassing the need to pay.
It's 1.0.1 ... The current is 1.0.6 I believe, but I had been working in 0.9.4/6 on Mac anyhow.
My guess is that 1.0.1 was the last freely available version you could easily get.
It's still just serving as a holdover as I get more fluent in KiCAD in Linux. And port over any relevant gerbers and what-not.
Glad to have it. I've heard older-ish Thinkpads have been in some demand lately.
Also nice that I won't need a dongle for everything.
Fritzing ... I used to use it every now and then for REALLY simple, personal, one-off PCBs.
Use to be you didn't have to pay. Now it's $12 and I couldn't find a current workaround.
I've been learning KiCAD regardless.
Thank you!
Indeed I did, :( ...
Sadly, the logic board on this Mac is about to go (seeing graphical glitches) or else I'd probably do something similar.
24.04.4 LTS
After many years, I'm back on Linux. Ubuntu for the moment and 98% smooth installation.
An archaic USB device did not want to play nice and a piece of software is now behind a paywall ... BOOOOO for #enshittification !
Anyway, I'll slowly work over to the new machine until the 2015 MacBook finally detonates, LOL.
This is a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen1 for anyone interested. I didn't even give Windows a chance to boot before wiping it completely.
