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.

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    There are several models of medical instruments where deleting files is such a hassle no one ever does it, the files just lay on the machine until the storage fills up, then some poor asshole has to delete each file one by one because you can’t just wipe the memory. There are medical students who have spent almost entire shifts at hospitals just navigating to individual files with the worst interfaces known to man and clicking delete over and over and over again.

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        I bet they could if literally anyone in any part of the process after this thing has been delivered knew anything about computers.

        Also one these things you navigate with a trackball and a touchpad and it can’t connect to any other machine except through a weird proprietary cable that I don’t think connects to anything with a keyboard. Actually I don’t even think the touchpad lets you do anything except scroll up and down and press enter more slowly than the trackball actually.