pinusc 2 days ago

Units is a cool piece of software, but I have since switched to qalculate. Mostly units has some silly defaults like needing to type tempC(30) instead of 30C; and it's nice to have a full calculator.

I know it's a way to specify that the conversion is absolute rather than relative, but qalculate just asks you about it the first time you convert, and since converting oven and outside temperatures is most of what I do, I don't havr to bother with remembering a different syntax.

Also qalculate is an awesome piece of software in general, so if you're excited by units you should check it out!

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  • dTal a day ago

    +1 for qalculate

    Favorite feature: you can type in any equation, writing 'x' for an unknown quantity, and it will solve for x. This comes in handy to avoid having to engage brain even for simple calculations. How many pixels per mm is 96 DPI? Just type 96/inch = x/mm. Sure you could rearrange it yourself but why bother?

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crumpled 3 days ago

I did as well. I found a bug right away. If I use "units" the resulting calculations are reversed.

You have: 1 mile You want: kilometers * 1.609344 / 0.62137119

You have: 1 unit You want: 1.609344 units * 0.62137119 / 1.609344

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  • xigoi 2 days ago

    The output format is weird. I recommend `units --one-line` (or `units -1` for short).

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