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I used to use this back when I mained Windows. Ever since moving primarily to Linux, and getting familiar with Emacs, Calc mode simply beats every calculator I've ever used in total functionality. However, there are certain cases where I also like to use https://insect.sh if lots of units are involved.
And with PYTHONSTARTUP you can get creative.
I only use it to display numbers as hex and binary [1] but I'm sure it can be useful in many other ways.
[1]: https://github.com/L-P/dotfiles/blob/39ac8d5849a593ef1633ed8...
> I miss MsPaint every day.
I’m like you. On Linux there’s KolourPaint that does the job, but on macOS I never found any desktop app that does what I want. In the browser, there’s this clone [1] that mimicks all the features of the original one. You can "open" a file, "save" it, and everything in the meantime is saved in local storage.
[1]: https://jspaint.app/
I use calc as well, especially practical in combination with guake ( a drop-down quake style console: https://github.com/Guake/guake ).
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