Yeah, at first it seemed quite alright to do with a smaller angle (from 3 to 6 degrees depending on the battery), but now I think it would make the board too complicated. Right now I am trying to get used to sticky mod keys on home row combos (colemak A+S for LGUI, N+I for LCTL) and it seems like I'll be able to remove the inner thumb key in the end.
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Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.
Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company's word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.
Wait.. Its actually not bad. Apart from advertising WSL there's some decent instructions for installing Linux in place of windows. This could be a tutorial not affiliated with Microsoft.
Use librewolf instead of Firefox to get rid of the whole spyware part of it. Librewolf only has a single request when starting, to "check for updates". But using Firefox is the second best thing you can do both for your privacy and to fight Google's " Web Environment Integrity" crap.
Framaforms + framacalc.
My servers have names of Spanish words humorist El Risitas says in his mythical video where he laughs with no real reason.
The biggest server is named "cocinero", because I can (jokingly) easily imagine a very fat cook.
Then there is plancha, a lenovo thinkcentre which has the size of a plank.
My raspberry pi's have names of tapas: chorizo, keso etc.
Wow, great it could be so helpful!
Yeah, a dactyl kinda defeats the point of having a small keyboard. Soon I'll try to make a 36-key split with some way to link the two parts to make it usable on laptops for example (rn it's comically large when using a laptop: I need to put the two halves on the side plus a mouse if I don't want to use the touchpad). I'll also use sockets for everything (switches & XIAO controllers) so that the next one I make doesn't cost as much.
what is the reason you shy away from ubuntu? Canonical. Snaps. Ubuntu is the first server OS I used, and while it was quite good I think I prefer using a base distrobox instead of a derivative. If I'm going to use Debian, I'll use Debian. Not Debian with corporate stuff on top.
As for SELinux: I've tried around a year ago. But as soon as I started doing stuff with users and tweaking docker permissions things went wrong and I just set it to permissive. Maybe I'll try that again soon, because other parts of managing servers have become much easier over time as I learned. I agree that having a server without SELinux is quite dumb and not very professional.
You convinced me for immutable fedora. Maybe I'll try it out sometime on our backup/testing server and maybe it will make its way to production if I'm happy with it.
As for distrobox I'll see.
The main reason I used Gentoo is because of being able to reduce the attack surface with USE flags. But as it seems the tradeoffs with it are greater than the advantages (the mastodon issue I mentioned). If I don't switch the server to immutable fedora, I'll just use something like plain fedora or debian I think.
2 row cluster
I could cut it off. The 5 innermost keys aren't even used, and the one left over is just for (rarely) pressing alt, and that's only on the left half. As for the top matrix row, it's the same situation: I only use it for function keys which I only use for switching tty's, and I know I would always ask myself "wait, how do I press f1/f2?" The outer keys are used for the enter key and print screen, which leaves 4 unused keys. That's:
- 5 useless keys for the left thumb
- 6 for the right thumb
- 6 on each half for the top row which could be moved yo another layer, making the keeb smaller while only having to remember 12 logically placed f keys
- 4 outer keys on the 3 bottom rows
= 27 keys that could be removed. Yikes.
Now onto the xmodmap stuff: when I need to use the keyboard on a new computer, it will almost always be on an X11 Linux one, as that's what my high school computers for IT use (the one specific to the classes I'm taking), and also what I managed to get my family to use. This means I'll always be able to add the xmodmap stuff, plus it poses no problem to other users of the same account (if applicable) as it uses f13+ keys which nobody else would use (most people don't even know these keys exist). I also like not having to change my keymap from us especially when doing work on server hardware (I sometimes physically access a think centre used for backups at renn.es, shameless plug). The configurator is not even really my thing anymore, I only ever change the config through the file nowadays.
Thanks, great suggestion! But as it seems it would make use of less common parts (I mean parts that can't be gotten from local shops or ergo keyboard part sellers like splitkb), plus I think the batteries would be too small even compared to the 80mAh batteries used with nice!nanos.