sleepybrett
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Comment · 5 hours ago
just means more places to get your key stolen from.
Comment · 4 days ago
Judges in some flock related cases seem to be disagreeing with your assessment on the plate reader surveillance network.
Comment · 5 days ago
buyouts also went out for skydance today.
Comment · 5 days ago
I've built a dozen plus keyboards in various configurations. I don't lack understanding, i have better understanding that you do apparently. I can build any keyboard i want with switches, a bag of diodes, a spool of wire and just about any commodity dev board like a rp2040 that qmk/zmk can support, add a 3d printer or a friend with a 3d printer it's a viable keyboard. Hell not even a 3d printer, i've seen guys who've built switch plates and cases with a dremel or basic woodworking tools.
Comment · 5 days ago
you know what a spool of wire, a reel of diodes, a peice of plasticcard and a hobby knife (for a switch plate, assuming you don't have access to a 3d printer or laser cutter), and a rp2040 costs? Because that's all you need (aside switches) to build any size/geometry of keyboard you want.
These per switch pcbs are conceptually cool but just kinda stupid, there are tons of people selling these single switch pcbs without the magnets/pogopins out there.. people try them out and then decide that they are pointless.
Comment · 5 days ago
here is the thing though. I can buy a 10$ board like a arduino pro micro or a rpi 2040. Cut out or 3d print a switch plate for whatever switch i want to use and then handwire the matrix, flash qmk/zmk on the board and I have a keyboard for FAR less than 6$ a key. Wiring that matrix is not rocket science, he'll it's barely harder than your typical baking recipie.
Comment · 5 days ago
Oh i've spent a lot prototyping keyboards, the pcb quite often one of the cheapest bit (if you even bother with one).
Comment · 5 days ago
I imagine any similar hobby that is generally practiced outdoors, is not repetitive (knitting as an example), and requires acute use of your senses would be the same.
Comment · 5 days ago
sure but even as a diy project it's hilariously stupid.
Comment · 5 days ago
designing a custom pcb for your own 'weird keyboard layout' and getting them manufactured short run would probably be cheaper and work better.
Comment · 5 days ago
at the cost of what per key? Congrats your removed all the efficiency from the system.
Comment · 6 days ago
i was going to say, fundraising for the eventual civil suit.
Comment · 9 days ago
I set up frametop yesterday night, some bumps along the way for sure. Paired my kinesis360pro and had to set it through passthrough to get any of the frametop hotkeys to work (took me a bit to figure that out). I put a cheapo bluetooth mouse in my amazon cart so I'll be able to try that out (i'm a wired mouse guy)...
Just need to find a few more tools to make my development environment a bit more ergonomic (need to find a terminal that supports remote tmux as well as iterm2), but so far it's working out great.
But again, frametop feels like a 1.0.. I think what I want or what would help is a vr native windows manager with features akin to macos' "stage manager" and other windows management features that they've built out... I dunno, maybe it's time to see if i can't vibe code my way to some prototypes.
I was also looking at this the other day, https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill might be cool to write a client on the frame side to recieve these windows/screens. The frametop remote screen thing seems like it doesn't support vnc which is a little annoying.
Comment · 9 days ago
.. yeah because that has put a stop to all the iptv providers.
Comment · 10 days ago
I picked up a steam frame because I'm sucker for headsets that don't smell like zuckerberg. (and it's at least 2x cheaper than the vision pro)
While I enjoy some of the VR games I've played, mostly simulator types (star wars squadrons, elite dangerous), as well as the 'exercise style' (beat saber, pistol whip), and this kind of 'board game style' (moss, ... there is a d&d one i don't recall the name of). I'm actually very keen on attempting productivity in the glasses.
The frame is easily the lightest, or at least, the most manageable headset I've tried and the most comfortable long term. Coming from the Index the screen resolution is much better and in my testing last night (It just showed up on my doorstep monday) it was working out pretty well in just the packed in 'desktop' mode (just one 'virtual monitor'). Paired a BT keyboard, installed goland and several other tools and was able to comfortably read all the windows without even tweaking things like themes, font-sizes, etc. All running directly on the headset.
I've seen some addon's that tweak the desktop environment, noteably frametop (https://github.com/Frametop/frametop) which i'm keen on trying out. Apparently it also allows you to set up remote 'monitors' as additional 'screens' in environment, it seems like it should support pulling my macbook screen into it via VNC.
I guess all to say I'm excited to explore what a 'vr native' productivity environment could look like beyond what i'm getting now, which is essentially virtual monitors.