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ArkScript lang developer, split keyboard fanatic

  • Synth Waves 84 with a few colors tweaks to the comments to make them more green. Also disabled gloomy effects even though that can look cool for 5 seconds.

  • I prefer being delusional and a cranky old dev, rather than trusting AI by giving all of my workplace code and logic. Powerful? Maybe. Helping you ship products faster? I don't know ; no metrics have been published about that in controlled settings, and I still think people will get lazy and after some time even the ones that tweaked the code and analyzed it thoroughly will just stop caring.

    Go ahead, jump in that bandwagon, and prove me wrong in 5 years. All I want is proof.

    Also, I didn't know one could be a cranky old dev after a few years of experience only

  • I didn't say that people should go on the internet and pick the first forum post either ; that would be like trusting whatever chatgpt is handing you :p

    My point was more on the "people are lazy" side of things, but yeah you have to stay critical of both chatgpt and forum posts.

  • People prefer having something generating shitty code and not checking it, instead of asking or searching on internet for a substantially better solution

  • Right on point ; I use it years ago as my daily driver in terms of wm, but never went very far in term of customisation. Now is maybe the time to look at it again, thanks for the link!

  • I would have thought that i3wm would use a lot less memory, given how basic it is.

  • Fyi the devs aren't reading this (and probably won't be before long, since they are busy just coding a lot of features). Best place to ask for this is on the issue tracker (first check if it hasn't been asked before), even better implement it yourself if you can!

  • I use bitwarden for many services, but have aegis for importants services (eg. work ones, bitwarden because I don't want to have 2fa for it locked away).

  • Logging into beehaw.org issues - should it work?

    Jump
  • Beehaw was unavailable when you posted (as in, offline or unresponsive), so imo that's the explanation.

  • It's a post from 2 years ago, so if nothing changed as of today, well, I think they didn't succeed in updating the docs

  • I don't know, I'm an open source dev too, but my time is valuable and I can't (and won't) just work for free on dozens of bug reports from a user that don't want to investigate first by themselves.

    Yeah open source is great, but if you want support you have look at the code and read the damn documentation first ; I lost a lot of time just directing users to docs because they can't read.

  • Progressive web app. You can install the website as an app on your phone. It creates an icon on your home screen for it and when opening it it's like a separate app, that isn't your browser.

  • You didn't install the PWA? It works great and I can switch between voyager/browser easily

  • Why would you need a native app? Like, what do think would be achievable in a native app that can not be done in a web app, and that you need/want?

  • I don't think so ; Voyager is a web app, the OS is irrelevant. It just needs a browser to work.

  • Amazon has a bunch of them. If you want to try specific switches, you can create your own 9 keys switcher tester on keygem, they ship really fast (based in Europe).

  • I used books to put board over, quite adjustable, though not the best.

    If it's cheap enough to you, the z-tripod is only 25$ (you'll need two). You could find even cheaper version were you just put the keyboard on it and rely on gravity to keep it from moving.

    To give you an idea, manfrotto pocket tripod + magsafe adapter+magsafe rings is about 120€ (about the same in $ I would guess). To me that starts to qualify as expensive.

    A very cheap version if you have a 3d printer (or a friend who owns one) would be to design your monoblock stand like this https://www.printables.com/model/311468-corne-tilt. There is the option to print legs too (https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/corne-keyboard-tenting-mod). Jlcpcb or other manufacturers can print them for you (but mind the shipping and taxes).

  • For the switches, you can buy switch testers for 10 bucks, with one switch of each brand/type/etc, to give you an idea of how they feel and sound.

    Since you are posting in c/emk you might also be interested in ergonomics for keyboards? If you scroll here you will see a lot of different keyboards, many which are split (2 parts, one for each hand). A good idea would be to print the layout of ones you are interested in, to see how they feel with hand placement and movement.