https://mas.else.social/@choyer/110746384528095273
Someone checked and there’s already an existing trademark for Firefish in software specifically, at least in Europe. Apparently they make HR solutions of some sort.
https://jobs.firefishsoftware.com/about-us/meet-the-team.aspx
Firefox, but make it wet
(I don’t know if it’s a worse than “calckey” tbf)
They just put out a lot of mediocre products, mostly. Also they were hilariously rude to the creator of the MT3 profile (which is one of their signature accomplishments in the keyboard space)
Did Drop still own Geekhack? (In some ways Corsair acquiring Geehack would be the bigger story to me at least since Geekhack is one of the key places (especially excluding reddit) that interest checks and group buys are published.)
You have to go out of your way to find keycaps that aren’t MX-styled. But you may want to double check the layout and particularly the size of the spacebars, shifts, and the keys in the bottom row. Some gamer boards have nonstandard layouts.
Tech also involves corporate $$, “disruptive” (read: anti-worker) innovation, etc. the general skew of tech as an industry seems center-right to me plus lots of tech bros fully engaged (sometimes “ironically”) with the alt right.
At the local level, tech bros form natural partnerships with right wing interests around gentrification and policing.
From an opsec standpoint, certainly. Or they’ll kick in your door like the Kolektiva admin. Definitely best to use end to end encryption if you have any need to protect yourself from state actors. But also fuck meta
Cannonkeys and Novelkeys have some good in-stock sets nowadays
Epistory is kind of fun. You may want to cross post to !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world
If you’re doing your own PCB, you could add splitkb tenting puck https://github.com/splitkb/tenting_puck
It says that “If everything works fine with your keyboard. Please don’t flash the firmware. There is a chance it can damage your keyboard”. I am aware that if I unplugged during a firmware update it could brick it, but otherwise it would work out fine, right? Would the reset button underneath the spacebar save me in that situation? It is hard to tell whether this is just keychron trying to go the safest route to avoid tech support calls or if this is actually a valid recommendation.
I’ve seen some stories of folks having issues with flashing cheap keyboards due to driver funkiness or other reasons. It would be weird to see a *good *keyboard PCB designer telling you not to flash firmware, though, because that’s a very normal thing for enthusiasts to do and the designer should be testing the board and its firmware to make sure it works.
In terms of Vial vs. Via, Vial is much more full-featured, and arguably a little less newb-friendly just because it has a lot more stuff you can mess with. Many boards have Vial support to begin with, but some don’t. I think it’s relatively easy to add Vial support to a board that has Via support, but I’ve never done this because I’m usually building QMK from the command line.
::shocked face:: who could have predicted this, lol
I don’t have any philosophical objection for paying to use a platform I enjoy, but in the case of youtube, they have been so deliberately detrimental to society in terms of platforming fascists that I feel bad about the prospect of paying them, even if much of the money is going to creators I do like who I’m actually watching
For example, did you know a release of a new fully open source LLM called OpenLLaMA just got announced by the Researchers at Berkeley AI Research?
Lol, a lot of my friends experience all LLM news as doomscrolling basically because of how those tools are being used, to whose profit and at whose expense.
Not trying to pick a fight about that here, just that it’s funny how relative “doom” is.
Anywho it would be entirely reasonable to create a community dedicated to good technology news however you define it. Reality itself is pretty dark these days so any given cross-section of it is going to contain a lot of doom by default.
For short travel, you probably want either speed switches, kailh “pro” switches, or “long pole” switches. I’m not sure offhand the market for silent ones of those, though. There are a few websites that collate switch data, but they usually aren’t really kept up to date with new releases.
You can certainly get a functional mechanical keyboard on Amazon. If you haven’t used a mechanical keyboard at all and you want to try one out, I think buying a cheap gamer keyboard on Amazon and treating it as semi-disposable is quite reasonable.
If you want the ability to experiment with switches, look for one that has hotswap and cherry MX-style mechancial switches. If you want the ability to swap out for nicer keycaps, check and make sure the board uses a standard layout. Some consumer boards have unusually sized shift keys or space bars etc. that make them incompatible with many keycap sets.
Re: loud, this is also relative. Linear switches (red for lightweight ones, black for medium weight ones) will usually not be ultra loud, and you can also get “silent” switches, which have some dampening components.
It’s easy to find cheap fullsize boards with numpad and arrows. (It’s harder to find high end customs like this, though, as most enthusiasts prefer smaller boards.)
love a rolly boy encoder
You’re posting to the beehaw tech news community (“magazine”) though.
I think the place for kbin feature requests is: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues
I feel like finding a good instance in the fediverse (that’s accepting users) is always a nightmare.
That being said, I’ve been happy with the vibes on lemmy.blahaj.zone and they have a calckey/firefish instance (that’s the main blahaj.zone). But it’s not strictly general-purpose.