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  • For QMK, my go-to hrm-embetterment came from Achordion. Not sure if that helps OP, but it made hrm amazing for me, and it does the sort of timing tweaks that might help here.

    Otherwise, the HOLD_ON_OTHER_KEY_PRESS mode might help.

  • Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”
  • Same here, so unless something is fully open source, self hostable and preferably federating, I'm not picking it up.

  • Alt Gr unresponsive on Ducky One Mini
  • Before opening up or resoldering any switches, I'd short the two pins with something (tweasers or similar) to confirm or rule out the switch itself as the cause.

  • Thoughts on drip assist devices?
  • From the look of things, yeah, the OXO device looks similar enough to a Gabi, just a different filter type and a different (bigger) size. If there's a disadvantage to the Gabi, it's that: it's rather small, so unless you're doing single cups, you'll have to pour in a couple of rounds, making sure your bed doesn't dry out in the meantime, etc. It won't be a problem if you do single cups, so I suppose that's what it's primarily aimed at. Oh, and the type of filters differ, of course, so if you have a strong preference there, that might dictate the dripper/drip-assist you can use.

    Either way, yes, the OXO looks to be the same kind of thing, good to hear it works well, too!

  • Thoughts on drip assist devices?
  • Hario could be more popular because Hario, not sure though. I'll ask said coworker if he has experience with other devices (pretty sure he dailies a V60).

    As for faffery levels: yes, if that is your cup of tea (ha), that slightly changes things of course. ;)

  • Thoughts on drip assist devices?
  • but I don't really see much difference from manually pooring.

    Main difference is ease of use, you don't need to use a gooseneck to circle around, another time, wait a bit, make a pentagram, invoke some eldritch coffee god, pour the rest. You just fill the top resorvoir and wait for it to drip through. Refill until you've hit your water volume.

    Basically going the immersion route makes your water touch the coffee longer.

    It's not immersion route, afaict, not more so than a regular pour-over. Unless I'm misunderstanding you (or the processes).

    It might give you a slight improvement in comfort, but at what cost.

    Roughly 30-40 euros, I believe. ;)

  • Thoughts on drip assist devices?
  • Someone at the office brought a Gabi Dripper (or whatever the proper name is). Basically a Kalita Wave compatible filter holder, with a shower thingy on top that you just dump water into.

    I love that thing. It makes it stupid simple to brew good coffee, without faffing about, and if you want to take the time or experiment, you can still take the top off and do a manual pour.

    The way I see it: it's an addition. I've seen posts about "does this defeat the purpose", and I consider that silly gate keeping. The purpose is good coffee, yeah?

  • Vanilla OS will be launched on July 28th
  • They don't, officially, as far as I know it's always been an "at your own risk, might get your account banned" endeavor.

  • Vanilla OS will be launched on July 28th
  • No, problem not solved, problem half-heartedly worked around. People dislike Discord for several reasons, bridging it to whatever different platform will at best be a bandaid.

  • Niche Economy: The rise and fall of the group buy model in mechanical keyboards
    micro.thomasbaart.nl Niche Economy: The rise and fall of the group buy model in mechanical keyboards

    Group buys are still used as a business model, but its popularity is dwindling quickly. Why is that, and is that justified?

    Niche Economy: The rise and fall of the group buy model in mechanical keyboards

    Thomas Baart (of splitkb.com fame) dives into group buys:

    > Group buys are still used as a business model, but its popularity is dwindling quickly. Why is that, and is that justified?

    Interesting read!

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    $335 espresso
  • My takeaway wasn't that he didn't like it, he did. Just not worth the absurd price unless you want to literally pay for the privilege.

  • cinereus he - 42 keys, column stagger, splay in a 60% case
  • That looks great! How do you like the melodics?

  • The Trouble with Forking Mastodon
  • It absolutely is. Yet, as Sean said, it's also yet another bit of software to run and maintain, and ES is known to be a bit of an effort to keep going well.

    Admins having only finite amounts of time and/or resources, might make the very understandable decision to leave it out.

  • Anyone think that manual "pouring techniques" are mostly fluff?
  • Keyboards is no beter. Like you said, the fluff makes the hobby.

  • not a wireless 34 key voyager
  • Just looking at it makes me wonder why you'd consider the thumb placement that strange (although all hands are different and all that). What was off about it for you?

  • Your beginner keyboard and regret buying that?
  • I'm actually still on my first ergo, a Lily58 (my first mechanical was a "regular" 75%). I was a bit on the fence between this and the Corne, and I think I would've been fine going with the Corne; I barely used the numrow and currently it's not even mapped, and I'm experimenting with putting the things I had left on the outer columns on layers or combos.

    But regret... no, of course not. It's been a great learning experience so far!

    I'll certainly build more boards at some point, at least a Corne because, well, gotta build a Corne, but maybe some other things as well. Maybe a Charybdis or a Cygnus or something like that.

  • Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux
  • You gotta love the copy on the Warp site. As for why they're now launching it on Linux:

    Despite this, Linux has relatively few terminal options compared to Mac and Windows

    ...relatively few? Really?

  • Clarifying Misunderstandings of Slowroll
  • This sounds like it'd be exactly how I currently use Tumbleweed on my workstations: I don't update daily, but rather every once in a while. I appreciate the new versions of things, but being on the daily bleeding edge is more work than I care to put in.

    I can also see this working quite nicely for those with nvidia hardware, where with TW you'd sometimes end up with a kernel too new for the drivers to get shoehorned in. A slightly easier-going pace would help there.

    It also reminds me of Android, where you have roughly monthly updates (theoretically) and every now and then a bigger one.

  • Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
  • Installing a software package through a distro's package manager sounds like a perfectly fine "Linux way" to me.

  • Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation
  • Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.

    Which, to be fair, isn't exactly the fasted FS around. I love me some btrfs, but not for the benchmarks.

  • My first ergo and custom keyboard - Sofle Choc V3
  • Muscle memory needs some time, especially for symbol stuff. Don't hesitate to tweak your mappings, I've made some changes at some point which made things a whole lot more workable. I started with Miryoku which was completely unsuitable for the PHP work I was doing back then, to mention something, and moving the number cluster to the right hand rather than left did miracles for my day to day work as well.

  • I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

    > This blogpost starts with me switching of my car radio, and ends with me writing a browser. There is some stuff in between as well.

    Interesting take from the author; exactly the kind of thing that might start something big — or maybe it won't, and that's OK, too. Either way, I can appreciate the attitude!

    (There's also a discussion on the orange site)

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