[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I’m guessing… Corne?

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

There are people who daily the real thing, with 47 or 48 keys. I couldn't do it, even with this one visually preserving more of the "standard" layout. Turned out I liked building boards more than learning to use them.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I made a lot of my own boards, and the three I use the most are:

  • One that's basically a "Tenkeyless", but I keep an external numpad nearby.
  • One that has a numpad but everything's kind of compressed and I use "Fn+number" to get the F keys. That one has a speck of UV resin on down-arrow so I can find it without looking.
  • One that is still a bit compact in layout, but has 117 keys, including a big red industrial pushbutton and a volume knob.

As fond as I am of this little guy, I just don't use it very often.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Even though I didn’t quite fall in love with the general idea of ortho, I’m still pretty pleased with myself. Bigger enter, proper arrow keys, and no missing punctuation. Good compromise for a bit of extra pinky movement, and no reason you couldn’t just map it out as a as normal Planck with a trio of media keys or macros.

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Happy 40s Day! (lemmy.world)

Not observant myself, but best wishes to those of the faith. My first ever hand-wired keyboard was a Planck with an extra column.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So this board is on odd beast. It was designed in-house at System 76, kind of before keyboards blew up (to the limited extent they have) as a hobby. It came out, I want to say during or soon after the pandemic, and it was not very well received, prompting some prickly feedback from the designer. It is pretty idiosyncratic, and messes around with key widths in order to (best I can tell) maximize the flexibility of the layout with the one set of keycaps it comes with.

Unfortunately, that means you end up with a lot of quirky choices and very bad aftermarket keycap support, and at least partially in pursuit of a market that is full of people who will happily ignore the legends on their keycaps. Some of the design choices also haven't aged as well for attracting an audience to a premium board, like XDA (they'd have probably gone KAM or something low-profile if they were doing it today), and the exposed switches. None of which is to imply you shouldn't enjoy your board. This hobby is supposed to be about personal preference, but it can tend towards the samey-samey, and at least the S76 boards are a big swing.

As for Yushakobo, I visited around Christmas and posted my build on Lemmy. Awesome little shop.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago
  1. I have no intentions of seeing this.

  2. Unironic "Hooray" for cinema tuned to regional tastes!

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, it's about an art heist.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

"Hired," yes...

LOL, usually the dye sub is better than that, but you will almost never find a non-clone design on XDA. I have limited sympathy for designers who think they can avoid having people make shit that's the same color (though it's more commonly the people who bought the real thing than the designers themselves), but I do feel bad that their unique novelties get lifted as well, and then used and abused forever after.

It's doubly unfortunate because XDA is pretty nice, but now the stigma is self-reinforcing.

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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Who knows what state the script was in at that point, and that particular scene would be fine. It's got some catchphrases, some punny flirting, some "I know that you know that I know..." spy talk, and some plot gobbledygook. It's like a Bond canvas and the last thing to add is the actor's take on the part.

I can also kind of see why he didn't get the role. Not quite nailing the Brosnan cheek or the Craig surliness, and the particular type of in-between feels a bit flat. I know a lot of screen tests are meant to be low-key, but I didn't get a lot from the clip. I reckon he'd pull off a much better take now, judging by UNCLE and Witcher, and he fits the age audiences have come to expect anyway. Probably also best to grab a haircut and shave (other work permitting) before screen-testing for James Bond, as the look is a huge part of it.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Yes, mostly, and that context is critically important, but the "line goes up" crowd will not be happy and will probably do something to change it. Possibly something okay-to-good, but probably not.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
  1. "I like Box Whites. They're like this delightfully gentle and quiet tactile switch," he typed from his keyboard full of Box Navies on an aluminum plate.
  2. Check out !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world, which is the only other active keyboard comm on Lemmy that I know of.
  3. If I were to dabble in ergo mechs again, I think the 58-key to 60-key splits would be about my speed.
  4. People have varying opinions about clones (for me, I feel for creators whose novelties get copied, but it is what it is with colorways), and you can get virtually any GMK or SP set cloned in XDA, so XDA ends up underrated as a typing experience.
  5. Welcome!
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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

...It was about ten minutes after I saw that my "ridiculous low-ball" Ebay bid for a branded battlecruiser had won. That said, it is way snappier (and louder) than any rubber dome I've ever used. It's not a bad board at all, really, though the terminal scan code set it was flashed with means the converter is more or less mandatory, despite the board having a PS/2 connector.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

The shocking part is that Subaru never explains why the hell you'd want a Forester when the Outback exists.

Wagon Life, BAY-BEE!!!!

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submitted 1 week ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

Pecan wood and Danish Oil. Made this entirely on a Shopsmith while between contractor saws. It was gonna be my first traditional mortise and tenon, but I fucked something up (don't remember exactly what, possibly some measurement) and turned it into a floating tenon situation instead. Still using it (and the headphones) five years later.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

Focus FK-5001 that I cleaned up and converted to USB. White Alps, original double-shot ABS caps. The calculator works.

EDIT: This fucker developed a short within like an hour of my closing the case back up. Now I have to either use my multi-meter to learn the entire 130-key matrix, or I have to desolder all the switches and kill the calculator function to turn the board into a hand-wired custom, though that would allow the left side function keys to be different from the top-row ones. Sigh.

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  • JWICK 67g Yellow linears
  • SA Tatooine
  • DIY case including the emblem of the Taitō ward where the shop is located
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submitted 1 month ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/music@lemmy.world

Look, I get it. Mark Knopfler the lyricist cannot compare, bell-curve-wise, to Mark Knopfler the guitarist.

Mark Knopfler the lyricist still has some absolutely top-tier shit that is very much in my wheelhouse. This song is a marvel of tone and of pulling emotion out of a ship-breaking operation (of all things), using vibrant but efficient imagery, and the song suits his vocal abilities. He was a journalist for a while before Dire Straits hit it big, and it shows. The arrangement and playing both sound excellent to me as well, but I'll defer on that to people with a more sophisticated ear than mine.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Looking specifically at the two-part black frame that contains the rest of the keyboard parts.

The lighting accentuates it and makes it look worse than it is, and it's certainly not hard to live with, but it'd be nice to fix it.

Basic Ender 3 clone (Voxelab Aquila) with no real physical mods to speak of. PLA, .2mm layer height, 50 or 60mm/second. Happy to add any other details as requested.

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I've got a couple of DIY boards with tactiles in them. One of them is gonna get solenoided.

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FreeCAD v1.0 released. (blog.freecad.org)
submitted 2 months ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22260935

Let's take her out for a spin...

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