WTF Bites
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@Atazhaia Hot springs?
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@Atazhaia Hot springs?
Not rare... lots of the classic balneae are a schtickel ticky. Of course, back in the day, we didn't mind a little radiation - we had gods.
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We are far enough down the pipeline on selling our house that we've started dealing with the title company. I started on the online paperwork yesterday, got distracted when the boys got home from school and when I went back to that tab this morning their homepage was interesting .
The normal slideshow carousel wasn't on its normal 3-5 second delay and was just spazzing out and going through the slides on a 1/10s delay. I should have screen capped it. It had a very 'Clockwork Orange' sort of feel to it.
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@Polygeekery web developers live in the moment, maa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
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@Gribnit so you've upped your heavy metals game from mercury and lead to the really heavy metals like uranium and plutonium?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
we had gods
And now?
I AM THE LAST
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Gribnit so you've upped your heavy metals game from mercury and lead to the really heavy metals like uranium and plutonium?
Dude, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to snort a microgram of something that only exists for a hundredth of a second - but it's worth it.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Wizardry 8?
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@Polygeekery Of all sorts of geeks here I certainly didn't expect you to recognize it
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Of all sorts of geeks here I certainly didn't expect you to recognize it
Read names.
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Read names.
P... oh... ell... why... it doesn't sound anything like Blakey
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Read names.
P... oh... ell... why... it doesn't sound anything like Blakey
When you say it that way, it sounds like you were starting to say polonium.
Ah, polonium... slow poison to the careless, but...
You wouldn't happen to be holding, would you?
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@Gribnit Sounds more like Baloneyum.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity Wizardry 8?
I really enjoyed the Wizardry games. to go back and play them because it actually takes effort.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery Of all sorts of geeks here I certainly didn't expect you to recognize it
I am full of useless information from a wide variety of domains.
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@Polygeekery an welle it be so, lest ye falle into a Trap for ye Unwary
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I am full of useless information from a wide variety of domains.
I am in this post, and I like it.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I am full of useless information from a wide variety of domains.
I am in this post, and I like it.
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Lake Karachay, world renowned swimming lake!
5 stars too, would be a very energizing bath I have heard!
Nice reviews, too:
I'm currently swimming here and my mobile is charging itself. Very beautiful place! Will give full 1957/1957
Disappointing superpower acquisition. Got a spectacular sunburn and all I can do is cause near-permanant tune-bondage to those nearby. I can't control it well and may be stuck with Crocodile Rock forever myself. I was hoping for something along the line of levitation at least.
Took a dip in the lake, water was warm and wonderful. I grew four extra breasts and a tail, and my husband loves it!
10/10, would visit again.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I am full of useless information from a wide variety of domains.
I am in this post, and I like it.
Same, except that for me it often pushes useful information out into summary status. That is, I retain a flag that says "yes, I know this"...but there isn't actually content there. This includes names, faces, birthdays, etc.
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Prebuilt mechanical keyboards often neglect Linux support. Users frequently report success in getting a mechanical keyboard's basic functions to work
It's a goddamn keyboard! It's either class-compliant or sends scan codes where Linux in particular supports bloody all kinds of them.
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
$300
DIAF
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
No, it does not. Because Linux allows you to map the extra scan codes to anything you like. It may not do it out of the box for some keyboards, but you can always configure it. Well, you can reconfigure Windows too, but it takes bigger hacks there.
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Took a dip in the lake, water was warm and wonderful. I grew four extra breasts and a tail, and my husband loves it!
10/10, would visit again..... ..... .....
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
No, it does not. Because Linux allows you to map the extra scan codes to anything you like. It may not do it out of the box for some keyboards, but you can always configure it. Well, you can reconfigure Windows too, but it takes bigger hacks there.
TBF, the firmware based macros on my son's gaming keyboard look quite a bit more powerful than what you (well, I anyway) could do with Compose stuff, and I've even gone to the level of writing my own symbol files.
Not like anyone apart from gamers really needed much of that stuff of course. And he picked up this fancy-clicky-RGB-whatnot keyboard for like $50 at the local shithole gadget store.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
No, it does not. Because Linux allows you to map the extra scan codes to anything you like. It may not do it out of the box for some keyboards, but you can always configure it. Well, you can reconfigure Windows too, but it takes bigger hacks there.
TBF, the firmware based macros on my son's gaming keyboard look quite a bit more powerful than what you (well, I anyway) could do with Compose stuff, and I've even gone to the level of writing my own symbol files.
Not like anyone apart from gamers really needed much of that stuff of course. And he picked up this fancy-clicky-RGB-whatnot keyboard for like $50 at the local shithole gadget store.Hey, don't go besmirching honest shitholes by comparing them with a Worst Buy.
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firmware based macros on my son's gaming keyboard
Real gamers program hand firmware . You should induce stochastic error into that coprocessor imo.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
No, it does not. Because Linux allows you to map the extra scan codes to anything you like. It may not do it out of the box for some keyboards, but you can always configure it. Well, you can reconfigure Windows too, but it takes bigger hacks there.
TBF, the firmware based macros on my son's gaming keyboard look quite a bit more powerful than what you (well, I anyway) could do with Compose stuff, and I've even gone to the level of writing my own symbol files.
That sounds to me like solving the problem in the wrong place for the wrong reason.
… well, really, I suspect they just embed autohotkey into the driver, preconfigure it for some popular games and sell the keyboards at premium to gamers.
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solving the
wrong problem in the wrong place for the wrong reasonSo close to standard practice...
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Is there some science behind it or is there a betting pool on who's going to make an uglier one and sell?
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@Applied-Mediocrity I still don't know if the "Cyber Truck" is real or a Mad Max satire, but I'm not sure there's a difference at this point.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Prebuilt mechanical keyboards often neglect Linux support. Users frequently report success in getting a mechanical keyboard's basic functions to work
It's a goddamn keyboard! It's either class-compliant or sends scan codes where Linux in particular supports bloody all kinds of them.
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
$300
DIAF
I only have the barest surface level knowledge of custom mechanical keyboards, but by my understanding $300 is in the "budget" price tier of that category. I can only guess that something was lost between the actual facts and whatever's in the article, but I always assumed that basic keyboard functionality was cross-platform regardless of anything else. The most likely explanation is that some advanced functionality wouldn't work in Linux
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The most likely explanation is that some <abbr title="media/volume controls? programmable shortcuts? RGB?">advanced functionality wouldn't work in Linux
RGB function not working would be a feature.
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@HardwareGeek That's the best part about $1000+ custom keyboards, you can get one without RGB if you want
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media/volume controls? programmable shortcuts? RGB?
Probably the latter. Media keys use consistent scan codes which linux recognizes - I assume either microsoft or some standards organization assigned codes at some point. This includes volume, play/pause, sleep/hibernate, calculator/browser/etc, and a few dozen others.
Programmable shortcuts can be done in userspace as long as the keyboard sends a scancode at all (among the standard keycodes are F13-F24 which most keyboards don't have and most applications don't bind) though it's more likely they have a separate USB interface descriptor with a custom output format. Writing a driver for one of those in userspace is quite doable as well, as long as they put the actual programmable bit in the driver.
EDIT: A quick google turned up https://deskthority.net/wiki/Scancode which looks plausible.
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@HardwareGeek That's the best part about $1000+ custom keyboards, you can get one without RGB if you want
If I wanted a shitty keyboard north of $1000, I could get one with an Apple computer attached.
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@HardwareGeek That's the best part about $1000+ custom keyboards, you can get one without RGB if you want
If I wanted a shitty keyboard north of $1000, I could get one with an Apple computer attached.
Custom mechanicals, are generally not shitty, although I suppose with some effort one could condition a subject to find them shitty on initial impressions.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Prebuilt mechanical keyboards often neglect Linux support. Users frequently report success in getting a mechanical keyboard's basic functions to work
It's a goddamn keyboard! It's either class-compliant or sends scan codes where Linux in particular supports bloody all kinds of them.
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
$300
DIAF
I only have the barest surface level knowledge of custom mechanical keyboards, but by my understanding $300 is in the "budget" price tier of that category.
Eh? You can get a Ducky for 80-90$. My Filco with custom frame and custom keycaps was 250$ and there's literally nothing more I could add to it. 300$ for a keyboard that's only feature is terrible nonstandard layout looks like a designer clothes kind of deal - uncomfortable and ridiculously expensive.
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@HardwareGeek That's the best part about $1000+ custom keyboards, you can get one without RGB if you want
If I wanted a shitty keyboard north of $1000, I could get one with an Apple computer attached.
I expensed a surface recently for about €2000. The keyboard was a €200 extra.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Prebuilt mechanical keyboards often neglect Linux support. Users frequently report success in getting a mechanical keyboard's basic functions to work
It's a goddamn keyboard! It's either class-compliant or sends scan codes where Linux in particular supports bloody all kinds of them.
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
$300
DIAF
I only have the barest surface level knowledge of custom mechanical keyboards, but by my understanding $300 is in the "budget" price tier of that category.
Eh? You can get a Ducky for 80-90$. My Filco with custom frame and custom keycaps was 250$ and there's literally nothing more I could add to it. 300$ for a keyboard that's only feature is terrible nonstandard layout looks like a designer clothes kind of deal - uncomfortable and ridiculously expensive.
You can get retail mechanical keyboards at reasonable prices all day; I've got a couple of em myself. But going from those to the custom keyboard-enthusiast level stuff is like an order of magnitude more expensive. It's a tiny niche of a niche product, where it's DIY but also super expensive
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Prebuilt mechanical keyboards often neglect Linux support. Users frequently report success in getting a mechanical keyboard's basic functions to work
It's a goddamn keyboard! It's either class-compliant or sends scan codes where Linux in particular supports bloody all kinds of them.
many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros
Okay, that makes more sense.
$300
DIAF
I only have the barest surface level knowledge of custom mechanical keyboards, but by my understanding $300 is in the "budget" price tier of that category.
Eh? You can get a Ducky for 80-90$. My Filco with custom frame and custom keycaps was 250$ and there's literally nothing more I could add to it. 300$ for a keyboard that's only feature is terrible nonstandard layout looks like a designer clothes kind of deal - uncomfortable and ridiculously expensive.
You can get retail mechanical keyboards at reasonable prices all day; I've got a couple of em myself. But going from those to the custom keyboard-enthusiast level stuff is like an order of magnitude more expensive. It's a tiny niche of a niche product, where it's DIY but also super expensive
E.g. bicycles. I have paid $3000 dollars for a bicycle. A rather good bicycle can be had for $300.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
RGB function not working would be a feature.
Unfortunately, the problem is more frequently that the function that allows you to turn off the RGB doesn't exist under Linux.
If I wanted a shitty keyboard north of $1000, I could get one with an Apple computer attached.
Yeah, OK, but what are you going to do with that Apple computer? :confused:
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Yeah, OK, but what are you going to do with that Apple computer? :confused:
Something other than faff directly with the system, most likely. Possibly even... productive work.
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productive work.
With an Apple computer? Surely you jest.
I speak of the world beyond the dim circle of twilight called the CLR.
And call me not by the name Shirley.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
RGB function not working would be a feature.
Unfortunately, the problem is more frequently that the function that allows you to turn off the RGB doesn't exist under Linux.
My keyboard manages all of that, shock and horror, in the hardware itself. Holding down its Fn key and pressing the down arrow, for example, makes all the lights dimmer until they turn off.
There’s actually this neat thing where Fn + = makes every single key light up a different colour and then you just press the key of the one you want. Well, it’s neat for dazzling someone, once; not too useful when oyu didn’t really want the lights to begin with.
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Holding down its Fn key and pressing the down arrow, for example, makes all the lights dimmer until they turn off.
At first I thought you were talking about of IoT , and wasn't sure if it was an actual feature or an amazing case of radio interference.
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oyu didn’t really want the lights to begin with.
Is oyu anything like uwu? 'Cause I definitely don't want that.