Uff, okay. So that was a quote? I assume there is a reason they did this (from my perspective bad) relabeling. (From my perspective bad because FF is often played by a younger audience and they are at risk to learn the terminomolgy wrong and keep that for their whole life. causing potential misunderstandings and embarrassings)
Holy Shit. And here I am, hosting my own messaging, automation and syncronization services to be independend on providers, run AI locally, do not even leave emails on the server and they pull that stunt.
Once in a while I check the installed packages for a possible dependency on GTK and when I find a program which has one, I look for an alternative to have one dependency less.
The last time I replaced simple-scan with skanlite and it is a much much better scanning program and with a more pleasant ui on top.
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It’s just unnecessary. If you can’t control yourself from harming others, animals or things, there is work to do.
I am not saying one can not have the thoughts of doing the wildest or weirdest things. Thoughts about options are okay but having an urge to commit diametral actions or even performing them seems somewhat pathologic to me.
Today, on February 28, nearly five years after Control’s initial launch, Remedy Entertainment, the team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series, released an announcement regarding a deal between them and 505 Games, detailing a full transition to Remedy acquiring full rights to the franchise. While Remedy...
My takeaway is that it’s only original Rogue fans that care about the delineation of the terms. Is there a modern (i.e. post 2000s game) that matches the definition of a roguelike as given in the article?
Roguelikes come from the age of boomers and gen x, are hard as nails, very complex, have a cursed tome of documentation and take months to reach victory, if at all.
Drift Keyboard A 68-Key Split Keyboard by Timception (me) Doys Keycaps Durock EV-01 switches After using a Corne I decided to make a split that has the missing keys that I find hard to not have. Hope u all enjoy :)
Hello everyone, I recently bought a piantor keyboard and I am having trouble with qmk. I have configured two layer keys(num, nav) each of them switches to different layer and I want to be able to hold both of them to access fourth layer(CzechLayer), but I can’t seem to figure out how to do it. Here is my keymap.c file:...
It’s QMK with support for Vial, so you can use the AppImage to define key mappings, layers and many other stuff without having to code and compile QMK. get.vial.today
So far that was enough flexibility for me, dodging a compile.
I’m typing this with my new ergo keeb right now. Holy fuck it is hard. I cannot seem to be able to hack my brain, I’ve spent 2 WEEKS desperately trying to learn the first SIX MOST FUCKIN COMMON LETTERS and I’m still completely unable to use them even remotely quickly or reliably. I am completely unable to even break the...
Your keyboard looks awesome, indeed! Very smooth and soft, may it calm and comfort you a little on your learning adventure.
Myself, I have switched from manymany years of touch typing QWERTY to Colemak DH some months (already?!) ago. The first days were brutal with constant headache, deep thinking before pressing a single key and really no wpm to speak of. Now I am much better so let me tell you: hang on, it’s a steep climb but you. will. get. there.
Do not let you tell yourself you are bad or dumb or worse or slower than other people. I did that. But - the facts speak for themselves, I constantly improve in my own speed.
Focus on accuracy. Everything below 98% is not good enough to attempt a speed run (okay, once in a while to loosen up or for fun, but don’t take it as a measurement of your progress). Just slow down, take your time, try to enjoy. Don’t be fast, be accurate, because that’s the only thing that carries you the long way and opens up later improvements. Try to avoid adopting bad habits because you want to be fast - be accurate. Especially at the beginning this is extremely important. When switching layouts you get the unique chance to train yourself again good form, don’t let this pass.
Try to enjoy the time, nobody judges your progress. Be proud. Calmly accept this takes a while. It’s fine. 🐣
Oh, and keybr is brutal and frustrating. Personally, I don’t like it and wouldn’t recommend it. Others do, so that seems to differ.
I remember using it for fun in my QWERTY-times and drilling the same key on a pinkie got me stuck on 98+% confidence over and over and over and over again so I got pain and cramps. I told me it’s not what I would consider improving my typing but want out of my life.
Typing accurate but slow had me repeat the same keys again and again. Typing fast but with very bad accuracy got me through all the keys in no time.
That’s stupid. It’s harmful to your typing skill and makes you feel bad, physically and mentally, when you should just enjoy the new hobby! I hate keybr.
When learning Colemak I therefore switched to first20hours.github.io/keyzen-colemak for which exist many forks, probably also for your layout. Makes you type the letters, learning one after the other. If you mistype, it has you type the wrongly pressed and missed key repeatedly correct before it proceeds to the next letter.
Once I could locate all the keys well I used gnusenpai.net/colemakclub to engrave the homerow and additional letters in increasing stages.
Today I still use those sites to refresh key positions or as a warmup exercise.
After that came monkeytype 1k (skip 200!), always correct errors, always retrain mistyped words.
I use english 1k, 100 words and only aim for accuracy with currently 99,82% avg acc. Speed improves all by itself, but it does not interest me (yeah, it does, because it is shoved in your face just everywhere, but I know being accurate is my true metric)
Don’t rush, there are no prizes of meaning to win on any site. What you gain and may keep are the many new skills: a cool new layout, focused typing, improved concentration, better frustration tolerance, better stress resistance, well developed confidence and a proudness of what you have achieved all by yourself.
Currently I am training with problemwords.com and Amphetype (automatically fail and repeat a lesson if below 98,5% acc, considering higher but some interpunctuation is really hard) but I am revisiting all of the above to get a mixture.
I’m truly very happy to hear that you found a tool which helps you!
Just keep in mind to be focussing extremely and solely on accuracy, no speeding, no bursting.
Drill the keys, the rest happens by itself.
(Up to a speed where you can comforatbly type. Then and only after that, come the specialized trainings for 2/3/n-grams, burstings, read-aheads, finger swaps, etc. - but you need an extremely solid basis for that, where even complicated words just flow out of you without any thinking. Pace yourself, get to at least a constant and repeatable 60 wpm with 99,5+% accuracy on a bad day first before going further)
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, doctor, mechanic, milkman or whatever. People are different and different things work for different perks. I am just telling my personal experiences and the learning plan I chose for me (which probably is ultra-conservative) but which I believe fits my style and brain.
I played around with a Huntsman Mini a bit in my local Micro Center and loved how smooth the linear optical reds felt. They had just the right amount of resistance too. The choc reds I’m using in my sofle right now feel too heavy and cumbersome to me at 50g. I want a switch that feels smoother and is slightly easier to...
So, after some playing around trying to figure out a preferred physical layout, I decided a Hillside 46 splayed keyboard would be about right. Thanks to Leo at Beekeeb for answering all my questions before ordering and during the build! Surface mount soldering was tricky, but everything works on the first try! I finally can use...
Thank you for your write-up, especially how the coating changes the texture.
I hope the engravings stay bright for a long time. Do they make filled engravings? So, take a black cap, engrave, then fill with white paint?
I’ve seen the possibility to order custom caps at FK some time ago and found that mighty impressing for a manufcturer to provide this service. Tons of combinations possible. They sure know what the keebnerds crave :D.
Colemak has two columns on the digit finger, this layout here however seems to have two columns on the pinkie finger, putting more stess to them?
Or are the keys shifted so the homerow here is VARS, but that doesn’t seem to make sense as the Colemak layout has been designed with the most common keys at the homerow… also the staggering would be weird then.
CB34S is a 34 key column-staggered choc unibody keyboard that has wireless capabilities with the Nice!Nano and supports a Nice!View display. It’s my second attempt at a PCB design and I couldn’t have done it without the wonderful community....
Aren’t the Pink switches the recolored Light Blue, previously called gChoc, and all three linear, 20g? The Purpz (Purple) are linear, 25g - if I am not mistaken; there are several conflicting infos around
The first weeks I focused solely on accuracy while learning the layout and in the first days I achieved a whopping 8 wpm - but with 99,5% acc ;) Those first days I experienced fatigue and quite substantial headaches while training, I could really feel how the neurons began to rearrange in my head.
After that an episode of 30 wpm 98% came and I completely switched to Colemak.
The next weeks I focused partly on accuracy and partly on speed, to enable my fingers to act more intuitively. Than tanked acc sometimes to around 95%, with wpm of course following down but picking up after some time, but still with bad accuracy.
Then I shifted training focus back to accuracy again for some time and now I am currently in my “endurance” phase, how I like to call it.
Some days ago I found the time to type a few more chapters on “War of the Worlds” with Amphetype: four hours of sentences, punctuation, dashes, colons, semicolons, spoken texts, everything - at only around 45-55 wpm but with 98% to 100% accuracy, averaging at around 99%.
That’s when I can “zone out” and type automatically. Sometimes I don’t know how that word appeared or how I typed it, I just did. While typing sentence after sentence and lesson after lesson it sometimes happens that suddenly and utterly unexpected I just stop and can’t type another key. Then I wonder what’s going on and come back “zoning in” and reflect what’s happening. Then I realize: the finger that I just wanted to press down to type a key just did not move. It flat out rejected the automatic command to press down the button and stopped the typing process in its tracks. Upon inspection I realize the finger would have pressed a wrong key - so it did not, which was not a conscious decision of me. I swear, this is scary stuff (but amazing).
On monkeytype (with my default english 1k) currently has a record of 63 wpm at 99% and averages at 55.79 wpm at 96.72%, but it’s been a while. On problemwords I can battle several mistyped words down to 2-3 words with concentration and a bit of patience before gaining another one. On Amphetype (The War of the Worlds, whole sentences, interpunctuation, et. al.) it’s around 55 wpm with around 98,7%.
So I think accuracy could still be better but it’s probably mostly okay.
Working on the endurance / automatic typing now for some time, before switching back to the accuracy block and then the speed block again.
Typing own texts, such as these articles, have a perceivable worse accuracy, but that’s normal as the brain has to focus on building sentences alongside typing. That improves the more typing is automated.
The soldering process was pretty easy. I responded to a comment with a bit more detail a little further down as a reply to a similar question.
The like the increased column stagger very much as it fits my fingers quite well and feels very natural. I think if I’d went with a Corne I would not be as happy as I am now with the columnal layout.
Had a look at canary. It shuffles many keys around and I was astounded they changed the ,./ keys. I’m not sure I like it at first sight. How is your experience after a while?
That’s tricky to describe. The MX keys are on my more substancial keyboards that are quite heavy and have metal plates in them, so they can take quite a punch :D and I feel more confident when being a little more forceful when writing.
On a laptop keyboard however there is much less travel but still a solid frame so the keyvoard does not move when typing as it is fixed in the frame.
On the ergo mech both halves are very light so they would move around if I’d heavily press down. So I am more tapping than hitting, thus the lighter switches (35g) really make sense and I personally would not use a stiffer key spring and consider going even lighter.
The Choc have a key travel of 3 mm and trigger after 1,5 mm (+/-) so they actually feel neither like MX nor Laptop switches as they are lighter than MX but have more travel than Laptop switches. It’s difficult to describe.
Overall I like them and my brain can differentiate between all three keyboards, which is great because Laptop+RowStagger=QWERTY and Choc+ColumnStagger=Colemak and my brain accepts this and is able to switch the layout. My QWERTY skills have taken a hefty hit in the meantine and while training Colemak. I plan to retrain QWERTY once Colemak is much better but that will still take a long time.
The Chocs feel nice but the spring is resisant even in the first sub-millimeters so they feel stiffer and harder as they really are as they resist against your finger more than a wobbly Laptop keyboard, that gives a few sub-mm before pressing against the spring. I hope I could describe what I mean with this.
PS: typed on my mobile so probably full of typos, sorry :)
Thanks :) Miryoku’s home row mods are a little troublesome, especially as there is no dedicated Shift key. I adjusted the timeouts a bit, so it’s better now, but I am still not entirely won over.
Wow, they really show some dedication! The problem for me is not unintented misfires but more the long delay until I trigger the mod, so the opposite of what their problems seem to be :D I already reduced the holding duration from 200 to 160 milliseconds to get to the Shift key faster as it breaks my flow when waiting for the uppercase keys to become available. Especially noticeable at the start of a sentence or when typing “I” or getting to the other layers or symbols (shifted numbers)
I teased Mantis v0.3 with two previous posts. I finally finished building it over the weekend and updated the QMK firmware including RGB Matrix support. I’ve been typing on it all day and it’s a joy to use. The layout and keymap are mostly the same as what I had on v0.2 before....
Have a look at Piantor or Cantor keyboards. Have built a Piantor myself some months ago and I love it. But - it all comes down to personal taste so keep looking!
There are also keyboard databases for you to scroll through and get inspirations from.
That’s fair. From my experience I probably wouldn’t notice a difference if the thumb keycap would be larger as the point of contact is quite small and not a flat area so the keycap doesn’t have to provide a large area.
For reference my keyb: Piantor, Kailh Choc V1, Red Pro switches (35g) with MBK caps. Actually, I consider going even lighter on the switches (blue/pink: 20g), at least for the pinkes
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Drift Keyboard A 68-Key Split Keyboard by Timception (me) Doys Keycaps Durock EV-01 switches After using a Corne I decided to make a split that has the missing keys that I find hard to not have. Hope u all enjoy :)
Need help with qmk
Hello everyone, I recently bought a piantor keyboard and I am having trouble with qmk. I have configured two layer keys(num, nav) each of them switches to different layer and I want to be able to hold both of them to access fourth layer(CzechLayer), but I can’t seem to figure out how to do it. Here is my keymap.c file:...
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I’m typing this with my new ergo keeb right now. Holy fuck it is hard. I cannot seem to be able to hack my brain, I’ve spent 2 WEEKS desperately trying to learn the first SIX MOST FUCKIN COMMON LETTERS and I’m still completely unable to use them even remotely quickly or reliably. I am completely unable to even break the...
Which Kailh Choc switch are most similar to Razer's Optical Linear Reds?
I played around with a Huntsman Mini a bit in my local Micro Center and loved how smooth the linear optical reds felt. They had just the right amount of resistance too. The choc reds I’m using in my sofle right now feel too heavy and cumbersome to me at 50g. I want a switch that feels smoother and is slightly easier to...
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So, after some playing around trying to figure out a preferred physical layout, I decided a Hillside 46 splayed keyboard would be about right. Thanks to Leo at Beekeeb for answering all my questions before ordering and during the build! Surface mount soldering was tricky, but everything works on the first try! I finally can use...
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I teased Mantis v0.3 with two previous posts. I finally finished building it over the weekend and updated the QMK firmware including RGB Matrix support. I’ve been typing on it all day and it’s a joy to use. The layout and keymap are mostly the same as what I had on v0.2 before....
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