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david, 11 months ago

Bone stock Kailh Jades here on all my current keyboards, and I love them. SA keycaps on everything.

david, 11 months ago

I would consider these: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ instead, if you're the kind of person who really uses something for 25 years at a time. You won't care about the cost amortized over that period, and the build quality is really much higher. Unicomp is not bad, but Model F Labs is simply higher.

Alternatively, look at whatever other keyboard you want to try in a modern layout (Keebio has some amazing kits) and get a super tactile switch, like a Kailh Box Jade or Box Navy. It's true that Cherry MX aren't always amazing, but also, the keyswitch world is a rich place if you want to experiment, and many switch types are every bit as accurate as buckling spring. Naturally, they'll have a different feel, the buckling spring is really an outlier, but a good switch doesn't double or anything really off by default.

david, 11 months ago

Exploring! SDF is like the coalition of servers I ran in college with friends and campus friendlies. A little of it was explicitly practical, some of it unstable, all of it educational and fun and sometimes stuff took off. I love that SDF survives, and I love that they have paying members.

When new or esoteric stuff hits, whether it's 9front or the latest fedi service, SDF is where to see if it makes sense for you. Sure there's home labs, but a home lab doesn't have the community around it that we have here on SDF, which means it doesn't give you the sense of how a service runs at scale or in the (sometimes positive, sometimes corrupting, but always informative) presence of others.

david, 11 months ago

Yeah, there's a few things going on here with the ones I've received so far -

• no dmarc for the subdomain (lemmy.sdf)
• no spf record for the source (205.166.94.11)
• no dkim

I'm sure it's early times, but this'll end up in the spam folders of a ton of mail services with the header as it stands today.

david, 11 months ago

Do you know for sure you're on it? Might just be the recent registration time of the subdomain... some mailservers are especially unenthusiastic about novel domain names, even subdomains, and then when they've seen enough mail from them in circulation they calm down a bit.

david, 11 months ago

I've found sysupgrade to be pretty good at the core OS, but I have definitely had issues with drivers (particularly audio and display) and third party packages installed through pkg_add. Upgrading seems to be a mixed bag in terms of continuity of function when you're running a richer system, as a workstation often is. On a server, with minimal package surface area, things are just fine.

david, 11 months ago

Cool, wasn't sure if there were rules or anything around this. I guess as long as folks stay civil it doesn't much matter. It's pleasant that that's more or less the norm in whole swaths of the fediverse here.

david, 11 months ago

That license plate though!