WFH

WFH, 9 months ago

LibreOffice Calc and a lot of free time 😅

WFH, 9 months ago

That’s actually a good point. I’ve read Optimot’s design goals and I’m working on a new revision where é and à are moved to the base layer since they are more common than a lot of consonants.

WFH, 9 months ago

Yeah but I really like having physical arrow keys 😅

I’ve never been a fan of the vi-style keys.

WFH, 9 months ago

I always program my arrow keys to have PgUp/PgDn/Home/End, so technically they do two things 😅. I’m working on the layout and all of the layers are crammed already. I may have to abandon features tho, the way I see it I would need to free 8 keys on the function layer to make things work.

WFH, 9 months ago

That was actually very similar to my first prototype but I went another direction.

WFH, 9 months ago

Google literally owns Android tho.

WFH, 9 months ago

Yeah yeah, AOSP and all that. Despite, Android is made primarily by Google to push Google products and most apps depend on Google services. For all intents and purposes, Android is a first party OS for Google.

WFH, 9 months ago

if Linux/Mac/Windows all have the same deadkey combination for ë and ê on their built-in AZERTY, use a macro that types that.

They do actually. Macro it is then.

For the ligatures, I might actually map AltGr-O and AltGr-A to some keys and Alt+0156 and Alt+0230 to adjacent keys, so there is no need to maintain layer spaghetti just for two (useful but relatively uncommon) characters.

A whole new can of worms can be opened too with accented, uppercase letters.

I’m gonna scale my ambitions down. Let’s not be more royalist than the king as we say in French, I will aim for parity with the AZERTY keyboard and we’ll see from there.

WFH, 9 months ago

I have very large hands so it’s mostly fine. Thanks for the standard spacing tho, I used 20mm because it was convenient 😅

WFH, 9 months ago

Ergogen

No, good old TikerCAD and a lot of free time :D

WFH, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

From a technical point of view:

• Appimages are like MacOS .app programs. You download a random executable from a random website, that contains everything it needs to run. It’s the antithesis of the Linux way. Great for portability, awful for everything else. There are no automatic updates unless the developer explicitly bothers to implement them.
• Snaps are like docker containers. Each snap also contains everything it needs to run, but at least there is a centralized update system.
• Flatpaks are like another package manager layered over your OS. It manages its own dependency system isolated from your main dependency management. It updates its stuff pretty much like apt/dnf/pacman.
• Native are managed through your distro’s package manager, obviously.

From a feature/version point of view:

• If you have a bleeding edge or quickly moving distro, native packages are fine if you want/need up to date software. Arch users shouldn’t need Flatpaks for example. The downside is that those packages are made by the distro’s maintainers so can be anywhere from untested pre-release software (happened in Manjaro) to extremely outdated (like in Debian oldstable).
• Flatpaks/Snaps/Appimages are more and more maintained and packaged by their developers. It’s great for them as you only need to package once, all bug reports are on versions you control, and you don’t need to depend on a distro’s maintainer time and will to push updates to users. For stable distros users, this is theoretically the best of both worlds: a stable, tested OS with up to date user facing applications.

From a philosophical point of view:

• Appimages and Flatpaks are fully FOSS. Flathub is the dominant ways of distributing Flatpaks but anyone can create a competitor.
• Snaps are distributed through Canonical’s Snap Store, which is not FOSS and is vulnerable to Canonical’s corporate meddling.

My personal preference:

• Flatpaks for GUI apps, native for CLI tools
• Appimages as a last resort if it’s the only way to get a specific app.
• Snaps never.

WFH, 10 months ago

Especially if he’s just been sold the wrong grade of copper.

WFH, 10 months ago

Film photography can still be pretty cheap compared to digital. Any prime 50mm-ish from the last 70 years will be at least decent to great, any manual camera from the last 50 years is will be good if working. A lot of East-Asian and Eastern European bodies and lenses from the 70’-90’don’t hold much value but a lot are very competent workhorses. A lot of (especially Japanese) “basic” lenses like the SMC Taks, most Canons and Nikons have gotten very expensive tho because nowadays people can easily adapt them to any MILC for that “vintage” look.

Go black and white, buy a bottle of Rodinal (or any clone) and a film tank. They will both last forever.

Good b&w film like Ilford FP4+ is getting expensive tho, but you can still burn through 50 rolls before reaching the price of a decent, entry level cropped frame DSLR or MILC. Double or triple that if you want a full frame digital camera.

Plus, a full manual setup is an amazing learning tool, and having only 36 shots per roll force you to stop and think before shooting anything.

Only potential problem is that scanning negatives can be tricky without buying a film scanner.

WFH, 10 months ago

Do you like beer? Is is legal to home brew in your country? If both are yes, brew beer.

It’s easy, it’s delicious, it gets cheap quickly especially compared to most microbreweries, you’ll always have a brew to share with friends without having to run to the store.

Always brew with friends. You can drink beer and have fun on brew days. It’s much easier when there are 2-3 people around to lift stuff. You can delegate responsibilities. Share the cost of ingredients and the resulting beer. You can even “associate” and buy the hardware together. Trust me, you will never run out of volunteers.

Go all grain from the start instead of going extract. Start with something simple with as few ingredients as possible like a stout or a pale ale to get the feel for it. Then brew more complicated but tried and true recipes. Then you can start and go crazy with your own recipes.

And if anything goes off plan, RDWHAHB. Relax, don’t worry, have a home brew. It’s hard to make a truly exceptional beer, but if you follow most basic principles it’s even harder to fuck up so badly that you brew something truly undrinkable.

WFH, 10 months ago

Oh thanks, I’ll check it out.

WFH, 9 months ago

FX300 Angular. Basically the WipeOut Pure typeface.

WFH, 10 months ago

Because why not? “it’s gonna be a fun hobby”, “my local roaster is too expensive, it will pay for itself in 3 years”, “I wanna try beans I can’t find at my local roaster’s”…

WFH, 10 months ago

Oh sorry for misunderstanding 😅

I watched a lot of videos to understand the basic principles, read a lot of forums and blog posts about roasting and the gene in particular, completely fucked up my first 5 roasts, tried half a dozen “recipes” before finding something that works for me 😅