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cnx, 1 day ago

@dabeaz, i think @drj should wait until the 30th anniversary for a special cleaning (i haven’t cleaned mine for 3 years now)

cnx, 3 days ago

how so, @xarvos, a standard rice cup is 160 ml (140 g for the type i’m having right now) and i eat round 1.5 cups per meal

@schappi, @gamer, @cell and @2ch, what’s wrong with you heretics, did you throw away the measuring cup on the day you got the cooker? just use the water level printed inside the pot and adjust slightly according to each breed of rice

cnx, 3 days ago

ah lol, yea @xarvos, apparently you have the family cooker, mine is for one person and goes from 0.5 to 3 cups. i’ve used 5 cookers in my life in different countries and they all use 160-ml cups

i’m mixing white and brown rice right now so 1.5 cups would yield around 2 bowls, but for a bowl of rice i wouldn’t bother to cook it either (not enough volume for proper steaming). rice cookers work best at around half of its max capacity, too much then it doesn’t cook evenly

@schappi, the solution is pretty simple, just eat more rice!

cc: @gamer, @cell and @2ch

cnx, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

@xarvos and @cell, sometimes I wish there’s a middle ground with just the timer (which can even be mechanical) so I can come home with freshly cooked rice.

@2ch, depending on the rice, soaking (not the Mormon kind) is either crucial (brown or sticky) or at least nice to have: it help cooking the grains more evenly, i.e. avoid mushy on the outside and uncooked on the inside. I’m having a one-button cooker so I usually wash and soak (still not the Mormon kind) for a few hours before cooking.

cc: @schappi

cnx, 5 days ago

tis gon make me wanna kill meself, @sugar

cnx, 6 days ago

@dwarf, if thou’rt in a hu{r,ng}ry, just crack up like four eggs on a pan and blanch whatever veg left in the fridge. Aren’t canned foods are like for cats or sth? Cc: @tyil

cnx, 6 days ago

Yea nah, @tyil, eggs also have great shelf life, but also tastes great and can be cooked into many different textures, while beans are just beans. If I want quick legumes I’d use dry lentils, which BTW can be cooked along with rice without soaking (not the Amish kind). Cc: @dwarf

cnx, 3 days ago

okay, nana @xarvos

cnx, 5 days ago

@gyptazy, speaking of the VF2 and fans, do you happen to know if the fan’s 2-pin power delivery is always 5 V or is it the same as that of the power supply?

cnx, 5 days ago

Thanks, @gyptazy, until further input from @DesRoin, I’d interpret that as the pin is 5 V like the GPIO ones. Worst case it’ll just spin really fast and I should be able to notice that?

cnx, 5 days ago

@icedquinn and @tyil, there are a few new clones of the MS Trackball Explorer in town now. I recently got a ProtoArc EM03 for 1/10 the price of the Ploopy to use at home. No idea about the quality of its sensor since I’m no serious gaymer, but here are a few differences compare to the Classic:

• There’s no leftie version, yet somehow my ball craddling skill mirrors quite well
• The pinky button is moved to the thumb
• It works wirelessly and only wirelessly, despite using USB for charging :blobraccoon-facepalm:
• No QMK, tho libinput ended up working perfectly to remap the buttons and enable drag scrolling

That being said, I actually consider swapping it with my leftie Classic in the office, mainly because I want to replace the Model M with something more silent so I don’t feel bad typing there. That keyboard is full-sized tho so using a pointing device on the right hand doesn’t feel so good.

cnx, 5 days ago

BTW the new keyboard is Akkoma’s flagship with hall-effect switches. I used to have prejudice against modern mechanical switches because they always bind really badly and there’s never accurate actuation feedback, but the hall-effect switches are so smooth and I could set the actuation point to 0.5 mm and don’t have to rely on false tactility.

The keyboard looks like a pastel rainbow vomit (maybe that’s why there’s a big discount) and has no QMK (tis common for analog switches BTW, sadly), even the official config tool (which only runs on spy systems) supposedly can’t even remap some modifiers so I still have to use XKB :blobraccoon-facepalm: I wonder how they publish pretty decent free microweblogging software but their peripherals’ microcontroller software is a proprietary garbage.

cnx, 5 days ago

@icedquinn, I’m not sure what skipping should look like, but I’ve just tested with Xonotic and don’t notice anything unusual even when spinning really hard.

Forgot to mention, but the ProtoArc uses tiny (plastic? ceramic?) instead of ball bearings and I’m not sure how durable/replaceable they are. The Ploopy Classic is indeed an amazing device for a multitude of reasons but its price (including shipping to the other side of the globe) with the risk having to deal with customs (under a certain price there’s no fee and I don’t have to communicate with them) in a language I don’t understand is just not worth it for me.

Cc: @tyil