humanplayer2

@humanplayer2@lemmy.ml

I enjoy modding stuff in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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humanplayer2,

Super nice!

How much did you pay for the trackpoint and shipping? It’s great to hear that you can just email Sprintek!

Nice that the RP2040 doesn’t require a reset circuit! I just finished a handwired with a ATMega32U4 ProMicro where I needed to remove a resistor to clear the D5 pin for USART. That was quite a painful process overall. This seems significantly easier!

Used keyboard I bought has keys that don't respond when pressed. Any hope in saving?

Its a Razer Blackwidow elite I got for cheap, the listing just said “sold as is” and had some pictures. Didn’t mention anything about bad keys. Kicking myself now for trying to cheap out. My question is if there is anything I can do to repair it. If so is it worth doing? The switches are not hot swappable if that’s...

humanplayer2,

Does it have on-board remapping? If so, maybe reset them with the Razer software, see if that makes a difference. Maybe somebody did something silly.

If not, then I’d disassemble it, connect to a pc and see what happens when you connect the pins of the switches of the keys that don’t work. Do you get a response? Then it sounds like a bad switch. If not, then I suppose it’s the pcb.

What keys don’t work?

Finally, initiated (discuss.tchncs.de)

This is my first thinkpad ever. I chose to possess T480 long ago, but my Thinkbook 14s was working fine, and also T480 was not available nearby me (Nepal). Finally when I got a chance to order one from Malaysia, I instantly chose T480 for 1300RM. For Nepali market, it is super cheap (about $270). This is a 16/512 GB variant with...

humanplayer2,

Enjoy!

It sounds like a cool config you got - a matte touchscreen? (!) indeed!

humanplayer2,

I did. I wanted more. I wanted ln -sf.

humanplayer2,

Why over-complicated? I’m genuinely curious, as I think it sounds pretty cool that you can install apps from different package managers in containers, but export them to use them in your main environment.

humanplayer2,

Sway allows you to assign apps to workspaces.

humanplayer2,

Theming, controlled one central place.

This goes for both Gnome (GTK, Qt, Gnome Shell) and Sway (GTK, Qt, Sway, Rofi, Waybar…)

Distro for experienced Linux user

Hi, I’m looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible...

humanplayer2,

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid sounds very interesting, I think. It’s in alpha now. Have a read about their package manager - it’s kinda meta, allowing you to use other package managers in parallel.

humanplayer2,

Uh, that’s sound briiight! Nice!

humanplayer2,

Try the VanillaOS 2.0 alpha?

…vanillaos.org/…/install-and-manage-applications.…

Do I need to completely take out the motherboard of my ThinkPad X200s to reapply thermal paste?

I purchased a tube of thermal paste for my Xbox 360 and would like to reapply the thermal paste on my X200s. I am struggling to find videos about reapplying thermal paste on it. Most videos seem to be complete disassembly videos that remove the motherboard but I am wondering if this is necessary. There is one post on Reddit that...

humanplayer2,

Look for the Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM for short) for your machine. They are legendary for thinkpads, providing step-by-step guides for full disassembly.

Is there some software that would allow people to self register at the entrance of a workshop?

I’m planning a workshop in a few days, I had the idea to put a Kiosk powered by a Raspberry Pi and a regular PC monitor, put it at the entrance, and let people register themselves before entering. Then the assistants could be registered in something that later would allow me to export into a csv....

humanplayer2,

Any text editor and a sheet of paper saying

Please type your name and press Enter

Maybe Vim so noone quits it by accident.

humanplayer2,

:D

humanplayer2,

If you can solder, you can quite cheaply build your own ergo prototype, without habing to 3D print or buy PCBs: golem.hu/guide/cardboard-prototyping/

I did this, and am very happy. I got to stagger the keys as I like, place my thumb keys nicely, and know I can do it again easily and cheaply if I want something changed. Time’s not free of course, but I value the freedom this gives me.

humanplayer2,

Corne with trackpoint from holikeebs?

humanplayer2,

I haven’t tried the profile. Do you think it’s for you? I think that’s important to think about. If you don’t know if you like keycaps with dished tops, maybe you could try some other, cheaper variant first.

humanplayer2,

Depends on what they want. Inkscape is perfectly fine for plate design, which you can then lift using standoffs, like the Steel Tormentor.

humanplayer2,

Nice! If you haven’t bumped into it, then the build log of the Steel Tormentor and it’s cardboard prototype have been really illuminating for me.

Edit: Also, an Inkscape trick: you can set it’s zoom using a real ruler placed on the screen so it can show you your drawing real size. Then you can test button placement without having to print.

humanplayer2, (edited )

Edit: I put up my .svg files here, in case they might be useful.

Cool! I just did a full Inkscape+laser-cutting build using MDF and acrylic. I’m still to write something up about it, though. In short, I used a 1,5 mm acrylic bottom cover, on top of that 2x 3mm MDF as “case” (minimum height with a 1,5mm plate), the top one supporting the plate, but with larger holes so the switch clamps fit, a 1,5mm acrylic plate, and finally another MDF layer on top of the plate, outlining the keys, for aesthetics and rigidity.

After having set up the keys, I used mainly offsets around those to do the outline etc.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f3c061e2-9594-4225-8474-5801f20b358d.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/948bcbcd-86a1-4de9-884e-299d8a0fa0e4.jpeg

humanplayer2,

Thanks :)

Yes, I do! I enjoyed a cardboard prototype before, and only just finished this. I really like it. The fit is great, and I like the sound. I gave it some small feet in the back (some 3mm foam tape) to lift it a bit from the table/deskmat, to get some more sound out - there’s zero space between the switches and bottom plate… And I like the sound.

Switching to the prototype, I switched to Colemak, too. I’m still learning that. So I’m by no means a fast typist on it yet. But I already know better where the keys are on Colemak than I did on QWERTY, and I think the symmetric, column-staggered layout helped a lot with that.

humanplayer2,

Yes, column stagger is amazing! Congrats on the prototype! I ended up using mine a bit over a month before getting a nicer, revised version cut. I learned from that. Removed some keys, moved some a bit.

I’ve read elsewhere that switching to a new layout is easier at the same time as changing to ergo, instead of later. I’ve had some time off, that’s why I did it now. If I had been busy, I’d rather have started using my new board and the old layout.

humanplayer2,

If toy have some old silicone around, e.g. used for grouting tiles then don’t use it!

I learned the hard way that it has an expiration date and doesn’t harden after…

humanplayer2,

Haha, so true! Cleaning it off my cardboard prototype, where I’d also used it for cable management… wasn’t fun.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/87652464-4125-4bc9-a59f-06b43f370af7.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/31417cb4-2100-4cad-a80d-5e5a7aef93c2.jpeg

humanplayer2,

Ok, thank you. I’m an idiot. I added the Nova search bar and searched its settings.

humanplayer2,

Thanks!

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