I have a Nuphy Halo 75 that I’m rather thrilled with. I have a 65% and TKL Leopolds, with Topre and Cherry Clears respectively, that I also love. But I wanted to go wireless, and I wanted RF instead of Bluetooth. I also wanted a happy medium 75%, and the Nuphy checked all those boxes.
I got baby kangaroo switches, as I love tactiles, and I really enjoy them.
A couple caveats:
The v1 uses a proprietary tool for programming the layout. The v2 uses QMK/VIA, but the 65 isn’t available in v2 yet.
The keycaps are kinda meh. Coming from a Leopold, which has very nice textured PBT keycaps, I knew I wouldn’t be happy. I ordered some Osume keycaps, and they greatly improve the quality of the experience.
I was considering a Keychron, but just got the feeling that the QC may be a bit lacking compared to Nuphy. I can’t back that up, and have no idea if it’s true, it’s just the feeling I got from reading reviews.
I also considered a Zoom75, but haven’t had the time for a first build, and availability wasn’t great.
Do you need wireless? Do you need it to be programmable? If the answer to both of those is no, I’d definitely recommend Leopold. They do have some bluetooth boards now, but my experience with bluetooth input devices hasn’t been great.
Varmillo is another one to look into, with the VXT67 in particular looking interesting. That glintstone colorway is gorgeous.
It is 16 years ago, that’s pretty old in terms of technology.
It’s also an evolution of ex3 and ext2, and ext if you want to consider it’s very short lifetime. In fact, the lead developer stated in 2008 that it was meant as a stop gap, as it’s based on old technology with some new features, and that BTRFS was the future.
Yeah, bcachefs is still very very young, and not ready for much of anything beyond tinkering. But I’m definitely excited to have a native filesystem that’s designed with tiers in mind.
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
I think I realized what was happening somewhere in /etc, and stopped it maybe in /lib. But this was before /bin was a symlink, and I was jumping distros pretty constantly, so I just reinstalled. It was also before Ubuntu popularized sudo, IIRC, so I was probably su’d.
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive beverages on the planet. Nearly every country, region, and culture has its own unique way of preparing and consuming coffee. There’s nothing simple about coffee. Those beans in your kitchen are the sum total of a complex series of interactions between international...
I think the confusion with espresso is that people think espresso should be a darker roast, and that remained pervasive even as other brew methods started to gain market share with lighter roasts. But you can absolutely make great espresso with lighter roasts.
I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature....
Yup. I was a Debian guy back in the day, and eventually gravitated to Arch in it’s early days. Then I didn’t have time, so I used Fedora for pretty much a decade. Now I’m back to Arch, but have a project to spin up simple routing and NAT’ing VMs in lab environments, that can be used to demonstrate a variety of configuration issues on our platform. Would it be easier for me to do in Arch? Absolutely, both due to familiarity, and the fact that Arch doesn’t get in my way nearly as much as Debian does. But Debian is far more stable, configuration-wise, so I’m going that route so I don’t have to debug and tweak scripts every few months, or even weeks.
Unfortunately, the next Zenfone is looking to be quite a lot larger. I’ve been using Nexus and Pixel for years, and while my uses have always been rather simple, I’ve never had any serious issues aside from the LG bootloop on my Nexus 5x. Motorola phones get practically no updates, and unfortunately Xiaomi is a non-starter for those of us in the US.
That said, I’ve also been using Graphene, because I no longer tolerate the tracking and other productization of me. That’s not just a Google thing, nor limited to their phones, but they’re certainly one of the worst offenders. It’s ironic that their own phones offer some of the most freedom to remove them from our lives.
I agree. It’s a pre-apocalyptic movie that gets as close as possible to crossing that boundary, without doing so.
Though I would argue that there’s not a hard cutoff between the pre-apocalypse and post-apocalypse. There is also a period where the apocalypse is actively occurring. So there’s a pretty big barrier to it becoming post-apocalyptic.
As someone who works for a very large company, on a team with around 500 people around the world, this is what concerns me. Our team will not be 500 people in a few years, and if it is, it’s because usage of our product has grown substantially. We are buying heavily into AI, and yet people are buying it when our leadership teams claim it will not impact jobs.
Will I be able to take a unit of 2 people down to 0 people? No, I’ve never seen a process where I could eliminate every human.
Socially speaking, this is also very concerning to me. I’m afraid that implementation of AI will be yet another thing that makes it difficult for smaller businesses to compete in a global marketplace. Yes, a tech-minded company can leverage a smaller head count into more capabilities, but this typically requires more expensive and limiting turnkey solutions, or major investment into developers of a customized solution.
Even if they are, it’s a drop in the bucket. And I imagine they’re less popular now than they were in the early days of Android, during the height of Cyanogen Mod, and others.
Here here. After years of Nexuses and Pixels, I flirted with the iPhone for a couple of years. I finally grabbed a Pixel 5 earlier last year, and eventually a Pixel 8 to run Graphene. No play services, and I’m getting 3-5 days of battery life for a phone that I don’t feel constantly attached to.
Does Android Auto in Graphene still require Google Maps to be installed, or is there a shim? If not, I wouldn’t be surprised if Calyx writes one, once they implement whatever black magic Graphene devs came up with to make AA work.
As a related example, Calyx has a Google Photos shim, so you can use other galleries with gcam. I just added Calyx’s f-droid repository, and use that with my Graphene install.
For now, I’m happy using my Mazda CX-5’s built in navigation with bluetooth audio. It’s nice enough to tile both side by side, and it’s less fiddly than AA. But my next car might not be as favorable, so I’m glad to have AA as an option.
That’s unfortunate, Maps is near the top of the list of Google code I want nowhere near my phone. But now that the first domino has fallen, I’m sure folks are working on some de-googling.
I would love if the EU finds a way to force standardization of screen casting.
So, I currently have a HyperX Cloud Orbit S headset that I’ve been using for both my PC and my PS4. It’s served me pretty well for a few years, but over the past few months the band has snapped and been superglued/reglued 5-6 times. It still works fine, but I’m getting tired of repairing it over and over, and feel it’s...
I love my Audeze Maxwell. I use it to listen to music all day while I work, and jump on calls throughout the day. It has excellent sound quality, and a built in mic that works very well. When there’s background noise, I pop in the boom mic and that mic’s noise cancellation is great. It also provides a little better clarity.
There’s both a 2.4ghz wireless dongle (which I plug into my monitor), bluetooth (which I use with my phone using LDAC), USB, and 3.5mm connectivity.
The battery life is excellent. I charge it weekly, and I really don’t need to.
They offer an Xbox and Playstation version. The Xbox version comes with an Atmos license, the Playstation version supports Tempest 3D sound.
The sizing adjustments aren’t great, there’s no telescoping of the ear cups. It just has a sling with three adjustments, by popping it into three different sets of screw holes. It’s ok, but not great, and it’s not the kind of thing you want to move back and forth, say, if you wear hats sometimes, because those holes will wear out. You aren’t supposed to remove the screws.
It’s also closed back, which is not my preference. I don’t have background noise, I don’t care about isolation. I prefer the sound of open backs, and they also provide more spatial awareness if you want to place footsteps.
Also, being closed back, and having a not so great ear pad material, they get fairly toasty. There are third party ear pads that improve upon this, but you can only do so much with a closed back can.
I don’t think it’s the noise cancelling, I think it’s that headset manufacturers think gamers all want big boomy bass. My Sennheiser Momentum 4 have noise cancelling, and aren’t boomy in the slightest.
I also don’t think that it’s the closed back, though closed back are certainly capable of better bass than open back. My Audeze Maxwell also do not have boomy bass, and the Momentums are also closed back.
All that said, I agree that the sound quality of most gaming headsets is a mess, and I also prefer open back headphones. I don’t want to deal with cables anymore, though, so I’m hopeful that we start getting some nice open back headphones and headsets.
I’ve heard and read recently about a warrant that shows that the US government is monitoring push notifications on iOS and Android. This is possible because push notifications mostly work remotely, using “push notification post office” servers at Apple and Google....
I don’t use very many apps, so I don’t have much experience to share. But I can say Signal works fine. I set K9 Mail to poll, to save battery a bit since I don’t need email immediately, but it worked fine with IMAP push.
I’ve been pretty happy with it. I tried Calyx first, thinking it would be nice to have anonymized play services. But Graphene is much more refined, in my experience, fixing some AOSP annoyances like deleting an SMS message that you opened from a notification leaving a phantom window in the quick switch list. And with my minimal app profile, I don’t find I need google play services at all.
The under screen fingerprint scanner on the Pixel 8 sucks, I wish they’d include face unlock or a rear scanner. It does seem to work better if I only have one finger registered, so maybe it’s a software issue that will get fixed. I know I should be using an unlock mechanism that’s something I know, instead of something I have, but I really don’t use my phone for anything I’m particularly concerned about.
It’s funny, I was really excited for Ubuntu when it first released, and actually quite enjoyed it. On the other hand, RPM distros seemed like an absolute mess, at that time. Now it’s the exact opposite. At least in regards to Fedora, it’s a very well thought out and maintained distro if you want things to just work, and Ubuntu makes me uncomfortable.
It doesn’t for me? I run it on Graphene without google play services. You just have to turn off battery optimization, but it’s very reasonable in its battery usage. I’ve been off battery for 18 hours, and am at 81% on my Pixel 8. Signal is at less than 1% of battery use, and it still will be in a few days when I’m ready to charge, unless I use it significantly on my phone. But I mostly use it from my laptop, and just get notifications on my phone, so probably not.
In contrast, K9 Mail is at around 3%, it’s running at battery optimized, and I haven’t opened it at all.
Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs....
I have an MBA, from a failed experiment with the Apple ecosystem. I love that it’s passively cooled, and will probably use it as a couch laptop with Asahi until the ARM market heats up in 2025 to 2026.
I love my Mugen, and it took me a bit to figure out consistency with the filters. But it’s pretty easy to fold an Abaca filter consistently, to fit well. You can see the sort of angle you need in the photo from the article. I just make that fold, and then smooth out the crease on the opposite side. I wouldn’t go through too much trouble for a negotiator for this brewer.
Btw, the Mugen’s strength in my eyes isn’t as a single pour brewer. Rather, it’s being able to grind fine, and with precise pours, minimize agitation to prevent channeling. I brew cool, at about 192F, with a bloomless technique. Once I get the coffee to sink with the first 3 pours (50g each on a 285 to 17g recipe), I’ll do one last large 50g pour around the edge on the paper. Then for the last 85g I’ll rinse the edges down as it drains, with a couple quick and gentle center pours to break any channels.
Zero bypass brewers can be easy for beginners, but don’t be fooled into thinking that they’re boring. You can take them very far with some more advanced techniques.
The one thing is, I wish the Mugen had a larger hole for faster draining. I’m hoping the Orea v4 is what I’m dreaming of.
This is what made me realize I really don’t need to bloom, when using a zero bypass brewer with a fine grind and temps around 190F to 192F. I started focusing on making three quick 50g pours at 0, 15, and 30-40 seconds to try to get the coffee submerged as quickly as possible. I don’t know if it’s true, but logically, getting the floating grounds submerged quickly will prevent some of the volatile compounds from being released to the air.
I also stopped aging my coffee 10-14 days, I’m brewing or freezing immediately once I receive it.
I push for a full bodied cup, with a pourover technique that borders on immersion, and I’m getting a lot more vibrance shining through now. I’m finally getting the results I was hoping for when going this direction, now that I’ve let go of some relics from other very different techniques. You just don’t need to worry so much about uneven extractions with fine grinds and brew times in the 4-5 minute range, and you can further minimize channeling with pour techniques.
I'm cheap and want a Linux keyboard
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Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
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What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
☕️7 Myths and Misconceptions About Coffee (www.wired.com)
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive beverages on the planet. Nearly every country, region, and culture has its own unique way of preparing and consuming coffee. There’s nothing simple about coffee. Those beans in your kitchen are the sum total of a complex series of interactions between international...
Is weird that I like and use both Fedora and Debian?
I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature....
Google's inconsistent Pixel experience makes its phones impossible to recommend (www.androidpolice.com)
We typically like Pixel phones a lot, but we have some reservations about Google’s quality control
Is Doctor Strangelove a Sci-Fi post-apocalyptic movie? Discuss (www.inverse.com)
Subjects like nuclear armageddon are simply too important to be taken seriously.
"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) (pluralistic.net)
Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years (www.cnbc.com)
Are you excited for the S24 announcement? (www.gsmarena.com)
What's the best headset to use for both PC and console right now?
So, I currently have a HyperX Cloud Orbit S headset that I’ve been using for both my PC and my PS4. It’s served me pretty well for a few years, but over the past few months the band has snapped and been superglued/reglued 5-6 times. It still works fine, but I’m getting tired of repairing it over and over, and feel it’s...
eGPU docks?
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Push Notification Privacy
I’ve heard and read recently about a warrant that shows that the US government is monitoring push notifications on iOS and Android. This is possible because push notifications mostly work remotely, using “push notification post office” servers at Apple and Google....
What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.
Beeper ready to wave white flag if its latest iMessage fix gets shut down (www.androidauthority.com)
Android may soon tell you when it's time to replace your phone's battery (www.androidauthority.com)
Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com)
Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs (9to5linux.com)
Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs....
3D printed v60 paper filter folding tool (negotiator) for Hario Mugen (ekawirya.com)
TRY THIS HACK FOR BETTER POUROVERS: Samo Bloom (www.youtube.com)
Basically using lower temp water for bloom (50ºC)