I got mine recently and have been playing a little bit of a lot of different stuff, but the thing I’ve put the most hours into has been Midnight Suns. I did not expect a Marvel game to my new favorite turn-based tactics deckbuilder, lol.

The stupid open world collectible part blows chunks, but the actual core gameplay is shockingly fun, if not perfectly tuned the way some deckbuilders are. The extremely weird lightweight high school dating sim / bioware relationship management aspect is very odd but produces some extremely funny interactions at times.

I did see that and it looks cool, but is it actually a tented PCB, or is the tent part of the keycap sculpt?

I wish someone would make a nice tented unisplit like this with an actual ergo layout.

It’s pretty widely known and has been an issue for a long time. It’s not terribly hard to google for.

The question is, if there are instances that are full of transphobic content, and they’re reported, does firefish defederate them. If they do, the view will improve. Although, global feeds are never very useful.

The actual issue is, that as an instance admin who had previously been in the loop for some time with #fediblock and other channels in which admins share this kind of info, folks expected him to already have disqordia blocked.

Also, it seems from his posts elsewhere that he actually was aware and didn’t care. Ample reason to defederate from .art’s perspective. (Firefish.social has subsequently silenced but not blocked disqordia)

All of this is relatively routine, the screenshot fabrication thing more unusual.

I feel like finding a good instance in the fediverse (that’s accepting users) is always a nightmare.

That being said, I’ve been happy with the vibes on lemmy.blahaj.zone and they have a calckey/firefish instance (that’s the main blahaj.zone). But it’s not strictly general-purpose.

Neat! I like the keyboardio folks a lot, although their boards aren’t always what I’m personally looking for.

https://mas.else.social/@choyer/110746384528095273

Someone checked and there’s already an existing trademark for Firefish in software specifically, at least in Europe. Apparently they make HR solutions of some sort.

https://jobs.firefishsoftware.com/about-us/meet-the-team.aspx

Firefox, but make it wet

(I don’t know if it’s a worse than “calckey” tbf)

It’s a trackball rather than a mouse, but the classic Ploopy is very large

I’m a big fan of the Kyria/Hillside layout, personally. I prefer having an outer pinky column personally, but that’s down to preference and individual anatomy. Some boards do allow you to break off the extra column, so there’s no reason you couldn’t try 6-column first and then break off the column later.

You also don’t necessarily nead to get a case right away or at all, lots of folks use split keyboards as bare PCBs. You can use thin adhesive foam to cover the bottom of the board and trim it to fit, if you need to use it on a bare desk and don’t want to scratch anything. If it’s a soldered build, you also don’t need a plate. (Hotswap, a plate is pretty beneficial)

Tech also involves corporate $$, “disruptive” (read: anti-worker) innovation, etc. the general skew of tech as an industry seems center-right to me plus lots of tech bros fully engaged (sometimes “ironically”) with the alt right.

At the local level, tech bros form natural partnerships with right wing interests around gentrification and policing.

If you’re willing to solder, most ergo keyboards are sold as relatively inexpensive PCB kits, which helps somewhat to offset the cost of having to guess about the layouts. The majority of the cost of the build will often be the switches, keycaps, and controllers, and if you socket the controllers, all of those can be reused if you don’t like the board.

For me, perhaps: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=118201.0

Some shoes are able to be resoled/rebuilt by a cobbler when they wear down, but they have a more complex/handcrafted construction which means their price tag is higher, and of course it’s not free to have them resoled, so you don’t automatically save money by going this route.

From an opsec standpoint, certainly. Or they’ll kick in your door like the Kolektiva admin. Definitely best to use end to end encryption if you have any need to protect yourself from state actors. But also fuck meta

Finally, a keyboard I can connect my garden hose to!

With those requirements, I would really recommend the Kyria from Splitkb. (Or Hillside from Beekeeb) It’s not the cheapest setup, though, especially if you’re buying tenting pucks and tripods.

It’s hard to say what will help each individual because everybody has different ergonomic needs, and obviously, nobody here can provide medical or occupational health advice.

That being said, some things to think about:

• If you haven’t already, make sure that your desk height and typing style are reasonably ergonomic. Conventional wisdom is that you want your forearms to be about level with the floor and your hands should be floating above the keyboard, not resting on your desk.
• For issues that are caused by wrist angle, there are two major features a keyboard can offer:
  • Split, letting you separate the halves so that your wrists aren’t pointing inward
  • Tented, meaning that you can change the angle of the keyboard so that you can get the most comfortable position rotationally
• Many ergonomic keyboards also use a column-staggered layout, which should be better for your fingers, but will require some learning curve to get used to
• Some also have keywell designs that are scooped so your fingers don’t have to stretch as far

You may want to compare different layouts before deciding on a board to try: https://compare.splitkb.com/

For off the shelf prebuilts, see things like Kinesis, Keyboardio, the Glove80, Ergodox, Moonlander

For something a bit more DIY, Keebio offers a range of split boards, and some of them are available prebuilt in addition to kit form. Some are hotswap as well. Splitkb also makes really good kits.

There are lots of other vendors, like Little Keyboards, Beekeeb, Falbatech, BastardKB, ohkeycaps, and others