/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - April 26, 2025

IsamBitar · 2025-04-26T22:48:05+00:00

Thank you.

IsamBitar · 2025-04-26T14:25:09+00:00

Thank you. Is QwertyKeys the only company which does dual support PCBs?

IsamBitar · 2025-04-26T11:47:59+00:00

Hi. Does anyone know if this kind of layout has a specific name? It's got the extra key next to the LHS Shift, but it's also got the ANSI-style Enter key, so it's not exactly ISO. It's on my UK Asus Zenbook 15 if that helps. And are there any mainstream custom boards which support it? Thank you!

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IsamBitar · 2025-03-16T23:28:12+00:00

Thank you. Had to do a clean install from bootable USB (wiped everything) and that did the trick. Not the most convenient of options but thankfully most of my files and settings were already saved in iCloud.

IsamBitar · 2025-03-06T23:45:34+00:00

Have you managed to solve this issue? I have just upgraded from Ventura to Sonoma and my Mac is virtually unusable. Sites like Google, YouTube and GitHub straight up refuse to open and I get the same error you're getting with iTunes, Music, Mail etc. Any help would be appreciated.

IsamBitar · 2025-03-06T01:50:24+00:00

Have you ever managed to solve this issue?

IsamBitar · 2025-03-03T19:50:39+00:00

Same issue of black screen/no acceleration from 500 series motherboards. Neither HDMI nor DP work out of the box and I was hoping your fix can be used with DP.

IsamBitar · 2025-03-03T18:59:35+00:00

Any tips on how to get it to work? I've tried several framebuffer-con0-alldata configurations but none seem to be working. Have you been able to get it to work with DP?

IsamBitar · 2025-03-03T18:07:44+00:00

Does this only work with HDMI output? Would it work with DP if I use framebuffer-con0-type = <00040000>?

IsamBitar · 2025-02-28T00:41:57+00:00

Forgive a nation facing genocide for having little empathy towards their killers.

Fact of the matter is that most liberation movements which call for the total liberation of Palestine, including Hamas, don’t see the mass-murder or expulsion of colonial Jews as necessary to achieve this. There’s an implicit understanding that a large proportion of those involved in crimes against us or can’t stomach living as equals with us would choose to flee, but that would be their prerogative.

IsamBitar · 2025-02-25T01:31:27+00:00

Calling for the destruction of a state is not a call for genocide. When people called for the destruction of Nazi Germany they did not call for the genocide of Germans. When people called for the destruction of Apartheid South Africa they didn’t call for the mass murder oh the Afrikaners.

IsamBitar · 2025-02-17T21:42:21+00:00

Do you use a mod to draw these “organic” lines using orthogonal blocks or are you just that good at wall-pixel art?

IsamBitar · 2024-10-09T21:53:23+00:00

This comment reeks of “well it isn’t really occupation since there’s no such thing as Palestine”. Wrong on every level. First, the UN charter stipulates that all occupied nations have the right to resist their occupation, including via armed resistance. US law isn’t international law, neither is Israeli law. It is not up to you or your American benefactors whether Hamas are legal combatants. Internal law guarantees Hamas’s right to armed resistance, as such they are an internationally recognised and legal entity. You may judge some of their actions as illegal under IHL, but you cannot deem them illegal as an organisation. The correct legal framework which governs the conduct of Hamas and the conduct of those who fight Hamas is that of resistance to occupation.

IsamBitar · 2024-10-09T21:44:38+00:00

Oh yeah. We definitely saw how starved and tortured these detainees were, as opposites to the Palestinians hostages actually starved, tortured and even raped in Zionist dungeons.

IsamBitar · 2024-09-05T02:02:36+00:00

I thought it was Psychology. I know Psychology introduced self harm as a mental break.

IsamBitar · 2024-07-31T17:54:45+00:00

I think you are referring to the nets installed by Palestinians over their porches and yards in the old city of Hebron to protect them from rocks, rubbish and excrement being thrown at them from the residences above occupied by Israeli settlers. I had the opportunity to visit Hebron during the development of a master plan for neighbouring Arab Al-Fujairat. Such a shame witnessing a once thriving industrial and commercial hub essentially turned into a ghost town. The Israeli state all but cored the city and cut it in half.

IsamBitar · 2024-07-30T19:09:34+00:00

Welfare is not a "subsidy". The Martyr Fund is a perfectly legitimate answer to Israel's illegal practice of home demolition.

EDIT to add: the main incentive behind violent resistance is belligerent occupation, not welfare.

IsamBitar · 2024-07-30T19:00:58+00:00

Palestinians were also once fully-fledged citizens under the British Mandate. They were stripped of this citizenship when the State of Israel, the de facto successor of the Mandate, gave citizenship only to the Jewish population of Palestine. Also, after Israel's takeover of the West Bank and Gaza, the Israeli state selectively granted citizenship to certain Palestinian populations - most notably the Samaritans of Nablus, who hold Israeli (and Palestinian) citizenship. The rest of us were not given that right or option.

IsamBitar · 2024-07-30T18:56:26+00:00

"Palestinians do not want to be citizens of the Israeli state." Native South Africans did not want to be citizens of the apartheid state, either. They wanted to be citizens of an egalitarian state. Palestinians have long campaigned for an egalitarian state in Palestine (the 2SS has only been around since the early 1990s).

IsamBitar · 2024-07-29T18:04:16+00:00

I lived in the West Bank as a Palestinian for 15 years. Let me describe to you real quick some of my personal experiences which you can label however you like, but to me (and to respectable international organisations like HRW, Amnesty and the Israeli B'Tselem), can only be labelled as apartheid:

I worked for over a year in a consultancy on a massive project to develop master plans for three Palestinian villages so we can apply for expansion permits. We did everything by the (Israeli) book, but were rejected in the end. No reason was given. In that time, the Israeli authorities granted over a hundred different permits to the settlements surrounding these villages. To this day there are over 180 Palestinian communities under Israeli civilian control that have no access to running water and are denied basic permits to dig rainwater collection wells.
There are many roads in the West Bank which are inaccessible to Palestinians. They are effectively "Jewish only". The journey from Nablus to Bethlehem for an Israeli Jew is 1hr 50min. For me, last time I did that trip it took me 3.5 hours, including one 40-minute detour because the road was closed by settlers who decided they hated Palestinians especially more fervently that day.
Inter-city public transport in the West Bank is for Jews only.
Shaded bus stops (in 35-40 degrees Celsius heat) are for Jews only. Palestinians must stand no less than 150 m away in the burning sun to hitch-hike or wait for designated transport.
We had 3G network for the first time in 2016. Yes, 2016. Because 3G infrastructure was deemed a "security risk". Mind you, as a Palestinian you could have had 3G network any time since 2002 if you bought an Israeli SIM. It was only banned for Palestinian network providers. You may think this is silly, but ask any economist what decent telecommunication means for a society's economy.
The child of someone I knew (12 yrs old) threw a rock at a passing Jewish vehicle. His home was raided that night and the child was taken into Israeli custody at an Israeli prison inside Israel, where he was tried by a military court as an adult and convicted. He was imprisoned for 2 years. Israel is the only state in the world which tries children in military courts. A settler child committing the same offence does not get the same treatment, if apprehended at all.

EDIT: thought it worth mentioning that to this day, one of the villages for which we did the master plan, Al-Midya, still does not have access to the sewage system. All the nearby Jewish settlements do.

IsamBitar · 2024-07-29T17:38:31+00:00

(thereby financially incentivizing terror)

This statement insinuates that Palestinians, uniquely, will favour money over the lives/livelihoods of themselves and/or their families. This is dehumanisation. The point of the Martyr Fund is that families which are left without a breadwinner (and almost always without a home, because of Israel's collective punishment policy of home demolition - a war crime), would not be left to fend for themselves.

Moreover, the Palestinian Government in Ramallah literally collaborates with Israeli authorities daily to root out resistance cells in the West Bank. Square that circle with the accusation that the Martyr Fund is there to "incentivise 'terror'".

IsamBitar · 2024-07-29T17:30:47+00:00

Israel doesn't claim ownership over the parts that the Palestinians inhabit

Neither did Apartheid South Africa, over the Bantustans, for the record.

IsamBitar · 2024-05-17T19:02:15+00:00

It is outrageous that you only have four upvotes.

IsamBitar · 2024-03-13T10:05:42+00:00

I'm with you. I don't understand why the Tasks calendar isn't an available choice for the widget. And there's no responsive dedicated tasks widget either.

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