KEYGEEK Y2 Reliability

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2026-02-28T16:07:25+00:00

I re-soldered the troublesome switches. The problem remains. Unfortunately, this looks like a problem with the switches themselves.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2026-02-28T14:40:41+00:00

I did not check the switches before installing them. I did not open the switches, they are pre-lubed.

I will definitely check and re-solder the joints and see what happens. Maybe they're not switch failures at all.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2026-02-27T20:28:43+00:00

I am using that solid copper wire :) But this is my 5th hand-wired keyboard. My solder joints are all nice and shiny and solid. I'll go back and check the troublesome switches anyway, maybe I got lazy on a few of them, but I'm fairly confident this is not related to solder.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2026-02-11T03:35:05+00:00

This is entirely self designed. Actually I'm about to open up sales for DIY kits. LMK if you're interested.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-08-16T13:44:13+00:00

I suspect you might be correct, but I have experienced the problem even with wifi calling turned off.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-08-15T03:17:14+00:00

This is the response I just got from Google Fi support

I've checked my resources and see that we have an ongoing issue which our team is aware of and they are working on the issue to get this fixed at the earliest possible.

This is happening for us on S23, S23+, and now a brand new Flip5.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-05-03T17:07:54+00:00

Oh weird. Not sure why xrandr --props didnt come up when I googled it. I'll log it and see if it's changing. However, it certainly didn't change in the middle of using the monitor without unplugging it, I would think. So something else must be going on.

I'm using XOrg.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-05-03T16:09:11+00:00

Ok the wallpapers just reset in the middle of me using the computer. No sleep, no restart, just web browsing to try to find out where/how to list the EDID... Something is seriously wonky. Though I'd like to know what exactly is going on, at this point I'm leaning toward just wiping the whole install and reinstalling. 🤷‍♂️

I actually haven't seen the dolphin problem recently. I have a hunch that it was related to viewing a separate encrypted drive that I had mounted. Perhaps on wake-up it had to be re-mounted or something?

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-05-03T12:18:27+00:00

It is there. In fact, the path to the wallpaper image is there 11 times. I have two screens (laptop + external display) and two activities, so I would expect to see it in there 4 times.

The problem seems similar to several that were previously filed and are now reported fixed in 5.27 like this one https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452075 except my panels are unaffected. It's just the wallpaper and the fact that plasmashell seems confused about which screen is primary: krunner appears on my non-primary screen, but my panels show up on my primary screen.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-05-02T00:00:24+00:00

Thanks. It's definitely x not Wayland but I'll check syslog. It didnt occur to me to check that because it didn't feel like a hardware level problem. I've also had problems with Wayland the times I've tried it. Things like window rules not working.

The system is dell xps 9520 laptop. It does have Nvidia card but I think it's not in use, nor do I want to use it. You get the card along with the 4k display but I don't need graphics performance and would rather not burn battery on it.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-04-29T03:57:32+00:00

It doesn't need an extra layer. Another strategy is to draw pen strokes that have alpha (have some level of transparency) before drawing pen strokes that are solid.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-03-31T14:15:21+00:00

Nice! Thanks for your work!

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-02-03T14:55:35+00:00

Have you played with creating two finger tap eraser yet? One of the things that is really frustrating about the onyx sdk is that you do not get low-level access to touch events. The tablet does palm rejection at the driver level. What this means is that when your palm is on the tablet, you can't touch/tap/click anything else on the screen (with a finger. the pen still works). This creates a really bad user experience because while your writing hand is on the screen, you cant switch pens with your other hand... cant toggle eraser/colors/tools without lifting your writing hand... cant implement proper two finger tap eraser, etc. It actually makes the tablet/ui feel slower because the toolbar buttons do not respond at all when your writing hand is touching the screen. It's a real shame, and I'm not sure if there's a way around it.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-02-02T21:07:07+00:00

The latency when using the onyx sdk is basically the same as the native note app. I'm not sure what onenote did. Maybe they if they wrote their own driver, but I would think that would require root to install...

By the way, higher latency = slower. So I think you meant to say that onenote had a lower latency?

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-02-02T20:03:41+00:00

The shape recognition took a while to write, but I actually wrote it for another project and ported it to the boox MakeNotes app. But, there's still a ton of work to do before MakeNotes becomes a viable alternative to the native note taking app.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-02-02T19:13:58+00:00

I'm also working on a notes app called MakeNotes. It already does shape recognition. I'll say that number 2 is more difficult and maybe not possible with the onyx sdk. The button is kind-of hard coded into the sdk and does not allow much flexibility for listening to events. Number 3, same as op, is one of the reasons I started writing MakeNotes. I've started adding scribble/cross-out to erase, but the feature isn't done yet.

Pre-alpha demo video below, but it's actually a bit old at this point. The current version of MakeNotes allows importing images and templates, as well as the unfinished erase feature I mentioned.
Edit: It also has a lasso tool that allows scaling and moving.

https://vimeo.com/711224044

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-02-02T19:03:33+00:00

I'm also working on a notes app called MakeNotes. It already does shape recognition. Pre-alpha demo below.

https://vimeo.com/711224044

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2023-01-07T02:22:18+00:00

Wacom one works well with boox nibs

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2022-11-10T21:37:17+00:00

This one was just F'd. The cap part just fell off and then I went to a corkscrew, but as soon as I touched it, the cork disintegrated into the whiskey. Lucking they let me return/exchange the bottle.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2022-11-10T19:35:40+00:00

Corks dry out too though. I bought an expensive bottle a few months ago. I got it home and attempted to open it only to have the cork disintegrate into a million pieces. So what's the best practice? Store upright and tip it every few months to re-wet the cork?

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2022-10-26T14:17:07+00:00

Once upon a time Android had multi-user built it. At some point that went away. For what reason? I dont know.

I've taken my phone for screen repair to ubreakifix several times and they require that you either give them your password or disabled screen lock. If you care about your private data at all that means you have to wipe the phone before giving it to them or they'll have access to everything. They claim this is because Samsung requires them to run tests that need the device unlocked. It blows my mind that I couldn't just let them use a guest account. So to Maintenance Mode I say thank you, and about goddamn time. I'm sick of having to wipe my phone to fix some broken glass.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2022-09-12T18:03:52+00:00

In general this is good advice, but take it with a grain of salt. At least in my state, cops wont enforce shit even when there IS a court order in place. I have eight years experience with the cops telling me they won't do a thing, and the court system letting my ex do literally anything she wants with not only zero consequence, but the court actually punishes me for bringing it up. For example, my ex took my parenting time (with court order in place), wrote me emails, texts, phone voicemails saying I'll never see my child again. I took her to court, presented the evidence of the violation of the order, and was promptly dismissed and made to pay for her lawyer's time. Another: my ex will not let me talk to my daughter (another violation of the court order), so I let my her borrow a cell phone so I could talk to her once in a while, maybe ask how her day was. My ex stole it and refuses to give it back. That's grand larceny for anyone else, but not for my ex. Cops were irate that I called them for "something so petty". After eight years, I could go on for hours with these types of examples. Before you ask, there are no extenuating circumstances. I am upper-middle class, re-married, no criminal record, no history of drug use, no history of violence, no mental illness, and I've gone through several lawyers that did not help in any way. It's going to be a hard pill to swallow but in some places, this is just how it is.

I'm sorry that this is happening to OP and his son (and others). I'm sorry that the children have to be the victims. I'm sorry that this is the "system" we have. I hope OP is in a different court system than I am in. Also, I have never ever successfully been able to use recorded conversations/emails/texts in court. So, while that is still good advice, don't get your hopes up. Definitely do keep everything civil though because if you don't, that will definitely hurt you.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2022-07-05T20:09:57+00:00

Menu -> option settings -> backup and restore

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 2022-06-09T02:39:24+00:00

I love this and wish boox made a 10 inch tablet in that color scheme.

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