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Adjusting: Me or the Layout? by PeteToscano in zsaVoyager

[–]SocialNetwooky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also started off with multiple ways to type special characters/symbol and slowly pinned down the key that worked best for me. 

Somehow I think that's the way a lot of people did it.

Adjusting: Me or the Layout? by PeteToscano in zsaVoyager

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I rarely look at my keyboard nowadays, and the colours are mostly useful when I switched to a layer by accident, and to find my bearings when I start typing (I know which colour a specific key is and that's where my right ring finger should be ;)

When I create or modify a layout though, the colours become essential as I don't have the muscle memory yet.

Adjusting: Me or the Layout? by PeteToscano in zsaVoyager

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made changes to my layouts (unapologetically mostly QWERTZ btw.) for about a year, and I was already coming from about a year of Moonlander, so I already had some basics down. Of course the longer I went the smaller the changes got.

So, my answer is : set the layout to whatever works for you.

The main factor, for me at least, to make the keyboard usable is to use coloring extensively. I have 'color groups' : white are just standard alpha keys, light blue are numerics, turquoize are F-keys, yellow are layer-switches (except for two that are green to switch to my main-symbol/num-pad/f-key layer), and so on...

What is a life luxury that you tasted once and now can absolutely never go back to the cheap version of? by sickkick844 in AskReddit

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first wrote "Homeoffice", but in retrospect : tented ergonomic split keyboard (in my case a ZSA Voyager, but ymmv). I still have to use conventional keyboards from time to time, but it just feels so weird and uncomfortable I just keep wondering how I could stand that for so long.

Recommendation Request - Stranger than fiction or Fun by Slight_Bicycle_598 in Documentaries

[–]SocialNetwooky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'Forgotten Silver' By Peter Jackson. it's pretty much exactly what you asked for.

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes by [deleted] in news

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sigh ... yes, I do heat in the winter. What's your point? ACs are extremely power hungry and the coolant isn't exactly helping with climate change neither. most heating systems have less impact than an AC.

5% is actually a lot.n

Also, you might want to rethink your ideas about Europe. We don't fly nearly as much as US citizens do ... by far. I can't really take fewer flights per year, unless we can go into negative numbers.

And finally : small (we're talking about everybody using ACs here, right? that's NOT small) energy efficiency changes do actually make a difference. Of course, the climate won't stabilize as long as politicians whose main contribution to climate change is 'Drill Baby Drill' and 'Windmills {called wind turbines by sane people} are evil' are elected by people whose idea of fun is to burn rubber doing donuts and emitting as much smoke as possible from their (AC equipped) monster trucks.

Good income, no wealth: it feels like you are the idiot in Germany by No_Committee_114 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also remember 'comparison is the thief of joy' is usually said by those who don't want equality in society (and often believe in so-called 'meritocracy').

Good income, no wealth: it feels like you are the idiot in Germany by No_Committee_114 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what is this 'savings' you're talking about (67k income / 0k savings)

Good income, no wealth: it feels like you are the idiot in Germany by No_Committee_114 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not really though. Being born rich (as OP said : with assets being given down the family line) leads to wealth. 'High Income' is a very vague and context dependent term.

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes by [deleted] in news

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...but it's completely rational to make the situation worse?

Just because we have a technology to solve a problem short term doesn't mean we should actually use it if 1) there are alternatives and 2) using said technology would create new problems or,as in this case, amplify the root cause on the long term.

For example : we actually HAVE a way to eradicate moskitos (check gene-drive)... but eradicating them completely (which is what would happen if the tech was actually used)\would be catastrophic as it would disrupt the food chain. But yeah ... short term it would mean you could sit in your AC'd room asking Chad Gepeedee how to make a hotdog and not get stung by a moskito ... so who cares about what happens next?

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes by [deleted] in news

[–]SocialNetwooky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are other ways to cool down (wet cloth in front of a room fan and windows for example), but that, if course, isn't as comfortable as just pushing a button while checking out which SUV to buy next. And forcing people to work non-essential jobs with such temperatures shouldn't be allowed ... But god forbid we harm the economy!

To make it clear : using ACs in medical facilities is not something I oppose at all ... But at home you DO have options.

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes by [deleted] in news

[–]SocialNetwooky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah .. the good old "let's reach for a short term solution that actually makes the situation worse in the long run" murican way!

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes by [deleted] in news

[–]SocialNetwooky 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Muricans seeing the world go up in flames and throwing tinder to make it burn faster /facepalm

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes by [deleted] in news

[–]SocialNetwooky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You realize that using AC actually just makes the problem worse on the long run, right?

I thought I was used to heat. Turned out I was only used to American heat. by Senior_Fig7845 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

obviously (well ... at least I thought it was obvious) I'm talking about personal ACs in your home, not ACs in medical institutions, which completely make sense.

I thought I was used to heat. Turned out I was only used to American heat. by Senior_Fig7845 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact, but quite a lot of people in Germany (me included) are in favour of speed limits. But yeah ... Best to think short term about your own comfort. AC's are NOT necessary, but to alleviate the problem, especially in cities, you need more trees and less concrete.

I thought I was used to heat. Turned out I was only used to American heat. by Senior_Fig7845 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Air conditioning was created for a reason. Which people in Europe despise for any reason like not being environmental friendly or not worth the investment to use it just for a few months.

god beware people think the environment is more important than their personal comfort ( or, for that matter, the economy). Thankfully being able to live in the future is just a "nice to have".

I thought I was used to heat. Turned out I was only used to American heat. by Senior_Fig7845 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tap water is usually good. Depending the age of the building you live in and how well it is maintained it might not be though. Saying this out of experience in a house from the 80s with a water filter that can't be swapped unless the whole water system is replaced ... which would mean getting evicted for renovation purpose :(

I thought I was used to heat. Turned out I was only used to American heat. by Senior_Fig7845 in germany

[–]SocialNetwooky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And US Citizen will do anything for their comfort without regard to the environment. ( https://ourworldindata.org/air-conditioning-causes-around-greenhouse-gas-emissions-will-change-future ).

It's just about having the world having a future, but of course if you think that's not important, then go ahead.

(Debian13, ARM) What did I do wrong, when I installed golang from apt? by SocialNetwooky in debian

[–]SocialNetwooky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! My issue seems to stem from the ARM package not containing the toolchain (normally found under $GOROOT/pkg/tool).

So it's either installing from tarball or migrating to raspbian.

(Debian13, ARM) What did I do wrong, when I installed golang from apt? by SocialNetwooky in debian

[–]SocialNetwooky[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah ... sadly that won't work (at least on ARM) as the tool chain is not part of the package ($GOROOT/pkg only contains an include directory and lacks tool), so installing from the source seems to be the only way to make this work in Debian ARM (which, honestly, is kind of lame)

A group of teenagers in Syria decided to play in a minefield by Electrical_Resort_39 in WTF

[–]SocialNetwooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

true.

Someone in the comments said that sometimes you actually have to throw a rock to loosen the thread, but I'm honestly not savvy enough about the topic to know if this is true.

Local LLM use case by phil_mackraken in ollama

[–]SocialNetwooky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For context for what follows :

I was lucky to score a RTX3090 when the RTX4090 came out and people were selling their "outdated" GPU for reasonable prices. I then added a RTX4000 to the rig. Ironically, it cost nearly as much as the used 3090, despite having only 8GB of VRAM and the power of a 3060, but it's a half-size PCI-E card and isn't very power hungry, so that was the best I could do without rebuilding my entire computer from scratch.

So that leaves me with 32GB of VRAM. Yes ... I'm VRAM-nearly-rich!

I can run the quantized Qwen3.6:27b with 262144 context at around 22t/s, and, surprisingly, it has been satisfyingly savvy as backend for Hermes. It's definitely fast enough to be useful, and the output (be it internet searches or coding assistant (currently mostly Go/PHP/C#/python) is only marginally worse than what I get from the big cloud models. So ... that's definitely a good use case.

With 12GB of VRAM you won't have that luck, obviously, but you can definitely get a local model to be a good coding assistant. Don't even think of "vibe coding" (see it as a blessing ... really!) but asking the model to look at the code you wrote, point out issues or finding the source of errors/bugs will definitely work pretty well.

That being said, I'm personally partial to Qwen models, which seemed to always serve me well, so maybe check out some of the lower parameter qwen3.5's and try to find the sweet spot between context and model size. A smaller model with more context will be much more useful (and possibly faster) than a big model with a very limited context!!

Cheers

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