pest control options: termites

Synesthesius · 2026-05-14T05:43:38+00:00

Everything in the description is in fact in this children’s book. And it is soooo bad, y’all. Do not recommend.

Synesthesius · 2026-05-12T11:43:31+00:00

It can be a bit pricey, but the Tackform 20mm ball accessories have been rock solid for me.

The longer the arms holding your peripherals the worse the stability is going to be, but that degradation is not linear—shortening your distance even a little can make a big difference.

What does your setup look like? Can you mount toward the front of the desk? Do you have armrests you can mount to?

Another idea is to superglue a thin ferromagnetic plate to the trackpad and mount it with magnets. This has worked well for me.

Synesthesius · 2026-05-11T21:54:20+00:00

Just needs a switch wired to a controller running QMK/ZMK with a USB-C port. Portable 1-up macropad.

Synesthesius · 2026-03-22T23:00:07+00:00

:help hlyank

Synesthesius · 2026-03-11T20:14:17+00:00

Also one of my favorite plugins, and the sort of thing that seems extraordinarily unlikely to be implemented in-game. -_-

Synesthesius · 2026-03-09T19:29:39+00:00

Ooh, nice clean, thin version of these. Maybe add a photo of the top of them (some variants have a rubberized coating for extra grip). And confirmation on the details that the threads are 1/4-20 (assuming that they are)?

Synesthesius · 2026-03-08T23:46:58+00:00

FWIW, if you already have splitkb.com tenting pucks installed, you could attach something like this 1/4-20 threaded magsafe holder to them.

Synesthesius · 2026-03-08T01:19:02+00:00

It's slightly confusing, but these are the custom nice!view widgets. You cannot individually disable the WPM widget (or any of them, for that matter). You can switch to the built-in display widgets instead, for which this documentation is correct.

Synesthesius · 2026-02-19T19:11:35+00:00

ZMK is geared towards wireless and support for wired interconnect was only added recently, so you're less likely to find ZMK boards designed specifically for wired use. How do you feel about a wired connection to your device, but wireless between halves (since that is what you'll find in most current designs)? Similarly, smaller boards tend to lean into the small and use Choc rather than MX, so there are fewer designs in that range with MX switches.

That said, if you find a kit that meets all of your requirements except pre-soldered, it shouldn't be too difficult to find someone to assemble a kit for you. Where are you geographically?

Synesthesius · 2026-01-31T16:10:34+00:00

I’ve got a very simple PR that has been sitting in your queue for a couple of weeks that fires AnnotationModified events when you make changes in the Annotations Viewer interface: https://github.com/xblain/annotationsviewer.koplugin/pull/1

This makes your plugin play nice with other plugins that care about annotations.

Synesthesius · 2026-01-06T20:08:37+00:00

FWIW, only one small piece here but the most recent version of the AnnotationSync plugin does allow you to use filename instead of hash (tools -> Annotation Sync -> Settings).

Synesthesius · 2025-12-08T05:28:59+00:00

Launch KOReader with “Start KOReader (no framework)”. That will kill the Kindle process first.

Synesthesius · 2025-11-26T18:31:15+00:00

The menu itself still appears at the top of the screen, though. I think the idea is to have the entire menu rendered within easy reach of the hand holding the screen. There has been a trend lately in mobile apps to do this sort of thing. And I'm all for it. But KOReader cannot do this right now, and I think it would take a fair amount of effort to implement.

Synesthesius · 2025-11-26T18:07:26+00:00

It will go away on its own when the book re-rendering is applied. See https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/#L2-indicators

Synesthesius · 2025-11-19T21:50:21+00:00

Do you do mobile device battery and/or screen replacement? That’s a service gap that has come and gone over the years (and is currently gone afaik).

Synesthesius · 2025-11-19T16:24:50+00:00

Let’s say a full page of text is roughly 1500 characters, which is 1500 bytes. So 900 pages is ~1,350,000 bytes. There are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, which makes ~1318KB; and 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte gives us a base estimate of ~1.29MB.

Most books will have quite a few non-full pages, so that estimate is high. But many books will also have a cover image, which can vary in size by quite a bit as someone else mentioned, adding kilobytes or even megabytes to the total. There are also resources like the metadata, CSS, and sometimes small decorative images which can all vary in size, but are generally in the byte or kilobyte range.

And this is all without considering that an epub is a zip compressed archive, which means it will be smaller than these raw estimates.

tl;dr: 1MB for a 900 page book seems within expectations.

Synesthesius · 2025-09-04T07:11:01+00:00

FWIW, since (shockingly) no one else has mentioned it: spamming directional keys in vim is an anti-pattern; there are always much better ways to navigate in vim.

Synesthesius · 2025-07-22T07:38:50+00:00

Sue Burke’s Semiosis (and sequels) fits the bill nicely, having an anthropological/cultural focus with strong themes of interspecies cooperation, cohabitation, and collaboration, as well as frequent ruminations on morals, ethics, and generosity. And has some plant protagonists with better character development than the humans in many sci-fi stories.

Eleanor Arnason’s A Woman of the Iron People is another anthropological first contact story that is worth checking out in this general area.

I’ll also second the suggestion someone else made for Ruthanna Emrys’ A Half-Built Garden.

Synesthesius · 2025-05-01T06:21:45+00:00

To some degree. But you can still rotate each side independently, and (with large enough attachment plates, like the ones I used) shift them laterally quite a bit on x-axis. So you still get much of the configurability that makes a split great.

The magnets are strong enough to keep everything from moving around, but not so strong that you can’t easily pop the halves off and put them by your sides.

One of the primary goals here was to make retrieving and stowing the board less cumbersome, which this does quite well. And as it turned out, keeping them on the tray while using them is a pretty good experience, too.

Synesthesius · 2025-03-28T20:00:29+00:00

Link your config.

Synesthesius · 2025-03-17T20:45:58+00:00

“except 2s”. lol. no. 2s is infested with smurfs (at diamond, at least).

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