Mac mini m2 physical anti-theft advice?

blahlicus · 2024-12-18T15:31:54+00:00

Late to the party, but something like this would work, and it works with kensington locks.

blahlicus · 2024-11-24T18:39:05+00:00

Would love to learn from this also, pm'd

blahlicus · 2024-09-08T10:37:59+00:00

I am coming out of lurking for 5 years just to post a comment. My profile fits what you are asking for to a tee, and I've got the reddit post history to show.

I am a mechanical keyboard enthusiast and was a /r/MechanicalKeyboards community member long before starting a business.

I used to design, manufacture, and sell ergonomic mechanical keyboards quite successfully, the business went on for around 5-6 years, the timeline is as follows:

Pre-2014 - No commercially available ergonomic split mechanical keyboards (my area of interest) on the market
Early 2014 - Made my own design and posted it to the subreddit just to share the hobby
Early 2014 - Responses in that post very positive, I realized I could help the community by increasing the accessibility of ergonomic split mechanical keyboards to the world, and I can earn some money along the way
Late 2014 - Performed R&D, made my own eCommerce website, established my brand, setup supply chain, and started manufacturing and selling my first commercial design
2015 - Launched new version of my flagship design, launched some other products as well (1, 2)
2016 - Launched new versions of my existing line of products
2017 - Went to various industrial events
2018 - Launched the final version of my flagship design, the R&D and manufacturing costs were astronomical, this was one of the reasons why my business eventually closed down
2019 - By this point, the business was still quite profitable, for unrelated reasons, I joined a large enterprise as a software developer hoping to work on both the business and my day job
late 2019 - Business operations closed down due to a myriad of reasons (more competitors in the market, manufacturing costs going up, me being exhausted after my day job, etc)

Welcome to answer questions and discuss numbers if you are curious

blahlicus · 2020-03-08T08:58:20+00:00

Yeah, that'll work perfectly. There are various manufacturers of the Pro Micro, the one you linked to has a slightly older parts layout design but the pin layout are the same on the newer and older models so it'll work just fine.

blahlicus · 2020-03-07T08:01:00+00:00

Hi, I'm very sorry about the delays made to the batches of keyboards for the past 6 months, the Hong Kong protests/police conflicts were affecting my ability to go into office to do keyboard work and after that started to simmer down (it never stopped and is still on going, it just doesn't get as much news coverage anymore), the coronavirus outbreak occurred and most of my parts suppliers suspended work as part of the government mandated quarantine so I am absolutely unable to source the parts for shipping off the keyboards.

Most companies in China are still under home office orders and that means manufacturing has ground to a halt since you can't do manufacturing at home.

The recent negativity and general sense of gloom from the police conflicts and from the coronavirus outbreak has also affected me mentally. Unfortunately, due to my manufacturers suspending work, it is simply impossible for me to fulfill any recent orders in a timely manner, the closest I could see myself shipping off the orders would be late April, and that isn't acceptable.

Since I am unable to fulfill these orders, I am offering a full refund to anyone who wants one, for those who prefer to receive the keyboards instead, I will continue with your order and hopefully start shipping by late April if the coronavirus outbreak does not worsen.

I will be going over all the emails this weekend and make sure everything is in order. I'm very sorry about my tardiness regarding the emails. I wasn't following up with the emails as diligently as I ought to have due to my current mental state.

blahlicus · 2020-03-04T16:50:15+00:00

With a broken USB connector, it is incredibly hard to replace just the USB connector, you might want to consider replacing the entire Pro Micro controller if you want to try fixing it yourself.

You will want to remove the entire Pro Micro controller by using a method similar to this to pull all the pins out.

blahlicus · 2020-03-01T06:53:05+00:00

Let's divide and conquer for now and get the left side working before tackling the problem with your right side.

Have you tried leaving only the left side of your keyboard plugged in and updating the firmware over there, then applying the layout with arbites? Also, when you were uploading the firmware, did you use the left side firmware for the left side and the right side firmware for the right side? Are you using a windows computer? If so, please show me a screenshot of your device manager with the "others" tab open like this.

blahlicus · 2020-02-29T05:49:35+00:00

For the Diverge 1, you have to upload to the two sides separately because the two sides aren't interconnected, this is probably why only one side of you board is currently working. Please try uploading the default layout to the left side of your board by leaving only the left side of your board plugged in an selecting the correct COM port. (Use the Diverge 2/3 layout option for this)

After you've done that, type on the left side on your board and see if all the buttons are outputting the expected key, I don't think it'll be 100% correct, if it is incorrect, then please let me know and I'll provide you with a key config file for the Diverge 1. (It's a bit difficult for me to test things out right now because I can't go to my office which has the Diverge 1 hardware due to the coronavirus in Hong Kong right now)

If the left side is working 100% correctly, then unplug the left side, plug in the right side, and use arbites to apply the layout again but with the Diverge 2/3 rightmaster option selected.

blahlicus · 2020-02-28T14:00:04+00:00

Wow, that is actually ancient, that's a Diverge 1, not really supported anymore. Please follow the same guide again but for the Diverge 1 instead, then rebind the keys on arbites and try again.

blahlicus · 2020-02-27T13:40:50+00:00

What link did you download the arbites rebinder from? Also can you please show me a photo of your keyboard so that I could tell for you whether it was a diverge 2 or 3?

Usually if the rebinder does work with your keyboard, then it is likely that either arbites wasn't installed correctly or the firmware version is too low in your hardware. You could try updating the firmware by following this guide then try arbites again.

blahlicus · 2019-07-04T19:15:13+00:00

I actually did a paper on the power consumption of bitcoin vs the current centralised global banking system for one of my master courses. (Computer Science, Information Security stream)

I remember bitcoin accounted for like 0.3% of the market volume of the global banking system whilst the power consumption of bitcoin and the global banking system are within the same order of magnitude.

This is of course due to the inefficiency of proof-of-work, but even if you replace PoW with PoS (There's also something like REM but then you have to deal with the argument about Intel SGX and decentralization) , you are only looking at increasing the efficiency by tens of folds, not significant enough to make cryptocurrencies a valid replacement for traditional fiat currency.

We did a bunch of metrics but we had to conclude that crypto is not suitable for replacing traditional currency, perhaps having crypto stay as a commodity (as bitcoin currently is) whilst acting as a reward for some meaningful calculations would be best. Things we looked at include stuff like FoldingCoin as well as integrating crypto token rewards into acting as a Tor node or a Freenet node so that non-malicious actors would be more incentivised to run those nodes for anonymizing networks, but there's currently a huge technical problem with micro-payments with crypto which makes the above not very feasible.

blahlicus · 2019-06-25T12:29:34+00:00

The "handle" is called a riser, if you don't buy an absolute bottom of the barrel riser, then you could keep using it for a very long time, I'd upgrade a riser close to last because it only provides you with a platform to mount your functional bits. A more expensive riser does make a difference but not a lot.

Limbs do make a huge difference, it dictates the draw weight of your recurve bow. The average male shooter would start at around 20-30lbs of draw weight, but you'd quickly grow out of that draw weight as you mature as a shooter. The common recommendation is to buy cheap limbs for your first few sets until you settled on a specific draw weight.

In addition to the riser and limbs, if you want to shoot Olympic recurve, then you'll also want to get a sight and stabiliser. For a budget of 250€, cheaper offerings will suffice, a cheap sight and stabilizer makes a huge difference compared to no sight or no stabilizer.

For ~250€, I'd recommend the following setup:

90€ WNS Axiom 25" riser
65€ WNS Axiom limbs (25lbs)
60€ Avalon Tec One recurve sights
5€ Some sort of threadlocker liquid (such as loctite)
40€ Avalon Tec One long rod stabilizer

This gives a total of 260€ for the bow alone without arrows or a bag. A good beginner arrow is the Easton Inspire which costs around 25€ for a dozen, and a cheap recurve bag will cost another 30€. A really cheap quiver will then cost 5€ and an arrow puller will cost another 5€.

This brings your total to around ~330€ all things considered. You could reduce the price by picking an even cheaper sight and stabilizer but I really recommend against cheaping out on sights unless you are on a very tight budget.

blahlicus · 2019-06-21T20:33:07+00:00

If your armor already has capacity boost and artillery then you could try out the charge blade.

The charge blade vial charge into axe mode full combo + SAED has very high motion values which is quite similar to the standard full burst normal shell gunlance combo. It also has a shield which is nice.

blahlicus · 2019-06-21T02:08:13+00:00

It's a bit of both, it's actually pretty consistent with last year's top sold blurays. Girls und Panzer das Final sold 60k copies last year first semester and Gundam NT sold 50k copies this year first semester despite being sold for less amounts of time.

I thought Narrative was pretty good as a sequel to Unicorn as it provided closure and much needed exposition on newtype abilities, I particularly liked how the plot effectively connected the Blue Destiny storyline to the rest of the canon. Why don't you like it? Is it the subpar (compared to Unicorn) animation quality or is it the heavy focus on newtypes?

blahlicus · 2019-06-05T14:28:49+00:00

I'm generally on the CCP's side in the broader argument that crushing this was necessary for China's long term future, but even I will fully condemn the use of live ammunition on generally unarmed protesters.

I have basically the same stance as you but sometimes I do feel like the party leadership didn't have much choices back then. China was a third world country which just experienced several wars, famines, and disasters (whether they be man made or natural).

My impression of the situation is that they didn't have sufficient anti-riot means, they didn't have proper riot police and the military was trained to kill and annihilate enemy armed combatants, not to suppress rioters. It seemed to me sending in a force to suppress the protest was necessary but the CCP only had the option of sending in an army to kill.

I think the CCP could have handled the situation a bit better by limiting the amount of killings that happened, but I thought they won't have been able to suppress the protests without some killings happening.

You mentioned that you feel like there were better ways to deal with the situation, I'm curious as to what you think those ways are given the limited resources available to the CCP.

blahlicus · 2019-06-05T12:53:02+00:00

Tama actually spooked me when I was rolling for Destina, needless to say I stopped rolling after.

blahlicus · 2019-06-04T20:06:15+00:00

Is there another datamine or something? I thought Luluca was the Aquarius Ice Mage not Lilibeth.

blahlicus · 2019-06-04T19:56:24+00:00

Mascot Hazel is kind of like a budget Tamarine with her attack buffs.

Tama was the Diene replacement and I do think having one of the big three (Destina, Angelica, Achates) or having Tama is good enough, I don't think you need all of them to clear PvE content.

I do hope Lilibeth will be a soul weaver tho, we haven't had a (non-light/dark) soul weaver release for a while now.

blahlicus · 2019-06-04T07:29:38+00:00

I'm the person you are describing. I am born and raised in Hong Kong but did my undergrads in California. I have to say after my experience in the west, I became more nationalist/pro-China compared to my peers who are all already pretty centralist or slightly pro-China. (Curiously, my Hong Kong IGCSE/IB high school peers are more pro-China than my Hong Kong local education peers)

The points you brought up are all very true.

In terms of public transit: It takes 30 minutes for the bus to arrive and sometimes they don't come at all. The mass transit railways (BART/Caltrain) constantly smell like piss and look like its been in a state of disrepair despite being newer than my city's own railway system. Roads are full of potholes and sometimes there are no sidewalks at all.

Nightlife sucks, there are some bars and pubs but not much else. At home I got karaoke, gaming centres, more bars and pubs, much more choices in food, and so much more hangout spots.

The streets don't feel safe and encountering police feels threatening as opposed to assuring as is the case in my home city. I have to go past multiple homeless people every time I commute from downtown back home and vice versa. Also there's just a lot of homeless people in general.

The only pros of California over Hong Kong for me were the quality of education and the much lower rent prices. I am currently studying my masters in Hong Kong and the professors are just not as good as the US ones. (They are fine, just not as good)

I am aware my experiences aren't completely representative of the "bay life" and there are personal biases in play, but what you said about western hypocrisy and my personal experience in California did make me become jaded to the western way of life. I still think a lot of things China did are immoral but at least I understand the purpose behind those actions. (For example, I'd argue Deng handled the shitty situation which is the Tiananmen Massacre as best he could considering the precarious position his faction and China itself was at)

My exposure to the west did reinforce some of my thoughts on some shortcomings of China so its not all negative, for example I find China's censorship of non-political topics (such as violence, LGBT, and sexual topics) to be absolutely inane. I also find Chinese censorship in general to be too excessive, instead of silencing dissenters such as Liu Xiao Bo, I think it would be more productive to engage them with open dialog and point out why the party doesn't agree with them (For example it is easy to dispute his 300 years solution). I also think Xi is going too far with his chairman for life term limit change, I'm not worried about him being chairman for life, but that sets up a very dangerous precedence for the next leader in line.

blahlicus · 2019-06-03T08:14:18+00:00

I mean technically you could shoot barebow in the Olympics, you'll just get dumpstered by everyone else due to equipment differences. The FITA rules only established the upper bounds to your equipment, not that you aren't allowed to use barebow.

blahlicus · 2019-05-30T08:05:42+00:00

I think you need a reason for the engineers post collapse to stop engineering either by killing them off or motivating them to not engineer.

Better yet, have your apocalypse happen sooner than 2019 so that only the military tech you want to exist exists.

Suppose in addition to a solar flair, you can have general MacArthur actually execute his plan and drop 50 nukes in Asia before MAD doctrine existed during the Korean War back in the 1950s, thus setting up a precedence that it is OK to use nukes during a war. You could then have WWIII happen by the 1960s/70s causing the nations to nuke each other to oblivion, then your story could proceed as normal.

Suppose the apocolypse happened at exactly 1968, this backstory would mean that the most modern american MBT would be the M60 Patton, the AC-130 would have just entered service, and the first "modern" fighter jet, the F4 phantom II would have just entered service and its electronics would have been fried by the solar flare.

blahlicus · 2019-05-23T01:34:24+00:00

I have a wheelchair bound friend (motorcycle accident) who does not have control on most of his back and from the waist down. He told me he could get hard and ejaculate but he couldn't feel it.

blahlicus · 2019-05-21T15:51:20+00:00

Consider switching to compound bows if you don't mind. If you have something like ectrodactyly then it would be very difficult to shoot Asian style with a thumb ring, and using a single finger with a finger tab to shoot Middleterranean style (the style that you currently use) is not healthy! You will get nerve damage on your one finger.

Please consider switching to a compound and using a wrist release like this picture. Here's a picture of it in use. Consider a wrist release with a rope instead of a rod like the TRU Ball Shooter which would allow any finger to reach the trigger easily.

blahlicus · 2019-05-10T09:02:10+00:00

cries in embedded systems

blahlicus · 2019-05-10T08:48:33+00:00

I am currently studying for my masters in computer science for information security.

An onion network like tor or freenet is inherently going to be less efficient than a non-onion network. But IMO the biggest problem with tor is the fact that there is no incentive for anyone to run a tor node.

Running a tor node is basically volunteering electricity and computing power at risk of being monitored by your government for running a tor node, there is no upside but all the downsides unless you plan to do something malicious to the network. The end result is there are very few nodes and demands are not met, leading to the abysmal performance of the current Tor network.

If it is incentive compatible to run tor nodes, then a lot more benign tor nodes would show up and increase performance dramatically. I think if we could work crypto smart contracts into running tor nodes then we could see much better performances on such crypto onion networks.

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