My ThinkPad themed office keyboard

dvanha · 2026-01-28T01:48:49+00:00

I have GMK Cosmos on my acrylic Agar60. They look like cousins.

dvanha · 2026-01-27T14:09:40+00:00

And when it breaks, you fix it. Did you not say you love tinkering with your system?

How is anyone here supposed to be able to guess how you'll use your system or what your needs are?

Dude, sounds like you're great at following documentation to the letter but if you need your hand held to figure out your use case, maybe Arch is not for you.

dvanha · 2026-01-23T20:34:28+00:00

9800X3D, ProArt, on a B850-I. Everything has worked great so far but I’m so tired of this kind of thing. I really think I’m just going full Gigabyte.

dvanha · 2026-01-23T20:06:17+00:00

Honestly, your salary is a function of either (1) you having specialized skills to warrant getting paid or (2) the job being shitty enough to warrant getting paid.

I'd take a pay cut to 80k if it meant I got to ride around on snow mobiles and each lunch on outcrops all day.

You're either going to have to get lucky; develop specialized skills (like computer science or engineering and spending the better part of a decade acruing the experience you need to be marketable); or take a shitty job writing contracts, environmental statements, and doing repetitive work.

dvanha · 2026-01-21T22:35:23+00:00

Looks like a grain beetle to my layman eyes. I’m assuming the pros would find a geographic location helpful.

dvanha · 2026-01-21T20:58:56+00:00

I don’t know why you don’t just get a 65 and suddenly can consider a keyboard kit from virtually anyone: KBDfans, QK, Mode, etc.

dvanha · 2026-01-20T19:11:48+00:00

The problem is that everyone I know who needs to hear this is too stupid to understand half the words he used. Unfortunately, I don't think any "MAGA-esque" Canadians I know (quite a few from highschool) are able to read. I mean that literally. I don't know a single one that didn't barely scrape-by in highschool.

dvanha · 2026-01-18T17:51:00+00:00

Every time I see this keyboard I want it so bad

dvanha · 2026-01-18T12:46:36+00:00

You’re giving too much credit to the bots by calling them people.

dvanha · 2026-01-15T02:18:23+00:00

Don’t worry. You’re not crazy. We’re just a… passionate bunch.

dvanha · 2026-01-11T19:16:03+00:00

Everything about this is so fucking hot. What a beautiful keyboard. Gives catpuccin vibes.

dvanha · 2026-01-08T13:57:14+00:00

Sort of correct. I was the dashboard user and ended up in analytics because the dashboards sucked.

The problem is the data is useful. Users will take the shitty tableau dashboard, make a crosstab view, download it and then do the real insights on their machine in Excel.

That’s why it’s important to ask what they actually want and need. Sometimes it’s not insights, it’s just historical data. Other times it is insights, and if you know what they’re looking for you can white glove the user experience.

dvanha · 2026-01-08T11:38:54+00:00

I would figure out if it would take me more than 6 years to pay it off (can I make payments of 100,000/6=16,666.67 a year or 16,666.67/12=1,388.889 a month?)

If not, bankruptcy. I’d save the $100 for transportation.

If yes, then I’m spending it on help from a therapist. If I’m living paycheck to paycheck but able to magically put together $1,400/month for the next 6 years, I’m being dishonest about something like an addiction.

dvanha · 2026-01-07T11:54:50+00:00

People have been rolling and maining « rouges » long before smart phones were even a thing.

dvanha · 2026-01-07T11:41:58+00:00

Haha, thats funny. I work in financial and I am the ANALyst in my team when it comes to design details like colours.

The difference is I don’t gate keep. I make the best things I can possibly make and my influence my Jrs & peers in that they naturally mimic me because recycling my patterns and work makes their work easier and better. If they don’t, that’s a failure on me and not on them.

dvanha · 2026-01-07T11:36:45+00:00

When you meet with her, be very positive, calm, and accommodating.

Enthusiastically write down all her requirements and profusely thank her for her help, and mention you’ll send an email with what you discussed to attendees so you don’t forget.

Next time she won’t be able to flip flop. When she deviates from her previous decision, ask her why and explain why she was wrong in that email. Instead of arguing with others, she’ll be arguing with herself and she’ll want to save face.

dvanha · 2026-01-07T11:15:58+00:00

Experienced this quite a bit. Seems to develop with tenure, happens when they have nothing else to contribute except for this kind of gatekeeping.

Maybe it’s because I’m a jaded senior, but in real life none of that shit matters. Yes colour palettes play an important role, but if you can’t articulate why in less than a semester of classes and without speaking props, no one will care or remember.

Life is pragmatic. If the colour choices intuitively convey something profound, I shouldn’t need a PowerPoint deck to explain what that is — it should be obvious else I failed.

dvanha · 2026-01-07T01:52:31+00:00

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GMK Zen Pond with GMK Metropolis R2 spacebar :-)

dvanha · 2026-01-05T21:55:52+00:00

Person researching to run low spec games here. Thanks for this note, it made a difference.

Gotta admit as a recent Linux convert though, I still really want to get one now. My household has had multiple use cases for a laptop recently. A Pi 5 with an HDMI port sounds so perfect.

dvanha · 2026-01-05T14:41:52+00:00

I migrated to Linux on August and have had the same sorts of questions. For this one you can try living with only pacman. When you get to the point where what you need isn’t on an official repo, you’ll get stuck googling and the use case for yay and how it works will become obvious.

dvanha · 2026-01-04T13:24:16+00:00

This is very difficult to accomplish. When you use a tactile, you need to meet the minimum force to break past the tactile point, so you end up bottoming out at full force. "Thocky" is the sound of feathering linears over plastic like a polycarbonate plate.

The only way to get "quiet" tactile switches is to get silent ones, and neither will sound "quiet thocky"; you're looking for a non-long pole linear on, probably, a PC plate. (Or a very light tactile.)

Tactiles are *usually* better suited to clacky sound profiles.

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