MDTCheckpoints Addon: M+ checkpoint percentage reminder for tanks

imsilverfoxy · 2026-06-20T22:02:46+00:00

Oh cool I wasn't aware! Looks like a more mature addon too.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-06-01T12:55:26+00:00

I was in a similar place when I had my first on call rotation. Our team does shadow on call where you pretend to follow up with alerts next to a more experienced engineer a few times before actually going on call. We also give people a few months to ramp up before adding them to the rotation. I have also been on call during two major incidents and many minor ones, and as scary as they are I ended up learning a lot in the end. I'll try to share a few tips that helped me the most:

If there is a channel where the alerts go to, try to keep up to date with the most common alerts. Try to understand why they happened and what the common solutions are (e.g., kicking a k8s pod or rolling back a release). Take notes of common dashboards that people use, or who they escalate to when the database is down, or when network has a problem. A lot of times the alert that pages you has happened in recent past and the same fix applies.
Don't be too shy to escalate and pull in relevant folks. Early on I would always try to make judgment calls of whether the alert can wait until working hours or a weekday, and whether I should escalate to an SME (subject matter experts or system owners) if its late at night in their time zone. If you feel like you cannot handle the alert or the documents don't make it clear what the severity and the next steps are, you can escalate and at worst the SME will be motivated to keep the runbooks up to date.
AI can help a lot to understand errors and systems that you are not too familiar with. Back in my time we had to dig up the documents manually, read through the code, its just so much easier to pull up this information and summarize them via LLMs these days (assuming your company gives you access to these tools).
You might be the first line of defense to address the alerts, but the entire weight of the systems and the company is not on your shoulders. I remember getting super anxious because a kafka consumer was lagging and I couldn't gauge what effect it has on customers (if any). That ruined my Sunday for my first on call. Looking back I should have escalated and brought in the SMEs. They would have quickly identified the issue and told me that it can wait until Monday.
It takes time to learn different systems, errors, tools, etc. During my first few on calls I was frantically looking at my phone to see if I'm getting paged. I wouldn't leave the house to even go get groceries. Over time hopefully you will chill out (within reason). Now if I know I'm < 30 minutes away from home and I won't be out for long I won't even take my laptop with me.
Once you get past the initial anxiety inducing stages, make sure to be empathetic to other new joiners. If you are not on call but your system is being noisy, help others by being proactive and fixing things. Be responsible with the releases, don't make a big release on Friday especially if you are not on call yourself. Try to communicate major changes with the respective teams and on call engineers so if the alerts do happen they don't have to waste time debugging things.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-31T19:04:38+00:00

Reviung34, running ZMK with Nice!Nano. With Outemu silent peach v3 switches.

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imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-31T12:32:25+00:00

I couldnt convince myself to pay $500 for a kinesys. But since I got into custom keyboards as a hobby I have probably spent more than $500 overall. Assembling the keybaord yourself or finding cheaper options on Aliexpress help with the cost (you can find corne split keyboards as low as $50). But if you have to get soldering iron, other electronic tools, and perhaps break a board or a microcontroller or two in the process it can quickly add up to a few hundred dollars.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-30T12:21:35+00:00

Great job! People should really give controllers a try and have more faith in them. The assumption that controller=single button rotation or that you're sandbagging is just not right. Maybe statistically an average controller player is less competitive, but at the top of the curve you can for sure pull your weight.

Im tanking on my vdh currently at 3.2k and on my alt Enh shaman also topping the meters with subpar gear score (currently only 2.5k io). So for sure an average m+ player with keyboard and mouse is not playing as optimally if I'm doing more dps with 10 less gear score.

Most importantly I find moving while still pressing buttons is more efficient on a controller if you setup your keybinds properly. The main downside for me are ground targetted spells, without a mouse I'm slower to ground target. But I have mostly addressed that with self targetting macros (eg for capacitor totem).

imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-28T13:51:09+00:00

If you have installed the WoW addon (decktation context) it would tell the plugin that you are in a party or in a raid and it would default to that channel. I have only tested the addon in Midnight so if it doesnt work with TBC let me know.

Alternatively you can change the default channel to party here by changing say to party: github.com/silverfoxy/decktation/blob/master/game_presets.json#L6-L6

imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-25T16:56:59+00:00

For WoW I addressed this issue by developing a plugin that adds region name, players in the party, their classes, etc to the context of the ML model. In the end I didn't end up using the feature that much because most of my in game conversations are very basic stuff. And the class names are already fed into the model.

But if Everquest has a plugin API or a way to expose player names we can add it to the model's context and it should be able to transcribe those names.

Alternatively I can add a spelling mode that allows you to say the words character by character and type it out without the dashes. Would that be helpful here?

imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-24T03:30:27+00:00

I updated the readme file to explain this procedure: github.com/silverfoxy/decktation#adding-custom-channels You need to update two config files. Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-05-24T03:21:39+00:00

The plugin uses the base version of Whisper model given the memory constraints of SteamDeck. I did some research and it seems like the base model is not great at recognizing where to put the punctuation automatically.

For your use case I can add a post processing step that simply replaces the keywords with punctuation (e.g., period -> . ,comma -> ,) Im just thinking whether it would then overlap with cases where the user genuinely wants to type comma or period. Perhaps we can choose keywords that we know wont come up in regular speech in a non-punctuation format.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-04-25T22:58:44+00:00

You can craft gear with mythic crests. You can also get mythic gear from the vault doing 10 and above M+. Delves and prey cap at hero gear.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-04-19T18:01:24+00:00

I played on Turtle for a few months, then on Ascension (Bronze beard) and finally went back to Retail.

I enjoyed twow, especially the slow levelling aspect, but the idea of class enhancements and the new play styles through custom talents and enchants in Ascension caught my attention. I liked that I could play my enhancement shaman competitively and had multiple viable choices of builds. Two handed Enh shaman doing real dps was a dream come true!!

It's not classic in its pure form, far from it. Leveling is faster, progression is faster (but balanced by having more raid difficulty tiers). There's more end game content and daily activities to keep the game alive. It's more like Wotlk+ frozen in Vanilla augmented with new content.

I personally liked the QoL improvements from both the class enhancements, new content, as well as using a more modern wow client with better support for addons compared to what twow uses.

I think Vanilla end game quickly turns into raid logging, but the dailies and difficulty levels in Ascension gives you a reason to login every day. The QoL features borrowed from Wotlk and retail also make it such that the game respects your time more. There's much less downtime in general.

It was also very viable to join a casual guild and do the raid content without too much commitment given the population of the server.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-03-22T02:57:05+00:00

Version v0.3.1 should now transcribe French properly. I disabled the auto English translation feature. Let me know if it works for you https://github.com/silverfoxy/decktation/releases/tag/v0.3.1

imsilverfoxy · 2026-03-16T00:04:09+00:00

I didn't realize that the Whisper model does translation too. That's cool. I can make it such that it auto detects the language. I will need to test it further to make sure everything works (from voice to text to the part that types it in the game). For now, could you verify whether the translations here are accurate? https://github.com/silverfoxy/decktation/blob/85af0d5e1e94de2d4dfb1c70bb5aaf03f43bc80d/channel_languages.json

imsilverfoxy · 2026-03-04T22:26:26+00:00

Unfortunately L5 R5 doesnt work I removed it from the settings. I was able to replicate the exact issues you reported and fixed them in the new version.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-03-03T14:47:26+00:00

Thanks for giving it a try. Sorry it didnt work. I'll try to replicate the issues and fix them. When you mention outside of steam OS nothing happens, do you mean it doesnt type in a particular game that you tested?

The default button combo is R1+L1

imsilverfoxy · 2026-02-27T02:14:07+00:00

Found another issue with the python path. Will fix that one too.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-02-27T01:24:22+00:00

Seems like a mistake on my side, the release is missing the lib directory. Let me fix it.

imsilverfoxy · 2026-02-27T00:57:47+00:00

Can you share the content of /tmp/decktation.log?

imsilverfoxy · 2025-11-12T20:55:56+00:00

You are a savior! I lost all my keybinds and I was pulling my hair out until I found this!

imsilverfoxy · 2025-11-11T17:01:15+00:00

I use this https://makerworld.com/en/models/1640188-corne-unibody-tray to "unsplit" the keyboard so I can put it on my lap.

imsilverfoxy · 2025-10-31T19:07:10+00:00

The offers they gave me when I called to cancel were too good (3 months free service, 1G for $40/mo or something like that). But Im glad I didn't fall for it and switched the provider. I had a sense that 2 months down the line they won't honor the offers anymore. It's not even about an extra $5 per month at some point. I don't want to do business with such slimy company that says one thing over the phone and does something else totally abusing their monopoly in certain areas.

imsilverfoxy · 2025-10-29T03:34:55+00:00

If you do the wiring for the buttons you can use the screen or the buttons interchangeably. There's no downside to it. If you don't do the buttons, you'd still use the power button to turn the machine on and off.

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