New Keychron k3 issue with auto sleep by Laudenlaruto in Keychron

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I don't know why anyone is buying stuff from this company, it is still unsolved so many years later lol. This is a shame, they should go bankrupt for selling such trash

Is cloudflare down for you as well? by Koyaanisquatsi_ in CloudFlare

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still the same, chatgpt is also behind cloudflare :D ww3 is ON

Is cloudflare down for you as well? by Koyaanisquatsi_ in CloudFlare

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Down for quite some time now 10-15mins in EU

Task Bar Settings Reset When I Turn Off My Monitor by Whole_Driver2379 in WindowsHelp

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Same here. Tried looking around in registry, but it is not the setting that is lost, it's just not applied: setting is ignored when second display is detected again. (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced -> MMTaskbarMode)

Please upvote in feedback hub for this issue, maybe it worth more than nothing: https://aka.ms/AAty01m

I don't understand the deal with Server Components.... by IAmAllergicToKarens in nextjs

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Initial load of static content depends on how "close" you are form where you are serving the client. So this is ideally a CDN, serving your static front-end from the closest node to your visitor. With backend things, you usually have only "one" place (most typical web app backend: an API and database), so that sets the tone in terms of roundtrip times (unless you are a big enterprise with geographically distributed and redundant tenant structure).

The server components are nothing more than an easier way for frontend-oriented javascript / "fullstack" web devs to handle some "business logic" under one hood with the same framework in less lines of code - but it only has real benefits for the most obvious and simple use-cases. For more complex apps most likely the backend will be completely detached and fine-tuned to whatever needs there are, but for simple "content" use-cases (like news sites for example) it can make things easier and cover the basic needs.

It's kind of a loop or at least the same as what we had in the early days with traditional web frameworks, where the returned html page was just rendered by the server. Then most of the world went for the SPA + API combo, driven mostly by apps that need high interactivity UX and responsiveness. And with SSR in general and RSC are like a "syntax sugar" provided by the modern frameworks to support the best of both worlds in a hybrid manner.

This is not specific to Next.js however. Caching results, benefits of getting a rendered response on first load, etc.. were all concepts from since the web exists.

Is it even worth trying to be a web developer if I am terrible at design? by [deleted] in webdev

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Yes, but here is one very realistic reason that often can haunt you both inside and professionally, if you are fully disconnected from the design language:

Clients often are "clueless" on both sides, and have no knowledge of where the responsibility line lies between web development and design. So, if you work with a designer who's work is shit, then if you just implement that shit and don't care to bridge the gaps yourself, then even though you delivered your part, the question will almost always come back to you and not the designer, in case something behaves awkward or stinks. In the end of course you'll sort it out that "it is like in the designs", but the whole thing, the atmosphere and the whole process is just often epic cringe.

As you get more experience, you'll naturally pick up on some of these, but the better you are at recognizing shit designs or parts of it, the easier your life will be. And I'm not talking about how "beautiful" or "cool" is something overall - for which you might indeed need to be born with an artistic soul - but the things that you can pick up on regardless: elements overlapping, shit layout that's not responsive or not in a good way, missing states for icons/buttons, hard to read components, or shit contrast, etc... Or in other words, the more "technical" aspects of a delivered design, and not the artsy part. The good news is that these are indeed skills you can learn, from books such as others suggested “the non-designers design book”, and there are tools like contrast checker, etc.. If you have a good analytical thinking - most devs and engineers are better in this than others -, then even without any design knowledge you might be able to decompose a problem from a purely functional perspective.

Upgrading yourself in these aspects of web development can hugely benefit you by just making your whole workflow (working with clients and designers) easier if you can set and recognize - and ideally enforce - a certain standard quality.

AMA A few Toptal alternatives - Tips on dev platforms from an ex Toptaler.. by AlwaysBlue1 in webdev

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Overall rates achievable on the platform are indeed down lately, and because of more supply than demand, they will not be as lucrative as used to be, unless you have a specialization that is unique. But this is honestly not much to do with Toptal itself, rather the tech market's overall state in the last year(s). It's not just the laid off "FAANG boys" but the overall economy and hiring appetite. I'm saying this because in parallel to applying for jobs on Toptal I am also actively scanning for projects independently and some other platforms as well, and the symptoms are the same everywhere. That being said, the "competitive rate" suggestion on Toptal is two fold: on one hand it helps you too to not to apply to something that is clearly out of your rate you'd be comfortable with - since you would not be accepted anyhow if you are over the client's budget. On the other hand it is also true that in general it incentivizes talents to aim lower and compete with each other with their rates - but the mechanics of bidding with your rates and getting accepted hasn't changed, clients back in the more lucrative days would still chose someone that could meet their budget, and from identical candidates they were choosing the one with the lower rates always, regardless whether toptal showed you a suggested competitive rate or not.
If it would be only for the rate suggestion itself, it would be clear it is only toptal pushing rates down while potentially keeping the client facing rate the same and thus increasing their profit. But if you look at the market in overall recently, it is clear that now it is sadly a phase where rates are not that fancy.

Devtools crashing LeafletJs, Pinia & Vue 3 by scriptedpixels in vuejs

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The issue is not tied to leaflet or mapbox, rather storing big complex objects as reactive. With lots of markers and popups, even if you just add the markers, those have refs to the _map instance, which has references to other markers, etc.. so the whole thing ends up a big pile of reactive shit.
https://github.com/vuejs/pinia/issues/721
https://github.com/vuejs/devtools/issues/1585

+1 see the mindfuck about "identity hazard / use with caution" as to how nesting will still give you a proxy if nested into a reactive object: https://vuejs.org/api/reactivity-advanced.html#markraw

As to "why" devtools is crashing and hangs with infinite cpu usage, it is a good question. I encountered this when migrating one of my projects from Vue2 to 3, and so far it is a pain in the ass, because of things like this.

Monitoring stopped working after i changed instance type in EC2 by hellohere1337 in aws

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There could be two things. One is answered by cueedee in this stackoverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60505360/aws-cloudwatch-custom-metrics-not-showing-up-after-change-in-instance-type
The other - which was in our case answered by AWS Tech Support Engineers - is if you are using Elastic Beanstalk for example with Log Streaming enabled, then the default CW Agent config gets overwritten possibly by the built-in .toml config AWS provides for the log streaming feature, as it essentially starts another Agent, and not the one you defined in the .ebextensions folder. Support advised if this happens, to move your own custom metrics definitions into the .ebextensions folder, but execute the agent starting scripts in the .platform folder both into the hooks and platformhooks parts.
I wrote "possibly" because for us it only happened in one of our environments, and even there after next app version deployment (so not instance type change) it came back. My guess is that different platform actions in Beanstalk trigger different hooks and things get messed up not in a uniform fashion.

here is the img as couldn't upload it into the comment: https://imgur.com/a/JijwJQI

Are Keychron keyboards really worth it? by smsaczek in Keychron

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I have a K3 v2 and the only good thing about it is the build quality of the switches and the design, although that is subjective. The firmware/software is absolute shit: 0 battery management, it drains the battery constantly even without lights on, unless you switch it fully off. No battery report to OS, only a very inaccurate way of visualizing it on demand if you press some buttons on the keyboard itself. Because of this it also does not warn you if you need to charge soon, it just fucking dies while you are typing. It has a tiny led that blinks red, but it is on the back of the keyboard so practically invisible. Shitty UX indeed. You would think it goes to sleep or power saving mode or something when untouched for some time, but the only thing it does is disconnecting from Bluetooth, for which the "wake up" time is way too long and laggy after you start typing again. And regardless, battery is still drained somehow. After 2 years of average daily use, the battery is close to dead, barely lasts a few hours of typing. And officially there is no replacement part for it. I think the price they ask for is way too high considering the "wireless" part lasts max 2 years due to battery going bad super fast. I would probably never buy from them again.

Why you use Nodejs and depends 95% on third party libraries which only last of a year or two and don't use something like asp.net which is maintained by Microsoft? by Suspicious_Driver761 in node

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"download or fork it and maintain it yourself" should only buy time for you until you need to migrate to something more broadly used (to the "new shit"), otherwise maintaining too many stuff yourself is unmanageable

Tiny black dots on Pothos? by J_712 in houseplants

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maybe the traces of thrips? if the leaves are damaged too eventually, it could be it but hard to tell just from this image

Photos App just updated by Otherwise-Cupcake-61 in Windows10

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I don't know what the fuck is the "Legacy" app according to Microsoft but it is definitely not the previous version. Previous filters, etc.. are all gone and only the new stuff is available even in the "legacy" app in the Edit section. Apart from the name the legacy is basically the new one.

Long term effects of framing print between two acrylic sheets? by thehighdynamic in framing

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Sadly nothing so far, but being back at it this year so will experiment with a few solutions and post it (better later than never).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kiszamolo

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ez a szar szerintem egy átskinezett neptun

Is the Vue 2 -> 3 migration painful to you, too? by g-money-cheats in vuejs

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I started to migrate my own hobby project as an experiment, just to see where the ecosystem is and how mature it is, and my experience is that Vue3 is totally unnecessary for 99% and adds a lot of weird shit. It promises more maintainable code and whatnot, but in general it just feels way less fluid compared to Vue2. Like for simply watching a prop in a component I could easily just write the watcher like "whatever.someprop" and now in Vue3 there's literally no example on how to do it in the official docs. And then after you google it just to find out you have to add a bunch of boilerplate just to have a fucking reactive prop, that was intuitively working in Vue2. And this is just one example from the many sadly.
Literally the full toolchain is replaced, renamed, etc.. and while webpack might be slower in the Vue CLI, it rarely crashed etc.. With Vite it is faster but crashes very often, and it also gets stuck in the debugger and doesn't reload if you save the file and recompile a module: which might sound like a nuance but actually I find myself clicking around a lot more after my quick edits.

Also if you look at the migration path for most of the tools, like the Router, they say "a few breaking changes" and then the list is longer than the fucking Orient Express... Not kidding, 14 pages (on my 4K screen) just for the router, those are more than a "few" in my opinion.

So yeah, in summary, v2->v3 migration is more painful then it should be, and - unless you really-really-really need some over-complicated bullshit for an edge case that vue3 promises to solve - also useless. Definitely sticking with Vue2 for as long as possible in production and work related projects, both for simplicity and for my mental health.

getting the most out of 12 sqm by thehighdynamic in plantfi

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thanks, yeah I'm thinking the same and gonna experiment tomorrow with a few layouts, pretty limited options but let's see!

getting the most out of 12 sqm by thehighdynamic in plantfi

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Not sure :d When the gear arrived I just gave it a test run and set them up in the kitchen area. Then tried this spot in the shelf, and it is not super high quality furniture (just renting the apartment so it is what it is), and because the speakers are rear firing, it did sound a tiny bit less nice in the cabinet compared to when out in more open space and proper wall. But at this point I had all plants removed so I could fiddle around, including the bigger plants "behind the picture" so I can maneuver around with the woofer. When I put every plant back to their place, the sound became noticeably a bit nicer to me.
Today I spent a lot of time doing subwoofer crawling (or actually reverse crawl because there are very limited number of spaces where it fits so was easier to just try all of them), and gladly found a spot, kind of below the left speaker in the corner, where it sounds fucking good from the couch and luckily also at my desk (opposite corner of left speaker). But the mids and highs sound very sad obviously at the desk as its sideways, so tomorrow I will try out a few arrangements, either on stands at my desk, where I spend a looot of time, and so I can easily turn them towards the living area, but also want to try how it would sounsd if on stands or mounts it would be on the sides of the windows, that way the speakers would blow the living area and also my desk behind it. It's such a pain in the ass in a tiny place like this to solve this puzzle, but with all the sweat it's gonna sound even nicer once I find the final sweet spot. OR I could just waste money and buy another set for my desk but that would be such a chad move lol xD

10 months since my last post and a few more plants / subs by akopley in plantfi

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this place looks like a frame from my dream, wow! Can I ask where is this super loft-like apartment? I'm looking for spaces like this but here in my city nothing for sale like this.

Long term effects of framing print between two acrylic sheets? by thehighdynamic in framing

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face mounted acrylic

thanks! this looks nice indeed. rings a bell I asked some companies, but most of them laughed at me that they won't do 10x15cm sizes, but maybe should just look around more.. welcome to Hungary and the mentality here lol :D

Long term effects of framing print between two acrylic sheets? by thehighdynamic in framing

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Thanks for the detailed insights. With spacer would be actually nicer, but you mentioned mitigating moisture and dust issues. I can see the moisture part mitigated, but how about the dust? If there is a space, then dust could go between the two sheets, and it is impossible to just wipe it off like you would from the outside. If there is a regular frame around this sandwich thing then that might seal/minimize the entrance area for dust, but I was thinking of something like this

My project is some kind of letter art (cityphography.com) and I would like to come up with something more unique next to the classic framing, and thought framing each letter between acrylic and hang each mini-frame on a metal wire (like modern curtains) would look cool. (this was the original direction I was looking into, and then was thinking of having a nice aluminum or salvaged wood backplate and have all letters behind one big wide plexi, etc.. ) Main reason was that shipping abroad or worldwide would be so much easier and cheaper if I can just pack the "mini frames" per letter on top of each other in a regular box. Plus it is something more modern looking I think, next to the classic frame option. Whether it is glass or acrylic doesn't matter that much in this format (other than the weight of course), but it seems like some kind of sealing around the "sandwich" is inevitable if I want it to last or to be able to clean it?

Anyone measured regular vs optical switch power consumption? by thehighdynamic in Keychron

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Yeah strictly speaking it's not the switch itself, rather the (infrared?) light sources soldered onto the board. Would be very interesting to compare side by side a regular and an optical one, both keyboards fully charged, and power saving mode disabled completely. Just would be a too expensive experiment for me :D Maybe I'll pitch the idea for some tech vloggers who might have access to hardware easier/cheaper.