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The Datahand-inspired Svalboard provides up to two trackpoints for those who are open to something radical: https://svalboard.com/

Also available with up to two trackballs or touchpads.

You can already find Corne-inspired keyboards with these features, but up until the introduction of this Toucan design, you couldn't find a Corne keyboard with all those features together.

- Wireless

- Integrated pointing device

- Aligned 1u thumb keys

- E-ink screen

- Aluminium plate

- Below $200

I'm interested for sure. Thanks for sharing.

This is what I do now. Achieving effiicency through performing all these steps carries it's own kind of burden. This has led me to conclude that effectively scheduling a meeting is a job I'm desperate to offload to someone else.

For all it's failings, Microsoft 365 has a Bookings feature that greatly simplifies the amount of work required: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/boo...

After taking Intro to C many years ago at university, it's lessons like this I wish they had followed up with.

See this article on the growing prevelance of myopia: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/14/eyeballs-scr...

I intentionally arrange my desk so that I can look past my monitor. On days where I can't refocus my eyes on something long-distance, I have difficulty focusing my vision after spending 1/3 of the day looking at computer screens. On days where I can refocus my eyes, I can go up to 2/3 of the day without issue.

Detailed writeup here: https://docs.skunkwerks.at/s/fUiAmi4pE

How do you feel about 'l' and '1' looking so similar in Myna?

This project never fails to impress me.

If you scroll to the bottom of the announcement, you'll see maps from Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and Oblivion loaded into OpenMW.

Games people spend 1000 hours playing earn a level of cultural significance that deserves protection from rent-seeking publishers. Each time Bethesda announces an update to Skyrim or Fallout 4, I cringe, because what the updates do above all else is break the existing mods. OpenMW is solving this problem for older Bethesda titiles, but I am pessimistic about Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5. Those two are years away and already lost causes IMHO.

I appreciate your comment. I'm thrilled to learn that CryptPad is part of the openDesk solution.

>CryptPad was selected to join the German "Sovereign Workplace" project, now called openDesk.

https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/01/28/CryptPad-Funding-Status...

Many more details in this blog post from XWiki: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-CryptPad-knowledge-managemen...

Quoting Nikhil's argument again:

>People who worked remotely for two or more years lost their social skills. They became shy, reserved, and confined to their comfort zones and small groups. They forgot the art of striking up conversations with strangers. They forgot how to have fun with people. Single men became glued to dating apps and lost the ability to approach women even in safe, everyday settings.

The only part of this that's true for me is the part about becoming shy and reserved, but I'd argue it has more to do with the work culture than the structure of working from home. Regardless of where you work, all it takes is a few "don't say anything" remarks from your team lead or supervisor before the outgoing nature is conditioned away from employees. This can be reversed, even when someone is working from home, by incentivizinging them to be more outgoing. Saying this as someone who has been a remote worker for 10 years.

This looks like a great project.

One minor point of feedback: I looked at the "What is BAML?" section of the documentation and the first half of the README.md on GitHub. It looks like an acronym, but none of those documentation sources told me what "BAML" stands for.

I totally agree. Pinned messages are very effective, moreso than taking a screenshot or a mental note, both of which will be forgotten about relatively quickly. A calendar entry might be more effective, but the context switch to a different app makes this unsuitable when low-friction is required.

People in my life are lucky if I respond in 24 hours

If I want something designed to boot from a USB stick that runs VMs off of ZFS pools, the only option where this is the "happy path" is SmartOS.

It blows me away that since it's inception, no other hypervisor-focused distributions have arisen to do the same. Yes, you could tailor some minimalistic Linux distro to boot from USB, expose KVM, and store VMs on ZFS, but the plumbing for all of that is the user's burden. It could probably be done elegantly from NixOS, as long as you accept the added complexity of storing and using /nix.

Could it be that only Illumos and FreeBSD users understand the importance of saving your SATA/SAS/NVMe slots for actual workloads instead of booting the host?

Sorry, I should have been more clear in my comment. I was referring to the statement from the project about debug capabilities:

> I recommend Chromium-based browsers over Firefox, as the latter does not work very well when debugging Wasm projects of this size.

Not IT, but OT control systems engineer for a General Electric or Mitsubishi subsidiary.

I hope the situation gets better for Firefox.

All the comments demonstrate a belief that this is some right-wing anti-vaxxer, which seems like a stretch, given that they sought healthcare in the first place.

What if divulging their personal information leads to them being reported by ICE?

I store it inside my fancy note taking application (Joplin), tagged and organized hierarchically, synced and E2EE'd across my devices.

Unlike Balena Etcher, Ventoy is not a bloated Electron app that sends telemetry from your computer: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784

Also, adding Copilot to everything.

How certain are we that the photos being taken are going to a Palantir database?

Asking because the FBI has been assembling biometrics databases since the mid-20th century and providing access to other law enforcement agencies since the 1990s.

Legal action against this is going to be a tough, possibly unfeasable battle.

Whatever the laws are, they probably contain exceptions for the use of biometrics for law enforcement purposes.

In terms of court precedent, biometrics are not protected by the 4th amendment, because your face is not considered a secret that the government could compel you to reveal.

Unfortunate for anyone who

1) is employed by a company using BYOD for MFA.

AND

2) believes an individual should truly own their personal devices.

>The global shift, she continued, can be traced to one common cause: the increased agency of women, who during the last century became increasingly able to opt out of traditional family roles to pursue other options, such as education and careers.

This seems like an intuitive argument, but perhaps it would be better to focus more on the fact that it's affecting wealthy nations first an foremost? Even women who want children and prefer traditional gender roles are put off by economic costs that are much higher than what previous generations had to pay.

That area used to be a beautiful place.

>It's the richest country in the US with a median household income of $156,821

Indeed, and it is not a place for average people to live. Loudon county is dominated by the rich and the legacy of the beltway bandits. It's a sad place centered around commuting to Washington D.C. or serving those who do.

Clippy had recently been used as a mascot by the anti-enshittification / right to repair crowd thanks to a campaign started by Louis Rossman. There was always a risk that Microsoft could subvert the whole effort by simply re-using and re-defining the meaning the Clippy. I'm surprised this was not forseen and avoided. How does it feel to have your grassroots movemment snubbed by Microsoft?

>detective/case solving TV, fantasy

Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) and Soulsborne (Demons Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring) games both have lots of mysterious lore and fantasy elements. Maybe the lore videos would help her appreciate the art? Lore videos could also pique her interest in a video game without her actually having to play it, which could be a gateway to eventually getting a contoller into her hands.

> literature, ... poetry

Charred Thermos put together a well-researched theory explaining the lore of Bloodborne is based on history, poetry, and literature from Victorian-era Edinburgh in Scotland. Bloodborne has feminine (child birth, menstration). I'd caution against it if she's squeamish because it is a bloody (good) game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNVKkYpgVU&list=PLon6Mvsc0M...

Elden Ring in particular has tons of lore and this is partly due to George R. R. Matin, author of Game of Thrones, working with Fromsoftware to develop the lore foundations of the game. To get an idea of this, here's VattyVidya 13 hour playlist of quality lore videos on Elden Ring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYDs_Inzkz4&list=PLWLedd0Zw3...

Additionally, I can recommend what is possibly the most in-depth lore/mystery videos about Elden Ring, by Tarnished Archaeologist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxAMoEujZss9Vez20A3b...

Elder Scrolls games, particularly Skyrim, also have significant lore and mysteries she may enjoy. It's much easier to digest than Soulsborne lore. See these examples by EpicNate315:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibf642CCf20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzooXHOyRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQfeYJJkWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gya8eIorwN8

If she's very new to games and wants something aesthetically pleasing, then the best experience might be exploring the wilderness of Skyrim while following interesting quests. Oblivion is an older game that also does this well on a smaller scale. Morrowind feels quite old and may not be her cup of tea, but some players like that the exploration is much more self-directed.

The Soulsborne games are all relatively hard but rewarding in their own way. For anyone who likes mysteries, they'll appreciate that all Soulsborne games do not directly explain the lore very much, and it's up to the player to figure things out. Demons Souls and Dark Souls are great, but lore-wise, Elden Ring and Bloodborne are the best. Bloodborne is shorter and self-contained, while Elden Ring has many questlines that a player can choose to follow. Following the questlines of NPCs is a rewarding experience.

Personally I wish I could convince my fiancee to play some video games because I imagine it would be valuable to share the same meaningful experiences that come with great moments in games. Her reasons aren't that the games lack artistry, but the games themselves are too scary for her. I just have to accept she has different tasts and hope maybe one day a non-scary / violent video game will be interesting to us both.