If you ask for a custom keyboard it’s always safer to ask. I would suggest once you settle on whatever is most important to you, keyboard itself, switches, caps, etc you stick to this and ask around for the next piece. Sorry for not being more direct but I dont want to be a bad influence.
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If you want cross platform support checkout QMK and ZMK for Bluetooth mechanical keyboards.
Find your local equivalent to
- NL https://bastardkb.com/
- DE https://www.keebart.com/
- CA https://lowprokb.ca/
- CA https://www.zsa.io/
and a lot more you can find at https://kbd.news/vendors
IMHO it’s not cheap but impossible to go back. It might take some time to find the right combination for you fur it’s worth it.
About compatibility when you chose a keyboard, mechanical or not, with a firmware you can flash you are sure it will work anywhere, Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, etc. It will be seen as just a keyboard. Some advanced functions, e.g. mouse emulation, screen control, etc might need a bit of tinkering but should work everywhere still.
Finally on the model you suggested I can’t really say, as I’m not you. What you should familiarize yourself as the proper names used, e.g. switches, keycaps, etc so that you can find the ones that feel good for you.
What a disgusting rage bait title.
Please no matter the news do not invite others to give up. You might be totally depleted. You might have fought teeth and nails against problems but if you want to give up let others try.
This is deeply problematic and of course precisely helps those you do agree with.
Do not fall prey to learned helplessness.
If politicians and lobbyists can keep on proposing a law until it goes through, so can we, including the very politicians who do not represent our views.
The situation might be bleak and I can understand the frustration but this kind of title is not helping.
1·3 days agoConsider alternative ways to get it, e.g. static binary, other package managers e.g. am, AppImage, etc.
Indeed and to “celebrate” this I deleted the 5 accounts I had (was project related) still.
I already deleted my main years ago but those ones were just unused for 10 years. Good time to signal (if anybody cares checking through usage data) that I’m not supporting this.
Yes and honestly we better learn to enjoy the struggle because it’s never going away. We will always have to push back.
8·8 days agocurl via Termux
So… how can we help them?
That’s not my understanding of the definition of the Overton window. If I check Wikipedia it’s about mainstream, “The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.” which is precisely why I contrasted our own “local” Overton window to the “normal” mainstream one. Also “normal” means what is now the norm, it’s now about what’s “right” or “wrong”.
Sure I would prefer our local Overton window here in the Privacy community of Lemmy to be the “normal” one, the mainstream one, and I do how it is shifting this way, but until they actually match, if they ever do (which I doubt) then I think it’s important to distinguish what we want versus what is.
Because most of what you said is true but Lemmy is, unlike the most popular platforms, full of very selective individual. The overton window is different here than the mainstream. We half very different threshold and here in the Privacy community even more so on that topic. It might be “good enough” for most but if it’s not entirely open source, or rather free software, and with reproducible builds, and self-hostable, and federated, and built by people with impeccable background, and… and… and… that starts to be quite a bit.
I said this in numerous other posts, IMHO what matters is doing better, not “best” that unattainable. For some people Proton is better than what they had until now, e.g. GMail, but for others who move away from GMail to Proton and now self-host, it’s not good enough anymore.
So it depends on where you are on a multidimensional spectrum that is unique to your needs.
Doesn’t matter, even if they do then you and others, well I guess “we” now, can come up with another solution. AdBlocks are still there … because they work. It costs very little to fix (add or modifying a regex by 1 person that suddenly reaches thousands if not millions of users) whereas they have to find a new solution that is indeed compatible. It’s not a race they can win.
Not everyone car for the same things nor has the same abilities indeed, that’s why I’m thinking of optional filters. I also want to clarify the process is important to keep in mind, namely if somebody just started to move away from BigTech or surveillance capitalism or whatever is problematic for them, it’s not the same as somebody else who dedicated their live to that a decade ago. So IMHO the hope is that people can add more and more filters whenever they feel comfortable they have the available resources to do so. It’s a journey for each of us, on different paths at difference paces.
I’d add criteria, e.g.
- GDPR compliant
- no link with advertising companies
- free software or open source
- self-hostable
- security audit
etc and overall have a reasonable default option but not hide that there are alternative. We want everybody to move away but if everybody moves to Proton as a suite and they enshitify then we are (nearly) back to square one. So I think showing that good alternatives exist is great. Helping people who already use an alternative others, maybe even better one for THEIR criteria also exist, is even better.
I’d also add a Github (or better CodeBerg or self-hosted Gitea) link at the bottom to https://github.com/ente-io/privacypack with the license (MIT) visible.
Indeed but I still recommend to be explicit when you re-route around.
If you do move on, please take a minute to contact the Website or service and tell them why. If “we” just collectively walk out they might not understand why.
In order to make this easier I wrote a short template :
To whom it may concern, I tried visiting your Website today to use your service as it looked like what I need. Unfortunately the verification method you use requires a mobile phone verified by Google. This is not something I have nor do I want to due to privacy concern. Google being a large and powerful advertising company I do not trust them with my data. Do you have an alternative way for me to confirm that I am indeed not a bot that puts your service at risk?
Feel free to use this verbatim or adapt it and share back.
I’ll just leave this here… https://debian.org/
I didn’t suggest he would run things, only share his expertise with peers.
It’s disappointing yet unsurprising to read the recurring answers, namely :
- cost
- incumbency
precisely because it’s absolutely avoidable and a well known strategy. It’s so well known that it’s precisely why Micro$lop bought Github in the first place. People are there and the free tiers is enough to get the long tail.
Meanwhile since that strategy happened people who consider smart enough should know the genuine cost behind this : it’s a TRAP. Plain and simple, you get there and you get STUCK there.
So… yes it takes some sweat and even some money to leave the trap … but if you care about freedom, as most free software or open-source developers might, then it’s aligned with your value.
Honestly it’s tricky. The first time I switched from a “normal” keyboard to a relatively fancy Ergodox EZ I tried for a week, heck maybe even a month, then gave up for half a year, maybe even a year. Then I tried again with more free time to transition, trained a bit then was hooked. Then I moved to much small and thinner with a Corne-ish Zen. Initially it was again tricky then loved it to the point that using any other keyboard feels “wrong” now, even the Ergodox EZ or Moonlander. Now I’m going to try the Dilemma V3 and Piantor Pro BT and honestly I expect to dislike them both for a short while.
So… yeah, I don’t think finding the “perfect” keyboard forever is possible. We are all on a journey of both learning and training. It’s challenging but well worth it IMHO!