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Cake day: January 17th, 2022

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  • if your concern is hardware support then buying from a Linux installed company like Tuxedo is a good idea. If following from that your concern is hardware failure or part availability ask a local repair shop their opinion, they’ll tell you better than us.

    If you buy from buy brands, e.g. Lenovo, then in my experience checking online forums for the exact model is enough.

    FWIW I’d also consider Pine64 (geographically closer to you) and a RPi5 seeing your power consumption concerns but that implies no very demanding workflows.






  • 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!


  • 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.



  • If you want cross platform support checkout QMK and ZMK for Bluetooth mechanical keyboards.

    Find your local equivalent to

    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.



  • utopiah@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlSo it begins
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    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.





  • 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.