deskthority

Just needs to cough up the cash, right? Imagine what we could do here if we had an admin again? The occasional security update! Maybe even freshen up those headers. Radical stuff. :P


And I'd happily develop plugins and modules for phpBB for here. Especially for the couple of suggestions I have ...

I plan to comment some time tomorrow, as I don't feel like writing a long post right now, but I'm writing this now to remind myself to post tomorrow. So here's the TL;DR: for now.

I support Ellipse buying Deskthority, as the most important thing for me is keeping it alive (and not switching it to ...

I'm up for doing it as a community group buy. My only two requirements for when we get it back are the following:

1. Not moving the forum away from phpBB
2. Not moving the wiki away from MediaWiki

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord.

I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text.


Same.

Although, I love Deskthority's IRC channel.

P.S. Since they are offering to sell the forum back to the community, the ball is ...

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord.

I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text.


Same.

Although, I love Deskthority's IRC channel.

P.S. Since they are offering to sell the forum back to the community, the ball is ...

Since they are offering to sell the forum back to the community…

They are? Gee, if only there were some sort of forum they could conduct this conversation on about the future of our forum.


Haha. I know, right.

Also, yeah. They are. I remember a post from webwit I think, that they are ...

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord.

I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text.


Same.

Although, I love Deskthority's IRC channel.

P.S. Since they are offering to sell the forum back to the community, the ball is ...

https://kbdarchive.org/

Sorry for butchering your post in the quote. I am using it mostly as a way to tag you.

Thanks for making the clone! How would it work in terms of post association with new accounts? I mean is it just an archive or can we register? In terms of registration, if we register ...

In your opinion, what's one's best course of action when they want to participate but don't have any retro keyboards to gift? Buy stuff from giftee's wishlist directly from ebay and things? Send them just money and candy? Or?


The receiver's username is not revealed (to prevent doxing ...

In your opinion, what's one's best course of action when they want to participate but don't have any retro keyboards to gift? Buy stuff from giftee's wishlist directly from ebay and things? Send them just money and candy? Or?

I have a Model M that needs bolt modding (will go with screws instead of nut/bolt combo) and I saw someone in other post mention the idea of using heat inserts in the barrel plate so it can be in theory safer to open up the keyboard assembly more frequently.

Is that a bad idea? Has anyone tried it ...

Unfortunately, I can't afford it to participate this year, but I do have a question:

Since currently, I don't have many vintage keyboards, let alone ones I'd part with, besides buying a keyboard from someone's wishlist from ebay for them, would it be shitty to just gift money to your giftee and ...

I'd love to buy it but unfortunately I can't afford it.
I just hope whoever does, doesn't migrate it to a Discourse type of platform *gagging noises* or migrate the wiki to some shitty third world wiki software attempt.

How's the project going? I'd be interested to see what you made in CAD and so on

Don't have a picture yet, but couldn't wait to post that I finally have a Model M (IBM Enhanced Keyboard).

It's a second gen, white oval label (1391401) in US ANSI, with a removable PS/2 cable, manufactured on 26 Sep 1988 in the USA. The vertical keys use stabilizer bars though, like on the first ...

I'd love to buy it in the future, if it's still available when I can afford to shell out the money for it.

Still looking for one btw.

Muirium wrote: 03 Oct 2023, 11:24

ifohancroft wrote: 03 Oct 2023, 01:53 non-Unicomp

Good choice.

I know, right?!

But seriously though, I don't want Unicomp as I'm trying to match the rest of the original keys on the keyboard.

I'm looking for a non-Unicomp, IBM Model M 'U' key top.

Ideally, from a second gen IBM Enhanced Keyboard so there's the highest chance of there being no difference between it and the rest of the keycaps already on the board.

If it's from someone located in the EU, even better, as I am really not ...

I think it's just the nature of this hobby to be in and out. I've been a member of GH since 2011, but if I look at my post history there's really only 3-4 periods where I was active on the site.


True. If it's just that he got bored or is busy or something, I'm fine with that. I guess all of ...

I’ve actually gotten into the habit of assigning launch keys to certain documents (via shell scripts in Karabiner) rather than apps. That’s a real time saver for instant access to regularly edited / referenced stuff. Quicker to hit a key to bring them to the front than to even bother managing ...

I’ve done my share of hoping through the years. Sign me up for a stiff shot of “man, we thought it was bad under MassDrop but they well and truly ruined that place like a two dollar girl of ill-repute.” It’s my version of Pascal’s wager. Glass half empty? The only way is up! ;)


You are probably ...

Personally, I'm hoping for the following:

- Drop will remain the same
- Geekhack will remain the same
- Corsair will start offering better keyboards. At least with other plate mounting styles besides just plate mounting. I don't know if it's realistic to hope that they will start producing metal ...

Project update:

I have just approved the Model M style cases to enter production. Due to some quality issues it took many months extra to get the quality to where it is now.

Here's one photo from the approved sample - the gap in the back looks nice now.

Now the cases have to be die cast ...

Tell me more about yours.


Not much to tell, really. https://github.com/dmaone/CommonSense, runs on previously-unobtainium, but now back in stock (albeit $20 now, not $15) CY8CKIT-059, passes USB2-CV, has no static protection. Can read capacitive, inductive and ohmic switches.

MCU is ~$9.50 ...

In this context though - I do agree with DMA. We do need something better than QMK. While I like the widespread support it's gotten and the features it implements, I am not really happy with how it does some stuff and how it implements others. I do have an idea for my own firmware, but that ...

But then the chances of me ever pulling out the Terminal and typing git update -fuckitallup YES on a firmware I already use and consider feature complete are right up there with compiling my kernel from source.


Now I wish -fuckitallup was a real command argument :D

Unfortunately, when you ...

Second of all, the USB specification requires it, so you are literally breaking the specification in your implementation.


What about the 1000s × more of us who don't design PCBs, don't write firmwares, and never will? Should we just let our keyboards lie useless, because of some coder jihad we ...

Just curious: I assume these are not included in the official QMK repo for a reason. Why might that be if they have such broad usage? Sorry if that’s another stupid question.


I'm not even sure why QMK has such a wide apparent usage when it's not even really HID-compliant. Probably because ...

I think it's just the nature of this hobby to be in and out. I've been a member of GH since 2011, but if I look at my post history there's really only 3-4 periods where I was active on the site.


True. If it's just that he got bored or is busy or something, I'm fine with that. I guess all of us ...