deskthority

When was the speaker dropped? And has the case mold not been modified since that incident? Dropped long ago. What was strange is this board was purchased new just few years back from Unicomp and came with a 30 year old IBM bottom. I think you're interacting with a spam account trying to establish i...

The current owner discovered that *running* the forum is a net loss. It is unlikely to be different for any future owner. I suspect you are correct, at least if by running the forum you mean to imply "at least without making any changes to it". I of course have nothing to back this up (nor do I hav...

wobbled wrote: ↑

03 Mar 2024, 19:54

Not surprising, don’t you support ellipses products free of charge?

What exactly is the point of your post?

I offered this to Pablo in Discord but I will fix DT if OneCommerce pay me in actual money and not guacamole. Perhaps this makes me a sucker (though that's my own problem, and not anybody else's to concern themselves with), but I offered to look at it for free. They didn't take me up on my offer, e...

I'd somehow managed to gloss over the comment about the monthly costs of an adequate server equipped with "64GB" of RAM and a "2023 ... processor". For sure DT doesn't need anything that heavy specs-wise; good grief. Talk about overkill. It has been many moons since I've shopped around for one so co...

zappazappa wrote: ↑

02 Mar 2024, 01:28

Been having some issues flashing the firmware for an F62 in Linux. Eventually figured it out though, with a bit more sleuthing than I had expected. lol

Can you perhaps elaborate on specifically what the problem was, as well as what the solution ended up being / how you solved it?

Thanks NathanA. The readme txt file link does not seem to be working. Oops; thanks, fixed. I'd done some re-arranging of files after putting the index page together & forgot to update it. Also in the newfxx-vial-package_r5p1 file, would you mind including the pandrew utility source code and build i...

Both for the "just in case DT does end up going completely under" scenario, as well as to streamline things a bit (no more double-posting files both to here & to GH) and also to give the firmware a more fixed home on the internet than a web forum thread, I've gone ahead and taken the time to throw t...

Domain and IP reputation. Seems like a reasonable assumption. But Google will never tell you whether you are warm or cold. https://support.google.com/a/answer/9981691 I'll have to check this out. I wonder when they added this. Back in 2014, I ran into an issue with delivery to Gmail, and they absol...

webwit wrote: ↑

25 Feb 2024, 13:45

Domain and IP reputation.

Seems like a reasonable assumption. But Google will never tell you whether you are warm or cold.

Since beginning this month, I see on several domains, that having just an SPF does not suffice any longer. The only thing that works seems to be SPF + DKIM or SPF + DMARC (at a minimum). It's not necessary to have all three. Interesting. I'm still getting away with SPF-only, so they must be selecti...

I'm an email admin (been doing my own mail for 17 years, did it for a university before we went Google) and yeah this is stupidly easy to fix. But, it might not fix Gmail delivery completely as they are finicky as all get out (Sendgrid makes good money for a reason). I do see a SPF record, but no D...

kbdfr wrote: ↑

22 Feb 2024, 08:49

Please discuss matters regarding the DT site in the appropriate thread

Yup sorry; I saw the Ellipse post about that in this thread & posted that response before I saw that thread.

There were some site bugs with registration I remember, especially with certain domain names like gmail, for example. This isn't an issue with the site or server. This is a DNS issue...one that has been discussed here in the past, would likely take 5 minutes to fix, but current owners don't seem to...

The allpads option is for those who do not want to have to update anything to switch their board from ANSI to ISO. Currently a user (or factory worker) would have to pick the exact options they want before flashing the file, or flash the file and then switch things around in Vial, which is probably...

I have just made an additional blog post regarding a potential group buy for the Deskthority site: Interesting proposal. I'm not entirely sure how some people here might take to the idea of contributing monetarily to a group-buy where they don't end up owning some kind of stake, or where the owners...

Please do share feedback here after testing this firmware! Woot, it looks like DT is back! (At least for now...?) Took a look at the repackaging you did. First, it's not entirely clear to me why you decided to keep around the old r4 firmware files + their associated "allpads" layouts in addition to...

@NathanA Weird and frustrating as the Mac situation is (I've still never used my split Model F due to it), it does seem to offer at least one benefit, in that you can independently remap modifiers on a per-keyboard basis. Although ... now that I've typed that, I'm all but certain you could accompli...

I...don't think this is a thing. It’s a Mac thing. Well, I'll be a mushy membrane. Pulled the ol' MacBook out, and, sure 'nuff. That's crazy . I'm nearly 99% sure that no other general purpose operating system partitions USB keyboard input tracking in this way. (I would have said 100%, but the disc...

The problem I have is that holding shift (or any other modifier) on one side doesn't activate it on the other. In the instructions, I see something about a workaround involving numlock state? I'm not sure if this is supposed to address the issue, but if so, I'm not sure how to make use of it. I'm u...

Thanks wolfman for the QMK update. It is interesting to see a behind the scenes look at the approval process. After something is approved, what if it loses compatibility with the latest QMK version? It seems like QMK is updated so much that some boards may lose compatibility. The way that this is s...

From what I understand, the command file (flash-allpads-f77.bat) flashes the most up-to-date firmware, which means the keyboard should now work with the solenoid (old firmware had some bug) - is that correct? Did you try the solenoid after flashing? Should answer the question. ;) If solenoid is bro...

Ohh I see. Thanks! I'll try again tonight. I've never used Vial before so it wasn't immediately apparent to me that you just needed the firmware for the right keyboard model, which will allow to pick the correct layout variation later, in the software. You can now also try my latest version (r5) th...

Another Vial question: I got the split ortho which uses numlock for layer switching. Does anyone know how to setup a momentary layer switch (numlock on when pressing down, off on release)? [...] Edit 2: The button I was looking for is actually called "Locking Num" and can be found on "App, Media......

If there is ever a V2 of this keyboard, making it easier to replace a switch which be SO much better. Having to remove all the keycaps and then splitting open that sandwich is such a PITA.. These keyboard are recreations of a tried-and-true design that IBM came up with decades ago. Discrete bucklin...

Cool. What architecture is your Mac build of the Pandrew Util? Is it still just Intel? (I checked: it's Intel only.) I tried building an ARM (Apple Silicon) version of the Util myself, but couldn't get it to work. I’m no coder, so the filthy hacking I was doing to clear all the build errors I getti...

All, I present for your enjoyment Release 5 of my Vial firmware builds for Model F Labs keyboard models that employ the wcass variant of the xwhatsit controller. For various reasons that I won't go into right now, I have not had a lot of available time within the last couple of months to really dedi...

It also makes it more difficult to use one QMK branch for my F77 and the main QMK branch for my other supported keyboards. Ah, okay...if you have a bunch of different QMK-powered keyboards & you're trying to maintain a common code base and feature-set amongst all of them, then that makes sense. Tha...

I've been wanting to use my F77 lately, but I've noticed that the QMK support still hasn't been merged into the official QMK github repo. Does anyone know why it's taking so long and when it will be in the official repo? *sigh* Like any software project -- open source or not -- the project owner / ...

There is also the matter of motherboards. SOME are capable of reading the AT protocol of a keyboard through a USB port (in essence, the motherboard has its own active adapter integrated into its firmware), while others aren't. I have never heard of this. That's wild if true. Can you cite an example...