deskthority

webwit wrote: ↑

28 Apr 2024, 22:54

Still waiting for my flying car and voluptuous AI robot butler.

Too bad, enjoy some weird six double jointed finger having person art and auto generated Amazon product descriptions instead!

OneCommerce overpaid badly. And as many have said: DT’s value has only gotten worse on their watch. At least they’re willing to take the hit, though. Much better to let it go than languish. One of my other things is photography and photo forums that are much busier than this place have been droppin...

I'm not rally up to date on the drama surrounding ellipse, are they related to the Model F Reproduction project? I kind of took a break when that was getting going. I run my entire operation in containers/VMs (mail, web, Nextcloud, gitea, etc) and don't need 64GB of RAM. The idea that this board nee...

As usual, it's the bad actors that are ruining things for everyone. Whether they are overreacting or not is debatable, but what's pretty obvious is that all of these rules and restrictions that they are implementing are in place in order to curb junkmail. Such a pursuit is a constant cat-and-mouse ...

Everything I've ever experienced with gmail is if you don't have SPF and DKIM you're going nowhere. I think my domains that I don't care about as much where I haven't added DMARC records are still deliverable with just that. I've was a pretty early adopter of all three and Gmail still sometimes bin...

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 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 really in ou...

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord. It's… different. We complained about DT's hosting a lot and discussed archival, but keyboards not so much. I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text. Same, I still use IRC some but it's n...

Apple keyboards AEK and AEK2 are particularly prone to yellowing, if I am remembering correctly it is because of a high dose of fire retardant in the plastic recipe. Retrobrite is not without its risks, personally I would avoid it and just live with the yellow. They do generally change color pretty...

Wait is this the thread where we come to to say how MX Blue is the best switch made?

I've got both and done videos on both . They are functionally the same keyboard outside of size. I haven't noticed any collisions on the full sized M's matrix that the Mini M fixes in piratical use but I'm not a huge gamer either. Personally I'd for the full size M given the cheaper price and numpad.

Any idea of what happened to Nexthority? Looks to still be out of commission.

I've noticed the parent company has some job postings WRT to web dev. I don't know if I expect this place to stay as it is for much longer. These types always try to get their money back somehow.

https://www.notion.so/Job-Board-ead17c9 ... 1ee7c122e7

I keep mine in a pile in the closet. They're mostly Mode Fs and Ms. They've survived worse. The Focus boards act as padding.

If we are actually moving to somewhere, please let it be somewhere where the forum is phpBB. P.S. Yeah, the thing with the 'Switch to MX' merch is so bad it's actually hilarious :D I'm less concerned with the exact software the forum is running to some extent as long as it's something selfhosted an...

My problem with Discord and Reddit (and most things modern internet to be fair) is that we've replaced open standards, self hosted/self determined software and protocols with products from companies hosted on their machines. As flawed as phpBB there is far more control over it by the community and a...

soyuz wrote: ↑

02 Oct 2021, 12:14

hey don't worry, they've been hard at work on this shop full of low effort cashgrab shitdesigns: https://shop.deskthority.net/

"Make the switch to MX" uhhh ... does he know anything about this community?

The problem is Richie Rich bought DT on a whim with the idea of making profit w/o first drafting a viable profit model. He doesn't want to change what DT is for fear of losing the base but won't be able to make profit w/o doing so. He needs to sell the site but I don't think he'll be able to make h...

Whoa I missed some stuff. I'm pretty sure matt3o was the only robot _not_trying to kill me. I haven't been as active (even lurking) just due to the lack of activity here lately. I prefer a community effort to a corp overlord myself too (rather pass around a hat and ask for donations that worry about...

Picked up a set of Japanese market only Sony CD-900ST's a few weeks back, did a video about them here:

I've been through a few setups in the last six months. Pioneer XDP-100R + Phonak Audeo PFE012 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50451404412_f0f94beb00_o.jpg Cowon Plenue D + Campfire Audio IO https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50169917292_9db2f50e3e_o.jpg Lotoo Paw Gold + Campfire Audio Dorado h...

Scarpia wrote: ↑

29 Jan 2021, 11:23

I almost forgot, I have a pair of vintage Koss K/125 cans as well, they’re decidedly uncomfortable but I needed something period accurate for my vintage Zenith luggable restomod:

Man, I love the way that looks! Great shot!

Keep adding to the collection, recently picked up some new X series Grados to try. Probably the least Grado sounding Grado I've ever heard.

The lack of media keys on the Unicomps and classic Ms don't bother me as I use cmus and mpv that can be mapped to other keybinds. So here's a thought, even if someone were interested in making an RGB buckling spring board would it be technically possible? I don't know a lot about modern RGB boards b...

Just a follow up video. I've had firmware issues like a number of people and current the Mini M is sitting in a box waiting shipment back into Unicomp for a warranty service.

Unicomp sheets ("blankets" in their parlance) are thin white latex, and are, in my opinion, the one positive innovation that Unicomp has made. I think that it adds a quality that I would call "crispness". I think the new mats improve the feel a bit but at the cost of the sound. Unicomps are more pi...

Unicomp sheets ("blankets" in their parlance) are thin white latex, and are, in my opinion, the one positive innovation that Unicomp has made. I think that it adds a quality that I would call "crispness". I think the new mats improve the feel a bit but at the cost of the sound. Unicomps are more pi...

I've got a few 86-88 Ms in my collection and the sound is noticeable different from the plate but I think 80% of the sound difference between classic Ms and Unicomp Ms is down to fact they replaced the rubber sheet with a mylar one in the Unicomps. Not sure why they did that but it would interesting...

I swapped out for my old UltraClassic and the issues with my desktop subsided. The Mini M was not only crashing after sleep but was really messing with the USB bus on this machine. I thought my motherboard was dying at first but it seems to just really not like the Mini M's controller. It would seem...

Just buy a Unicomp man. bUt ThE qUaLiTy!!??! I have an IBM M122 and a Unicomp New Model M. I have no idea what people are talking about with the quality. Maybe the Unicomp Classic wasn't as good. The only real difference now is that the Unicomps don't waste money on pointlessly heavy metal panels. ...