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I moved to Germany and had to sell my 3d printer for the move, but when I pick up a new one finalizing a custom dactyl keyboard will be one of my first projects. I use an ergodox ez right now (they're amazing do check them out if you want a pre built solution), but I want as many thumb keys as I can possibly handle so I want to upgrade to a custom solution.

This is really cool to see, thanks for sharing!

As someone who runs an ergodox ez with a custom key layout and who goes in to work from time to time using normal QWERTY keyboards (both English and German configuration), you do not lose anything. It's incredibly easy to switch between every config you have.

I also think most people would appreciate a split keyboard setup because it's so much better for posture and health and comfortability. Would highly recommend.

Ay, moved over to Arch 3 months ago! It's been fantastic and nearly every game has worked out of the box, protondb solved most other issues.

Paying rent is "the significant tax" you're talking about except because landlords don't care about their properties past maintaining the investment value (which rarely correlates with actual maintenance or actual value) housing isn't improved and at times is barely up kept.

In a society where every building was owned by the people living or working inside it, yes there would be a small buffer not currently being used and yes that would likely have to be publicly managed. That would neither be difficult or expensive from a government perspective and it assuredly would be far cheaper to society as a whole than rent is.

This isn't even considering that my rent goes to some rich asshole instead of a government employee maintaining my community as a 9-5. I'd much rather create a new well paying job per 1000 homes than buy the rich another vacation or yacht.

The CDU will sell the German people's future if it means they can increase their stock portfolios for a few extra years.

The stock market is not a marker of a good economy, the number of hours a person has to work to afford a home is. To afford healthcare and retirement and education and transportation an OLED TV etc.

Don't vote for the CDU or the FDP ever again, they've proven they're incapable of improving society more than they hurt it.

I'm not familiar with Poland's political or train situation, but these problems are fixable. Vote for progressives, make it a priority, we need to start taking power back from the inept and corrupt and start fixing problems again.

I'm sorry your trains aren't good. Everyone deserves good trains.

I've been in Germany two years and gone to France three times by train.

I honestly don't think people appreciate public transit enough. Trains are the fucking bomb and if people could make trains and trams and buses a priority I think the world would be a remarkably more fun and enjoyable experience.

Vote for the political parties, even at and especially the local level, that want to put more money into public infrastructure focused around public transit. Cars and planes have their places, but they should never be the priority when city planning and a strong country is one connected by high speed rail and convenient, reliable public transit.

Guy works for Black Rock and then makes his main policies:

• decrease taxes for business and the rich
• cutting public services to fund those tax cuts
• increasing national debt to fund military contracts and tax cuts for the rich

And then he talks about how people need to work more, as if he's ever had a real job in his life or as if that's some good marker for a person. A good man wants to improve society for everyone, and working more efficiently (aka less hours, not more) is improvement.

Merz is a classic conservative, he wants to make everything worse for everyone but the rich and wealthy and pretend it's because he's business savvy. He'll sell this vision as necessary or for the economy or against the wave of invading foreigners, and all the while life will get worse for working Germans. For good people.

Don't get fooled, Merz and the CDU are bad for Germany in the same way Trump and Republicans are bad for the US (or insert your local conservative party of choice).

We bought a month of Netflix just to support this and black mirror but we were disappointed in this season of LD+R. Upon finishing we sat on the couch and calculated the hit to miss ratio of previous seasons compared to this one and found that for us the average hit to miss was more than half, like 60%. But for this season it was like 25%.

It feels especially bad when you've got multiple episodes that are just "wouldn't celebrity cameos be cool" or literal music vids. The misses felt both like lower lows or more commercialized. I'll continue to support LD+R for one more season but if they continue to slide I don't think we'll go through the hassle of resubscribing past that.

That being said, we need more animation, so if they were able to produce 3x the episodes a year or something, even at the worst hit to miss ratio they've had, I'd pay more for that. I think largely because the misses tend to be very short compared to like a bad episode of TV and the hits tend to be on the medium to long side of their episodes (although rarely ever hitting the 30 min mark). If they'd sell the physical/digital copies I'd also happily pay for that. But my willingness to subscribe to things not almost exclusively applies to FOSS or individual artists.

I mean, I guess you're right as far as I'm willing to debate the point. Does that change anything? I don't feel like the franchise has done the Lost thing where every episode (in this case game) only asks more questions and never answers them. I also don't feel like I'm dying to learn more about the world or that the small scope of their answers takes me out of the experience. Like, it's perfectly encapsulated to what I need to enjoy the "movie" that is this game.

I completely agree that this has costs, and that it probably can't go on for forever. Like one of the costs is I don't super care about this world, it's not a world I want to run a TTRPG in, or could envision a hundred spin-offs. I want the end of this story and I'd be okay if it stopped. Idk, that's a fine thing to make imo. And again, it's been top of it's class in execution since it's inception (never played the smaller games like Blue something or other) so idk - hard for me to nitpick the world or the game.

Now Valve please release your new VR set so I can buy it or the Big Picture 2 and get back into VR.

Speaking entirely personally, I thought at least Half Life Alyx's story worked on two levels. It was about freeing the gman as Alyx but gman sorta represented... Oh man, now I'm worried I can't remember the game well enough to communicate my original thoughts. I remember playing it and feeling like the gman represented the writers or creativity, a bigger picture concept or something that went meta. And if that was the case it felt like Valve creating a piece of art that said Alyx and VR have revitalized our desire to tell stories and GMAN is free again.

The moment they drop their new headset I'll buy it and play again just to relive the experience but I'd say I'm excited about Half Life because Valve makes A) good games B) they make solid diegetic games which I find to be kinda rare C) their games often feel like they came from a team of artists than just a team of coders. Maybe that's the polish or maybe that's the massive amount of testing I'm led to believe they do but when valve makes a new game it often feels like the guy who made Stanley Parable just made a new game - easy to recognize art because it's so good.

Swapped to Linux 3 or so months ago, and have loved it. Doing Arch Linux, wanted to see every component go into the OS and just get a slightly better understanding of my computer - even though I think most educated people could use it with little complaint.

Games mostly just work, most software I use is there, I've found some fun new programs like an ASCII art and dithering image converter which has just been fun.

Last night I broke my system by trying to use my yubikey as the sudo requirement following some instructions that weren't explicit about the caution I should have had. Loaded a backup via the Konsole and was back to before my fuck up in 5 minutes - mess up to fix (through freakout). That's given me a lot of confidence in the stability of the system.

I also got to play the Arc Raiders Alpha test. I've written about this story before but it didn't work the first day but it was clear to me it was a server issue or proton issue. Second day a patch came out and I was able to play it no problem. That gave me a lot of confidence that good games, even good online PVP games, will come to Linux without much issue.

Between those two events I'm pretty confident I'll be on Linux for the rest of my life and if Arch continues to get support that's where I'll be for the foreseeable future (which it seems like it's only speeding up and not at all in question of their funding).

The future can and should be about getting better! That means more efficient, that means more money for more people for less work, that means less hours spent working.

Merz and conservatives want a worse future for you and your family and your kids. They want to enrich themselves and their friends while asking you to work yourself to death. Don't vote against your self-interests, don't vote in the AfD or those that inevitably bring them to power like the CDU.

Vote for progress, vote progressives.

Merz is in power today because Germans feared the AfD gaining power if they voted for more extreme parties capable of change so they voted for safe choices. The catch is voting for the CDU guarantees things get worse, which then further cultivates the AfD.

Merz wants the AfD to exist because it helps keep him in power. People most vote progressive, must vote to tackle wealth inequality, or the AfD is inevitable. We either fix the root problems or we decline into fascism. The CDU are incapable of fixing the root causes because that is where they thrive.

Someone put out a patch for the Arc Raiders tech test and it allowed me to play after only the first launch day. Very grateful to the steam/arc team that did that - was a great game experience.

I was able to get once human to work using protondb's suggested launch settings before this patch.

Why would we want to increase working hours? That's the opposite of progress in society. Why would we ever think this is necessary?

Conservatives will put our country in debt, they will make it less safe, they'll blame the most marginalized groups as they enrich themselves and their friends, and they will ask you to work more and for longer.

This is why the AFD are succeeding, because what people see as the most safe options are also the ones destroying their country and worsening our lives.

Educate your friends, educate your neighbors, organize with your unions, don't give an inch to the conservatives. Demand progress, not societal decline.

I assumed pretty immediately upon hearing him in a couple of interviews that he was exactly this right winger camoflaughing as a centralist. I gave the game the benefit of the doubt because I hadn't seen any hard evidence but I'll stop talking kindly about the game based on this info.

Politics is how we organize our society. Most of everything is political. When society starts organizing movements against groups of people, stripping away rights, and generally being Nazis you have to get more political to stop them. Taking no position is taking a position. Join the rebellion or support the empire, there is no in-between.

That's a stupid comparison and I think that's self-evident. I'm not interested in having a conversation about this with the quality of output you're displaying. I hope this does as well as it deserves and that you're getting paid upfront.

I'm responding to your advertisement buddy. I don't have to go to a landfill to know it's a dump.