product review website with canadian models/prices/links? (ala Wirecutter)
I like the wirecutter when researching some kind of consumer product.
Problem is that the available models and their pricing is often radically different compared to Canada. If they recommend a certain item as US$20 on amazon.com, the identical item on amazon.ca could be $100, or completely unavailable.
Any alternative websites?
That's interesting I didn't know that. I used to share workstations with someone from indonesia who had what seemed like very strange habits of employing caps lock constantly. I assumed it was just a personal weirdsy but maybe it was due to use of caps lock in another linguistic context.
However, I know for a fact that it doesn't do anything I need. I've had it remapped for a couple years on personal machine without issues.
Thanks for telling me though, because I will be sure not to fallback to the registry or another method that changes behavior system-wide. Would not want to prevent anyone else from using the device.
ah OK thanks!
I will try this when I am at my workstation.
Oh sweet if there was a native windows option that would be best.
Tho I feel like I might have tried this and it didn't work somehow. I will try again when at my workstation.
At home, once in a while caps lock turns itself on somehow. I have a shell alias to fix the problem:
UNCAPS='xdotool key Caps_Lock'
Should this happen at work I was thinking to either temporarily disable the application that is doing the remapping, or use some sort of onscreen keyboard to inactivate the caps lock.
- I have small hands that makes certain key combos involving ctrl difficult/uncomfortable to reach
- at home I have caps lock remapped and therefor I am constantly using it by muscle memory
- Even before I had remapped it at home, I would sometimes enable it by accident which is annoying
- in previous versions of windows (I think windows 8?) I could disable caps lock entirely in a system setting but it seems they have removed this option from more recent version
- it's right there
I tried installing Power Toys a while ago but the version of windows is too old to support it.
Thanks I will do this!
Does this first line mean anything? I didn't install anything except the basic AH package:
;The keyboard hook must be installed.
Windows: remap caps to control (work computer)
At work I have a Windows PC. I don't have much personal experience with Windows which is why I am asking.
I want to remap the caps lock key to function as a control key. Ideally, on a per-user basis as sometimes other people use the workstation and I don't want to confuse them.
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Was able to install Auto Hot Key. A test script worked. However I couldn't find working instructions about how to do this specific remapping. Example scripts I found seem to have some conflict between v1 and v2 of AH.
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I don't have admin access however I could probably ask for something, but it would have to work immediately without a lot of fooling around. I will not be granted admin access to try a bunch of things til I find something that works.
What's the best way?
So you mean it would have no effect, yes? On restart it will have the same settings and firmware it did prior to pressing the reset button?
I looked at the QMK docs to see about using it from the terminal. But I am not clear about how to get around the issue of the firmware not being up to date.
I don't quite trust various bits and pieces I've found about how to use it around the web. Like the configurator page for this device says
Reset Key: Hold down the key located at K00, commonly programmed as Esc while plugging in the keyboard.
compared to the keychron docs I linked to in the OP which says
reset the keyboard by pressing fn + J + Z (for 4 seconds)
And also describes an actual reset button located under the space bar.
Why are they different...? It seems like keychron probab knows how to reset their own device. So I wonder if it is a good idea to load anything from this qmk page using methods I don't understand well because I'd never be able to get myself out of a mess.
remapping keychron v3 via/qmk on linux? how to upgrade/reset the firmware?
I have a keychron v3 (official docs which of course I have looked through) keyboard with a knob. I would like to upgrade the firmware so I can map the knob.
I am using VIA v 3.0.0 AppImage on Manjaro linux. I did the udev thing and it seems to pretty much work.
The factory reset instructions on the keychron website only explain Mac/Windows and I don't know how to transfer them to Linux. Actually I am not sure if this is even the required procedure to upgrade the firmware but it's the closet I can find.
What if I use the hardware reset without the software running on the computer?
Any other tips for mapping this keyboard with linux... I am having a hard time generally as it is apparently undocumented. I can't access their facebook group.
I have had the chance to use it on a few different devices and ROMs. Been with it since before name change.
Performance, especially bugginess is highly variable. I don't know if it's the phone, the ROM, other apps, settings or what. Sometimes it is smooth and you forget its there. other times it is crashing every 5 mins, sometimes without being fully recoverable. Like on a certain set up my widgets would disappear when it crashed and widgets aren't in the backup so you have to redo them from scratch.
If it doesn't work on you current device just don't give up on it and whenever you get a new one give it a spin again.
Neolauncher FTW
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher
Do an image search for screenshots, the repo doesnt really do it justice.
On f droid.
That is my previous experience. I guess i missed it somehow.
If LVM isn't somehow mitigating the issue I will do a reinstall.
I have run out of space on / before and it is a huge pain in the ass. I do not need much room for /home on this system so I would prefer to be cautious and avoid problems down the road.
Hopefully I will be able to figure out how to specify this.... maybe a different installer image.
very small system partition with LVM on debian. Is it OK?
I recently installed debian 12 using debian-12.2.0-arm64-netinst.iso. It is the only OS installed and I used the whole 500GB disk.
I selected something like guided partitioning with separate /home/ using LVM and encryption. Now that I am using my system a bit, I realize that I don't think it ever asked me how big to make the / partition and it is very small. Only 27GB.
Will this be a problem?
Or, is the LVM going to allow the partition to be resized or otherwise take up as much of the space as it requires?
```sh
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 488M 0 part /boot └─sda3 8:3 0 476G 0 part └─sda3_crypt 253:0 0 475.9G 0 crypt ├─mycomputer--vg-root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm / ├─mycomputer--vg-swap_1 253:2 0 976M 0 lvm [SWAP] └─mycomputer--vg-home 253:3 0 447G 0 lvm /home ```
I tried booting into a live usb to resize the partition using gparted but I couldn't seem to do so.
If I need to reinstall and change something I'd rather do it now than later.
custom rom is the reason I spent so much time trying to get a pixel.
but I am giving up on this one. next device is going to run lineage so I can have a wider variety to try to find one that works. maybe I'll try a motorola.
no it was a refurb business that didn't have exact item photos. Because the flashing is somewhat intermittent I wonder if it wasn't quite as bad when they were looking at it, maybe something got knocked loose in transit?
Previous transaction in similar circumstances have had better luck. I am not very picky about display quality or case damage so burn in, dead pixels, dim lines, dents, small cracks etc are no issue and I stop noticing them pretty quickly. I get cheap 5/10 condition phones and they are plenty good enough for me. I have never seen the bright white line thing. Also didn't realize that the display would be black where the cracks are; must be some great new display technology to prevent you from extending the life of a busted screen by applying a protector. Fantastic can't wait till all phones have this.
I think everyone's right I have to send it back. Very annoying.. it's harder to get this stuff in Canada if you are looking for custom ROM compatible phones. It's so much work to find the correct kind of item. Shipping takes forever. Oh well cest la vie. I guess I shall have to read another paper book.
I mean I don't want to take a 90% performance hit lol. I can def live with 10% hit.
is this pixel 6 pro salvageable or should I return it?
I got this Pixel 6 Pro from ebay. The seller said there were screen issues and it was about CA$200. But the issues are more than I was anticipating. Is there any hope? Or should I return?
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a: bright white line/lines horizontally across the screen -
candb: cracks in the screen with black splotches behind the breaks so nothing is visible -
screen intermittently (but often) flickers. wasn't able to photograph.
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It feels like the connection is loose inside. sometimes squeezing it seems to fix it temporarily. but I can't just be squeezing the device all the time, especially with an already cracked screen.
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it also flickers in horizontal sections. the part from the white line to the top is the most flickering and the rest of it is divided in about 4 rough sections that display in consistently
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Do you think a repair could fix it? especially the loose connection issue. I could live with everything except for the flickering which is really obnoxious. but is it possible to make a repair like this without fully replacing the display?
On iFixit the display is listed for CA$300... I would probably not do this myself so add another $50-100 for labor.
It works properly otherwise; there are no dead zones for touch.
Sorry for the crappy photo, the only way I could find to take it was to use the low quality front facing camera on my laptop.
ok, ok, I don't know how numbers work oops
I doubt the WAN would provide the advertised top theoretical speed most of the time; I just don't want to be running at like 10% of potential or something like that. If I were to do that I should at least get a cheaper plan.
just to check my understanding: a 4 port card provides different capability than a 1 or 2 port card with a switch attached, yes?
thanks for all the info!
i am definitely a person who will always change the defaults for no particular reason. so I appreciate the warning. except I don't quite know what you mean by "assignments". do you mean like the names? eth0? or their functions? I do like the idea of having a physical jack that's always guaranteed to allow access no matter what I foul up otherwise.
all these years I have been running my home network with a collection of routers just kind of attached together in a way that shouldn't work due to "double nat" according to everything I ever read, but it is pretty much functional if not at all optimized. maybe if you don't believe in double nat it won't happen to you.
what are the realistic requirements for opnsense?
I'm a pretty novice person considering installing opnsense for my personal home use.
Their documentation has what would seem to be incomplete hardware requirement.
For example it does not list any network hardware. I assume you need at least 1 Ethernet connection. I recall reading somewhere that you might need 2 network cards? One for in and one for out?
What about network card specs? I have old computers lying around that exceed the CPU/RAM/SSD requirements but cards are practically antiques. Should I upgrade? If so, to what?
ETA: The best internet I could subscribe to where I'm at is 1024 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up. So don't worry about wasting fibre speeds. :(
Does anyone know about a more thorough description of requirements?
is a separate firewall required or does openwrt include that?
For a while I have been planning to switch from an all-in-one wifi router to having separate devices because that way they can be upgraded piece by piece instead of having to replace the whole thing.
I am confused about the role of the firewall.
If I have a router running OpenWRT, does it have a firewall included? Either by default or by installing certain packages?
Or is it required to have a separate firewall running opnsense/pfsense?
If not required, what would be the benefits that would lean in favour of separate firewall?
use case: small home network 2-3 users. some internal self hosting and maybe one day external self hosting.
ETA: The best internet I could subscribe to where I’m at is 1024 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up. So don’t worry about wasting fibre speeds. :(
My assembled components so far are: router, WAPs, switches, ethernet cable and cable modem.
Thanks for any advice.
how to listen to podcasts on computer?
My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now.
There are lots of rss readers and podcatchers.
Ideally the downloading and listening would be integrated. Failing that, I can put up with 2 separate steps.
I can do the downloading although it's kind of clunky. Best for this are RSSGuard and Gpodder. But once you get the files, things totally break down.
minimally require:
- track listening status
- properly access metadata, not just going by filenames.
- most crucially: name of podcast, episode title, published date, download date
- maybe the downloader has some role to play in writing file/metadata correctly but the ones I have tried don't seem to do it
- don't need to make an account/server to do the above
I tried everything in arch/aur repos. A few of them had totally broken UIs not sure what the deal is. I am open to TUI options but none seemed viable.
manjaro/xfce
pixel 5a screen is loose; possible to tighten a bit?
I am wondering if someone know some trick about how to "tighten" the broken android screen?
I have a pixel 5a.
I dropped the phone and the screen broke. I could see the bottom half of the screen if I squeezed/twisted it. Touch is not consistent but sort of works for whole screen.
Now I can't see any of the screen. It seems that the screen is partly just loose connection since previously it was able to be fixed by squeezing. Still provides haptic feedback. Seems to be turned on.
Is there like a special way to apply pressure to get it to connect back again? even half the screen was functional enough. I have found guides online of how to replace the screen. I already had the screen replaced once; it seems the screens for this device sucks. I ordered a different phone. I'd like to be able to use this without the screen if I can because otherwise it is still functional.
I haven't ever opened a phone before and I don't have the special tools. If it is totally hopeless I don't know if I want to do it. Any ideas?