imaradio

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

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.

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

I tried installing Power Toys a while ago but the version of windows is too old to support it.

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

• 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

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

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.

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

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.

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

ah OK thanks!

I will try this when I am at my workstation.

imaradio OP , 13 days ago

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.

imaradio , 7 months ago

I have a form like this I do regularly for work. I actually fax the form, I don’t even send it electronically. But I like to fill it electronically so I have my records on the computer. Because it is 2023. I had to use my home computer (linux) to generate a copy of the form, then use a floss editor I managed to get working on windows work computer to annotate on top of the form fields. For some reason it’s really hard to get the annotations to line up with the form fields. So sometimes I have to correct it by hand after printing to clarify.

It is a zero security form, there is no need to have all this rigamarole. The form is freely available on the internet and anyone with a fucking fax machine could fill it in and send it on behalf of anyone else. Fax machine is the biggest hurdle; who the hell has one of those.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

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.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

there isn’t swappa in canada

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

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.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

Does “interface” mean you need separate cards? Or you have a single card with multiple interfaces?

Is DMZ like a guest network?

I looked up “IDS/IPS” and it wounds like something I would prefer to avoid doing if I can.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

I was hoping to make use of one of the various computers I have cluttering this place up so I could justify continuing the collection. ;)

Do you know how to determine suitability of an existing card, or how to correctly purchase a replacement?

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

that sounds useful.

i like to keep things separate when plausible.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

What’s a server card?

I’d prefer to avoid VMs if possible I never had much luck with them.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

thanks! so for example: Intel Gigabit Dual PORT GIGABIT ETHERNET PCIe NIC Card EXPI9402PT NC360T which is CA$30. Does that sound right?

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

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.

imaradio OP , 8 months ago

just to check my understanding: a 4 port card provides different capability than a 1 or 2 port card with a switch attached, yes?

imaradio , 9 months ago

People who run printer companies should be incarcerated and forced to hand copy the source code of the linux kernel with a very small pencil.

Several years ago, I decided to finally buy an all-in-one so I could print my favorite photos and do some scanning. I did what I thought to be pretty adequate research to find a model where the ink wasn’t too expensive. It was Epson x-something.

Printed a few pictures but then, foolishly allowed to update software.

After that, it doesn’t scan (scan!!) if one of the inks is low. When I bought it I thought, if nothing else I will have a scanner. Wrong!

It turned out to be impossible to obtain the epson ink cartridges. No retail location near me sold them. Not on amazon. They sold it on the epson website. I ordered some. When the delivery came I was at work. So what this shipping company does is leaves a note saying “you can pick up your parcel at our facility” with an address that was miles away from my house in an industrial park hardly served by public transit. They were only open during business hours so I would have had to book a day off work and the google maps estimate was >3 hours round trip. I don’t even think I ever got a refund for the package which sat at the courier for 2 weeks and got returned to epson.

At the time I bought the printer, it was possible to use 3rd party ink. However their “security update” robustly protected against this. I had intended to buy the epson ink but I was never able to. So I tried 3rd party. It didn’t work, the printer wouldn’t use it because it could tell it was not epson brand.

There was no way to do a factory reset on the device, which IMHO is crazy for all kinds of reasons. The ink vendors had stuff up about how you could use some closed-source hack tool to force it to down grade. It primarily ran on windows which I don’t have. Also it seemed to me that the application could be doing literally anything to the printer, it was mysterious. I tried some things I read about how to force it to return to original hardware but it never worked.

I spent sooo much time researching, troubleshooting, reading on forums, shopping etc. And some money, I think about $100-150. What I got for it was a half dozen prints, mostly testing out how the printer worked. 2 of these were worth keeping in any respect so I have 2 photos that costed >$50 and many hours of work each. After a few years I gave up and threw it out.

imaradio , 9 months ago

I agree. As soon as the update that disabled SMS was pushed to my phone, signal was effectively dead.

Integrating with SMS was so smart. The person who got me into it said “there is literally no reason not to do it” because it was seamless. And I used the same argument to get other people into it. But basically everyone stopped using it as soon as SMS was removed. I don’t have the brain space to remember who is on signal and who is not and go to the appropriate messenger.

I read the whole long thread on their website where the devs were arguing in favor of this and all the reasons were IMHO stupid. I think someone wanted to tank signal. Got tired of funding it probably. It was too good to be true with no obvious business model so always thought the day would come, and it did. Too bad, it was very good at what it did.

imaradio , 9 months ago

I wonder if he is friends with the guy who runs calibre and kitty terminal. I read somewhere that he was seriously planning to single-handedly maintain python 2 after it was EOLed because it was so integral to calibre. But was eventually talked into transitioning to python 3. The idea of that is totally nuts; the guy is a machine.

imaradio OP , 9 months ago

my thumb started to hurt after a few months of thumb trackball. I also found it more annoying for precision. With the larger-sized ball in this location I can use index middle and/or ring fingers. To me this is preferable. Other shapes like slimblade let the thumb do even less work.

OTOH if it aint broke dont fix it!

imaradio OP , 9 months ago

Well just about every modern track ball has a wireless version and some (like this one) are only wireless. Not sure what naivite has to do with it but I guess other people have different usecases than you do. I use wireless because I like to go use a laptop somewhere like a couch or outside, and a wire gets in the way, and because my desktop is placed on a shelf above the desk. To use a wired mouse with desktop I have to run a USB extension. Also people use wireless pointing device with mobile, or TV or others. You can switch between multiple devices with the button so you can easily share if you want. And if you are using bluethooth you don’t need to occupy a usb port, which are not unlimited.

That all said I would like it if more wired/wireless trackballs had the option of connecting via USB C cable instead of built-in cable, like how some keyboards are. That gives you the option of using a shorter or longer cable, makes switching devices easier because you can unplug at the mouse end rather than the computer end, thereby mitigating some of the reasons listed above for wireless. I loooove USB C kbs. Will never get a built in wired one again.

imaradio OP , 9 months ago

Cool comparison! I like the … 8? buttons on the HUGE. Are you able to use them all easily? I have a non-huge deft I don’t find the tracking better and the scrollwheel SUCKS. In my whole life of using shitty $7 mice I never met such a bad scroller. Does it work normally on the huge model?

imaradio , 10 months ago

I do not know about cat livers.

But my general personal opinion is that vets can tend to over investigate.

When you are getting into a series of tests for a cat (or for yourself), some good questions to ask are along the lines of:

• what will change depending on the outcome of this test?
• what would be the worst case scenario of not doing this test?
• what are the risks of running this test?

Sometimes questions like this have led the vet to explain there is basically nothing to be done regardless of findings and the reason for the test is “to know”. If they suspect a diagnosis for which the treatment is $20k, and you will under no circumstance be able or willing to pay $20k, then there is effectively no treatment. So the real purpose of the test is to satisfy intellectual curiosity. If the test itself is expensive and/or uncomfortable for the animal, why bother?

If a likely outcome is more testing, then you need to keep digging. Endless investigations with no likely change in treatment is a service for the human to feel like they are doing the right thing, not a service for the cat to be more comfortable or healthy.

As an example, a cat developed a limp with no apparent discomfort for no known reason. He was an adventurous outdoor cat so some kind of injury was possible. I took the cat to the vet who found nothing on physical exam and xray. The vet wanted to then do a bunch of other imaging. When I learned what he thought could be going on, I read about the conditions. The treatment for those of which treatments even exist, is a very expensive (equivalent to several months of my take home income), invasive surgery with long recovery time. Complications always possible with such a procedure. You then have to do long term physical therapy to the cat. I am sure the cat in question would be miserable about all of this. And after all that, the chances that it will actually solve the problem are less than 50%. So therefore we elected to stop investigating.