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File:f956a9994807d746af4183e4c8….jpg (655.72 KB,1161x1370)

 No.1732[Reply]

For the price of some switches, new soft pads, and a soldering iron I fixed my doubleclicking mouse. I now have a functioning mouse and a soldering iron. It's like getting a free toy. Gave the entire body a deep cleansing while I was at it, it's a lot easier to clean something properly when you've taken it apart.

Now what else I can I do with this toy...
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 No.1739

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I found a use for the soldering iron. I want to use a CRT TV for my consoles, but despite living in Europe some of my consoles are NTSC. Many of the local PAL CRTs most likely do not accept NTSC signal on composite, but I could use RGB on SCART. Not all consoles natively display RGB.

SNES has a lot of peculiarities on the chip affecting video quality, but it does output RGB by default on both NTSC/PAL with the correct(!) cable as long as it's not the Mini which does require a mod. I have an NTSC-J regular one. No idea which chip, don't care.
https://www.retrorgb.com/snes.html

My Gamecube is PAL. It supports RGB natively unlike NTSC. I need a different cable than the N64/GC cablefor this one. If I can't find any options I might have to make my own cable, but I found both NTSC and PAL cables on Aliexpress. Hopefully they're not erronously marked as such, one was even marked EU NTSC which... Well... One marked PAL had a comment from someone saying it had capacitors instead of the resistors required for PAL and could not be used. I might have to modify my own cable if whoever I order from in the end send me one like that.
https://www.retrorgb.com/gamecubeoutput.html

N64 doesn't support RGB by default, but it should be a doable mod for anyone with a bit of practice already and the tools that make it easy (the right tools are half the job, as we say). Just need to check which N64 you have first because apparently not all of the chips are compatible.
https://www.retrorgb.com/n64.html
My N64 already has a HDMI mod installed though, I'm a bit scared to combine both mods as the HDMI modchip was quite expensive (pre-installed from used marketplace), but seeing as they're different outputs it should probably be fine. I saw some video of someone else having both mods after a bit of looking around so I'll give it a go.
A HDMI modded N64 can display both HDMI and Composite at the same time, kind of neat if one wants to play on console and record to a computer at the same time.

Fortunately since my N64 is also NTSC, I can use the same cable for the N64 and the SNES. Using an NTSC scart cable on a PAL N64/SNPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1760

>>1739
This is a pain in the ass, there's so many different sync options. I will get back to this cable hell when I mod the N64.

 No.1763

>>1733
You should invest in small air compressor instead of buying canned air. The air compressor is useful for a lot of things other than cleaning dust out of stuff. But it's also the best tool for that purpose.

 No.1764

>>1763
Should have added: They make some nice small ones now that are good to keep in your car with an inverter to power it. But for home use I suggest splurging on one of the ones with a large tank and wheels. It should last you a life time so the $200 is well spent. I've got a few myself. One is very large and I've had it for probably $30 years now. I have a really old one with an exposed belt from the 1930s-60s or somewhere in there. Could never be sold today because it would have to be covered in warning labels. But it does the job well enough.

The reason you want the large tank is because it can store more air. That way the motor isn't forced to run all of the time.

If you just need it for cleaning out electronics one of the small ones might be better suited. But those things take forever to pump up a tire with.

The reason they're so useful is because you can use them to forced compressed air into things like fuel lines, AC drain lines and other hard to reach places. Usually you can force out any kind of blockage with the air alone. They're way better than using canned air for cleaning components because there is more force and you don't have to worry about spraying cold crap all over whatever you're working on if it's in a hard to reach place. Plus people won't accuse you of being a huffing addict. I had a roommate years ago that would still canned air from the case I kept around and huff it. No idea why he thought it was a fun high but he was pretty addicted.

Of course I'm not that bright either. I use to hold the cans upside down and freeze my hand with them to see how long I could endure the pain. Not recommended but nothing bad ever happened from doing that stupid shit.

Anyway, you can pick up used air compressors pretty cheap. Check out estate sales and yard sales. Usually when an old mechanic or working man passes away his wife is looking to off load a lot of tools like that. Everyone should own one. If you have a car or anything else with tires it's a really useful thing to keep around.

 No.1855

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I ended up buying an expensive cable that works for both NTSC and PAL. Hopefully that wasn't a waste of money, but it works great on all my consoles despite region differences. The N64 rgb mod was incredibly easy. Thank god for the wizards who invent this stuff. Took longer to take apart the console than to solder it on. If I hadn't done this my poor N64 would still be in black and white.

I probably won't solder anything again until my keyboard or mouse breaks again. Using a Pinecil V2, tiny and works pretty well. I dread the day I may have to recap the CRT. There's probably over 100 capacitors inside that thing. Kinda dangerous too if you don't know what you're doing.



 No.1469[Reply]

Remove all C code from the world
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 No.1789

>>1788
Primagen who used to be full on Rust pushing, recently started saying he like Zig more. But it's a bunch of hopping around because Linux diehards are so against letting Rust get a chance and Windows is an unknown

 No.1790

The Rust in Linux thing is just pathetic old guys preventing new generation from getting a chance because they don't want to document their APIs
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/

Listening to people like this is downright frustrating

 No.1791

>>1788
My biggest problem with Rust is the development model. A language, especially a language aiming for safety and security in the way Rust is, should really be defined by a stable spec. Instead, it's defined by a single reference implementation that's developed like a web browser.

But as a language, it's got too much C++ and not enough C. Way too big, way too complex, way too confusing. My ideal systems language would basically be a stricter, more explicit C with opt-out run-time safety features like bounds checking.

 No.1837

>>1469
>Alphabet inc wants everyone to code in their language that they lobby
But it's not EEE right gaiz?

 No.1842

>>1837
No, it's called Swift



 No.1796[Reply]

When people know you code so they start asking you about Excel functions and formatting

 No.1838

>>1796
Why is he at a debconf if he's unfamiliar with debian's use of his Kernel?
That's like a James Brown's drummer going to a Rap artist's interview for using his amen break for a drum sample.

 No.1840

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Is this true?
Damn. Baffling that there was a time when Debian was the Arch of Linux distros.

 No.1841

It's more baffling that all the old Linux programmers still think building from source is the norm.



 No.1829[Reply]

I'm not good with OS stuff. What's this merger for realtime linux about in less than 10 minutes?

 No.1830

>>1829
Linux has always had the ability to be a real time OS. A real time OS ensures low latency in kernel space. Here is the best way to think about it;

You know how a guitar works? Imagine a guitar plugged into a computer via an audio interface. With a normal mainline kernel there might be a slight delay when you strum the guitar. You have headphones plugged into your DAC and are strumming the guitar. With a non-real time kernel there might be a several millisecond delay delay between your strumming and when you hear the notes in your headphones.

With a real time kernel there is no delay. When you strum you will hear the notes at the exact same time.

Real time Linux kernel have been a thing for decades. They form the basis of all the multimedia/digital audio workstation distros. This e-celeb or whoever (I didn't watch the video) is just going over information everyone that works with this type of software has known for years. Maybe they finally merged the patches into mainline or something. I dunno.

The trade-off with a realtime kernel is the fact that it can cause high CPU usage in some cases. For the vast majority of users a realtime kernel isn't needed and can cause various issues with day-to-day stuff.

Realtime kernels are mainly used for things like I mentioned above (multimedia production) or for other tasks where realtime is vital to functionality (imagine a fighter jet with a stick hooked up to a small computer that controls the flaps). If you want to know more read about Real-time operating systems on wikipedia. The vast majority of them are not UNIX based and are small OSs geared towards specific tasks running on small computers.



 No.1379[Reply]

Jisaku-ing a keyboard.
Following the video, tried creating a 3x3 "keyboard" with switches on a breadboard, was pretty simple to connect and program. Won't be doing much software though, mostly just soldering diodes and wires from the switches to a micro controller.
Thinking of making some compromises with the keyboard body and switches/keys by scavenging an old keyboard I have lying around. Right now, my goal is to create a working model and implement a custom layout for the keys. Maybe if this works out, I'll look into CAD-ing a proper case for a new board, and installing some good switches (the ones I have right now are off-brand reds).
All in all, the project is looking pretty doable so far... So long as I don't mess up during the soldering phase. Going to have to do a ton of practicing before I'm confident enough to work on the switches, don't want to be ruining them. Want to spend as less as I can on this.


*Will drop the project if I deem it financially unfundable (because I'm broke)
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 No.1792

>>1784
The 16g (naked) copper wire (and heat shrink) he used in his build is what I'm referring to. Sure they look cool, but it was damn near impossible to have a solid connection between the pin and the copper wire. With a normal wire (like the one I'm currently using) you can wrap the copper around the pin to stabilize it, then solder it to further stabilize the connection; with the 16g copper wire, since the wire is so thick, you can't wrap it around the pin so the connection is dependent on just the solder alone, one strong push and it breaks apart.

 No.1815

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Connecting all the rows and columns to the micro controller was way harder than it was supposed to be; my theory is that it was because the soldering iron was a cheap one. Looking further into soldering irons after the tip was basically useless (should have looked into it further before buying one...), turns out that being too hot also causes rust. Needed to keep it within a certain temperature range to be able to use it for a long time but the one I bought didn't have any temps monitoring to it, it just heated the iron as long as it was connected to an electric source.
Thankfully, the set I bought came with 5 spare tips, was able to solder all the rows and columns after going through 3 of them. Now, the keyboard works, but I don't know how stable the connections to the micro controller are. I think as long as it's just sitting on my desk, there shouldn't be any problems. The wire is a little shorter than I'd like it to be, but it's the longest micro usb-b cable I have at hand.

 No.1816

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Here's what the finished product looks like. Had to repurpose some of the non-standard sized keys, so the + and the Shift keys you see in the image are actually LShift and SpaceBar keys. All in all, kind of glad I did it, have a working keyboard in the layout I liked, and I can now put the old one in a showcase or something. Though, there are some regrets; regret the soldering iron thing a lot. I could have easily bought a better soldering iron if I'd added the copper wires budget to the soldering iron budget... Also regret making the plate yellow......
Not the best of executions, the plate is too small to fit to the case, the case's standoffs are broken, the connections to the MC could disconnect at any time, but I can use it and it stays in place. In the end, all that matters is that it werks™.
A break down of the total costTotal expenditure on the project: ~$190
Soldering kit + helping hands cost: $38
Total parts cost: $40
Money wasted on parts I never used: $24
Total cost just for the keyboard (includes 3D printing cost, electric parts, and keycaps): $86

 No.1817

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>>1816
That's not bad. Did you have fun learning the stuff? It's a skill you can apply to future projects or whatever so that's worth something.
Are you going to label the keys? Add neon lights? Personalize it at all?

 No.1818

>>1817
Yeah, it was fun. Soldering the rows and the columns were fun, seeing how clean it looked... It's just that the project ended on a low note with kuso soldering with the MC... Learned plenty of stuff about soldering, keyboards, USB, even 3D designing and printing. Fun experience, but yeah it's how something ends that sticks with you, pretty meh ending.
>label the keys
The keys are already labeled actually, it's just on the sides of the keycaps, you can kind of see them on the top row keys and some on the bottom row.
>lights
At first, my thought was to add some RGB after the fact, but now I'm too scared to open up the back (so to speak), because it might disconnect some wire somewhere on the MC...
Maybe some day, after I've saved enough again, I'll buy a better soldering kit, some better keys (want the brown ones), and re-do the connections in a better way.



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 No.13[Reply]

I like Rachelbythebay. Woman who gravitates towards the underappreciated sysadmin/glue code role in tech companies and always has a bad time of it. She's built cool things in software and hardware, such as her own monitor of her city's police radio communications that listened to all of the public channels and archived the activity. You can learn about various 'gotchas' by poring over her blog backlog. For example, empty files in unix systems marked as executable still run to completion and giving an exit code of 0 (success). Or certain numbers that come up repeatedly in log files.
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I have a lot of bloggers in my bookmarks. I could post the whole list if someone's interested.
Most of them are graphics programming related (think people who make their own game engines) but there's a lot of other random topics too.

One of my favorites is https://matklad.github.io/
He's the guy who made rust-analyzer, which is a language server for the Rust programming language. He posts a lot of random thoughts about programming languages, algorithms, etc. It's all over the place and I love his style of writing

 No.30

I like food4dogs I wanna be like her when I get older

 No.35

>>22
>I could post the whole list if someone's interested.
I'd prefer in this thread to talk about them one at a time.

 No.1321

https://tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/
>Start Often Finish rArely
>Start Often Fuck Achievements

https://tilde.town/
>is a computer meant for sharing
>we are a community of around 3000 users making art, socializing, and learning on a linux server. founded in 2014 by ~vilmibm.

 No.1787

>>16
Blogs are probably the 'old web' thing to have survived the longest, still being relatively mainstream to this day, especially among more bookish crowds. I think a lot of it comes down to their standalone nature and emphasis on individual opinion. It's a format that lends itself well to being linked on social media sites like Reddit.



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 No.843[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Anyone else been messing around with the stable diffusion algorithm or anything in a similar vein?
It's a bit hard to make it do exactly what you want but if you're extremely descriptive in the prompt or just use a couple words it gives some pretty good results. It seems to struggle a lot with appendages but faces come out surprisingly well most of the time.

Aside from having a 3070 i just followed this guide I found on /g/ https://rentry.org/voldy to get things setup and it was pretty painless.
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 No.1191

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I was looking around 4chan today and happened to stumble upon this thread, https://boards.4chan.org/a/thread/268171362

It got me kind of curious because from what I know most models when you try to edit an image directly tend to alter the base image a little bit into something else instead of perfectly editing the image with a specific modification. From what the OP said in a recent post he's using some sort of subscription, but I know that DallE and Gemini don't work like this so it has to be someone's paid SD offshoot that they've tweaked to work in this way. My question is how would you approach doing this in your own SD model? Via controlnet or something? It seems so odd... Of course there's still plenty of areas where it's making unwanted changes like with changing the style of the bras and aspect ratio or whatnot, but for an advancement in AI modifying only specific details of an image it looks like it's doing pretty good.

 No.1192

>>1191
Looks like some skilful usage of inpainting.

 No.1195

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>>1191
He's just using NAI probably, although I didn't know they offered such a thing.
It's inpainting, yeah. I don't really do it much, but these days you can use controlnet which would probably be superior to NAI's, although they might have their own model for it or something.
You go to the Img2Img tab and then the Inpaint tab, provide the prompt, and ideally set up controlnet. You use 'inpaint_global_harmonious" and set denoise to 1 instead of the usual 0.3 or whatever.

 No.1761

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remember how image generating AIs actually were around for years and years before stable diffusion took off and how janky they were

 No.1762

>>1761
Yeah, it's funny how long AI stayed in that relatively Coming Soon™ state for over a decade until one day it all just blew up and insane progress occurred nearly overnight.



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 No.1603[Reply]

If you've gotta program an algorithm you've gotta use CSS

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_selectors
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 No.1755

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Out of curiosity I tried it with an actual gradient image

.sidebar-container.pannel-borders.fixed-sidebar , .side-segment.pannel-borders.thread-page-layout {
border-right: 8px solid;
border-image: url(https://haiji.kissu.moe/test/src/1726185772007.png) 10 fill;
}
Changing the numbers there can effect the filling so that's kind of cool. The change from 10 to 9 is pretty drastic as it fills in the whole area below the box.
I guess it's related to pic related https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-image-slice

This mozilla page is pretty informative, I like it more than other css sites I've used in the past.

 No.1756

File:2024-09-12 19-15-40.mp4 (2.22 MB,1920x1080)

kinda weird

 No.1757

>>1756
that's how the sticky scrolling is handled for the sidebar. There's a small panel that stretches a bit. I think there's a way to make it not do that. Lets see....

 No.1758

.thread-page-layout.sidebar-container {
border: unset;
height: calc(100vh - 4px);
}

Try seeing what this does to it. This will make that sidebar box take up more vertical height

 No.1759

Hmm, don't think that did anything. But, I think we're spending too much time on this and it's something I can go back to later. There's probably a simpler answer in just adjusting the image itself.



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 No.1722[Reply]

How do you manage computer security in your devices?

I feel that just common sense isn't enough nowadays, because of several reasons:

- Browsers especially (even if you disable JavaScript, which is often not feasible in many sites), but also email clients, torrent clients... can all be exploited somewhat easily.
- Some games require kernel-level anti-cheats, which have complete access to your computer. Even if you trust the developer, these kernel drivers are often buggy and can be leveraged by malware.
- Legitimate programs or Steam games might receive malicious updates if the developer or their supply chain is compromised.
- If you use third-party dependencies for development, you might also be compromised if any of them (or their recursive dependencies) are malicious, not uncommon in ecosystems like npm.
- If you play doujin games or eroge, you often have to download them from random untrusted sources.

I've concluded that it's not really possible to trust a computer if you use it for activities like these.

I'm thinking about getting a second device only for sensitive stuff, like banking, shopping and managing passwords. It seems a bit of a hassle, but I can't think of any other way.
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 No.1726

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>>1722
99% of the stuff you listed is not realistic and only works in theory. In reality all you have to do is not download random shit on the internet and not fall for phishing scams.

 No.1727

>>1726
This,
OP and anyone who is interested in securing their electronic devices should define their own threat model before implementing solutions.
Anyway, most people only want to be safe from cybercriminals and this advice is probably the most important. If I wanted to add one more specific, I'd recommend to create a separate account for administration tasks (done by default on most Linux distributions but not on Windows).

 No.1729

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have some fun playing with Qubes OS which isolates every application into its own virtual machine

 No.1730

>>1722
Backup your files in case of ransomware.
Don't reuse passwords.

Having a USB containing a small OS that loads into RAM and doesn't touch your HDD could work, like Puppy Linux or Slax.

There are small things you can do that don't necessarily fall under "don't click on weird stuff".

 No.1731

I don't keep any passwords on my device, after I got a virus that pulled all mine from Firefox's password cache.

Don't let your browser remember passwords, it's stored basically in plaintext as far as viruses are concerned.



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 No.1652[Reply]

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 No.1713

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taken from lake moraine in alberta, canuckistan

 No.1714

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Have a bunch of new monogatari screencaps in my wallpapers directory, but have been using this one for a while. Good screencaps.

 No.1715

>>1652
>reading

 No.1718

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>>1667
Very cute! I also have Alice in my wallpaper.

 No.1728

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The only one I had that nicely fit my monitor resolution.



 No.1634[Reply]

I found this imageboard on Github https://github.com/brodyking/Openchan As I said in the title, it works without a database and I am taking the time to make a connection with a MySQL database to be able to integrate functions such as reply and others. If you were looking for a basic project to start your own imageboard I think you should give this software a try.

 No.1635

Mr. Froggie, the readme says input isn't sanitized. If you want to start your own imageboard software why not do it from scratch with full control over all the code?

 No.1712

why do some people write out whole ass Contributor sections without going thru the trouble of wrapping two variables in htmlspecialchars()



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 No.1668[Reply]

Install Linux on your personal computers.
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 No.1705

>>1704
People did/do use XMPP as a protocol. They just used it re-branded as something else. The answer to this question is the same for all technology. Mainly that most people are happy to consume warmed over garbage and beg for more. They're lazy, stupid and do not care anything about quality.

 No.1706

>>1702
This season, surely, will be the season of the Linux desktop!

 No.1707

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE OVERSIMPLIFIED LOGO PEOPLE GOT OPENSUSE TOO

 No.1708

>>1705
For what it's worth the same is true of IRC. Most popular multiplayer chat programs are simply IRC renamed with some simple add-ons and a web interface.

XMPP fell out of favor when voice/video chat became more widespread. But it's likely the text portion of those chat programs are still XMPP or IRC on the back end.

Basically, anything that requires you or random person to set-up a server is not normal-friendly. They will freak out about such things "leaking their IP address" but will happily use the same chat software if a corporation is hosting the server. Same reason they fear p2p stuff.

I think Zuckerberg said it best. They're "dumb fucks".

 No.1709

It is very funny the open source community has fragmented into many chat protocols like the early 2000s proprietary ones. I guess Matrix's trying to fix that



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 No.1636[Reply]

Thoughts on KDE?
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 No.1647

>>1646
For me personally the time I was using lighter desktops is when LXQT didn't even exist yet, I used the predecessor LXDE instead

 No.1648

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i have used KDE for almost 3 years now on different distros, most notably on arch which is the one i've used the longest. i enjoy using it and have it setup just how i like it. though a lot can be said about KDE's feature creep, it has almost every configuration one could possibly want or need. as for its bugginess, this is something that is greatly exaggerated online: i haven't had any deal breaker issues while using the same bleeding edge installation for well over a year now. at most, some minor graphical glitches that usually get fixed on the next update. as for its memory usage, despite being way more polished than XFCE they share a similar memory consumption.

 No.1649

>>1639
libbie !

 No.1650

>>1636
Not a fan of KDE personally. I'm more of a fan of WMs. If I have to use a DE I usually go with XFCE, MATE, or Cinnamon.

 No.1651

The only advanced Linux topic I've ever needed to deal with is the OS's C libraries, glibc, because I can't compile software on Mint then move it to other servers.



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 No.1540[Reply]

I'm gonna give one of these gay ergonomic mice a shot. I just wish there was one that had that Logitech free-spinning mouse wheel thing...
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 No.1562

>>1555
>The trackball you posted doesn't address the issue that the vertically oriented mouse is meant to address
It does and it does it better in my opinion if your concern is damage to your wrists. They are for people with that concern that don't want to give up using a mouse.

>which is the two forearm bones crossing over and coming close when your wrist is pronated. I guess you could place it on a slanted surface.
Trackballs are nearly _always_ designed this way out of the box excluding those horrible mouse+trackball combos. Look at the one I linked. See that little pad it comes with? That's for your wrist to rest on. Now take a close look at the base just ahead of it (the plastic under the ball itself). It's at a slant. So it rests flat on your table but is a bit higher in the front than in the back. I've personally found it to be perfect slant for me. If it isn't for you then you can adjust it no problem.

My wrist is totally relaxed when using a trackball. Which is more than I can say for the keyboard I'm typing this on right now. Which is a very good keyboard.

Aside from trackball+good keyboard: Chair, posture in chair and your desk set-up is a serious thing! Do not take them lightly. No kind of input device can correct bad posture or too little desk space.

I suggest having a big/deep enough desk to have room to put your elbows on the desk top and reach the keyboard. You want your keyboard pushed way back close to your primary monitor. This alone will take a lot of stress off your wrists. You want a chair with good arm rests. You want them level with the desk. You want your free to be able to reach the ground. You don't want to slouch over the desk itself.

I also high suggest old school metal shop desks. Since they're huge. Have plenty of desk space with overhangs to mount monitors and they're generally cheap and will last forever. The right desk makes all the difference. You need the room.

 No.1584

>>1562
>So it rests flat on your table but is a bit higher in the front than in the back.
That's orthogonal to what I'm talking about.

 No.1585

my trackball gamer girl big sister bends my wrists back every day

 No.1591

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>>1548 >>1549
Am seriously considering getting one of those now, especially since I more often have pain in my wrist and the tendons in the back of my hand recently. So thanks for all the information you gave. I hope that model goes on a sale soon in my country too since 110€ is ab bit much for an experiment for me.

>>1561
Model M keyboards are truly a pleasure to type with, only the sound of the keystrokes are rather drastic (Lain here seems to like it though).

 No.1630

If anyone else needs a quick and cheap fix for wrist pain with mouse usage, I've been using an xbone controller with a steam desktop setup and its good enough. Lets me rest my wrists and still work. Im sure a trackball would be better, but I already had it



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 No.1597[Reply]

So there's some windows exploit thing that needs to be patched? https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063
I kept my windows on an old version since updates break various things (like the pirated copy) and adds new microsoft spyware stuff so I never update my windows 10. So uhh... can I selectively patch this thing without breaking my windows installation? I need help from nerds.

 No.1598

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Wait, I read that you can disable IPv6 here in the network settings.
Okay, potential crisis averted and I didn't have to update.



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