naznsan

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I turned this touchscreen RP2040 into a touchpad. in c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world
[–] naznsan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regarding the scrolling, do you reckon it'll be possible to implement it like how the Galaxy Watches do their scrolling?

If you touch the edge of the screen and rotate it, it scrolls clockwise and anti-clockwise. Works decently enough although I do prefer the physical wheel.

Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] naznsan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any sources for this? Afaik Samsung phones are still massively popular with young people in Korea.

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How do you read books you don't want to? (lemmy.world)
 

How do you guys read books that you don't feel like reading?

I consider myself a decent reader. If I'm very interested in a book, I'm able to stay up all night, reading it as much as I can until I feel like if I read anymore I'll get fired for sleeping on the job. I love to read fantasy books, but usually most interesting fiction books are able to keep my attention.

The trouble I've got is with non-fiction books. Books that are talked about as "must reads". Books like Sapiens, The Selfish Gene, Pale Blue Dot, or any textbook/technical documentation. I've tried again and again to read non-fiction books. Breaking it up into smaller chunks, listening to them as audiobooks, or just slogging through it page by page. But nothing seems to stick in my head if I grind through them.

Now, before you go "Hey naznsan, just don't! Life is too short to read books you don't want to read!", the thing is, I want to read these books. Some of them explain things I'm decently interested in. Some of them I have to read for work/education. I just seem to have trouble either focusing, staying motivated, or retaining any information in such books.

So does anyone have any tips or suggestions on how I could read such non-fiction books like I read my fiction? Or am I doomed to just slog through page by page, relying on my notes to do all the remembering?

flow-MX36 released! in c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world
[–] naznsan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please give us another update here once the choc version is done, I'd be super interested in trying it out!

flow-MX36 released! in c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world
[–] naznsan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sorry I might not be understanding this correctly, but does that mean the choc version will have proper choc spacing and be 2mm closer? And a properly located trackpad on top of that?

That is exactly what I've been waiting for. I printed the case for a MX Skeletyl but found the spacing a bit too far, and the choc skeletyl that I printed felt a bit off for some reason.

Debating which split keyboard to get in c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world
[–] naznsan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using a Corne for a while now, and I find it very comfortable and efficient to use.

If you don't mind soldering and assembling your own kits, you could try a Corne kit. Most Corne PCBs seem to have a 6th col you can snap off. So you could try get a kit with one of those, try the 6 col, and if you don't need that extra column, simply snap it off and re-flash the board for a 5col Corne.

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Choc spacing on split ergo keyboards (lemmy.world)
 

For the last few months, I've been daily driving a Corneish Zen, a split keyboard with choc spacing. I find it very pleasant to use, but wanted to try a split keyboard that isn't flat, like a Dactyl.

The Skeletyl looked like it was right up my alley, having a similar layout as the Corne and the same number of keys, so I tried printing a half and was surprised at how big it seemed. Maybe I just have smaller hands, but the spacing between keys seemed really far.

My question is, are there any variants of Dactyl keyboards that were designed to be used with choc switches/keycaps? While I could try modify the Skeletyl step files, I'm not that confident in Fusion360 and just wanted to see if there was something done first.