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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 17:58:18 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   gah bug I had with my UHKv1 is back… I guess it's a bad macro but the uhk-agent is a buggy pile of webshit.
   
   Makes me wonder how expensive building your own keyboard is, probably with like 65+ keys, to know if it's worth it to DIY or if I should just get a prebuilt.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:02:11 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Annoying part of that bug is how it triggers at random, like might as well be solar flare.
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     [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic: (novenary@akko.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:54:22 JST [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:

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     @lanodan if you have a 3d printer then the most expensive parts are switches and keycaps (still relatively inexpensive if you buy directly from china), the rest is microcontrollers, wiring, and likes cents' worth of filament
     if you don't, you're looking at PCBs which can cost anywhere between 5 and 50 bucks + shipping depending on what you do
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:56:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:
     @novenary No 3D printer here, if it really needs a board then I have good old protoboards I can nicely drill into (although would need to repair the power supply of my dremel).
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     [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic: (novenary@akko.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:56:25 JST [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:

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     • [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:
     @lanodan either way at least for ergos and generally custom stuff, diy is much cheaper than prebuilts and kits because they tend to sell very low volumes
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 19:09:33 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:
     @novenary At least wouldn't be afraid of it being what I'd tend to call DIY-plonk like https://lord.re/posts/39-clavier-handmade/
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 19:28:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:
     @novenary Yeah that said CAD and 3D printer shenanigans don't really look appealing to me, specially to make something that's based on my hands rather than like "needs to fit these existing measures"
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     [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic: (novenary@akko.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 19:28:37 JST [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:

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     @lanodan that's gonna be pretty painful, hand wiring is already annoying enough
     but yeah you basically just need something to mount the switches to, and for me 3d printing is the easiest way to crank out new designs and it's very cheap
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 19:46:34 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:
     @novenary Yeah, I've some experience with CAD as school had a SolidWorks license and I can find my way in Blender, just doesn't seems appropriate here.
     
     And I think I'd literally explode if I had to use a Windows VM (or worse trying it on bare metal as then it's probably still drivers hell like in Windows XP~7 days).
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     [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic: (novenary@akko.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 19:46:35 JST [GRLC] (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ :neocat_flag_sapphic:

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     @lanodan to be honest cad is kinda fun, the problem is that there is no free software suite that is remotely usable (openscad and its army of clones are worthless garbage, freecad is unusably crashy and the UI is garbage, solvespace kinda works but is also very clunky and limited)
     so I have to deal with a windows vm with gpu passthrough...