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  1. I wonder what the aspect ratio of that setup was.
  2. I used to watch his channels a lot, but moved more over to ShoddyCast as MatPat looked more at lore and less at science.
  3. Given David's personal characteristics, I think it's understandable that he'd use more lube than someone like Linus would deem necessary.
  4. I actually went with gigabit because it was actually marginally cheaper than staying with my previous 800megabit connection from a different ISP. Gotta love Canada's crappy telecom oligopoly.
  5. And motorists park in the bike lane and pedestrians walk/jog in the bike line. We're all shit. My hypothesis is that cyclists get a disproportionate amount of shit because most people are motorists (at least in my corner of this god forsaken shit show) and most people are pedestrians. So people look at the group they are a part of and the shit they pull doesn't piss them off as much or stay with them. Cyclists, being the out-group, get more hate as a result since most people aren't cyclists.
  6. I stop usually sometime in September or October. I'm just not having fun if I'm too cold, so I usually hang up my bicycle gloves for the year once it gets below 10-15C consistently. Not to mention the days get so short that you barely have any daylight. I'll start up again probably in May. I actually just took my bike in to get cleaned and tuned up; also getting some cross top brake levers installed as well as a new stem. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a 120mm stem at a 35 degree angle?
  7. My adventures in mechanical keyboards continue! I think I need to lube my springs to get rid of some awful ping, but my switches are not hot swappable, which would mean that the traditional way would require desoldering (can't do myself). I put some acoustic foam in the back, and while it's helped, there's still noticeable ping. I came across this tutorial for lubing switches without desoldering. Would this lube the springs as well? I'm particularly interested in the "pull-stem" method as it seems cleaner, even though it takes more time. The spray method seems too messy. https://kineticlabs.com/blog/how-to-lube-switches-without-soldering
  8. Looking for: are there any online businesses that do custom keyboard soldering work? Looking to make my mechanical keyboard hot swappable so I can easily lube the springs. Context: After extensive research, I bought myself a Kinesis Freestyle Edge keyboard with Cherry MX Browns and the tenting accessory. I absolutely love the typing experience on this board, especially after using the Freestyle 2 for nearly ten years. (I did look at a tonne of other split tenting keyboards, but none of them had what I wanted) While I love the keyboard, it has awful ping that's driving me crazy. I've tried to find QMX-Clips as I've heard they can help, but can't find them in stock anywhere, and I keep getting an error on the Uniqey website when I try to order them. I've also ordered a piece of sorbothane acoustic foam to jam in there, so we'll see on Friday (when it's scheduled to be delivered) if that'll help. But, the switches aren't hot swappable. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that I can't lube the springs without desoldering the switches. I've never soldered, don't own a soldering iron, and have some pretty bad tremor in my hands (medical issue), so I'm not keen on doing it myself; even if I had the equipment and knew how, I don't think my hands are steady enough (it's why I had to give up building Gundams). I'd like someone to hopefully do it for me. I am, of course, happy to pay for this; I don't expect anyone to do it for free. Are there any businesses or individuals with good reputations (ie, good work, not scams) that do this kind of thing?
  9. Wait, is this a VA panel or IPS? I remember seen "IPS" on the box when Andy was unloading it. Just rewatched, nm, it says "Mini LED." Personally, I love VA panels with quantum dot. I've never had good luck with IPS displays.
  10. I recently used the GUI upgrade tool to uptrade to Linux Mint 21.3 MATE. I'm getting an error when I refresh updates. "The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct. Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 10min 41s). Updates for this repository will not be applied." Any idea what's going on here or how to fix it?
  11. I've never particularly liked IPS displays. Back in 2017 when I was looking for a monitor, I tried a bunch of IPS displays and returned them all. I ended up settling on a VA QLED panel. I found IPS to have really uneven lighting across the screen. That said, this was for a 34 inch ultrawide. I'm far less picky when it comes to laptop displays. The bigger the display, the more glaring any flaws or annoyances become.
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