YellowJersey

A lot of design choices in new cars, especially EVs, are beyond stupid. Give me functionality, not fancy touch screens.

It's that time of year again! Time to annoy every one here with my rides.

 Today was the first ride of the season. 77km in 3 hours 38 minutes. I was only originally aiming for 60km, but I was feeling pretty good around the 30km mark. I regretted it around the 50km mark, though. My legs feel like spaghetti noodles right now. I didn't do any training or anything over the winter, so this is my first time back on the bike since October. I am really feeling it.

Total this year so far: 77km

4 minutes ago, johnt said:

Nice! I'm glad you tried it. The paste lube at the ends helps dampen the transmission of noise during the rebound. I hated that spring ping too when I bought my first metal board. I was sooo disappointed. But lubing made a huge difference.

This is the keyboard I use, but I had it modded to allow the switches to be hot swappable. Doubled the total cost of the keyboard, but totally worth it. None of the other split or ergo boards appealed to me, particularly as I'd been using the membrane version of this for the last seven years.

On 3/27/2024 at 12:21 AM, johnt said:

What keyboard did you get, and are you certain they are Cherry MX switches or are they Chinese fakes? Spring ping is going to be very pronounced in a metal keyboard. I normally use paste lube (like 205g) and dip both ends of the spring into the container. I mean a tiny, tiny amount at end each end. This has completely resolved all spring ping for me. I do not recommend using a liquid lube for springs even though that seems to be the recommendation from every dumb ass tuber.

I used a light amount of liquid lube using the "bag lube" method and then dipped the ends in 205g like you recommended. It seems to have sorted it out.

1 hour ago, Motifator said:

Yeah I'm around 6 foot to 95 kilos, this thing is pretty low down to the ground. 26 inch, 46 cm from the post to the bar. Pretty much a semi hardcore hardtail. Like it's not as much professional as a custom carbon, but it's still a nice bike IMHO. Was kind of cheap for what it is, I'm going to install a Suntour SP12 to the rear to absorb the shocks better. It's going to increase weight (bike is 11.9kg stock), but hey, beats butt pain...

I'm around 190cm. I should have got a size 61, but got a 58 instead as it was on clearance and $700 off. I also prefer a more upright riding position as I do long-distance endurance riding, usually between 100-162km a ride, hence the extender.

 I prefer aluminium over carbon. You can dent it, smash it, scratch it, scrape it, and it keeps going. To me, it's the sweet spot between steel and carbon without the price of titanium.

13 hours ago, Motifator said:

Here we go... now on with the assembly... 

 

I got my bike back from the shop last weekend. They had to put an extender to raise the handlebars up high enough for my fit. The joys of being tall.

God damn, Mr. Bells has a voice I could listen read the phone book.

13 hours ago, johnt said:

What keyboard did you get, and are you certain they are Cherry MX switches or are they Chinese fakes? Spring ping is going to be very pronounced in a metal keyboard. I normally use paste lube (like 205g) and dip both ends of the spring into the container. I mean a tiny, tiny amount at end each end. This has completely resolved all spring ping for me. I do not recommend using a liquid lube for springs even though that seems to be the recommendation from every dumb ass tuber.

 I got the Kinesis Edge with Cherry MX Browns. The website says "Genuine Cherry MX Switches," so I'm inclined to believe that they're not fake. I had the keyboard modded to make it hot swappable.

@GarlicDeliverySystem I'll check out the forcebreak mod. If I were to just replace the switches, any recommendations?

@kitnoman I'll investigate Silvers. Thanks!

@Eigenvektor I didn't think it was necessary since I was posting in "Peripherals" rather than "Networking," But I did add a "mechanical keyboard" tag to the post.

 @podkall That worked! Amazing!

Context: So I got myself a mechanical keyboard (Kinesis Edge, modded to make it hot swappable)  with cherry MX browns and, while I love the feel and sound, there is absolutely horrible spring ping and I've tried everything from foam to a desk pad to lubing the switches and nothing seems to work. It is driving me nuts! I think I've isolated it to the springs in the switches when I release the key. ("Ping" is the correct term here, right?). I have read every article and post I can find and tried everything that was recommended. 

 The keyboard is hot swappable, so I was wondering: would simply getting different switches be a potential solution? If so, any recommendations for something similar to a cherry MX brown? 

I wonder what the aspect ratio of that setup was.

I used to watch his channels a lot, but moved more over to ShoddyCast as MatPat looked more at lore and less at science.

The realm of men is truly a womb of horrors.

On 3/12/2024 at 2:17 PM, manikyath said:

about the lube.. if i'm not mistaken it's an adam savage quote:

"the correct amount of lube can be felt but not seen."

Given David's personal characteristics, I think it's understandable that he'd use more lube than someone like Linus would deem necessary.

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.

6 hours ago, Why_Me said:

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. 

On 2/17/2024 at 11:13 AM, wONKEyeYEs said:

Does everybody stop riding in the Winter?

Looks like we need the 2024 edition started.

Well, gotta get goin'.

Wind chill of -14C so it will be a double socks ride today.

 

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?

8 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

Unless you pour so much that it actually makes a pool of lube inside the switch, no.

 

Aw cabbage patch kids

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
 

55 minutes ago, seon123 said:

You could check out the r/mechmarket subreddit for services. In order to make the switches hot swappable, you'll want to get Millmax or Holtite sockets added to the PCB. You could also get the switches lubed and/or change them for different ones. 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/?f=flair_name%3A"Service"

Useful. Thanks!

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?

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.

On 1/19/2024 at 8:46 AM, E-waste said:

Your system clock is off.  I had the same issue recently.  Keep your PC plugged into power at all times to keep the CMOS battery from needing to drain itself, and consider using NTPd or similar to manage and maintain the system clock if this continues to be an issue.  There is also chrony, which when set to use rtcdrift file, will keep up with the clock drift since last reboot.  It's all commandline and takes a while to figure out, but avoids these small issues.  The archwiki has great example setups on chrony to use the rtcdrift file if you'd like te set it up.

Hi,

 "sudo apt-get install ntp" did the trick. Thanks!

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?

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.

So I recently got myself a 49 inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 (the VA QLED version). It was $800 off on sale, so I decided to pull the trigger. I had a Samsung CJ791 34 inch VA QLED monitor and felt I could use more space. I had tried the C4RG90 VA QLED 49 inch, but I returned it; the 1800R curve just wasn't enough for such a massive display and it was weird looking at things in the corners. After this experience, I knew that no other 49 inch monitor was going to do it, especially as LG's 49 inch curved displays are usually even subtler than 1800R.

 The 1000R of the Neo G9 is perfect. Things in the corners don't look weird and the whole thing just feels right. The picture also looks amazing.

 The wider you go, the more aggressive a curve I recommend.

 Funnily enough, I bought the Neo G9 for productivity (ALL THE SPREADSHEETS!) rather than gaming, but I did have to buy a new GPU since my poor little RX6600 XT couldn't push anymore than 60hz on the desktop and 20fps in games, so I had to upgrade (went with the RX7800 XT and it seems to be a good pairing, given that the Neo G9 is almost pushing the same number of pixels as 16:9 4k)

 Anyway, just my two cents.