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Relearning how to use my ErgoDox keyboard now that the weather is getting better was a struggle. But as I've learned and grown, I've changed the key mapping, too, so that I and the keyboard are growing closer together. It's not perfect, and there are obvious setbacks at times.
But overall, I have to admit there is a certain unquestionable joy in the synergy that manifests, sometimes, albeit briefly, when I can look at the screen and type and my fingers cooperate with the keys in a mellow and sophisticated dance of flesh and bone and plastic bits, and what I want to have happen on the screen just effortlessly occurs.
My spelling is still trash, no question, and my wpm is in the gutter. I'm not anxious about either of these things. I'm not aiming for perfection. I'll be happy once I get to a simple and productive harmony.
It feels nearby.
I knew when I bought a split mechanical keyboard last year it was going to be a lot of work. I even expected it to be a lot more work than I hoped, and it was.
Buying a fancy new keyboard is a little like becoming a new parent. You expect it will be rewarding, eventually, but in the meantime you also anticipate a lot of dirty diapers and midnight feedings. It's not all pushing your kid on a swingset and teaching them trigonometry the way you were taught when you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
I can't be the only one to have noticed once or twice in the past "Hmmm, my inbox has been quiet," only to discover that something important in the home lab crashed or filled up /var three days ago.
Well, that interval of time between failure-to-notice-the-lack-of-inbound-mail shrinks a little more every day.
Two seemingly identical SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB thumbdrives, both 8 GB, so really 7.5 GB. Identical ISO written to both, from the same machine with the same software. Both tested, one at a time, booting in the same USB slot of the same device.
One works perfectly. The other causes a "No Operating System found" error.
Ain't technology grand?
Shout out to Core Technologies Consulting, LLC and their fantastic Windows tool AlwaysUp, which has been reliably restarting stuff that should never have crashed in the first place for decades.
The built-in check to see if the trial period has expired is easily modifiable and I really appreciate it when folks could make it harder for people to use their software but willingly choose not to be greedy about it.
Online forums really need a "ignore this specific message board" feature.
I'll typically start with the list of all unread messages, and sometimes that includes posts inside the foreign language sections, and I can spot titles like "Mon Samsung est noir" pretty easily.
But other times someone posts "Rechner friert nach Kurzer Zeit ein und wird schwarz".
I'll click refresh on the page and see that and for a second I start wondering if I'm having a stroke.
(It means "The computer freezes after a short time and the screen goes black".)
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