I don’t know, it mostly depends on the spring weight of the switch, and a little bit of friction from a bump or click mechanism if present. You could try stacking some coins on a regular keycap? If the keycap ends up being too heavy, you could put a heavier spring in that one special key, if that is something you can tolerate.

I like keyboards without stabs.

I’ll take this question to be about getting used to it after programming a suitable layout. I daily drive a keyboard with 42 keys.

How to get used to it? Patience and acceptance. You need to be patient. It won’t be a quick process. And you need to accept that you will be slower for a long time. And accept that the coming period will be frustrating. You need to tell yourself this explicitly: I will learn this layout and it will be painful but I accept that this is the case.

A practical tip: do not go back to a comfy keyboard when frustrated. If you go back to your normal keyboard again and again, your muscle memory will not update as well (in my experience). Every time you go back you kinda undo some of the muscle memory updates (not science just my experience). Once you body gets that this is how it is now, it will adapt to this new normal and you will learn the layout.

Once I learned a non qwerty keyboard layout. That was one of the most frustrating things I have ever done (much harder than getting used to layers on a 40%). I got through it by accepting the frustration: you feel it, note to yourself in your head that this is indeed what you are feeling, breathe, accept it and continue using the layout. Slowly if needed! As long as you keep using it. You can only get good with it if you stick with it. I’m not saying that you need to go this route. But if you want to, you gotta get a bit zen with it.

Hopefully other software doesn’t follow this path, otherwise it will be practically impossible to run a distro without systemd.

My nvidia drivers used to break sometimes but I just switched to dkms drivers and I have had a stable experience for years. Only downside is the upgrade takes a bit longer.

I have replaced it and it just clipped in and out of a round little thing it sits in. I happened to have the right battery on hand.

I’ll make sure to replace the CMOS and use disk encryption next time. My sensitive data is encrypted separately so I’ll be fine for now. I thought that with a bios password someone couldn’t just boot from a USB on my system but clearly it only delays such actions by a minute or two.

You’re totally right, it only makes sense. Maybe my brain needs its battery replaced as well.

Thank you, that makes sense. I guess it was almost dead and now it is really dead. I don’t understand how that makes Linux freak out over the login password though.

There seem to be way more people that keep saying that they hate Arch users who keep saying that they use Arch than Arch users that keep saying that they use Arch.

Starting to feel like a boomer with st/dmenu on xorg.

Ok, good point. It also matters if AI is true intelligence or not. What I meant was the comment I replied to said

This means absolutely nothing.

Like if it is not true AI nothing it does matters? The effects of the tool, even if not true AI, matters a lot.

People often dismiss AI capabilities because “it’s not really smart”. Does that really matter? If it automates everything in the future and most people lose their jobs (just an example), who cares if it is “smart” or not? If it steals art and GPL code and turns a profit on it, who cares if it is not actually intelligent? It’s about the impact AI has on the world, not semantics on what can be considered intelligence.

less or bat, but I usually use by paging up and down so it’s not that different from more… My terminal emulator only pages up and down, I like it that way.

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I understand the problem of “code it yourself”. But if they won’t code it themselves, and it ought to exist, who has to? Everything that is provided is provided for free and with love and passion. If something is lacking in that there are only a few options. Including code it yourself or pay someone to code it for you. The only reason you get anything at all is because of the “code it yourself” attitude of the people who developed the software in the first place, as well as their willingness to share it.

Yes, indeed. Even agreed! Joking i was, poking some fun. All in jest, even the emoji couldn’t put the overly serious answers to rest!

Debian users analyzing graphs in order to estimate when they can upgrade from really old software to slightly less old software 🤣

I started out on Void, then to Arch and finally to Artix. The Artix experience really feels like a mix of Arch and Void to me. As for gaming, I’m really not a big gamer at all, not having played for years. I do remember playing Minecraft without issues as well as a few Steam games such as CSGO. So it’s fine as far as I can tell.

I’m on Artix and I have removed sudo after installing doas. I do have a symlink sudo -> /usr/bin/doas in /usr/bin. Have had this configuration for about a year, nothing broke.