david

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Keyboards with built-in media control knobs? in c/keyboards@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] david@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Keebio has a bunch of options on their keyboards for arbitrarily bindable rotary encoders... this is super handy for media control. https://keeb.io

[META] What are the demographics of this community? in c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] david@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Millennial here. I used computers from a very young age, and when my near-continuous use became untenable, my parents got me my own: first computer was a Macintosh IIfx, then a Sun Ultra 1, then a Power Mac G4 (the stripes on the front, handles, don't remember exact model name). Everything after the G4 has been less exciting, even if it's all more powerful. Not sure if this is because I've gotten older or if the gear has gotten less fun.

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OpenBSD on the Desktop (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

This is an OS which has everything. It's clean, it's simple, it has a helpful community, stable code, and even pretty good package counts to support nearly any desktop/workstation activity.

And yet, I feel like there are nagging issues which ultimately affect all non-mainstream^1^ OSes. Display driver complications, janky system upgrades, a lack of groupware clients. I'm not picking on OpenBSD, I love the distro and I think it should succeed in this particular area (the desktop/workstation) where other open source alternatives have failed, but why hasn't anybody managed to make it happen yet?

For a while, there was a similar hope around DragonflyBSD in the FreeBSD community, but I don't know where that ended up... I do know I see nobody really using it.

What's it going to take?

^1^Obviously, I mean MacOS and Windows, since Linux is at least as hampered on the desktop, perhaps moreso on account of the poor community and scattered vision.

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Community Structure? (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

What are we thinking in terms of the hierarchy here? Multiple communities on this instance, or just one community and consolidate into posts for topics?

Hello world! - Please introduce yourself here in c/sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] david@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

That license plate though!