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  • The bottom three boards are a Japanese layout with ISO English keycaps right? Are the function layers programmable on those? I've always wondered.

    I use a Tex Yoda II and operate the function layer with my thumb on the middle trackpoint mouse button so very little movement is required (see image). I have always loved my Topre boards though and would like to replicate this convenience on something using Topre. The Japanese layout with extra bottom row keys and a smaller spacebar seems perfect in theory. It's a lot of money to spend on something I might not be able to use at all if it's not programmable though.

  • So, none of these sellers have blue clear top switches for sale. The closest is microcenter but only because the stock photo shows clear tops with white bottoms, the listing doesn't actually say what they are and the mfg part number is just "GAT-BLUE". Novelkeys has milkytop blues but they are out of stock. Thanks though, I hadn't checked a couple of those sites.

  • Yeah that's fair. I've been running it since about 2018 and never found it too difficult, but messing around with Linux is my hobby so I admit that I enjoy the problem solving aspect. It's certainly not something you set and forget.

    I suggested it here mostly because this particular plugin is both actively developed and quite good in my opinion but it would only be a viable solution if you already use Nextcloud. I'm in no way suggesting OP should install it just for this.

  • So Nextcloud has a shockingly good 3d model viewer with a long list of supported formats https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/files_3dmodelviewer . Here's a quick demo video I made: https://vimeo.com/865805210?share=copy

    Unfortunately Nextcloud is a whole can of worms and not just an application you install on your desktop. But it does to all the things you asked for so, worth mentioning I guess? Tagging, sorting, and search are just features of it's general file management though, they are not really stl specific in any way.

    Quick list of supported formats from the github page

     
        
    3dm 	Rhino 	
    3ds 	Autodesk 3D Studio 	
    3mf 	3D Manufacturing Format 	
    bim 	dotbim 	
    brep/brp 	Boundary Representation 	
    dae 	Collada 	
    fbx 	Filmbox 	
    fcstd 	FreeCAD Standard File Format 	
    glb 	GL Transmission Format 	binary
    gltf 	GL Transmission Format 	separate and embedded
    ifc 	International Foundation Class 	no XML or compressed
    iges/igs 	Initial Graphics Exchange Specification 	
    obj 	Wavefront 	with mtl and textures
    off 	Object File Format 	
    ply 	Polygon File Format 	
    step/stp 	Standard for Exchange of Product Model Data 	
    stl 	Stereolithography Standard Tesselation/Triangle Language 	ASCII and Binary
    wrl 	Virtual Reality Modeling Language 	superseded by X3D
    
      
  • Gamescope makes the experience a lot better with steam at least for me in swaywm. I experimented with running each game in gamescope using launch options but with gamescope's mediocre support of the steam overlay some multiplayer invite stuff doesn't work correctly. Running steam in bigpicture within gamescope pretty much solves all these issues and seems to improve performance too.

  • Why are you using rofi on sway out of curiosity? I have found tofi to be a pretty feature complete wayland native alternative for what I did with rofi back on i3 but it looks like you may use more of it's features than I did.

    Nevermind, apparently I missed a memo somewhere, rofi (well the fork anyway) is wayland native I guess.

  • Nice, honestly this sounds like the perfect use case for Gadgetbridge which is a much newer and actively developed tool in addition to not requiring network access. But your solution works fine and I'm sure it's less work if it's what you were already doing anyway rather than migrating to a new app. Glad it's working for you.

  • Probably? Though I have no experience with the rebble app. I don't think any of it's features like searching for apps, weather, etc will work properly and some android apps really misbehave when you take away permissions that they expect to have. Try it and let us know! =]

  • This is what I currently use with my pebbles. I've never used the pebble app, I just started with the FOSS option and stuck with it. Their wiki is really good https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Pebble

    EDIT: To answer the actual question from this angle, gadgetbridge is surprisingly security focused even though that's not really it's main goal. The developers do not allow it to make outbound connections and do not allow the watches it supports to make connections either (except where this is impossible to prevent, say if they can make their own network connections) which is why it doesn't support in-app weather.

  • Probably? Honestly I just read the sections of the docs that were relevant to what I needed and clicked buttons until things worked. Tutorials are dangerous because the moment they are published they are out of date, unless the author goes back and updates it regularly which is pretty rare, or impossible if it's something like a youtube video.

    Anyway it's a GUI application with lots of tool tips and all that, it's not difficult to use.

  • Apologies if this is a dumb suggestion, I only briefly tested it, but couldn't you simply run your display at a lower resolution? The deck would perform better and the interface/game scale would match each display correctly.

    EDIT: Ah, maybe you mean the desktop, not the steam deck game interface, in which case things would look pretty bad at a lower resolution.

  • So, there's not a lot of information here, but on the off chance that your environment is exactly the same as mine (Desktop with on-board bluetooth controller) make sure your included "WiFi antenna" that came with the motherboard is plugged in. It's also the bluetooth antenna and devices won't connect if it's not attached.

    Otherwise, please provide more information, like hardware config, logs, installed packages, running services, etc.

  • A team is paid to make sure it’s accessible while blind, deaf, limited motion (and maybe that accessibility focus trickles down to benefit the average user too)

    So, choosing to ignore all the factually inaccurate and low effort "it didn't read my mind" claims in this post, this one really bothers me. Unified DEs like KDE Plasma and Gnome could absolutely do better here even without paid devs, and I wish they did.