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Yes, it's expensive. Yes, it looks weird, yes they've spent millions on researching optimum keyboard layout to reduce RSI, but my goodness, once you get over the 'eugh' of using it from muscle memory, I can guarantee it will be worth the cost. I love mine and there's a huge hacker community for it who modify it further.

Undoubtedly, programmers are a major user of keyboards, and IDE developers love function keys for esoteric shortcuts for debugging, moving around, and running code. So why do so many split keyboards not actually have the function keys.

I think makers are missing out a huge audience.

So I have an aging DellM4800 15.6" laptop. It's actually built to last, upgradeable MXM A GPU, replaceable battery, professional keyboard, good build quality, easy to get to parts, and has a great matt screen. I use it as a portable laptop, rather than a mobile desktop unit.

Still, Somehow the hinge on one side has become warped. I have no clear idea but suspect that from where it used to be on my lap, the rear fans blew its heat onto it. Or maybe it took a knock somewhere. This would be quite a knock.

Anyway, the plastic cracked and broke off due to the warped metal, and the one side feels a bit, loose and wobbly. It opens fine-ish and just makes a clicking sound each time its opened.

Are there usually generic metal hinges for laptop screens or are they unique to each device? I don't particularly want to have to buy a whole new screen or worse, a new case just for hinges for one side. The missing plastic is small and I can deal with it, but would like to get this one side feeling as solid as the rest of the case.

It got 100,000 signatures in its first 11 days. I know quite a few of people on the fediverse are fed up of seeing bot posts about violence against musk cars to distract people from the real problems, so do something that will make a change. But you'll also need to help others who feel the same and who aren't around here.

The first time around, there were millions of signatures on the petition so you'll need to help spread the word about the website. Tell your neighbourhood, your friends and family, work colleagues, and if you're out and hear people moaning, tell them about it.

Maybe someone can make a separate post to brainstorm ideas? The instance I'm currently on has very few political channels, so maybe you can re-post this elsewhere.

It's awesome and I think most of you are going to appreciate it! Fallout 1+. You can choose just one radio station or mix them all together!

I have a community-based website and I'd like to add a text and video-chat feature to it. I'd like it to be text-first and video second, so you don't have to be streaming to be in the room and for the main part, to be text. Everything I find is video-only. I can host the video streaming data myself.

Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

Lost the house of my dreams today. Before putting an offer down, I call up some conveyancers to get quotes for work done and one of them instead views and puts an offer down.

Super angry. Had been researching it for about three weeks asking questions and wanting a second viewing. The agency didn't even respond to my first email asking questions for about ten days because apparently it was in their spam box.

I kinda want to go to the agency and flip the tables (not literally, I'm a skinny shit) and for this conveyancer to do it is probably a conflict of interest.

So yeah, really annoyed and have been stewing all day. How do you deal with such situations?

Still true today as it was back then.

And for the non-native English speakers

All the people under broken homes Don't wanna fight no more

All the people nursing shattered bones Don't wanna fight no more But there's no profit in peace So we've gotta fight some more

And all these who are in foreign lands Don't wanna fight no more And all those who've lost their feet or hands Don't wanna fight no more But there's no profit in peace boys We gotta fight some more

Hey we don't wanna fight no more Hey, Hey, Hey, We don't wanna fight no more But theres' no profit in peace So we gotta fight some more

And all those just trying to play their part Don't wanna fight no more And all those who own a human heart Don't wanna fight no more But there's no profit in what you want So we must fight some more

And all those who got an axe to grind Don't wanna fight no more And all those who got their burning lives Don't wanna fight no more But there's no profit in ever being right So we must fight some more

Hey we don't wanna fight no more Hey, Hey, Hey, We don't wanna fight no more But theres' no profit in peace So we gotta fight some more

And all the people under broken homes Don't wanna fight no more All the people never going home Don't wanna fight no more But there is profit in the land you own So we must fight some more

And all those who got a tired face Don't wanna fight no more And all those who are lost without a trace Don't wanna fight no more But there is profit in the love of hate So we must fight some more

Dell M4800 with a K2100 and I want to shove an M2200 in there. Both are MXM A. When putting the new card in, do I need thermal paste on the main chip or do I just bung the heatsink over it?

I bought the card from AliExpress, it looks shiny new and hoping it isn't a surface fake, so it reports it's an M2200, but burns out after a month!

Not sure if off-topic, but what's the best way to go about finding coding gigs at the moment? Need some urgent funds so need to reach out to people somehow.

I think of linkedin as a facebook for businesses leading you open to being spammed by agencies, which I don't really want.

Though I have years of experience of coding across many languages and fields (audio, computer vision, e-commerce backends, etc), and github accounts over the years with some pushes to the core of a few major projects, I haven't really kept the accounts, and past projects have nearly always been back-ends for clients so can't exactly add them to a portfolio.

Languages I'm currently using would be python / php (including symfony and laravel), though happy to switch to javascript/html coding, some c/c++ etc, so I'm not tied to one area I guess.

Is there a decent place to advertise or, is there a better way lately? Thanks

I'm working on a project that needs lots of toolbars on screen at once, even though not all of them will be used at the same time. So, I'm modelling this 'foldable' dock widget after what I remember Photoshop panels used to be like.

It's a work in progress, but would like to hear constructive suggestions.

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