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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • That’s interesting I didn’t know that. I used to share workstations with someone from indonesia who had what seemed like very strange habits of employing caps lock constantly. I assumed it was just a personal weirdsy but maybe it was due to use of caps lock in another linguistic context.

    However, I know for a fact that it doesn’t do anything I need. I’ve had it remapped for a couple years on personal machine without issues.

    Thanks for telling me though, because I will be sure not to fallback to the registry or another method that changes behavior system-wide. Would not want to prevent anyone else from using the device.





    • I have small hands that makes certain key combos involving ctrl difficult/uncomfortable to reach
    • at home I have caps lock remapped and therefor I am constantly using it by muscle memory
    • Even before I had remapped it at home, I would sometimes enable it by accident which is annoying
    • in previous versions of windows (I think windows 8?) I could disable caps lock entirely in a system setting but it seems they have removed this option from more recent version
    • it’s right there




  • So you mean it would have no effect, yes? On restart it will have the same settings and firmware it did prior to pressing the reset button?

    I looked at the QMK docs to see about using it from the terminal. But I am not clear about how to get around the issue of the firmware not being up to date.

    I don’t quite trust various bits and pieces I’ve found about how to use it around the web. Like the configurator page for this device says

    Reset Key: Hold down the key located at K00, commonly programmed as Esc while plugging in the keyboard.

    compared to the keychron docs I linked to in the OP which says

    reset the keyboard by pressing fn + J + Z (for 4 seconds)

    And also describes an actual reset button located under the space bar.

    Why are they different…? It seems like keychron probab knows how to reset their own device. So I wonder if it is a good idea to load anything from this qmk page using methods I don’t understand well because I’d never be able to get myself out of a mess.



  • I have had the chance to use it on a few different devices and ROMs. Been with it since before name change.

    Performance, especially bugginess is highly variable. I don’t know if it’s the phone, the ROM, other apps, settings or what. Sometimes it is smooth and you forget its there. other times it is crashing every 5 mins, sometimes without being fully recoverable. Like on a certain set up my widgets would disappear when it crashed and widgets aren’t in the backup so you have to redo them from scratch.

    If it doesn’t work on you current device just don’t give up on it and whenever you get a new one give it a spin again.






  • I have a form like this I do regularly for work. I actually fax the form, I don’t even send it electronically. But I like to fill it electronically so I have my records on the computer. Because it is 2023. I had to use my home computer (linux) to generate a copy of the form, then use a floss editor I managed to get working on windows work computer to annotate on top of the form fields. For some reason it’s really hard to get the annotations to line up with the form fields. So sometimes I have to correct it by hand after printing to clarify.

    It is a zero security form, there is no need to have all this rigamarole. The form is freely available on the internet and anyone with a fucking fax machine could fill it in and send it on behalf of anyone else. Fax machine is the biggest hurdle; who the hell has one of those.







  • I mean if I’m going to buy component for the purpose, and there is a clip type thing on the board already, it seems like just obtaining the correct part would be the thing to do if possible. Rather than buying the wrong piece, dismantling the device further and possibly breaking it in the process. (It is really cheap and flimsy.) I’ve spliced things but that’s like more something to do when salvaging or putting something together from what’s on hand.

    Neat little gizmos though I’ll file it away for another project perhaps.