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  • brisk@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.mlLaptop for Linux use
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    2 months ago

    How about MNT Reform or it’s Pocket little brother?

    They get you

    • Full mechanical keyboards, ortholinear if you’re into that
    • Modern components
    • HIGHLY modular and repairable - their main thrust is making messing with your internals accessible
    • No sticky goo coating
    • Cyberdeck aesthetics (esp the Pocket reform)

    They do NOT get you

    • Low price - you didn’t mention a budget constraint
    • Thin. They are chunky kids, though certainly the Pocket reform has a reasonably portable profile





  • There’s a video introduction that talks a little about it and shows a bit of usage.

    The canonical proprietary version of this is the SpaceMouse.

    These are used in concert with a traditional mouse, with the 3d mouse being used for navigation of the 3d space. They have six degrees of freedom (as in, you can rotate in any axis or you can push it in any axis) so you can rotate and you can pan any which way with full control.

    If you’ve ever gotten frustrated in a 3d program trying to figure out the correct sequence of rotations to get to your preferred view, that’s the use case the 3d mouse addresses.











  • I’ve got two Linux boxes that I got new, different, wifi cards for recently. Turns out both those cards have the same Intel AX200 chip which has had a variety of problems causing frequent dropouts that the community has slowly nutted out since I’ve had them, including requiring a kernel patch.

    The two big ones are a faulty default power saving mode, and problems talking to a Wireless n router when in WiFi 5 mode.