Posts by brad@weeaboo.space
(DIR) Post #ASb2JzzeRW1fFktRy4 by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-12T07:31:55.136405Z
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@quad I think something similar happened to my PinePhone, it just wouldn't boot last time I tried to use it. Luckily I already gave up using it as a main device long ago, but still the idea that I'd have to probably wipe it to get it working again annoyed me enough to just let it continue collecting dust.
(DIR) Post #ASdcVYgfmFsYhokPNw by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-13T13:26:48.784293Z
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looks like the kailh box reds I ordered from novelkeys as a backup are arriving today, but I don't really need them anymore
(DIR) Post #ASdcdtmDFeVEQiJdIW by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-13T13:28:19.105497Z
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@quad Oof, that sucks. In my case I have no idea what went wrong. Pretty sure I just powered it off when I wasn't gonna use it for a while and it never booted again. Like I must've had an update do something bad that didn't take effect until reboot.
(DIR) Post #ASh8g9gupfdKNHpzvc by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-15T06:11:23.981158Z
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Turns out that one PCB wasn't bad, the crystal on that particular RP2040-Zero was slower than the rest and the default startup time in the GP2040-CE firmware wasn't waiting long enough. I saw something about some boards appearing to not work but still going into BOOTSEL mode fine mentioned in the new release changelog, and that they fixed it by changing some value from 1ms to 1.5ms. I flashed the newer firmware and it actually works now. Incredible.
(DIR) Post #AShGJXz98nTMh65z96 by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-15T07:36:59.414055Z
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I believe I've figured out the mystery of all the bent and broken switch pins. There's an internal cable (kinda dumb but the build guide I originally used was using it so I copied it) which is between the PCB and case, applying a bit of pressure on the left side where the microcontroller is (the cable is longer than it needs to be so the slack is kinda bunched up and doesn't sit flush). The switches on the left side generally never gave me much trouble. It was the ones on the right side of the board that gave me trouble. So what I think was happening is the left side of the board was pushed in more firmly and "higher up" than the right side, which sagged a bit, creating a weird angle and making it harder to insert something straight down when the board wasn't level. My solution for now was to stick a bit of plastic in there on the right side under the PCB (a choc keycap that came out a bit ugly that I had put in my scrap bin) to apply pressure more evenly. I put a bit of mounting putty on it so that it sticks to the bottom cover when I take it out also. After doing this I was able to put in 6 switches I'd been struggling with for days without bending a single one of them. They all just worked on the first try.The only remaining problem I have with this particular board is that the center button is not actuating reliably. I reflowed the solder on that hotswap socket and it didn't seem to help. It's like it misses presses and sometimes you have to press very hard to make it work at all. I've changed the switch out and it doesn't help. Also, the pins weren't bent at all. It's very odd. Maybe I need more things sandwiched around there, maybe even right under the hotswap socket, in order to get more consistent results.I would say I've had issues both with bent pins and with some buttons being inconsistent on all 5 of these I've built, but to varying degrees. So it's possibly my prints aren't all coming out quite the same, or I bent the cable out of the way a bit differently for some.If I ever built another one of these from scratch, I think I'm gonna skip the internal cable. As an alternative you can solder the microcontroller right to the board, no pin headers, and then there are some additional contacts you can solder for the USB routing to work. (It all seems to be in place because the Pi Pico has a microUSB B connector and they want a USB-C connector on the outside of the case for connecting to, so you need to make that connection internally somehow)
(DIR) Post #AShGyB8T04fphSpUtk by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-15T07:44:18.152205Z
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I don't have any screws connecting the PCB to the top of the case. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to. I have threaded inserts I melted in for the external case screws, and then the pressure of being sealed kinda pushes everything together, but maybe there's more I could do to keep things tightly together. The Pico is on the top side of the PCB, though, so I really don't like things making it even harder to access than it already is in case of an emergency (bad firmware, having to reach the actual BOOTSEL button to reflash). As it is, you have to remove every switch and pull out the PCB to get at the top side and hit that button. With hotswaps that's annoying, but imagine if you'd soldered in your switches... Yikes. I've been thinking if you could make a pin hole in the top to poke a paper clip through and hit the button, that might work. Otherwise some sort of window/removable cover in the case design above the Pico could work. With the PCB design as it is, putting the Pico on the bottom would have all the wrong things making contact (left becomes right), otherwise that would work too.
(DIR) Post #AShHApOt7deG3QXgLA by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-15T07:46:36.099679Z
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@lolgzs @normandc @linmob Read-only filesystem. You can't just use the package manager normally like a traditional distro. All the apps use web stuff. If you want to mess around in a shell you use some sort of virtualized thing. It feels too close to Android in a bad way in how it limits you.
(DIR) Post #ASpwQeFE19y1TQMdea by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-19T12:06:33.631241Z
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I'm going to complain about my XMPP client being worse than my IRC client again. Okay, here we go...When irssi is lagging (or my ssh connection or whatever), the keystrokes still happen in order. I can paste a link and hit space and start typing a word after it and it all comes out in order. In Gajim I am fairly consistently having the space I tried to put after a URL come out before the paste happens, then having to select all and repaste and start over. This has happened at least 3 times in the last week I would say.
(DIR) Post #ASsnrjRsSdMbJr0AVc by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-20T21:14:40.876736Z
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Had some stubborn zip ties around a power cable I got, didn't wanna cut the cable underneath by accident. Tried to melt through with my soldering iron like the experienced plastic-melter I am. 220C like I use for PLA did basically nothing, but 300C cut through like butter and worked quite well. Not sure what kind of plastic it was.
(DIR) Post #ASufO5qmCHWin9vM8G by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-21T18:49:08.475333Z
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I hate when read markers aren't very responsive. Like you click in a chatbox and it still says you have the notification so you scroll around a bit, type and delete stuff, just keep waiting for it to say it's read. I've had a similar problem with webmail before. Sometimes I even open an email, archive it, and later find out it was still marked unread.
(DIR) Post #ASzQQn7VlSDK33Nbmq by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-02-24T01:55:08.132710Z
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I hate the trend of banning a whole instance/server of something. I don't run into it too often here on fedi (although I hear about it a lot), but on matrix I have had trouble several times because I apparently picked a homeserver that has negative associations. Some rooms you join just appear dead because you can't send/receive messages, and of course it's some scummy shadowban bullshit that doesn't make it clear what's going on. You'll only see messages from other people on your homeserver. This is lazy and heavy-handed moderation and fucks up communication for huge groups of people.
(DIR) Post #ATKa2i3IiEqPT4yu8m by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-06T06:51:47.304682Z
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fuck OFF cloudflare!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(DIR) Post #ATKeRcdUO3MLj42idE by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-06T07:41:07.176975Z
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4chan posting busted?
(DIR) Post #ATKejIaXf6E4lJ5qCW by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-06T07:44:17.419886Z
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https://twitter.com/PiunikaWeb/status/1632642934914023424
(DIR) Post #ATT0bIO0HYvM4fUrXE by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-10T08:27:04.233212Z
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@hj @meeper 3d pig disgusting
(DIR) Post #ATT2GuDUdNXrELzB1k by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-10T08:45:46.151201Z
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@hj @meeper the starbound races are all just human reskins without proper unique stories last I checkednever played NMS and don't know much about it, but did a few playthroughs of starbound during the alpha/beta
(DIR) Post #ATUuikEAxK0J2czLiC by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-11T06:30:36.495032Z
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@animeirl better to eat plants
(DIR) Post #ATUvWBFZH9Hr2WDEuW by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-03-11T06:39:31.755190Z
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@animeirl I just hope it's salted
(DIR) Post #AVU7LFApEeH6z7FZ0S by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-05-09T17:01:28.698722Z
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farewell, weeaboo.spaceI had a lot of fun
(DIR) Post #AVU7bAN0rVTwijXjX6 by brad@weeaboo.space
2023-05-09T17:04:22.645601Z
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@wolf480pl I'm at @bard for now but their content moderation has turned out to be a bit more strict than what I was used to here, so I may end up moving again eventually if I can find a better place