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Oh hi, another Moonlander connoisseur!

I love mine. The layout, the adjustments, the thumb cluster, the firmware. I put the navigation onto asdf to have a numblock-layer under my right hand.

Only negative is my cat managed to break the rather flimsy plastic around the thumb cluster screw and I had to lay it flat until I put something more solid under it to stabilize.


I thought that way until I tried a reverse sear (oven at low temp and sear afterwards) myself. I am no expert at the physics behind it, but it works great for rare steaks.

Yes, the oven dries the outer part of the steak, but that means you get your desired crust in less time in the pan. That results in a clearer distinction between the crust and the juicy interior without the gray band in between.


1. Use an extension for the side tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/) 2. Disable top tabs via userChrome (mine is https://github.com/tuffff/firefox-remove-top-tabs) 3. enjoy

Of course, making it a simple checkbox would be much nicer.


Looking into layouts may have been a "waste of time" for you, but it definitely wasn't for me or some colleagues. I learned to type on a German QWERTZ layout on a terrible laptop keyboard, where one shift key didn't really work. I accustomed myself to a terrible technique which did hurt my hands after some years.

I tried improving my technique, but wasn't really successful - learning a new layout on a radically different keyboard was easier for me than changing old habits. So I created my own layout for a split orthogonal keyboard, based on neo 3.

I took about two weeks to get to my previous speed. Until today, I did not get much faster - and I don't really need to, I can type about as fast as I think. But a) it's much more comfortable, especially when typing code. Most diagrams are rolls and I don't need to stretch to any number row. And b) I didn't expect it, but it took some mental load of me. I don't need to think about the correct bracket or anything.

So yeah, looking at a new layout to improve speed (especially at plain text) is seldom successful, but there can be great benefits.


I still wish CargoLifter had been led competently. They were overambitious and promised too much, but the concept was sooo convincing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter


Started too early I guess. Ten years later and the blade transport use case would have come in at just the right time to salvage the investment. Back when Cargolifter shut down, rotor sizes were still in a range where ground transport isn't all that challenging.


Sideberry is great, but I had to add a custom layout file to hide the default tabbar. In that state I guess it's never getting much traction.


That comment may apply to the general topic often, but this article clearly mentions "just pay them more" as a solution. It's really quite a balanced read.


Sure, but I'm positing that pay here is the entire issue (hence forest for the trees) comment. People tend to associate WFH with a cushy job.

You can find a hundred side effects of that - people who want to work in their underpants, not get ready for work, not shower, have a flexible schedule, etc., as individual 'inequalities.' If fixing the pay makes other complaints disappear, were they ever a primary factor?

FWIW, I do think the pendulum will shift in our lifetime. The 'You Call the Handyman' South Park really hit home for us, and I can totally see that now and even more in 20 or so years. Can you imagine needing something fixed in your house and trying to barter your skills? I sure can't!


If fixing the pay makes other complaints disappear, were they ever a primary factor?

i don't think this is the right question.

of course, if i get paid more, i am willing to put up with worse work conditions. (to a degree). so the mere fact that pay makes the problem go away is not an indicator that this was not a real problem.

more pay lets me compensate the problem otherwise. for example it may mean that me or my partner can reduce work hours instead of working from home.


A bit tangential, but as someone who has been responsible for paying many people, I have never seen increased pay improve performance and rarely morale. Promotions have sometimes covered the latter.

What I’ve found is that mostly people work as hard as they care to, and that is mostly orthogonal to compensation and title.


There is a Vim plugin for Obsidian, so for me the editing is pretty similar. And I guess it's a good indicator that a plugin for your taste may also exist.

For actual coffee editing, there is also https://github.com/sunxvming/obsidian-vscode-editor


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