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Cheers bro, God bless!

That is awesome to hear! I was using it in three configurations: on the couch as a eye-level desk, on the floor as I mentioned in this video, and like you said - on the counter as a standing desk. Love it!

I have tried it, if you already use tmux it doesn't make much sense to switch over as tmux is more programmable and has a wider ecosystem. But it does come with sane defaults!

That means a tremendous amount, but you have found it now! Cheers!

I wrote a script that will start my camera on the screen with ffplay the record the screen and audio with ffmpeg. I will do a quick video on it!

I'm glad I'm not the only one has this sentiment!

Cheers!

I haven't found a setup that just gets out of the way and lets you work as much as this one, its awesome!

I have not, started with 40 and still on it so I cannot comment as of yet!

@@JoshuaBlais if you stick with it, I’d be interested in a future video with your experience of doing so

@@jimtexter3657 I will absolutely do that in the future, thank you for the suggestion!

I have, I haven't seen a device that would work for me as of yet however! If you have any suggestions I would be open to it!

cheers bro!

cheers brother, God bless

You found me! haha, what a compliment, thank you!

haha!

I will make a long form blog post for you! Sorry about that!

@@JoshuaBlais Thank you 🙏💚

I keep my promises!

Just used double sided gorilla tape!

@@JoshuaBlais lol nice, might try that

My thought entirely that 34 could still be useable, but I would lose 2 keys that are helpful macros and do some pretty cool things. I think this layout will be the one I continue to work on for years to come!

Curious about switching to colemack from qwerty. Would love some content about how you managed to do this with vim keybinds. I know you said you mapped arrow keys in a video before - does this work pretty seamlessly? My keybinds are so ingrained at this point that this is the one thing holding me back

@@erickhar This held me back for some time, too, I will make a video about it as I think it was the biggest stumbling block for me, but now I don't think I could ever go back to qwerty! I have a nav layer that essentially acts as the arrow keys/vim binds so all those binds fall under the same place they would on qwerty, it's pretty awesome!

Cheers bro, God bless!

color theme is a modified nord color scheme

God bless homie!

sure!

@@JoshuaBlais give me a theme for your next rice

@@nittani. I generally work with a slightly customized nord palette, I'm always a fan of mountains/nature. The rice I have currently is called "Logos" in homage to Christian philosophy. Feel free to run with that!

@@JoshuaBlais hey hey i love nord

God bless!

This is what I think many people don't realize - the distro doesn't matter too much (sure we can argue the esoteric nature of systemd vs. runit, package managers etc) but what matters day to day for most is the use case and method of how they use their computer.

If you are just starting out, Fedora really isn't too bad. I know people would say stuff like "mint" or "ubuntu" but Fedora seems to be quite polished these days and good for general use. Don't get too hung up on a distribution, you're essentially picking a logo and a package manager, otherwise linux is really linux.

@@JoshuaBlais A large amount of the time I feel like I'm playing around with or using apps that only provide an Ubuntu or apt install command. Do you run into that often, having to get your own command, or just hoping whatever command works? Seems difficult and annoying. Fedora feels rare from my perspective.

@@Xevion in debian, "apt" is the package manager, and in fedora that same command would use "dnf" - in Arch, it would be "pacman". You will naturally adapt these commands to your distro - however the package name can differ across distributions. I will do a video on this, I think it's a great question for new linux users.

@@JoshuaBlais and whether or not the package is available is another detail altogether. Sometimes you have to build from source, and just hope and pray that it doesn't end 5 hours later with dozens of build tools, Google searches, and it's still not installed. That was my experience with MPV, and as of late, ffmpeg (with Nvidia hw encoders). Debian is the most well supported generally, and yet I still encounter install issues all the time. I would feel concerned trying with other distros

when i made the switched i didnt dual boot i just hard switched to mint and it was amazing, (apart from bluetooth) now i run arch and have a windows computer as a utility and switch between the two, happy for now but i probably wont use arch again tbh

I like the look of the framework, it may be the next one I go to. Any references to nix home manager? I have thought for some time that debian/arch with nix as the declarative package manager is the way.

Wrong, use bash

@@lel7531 Ah yes, I was awaiting this comment!

@@lel7531yeah most people don’t know bash can be customized just like zsh

@@JoshuaBlais sorry for linking youtube - ruclips.net/video/k9yKm_k5cVA/видео.htmlsi=-xNSWcCKOT0nwi1z

I use powertop, it does help quite a bit, but the battery has deteriorated very quickly - From 10 hrs down to 3ish as of lately, good thing I have 4 years battery replacement!

You should look at auto-cpufreq, it's better then TLP. The battery life for my G14 it's on pair with Windows(I am using Fedora 40).

​@@JoshuaBlaispowertop doesn't make much of a difference in terms of power management imo. With tlp you can set your CPU to underclock on battery. I set mine so that each core stays between 400 and 800 mhz. I get very long battery life. I have to compile a big project, I just turn off tlp then flip it back on

@@cannedair3357 I will give this a shot!

cheers!

Still using the chocofi, I think the only other board i would get is a ferris sweep/ferricy as it has the same key stagger just is 34 keys. I agree ARM could be interesting, but I don't think it is there yet for linux, it might be worth looking into in 12-18 months (unless you're developing for it, then get one right now and help out the effort!!)

@@JoshuaBlais About to build a Ferris I think, Bling LP board, got the switches in. I don’t know the ferricity but I’ll look it up! Linux on ARM is so close… have had a Pinebook Pro for a few years, now sadly close to obsolete. As long as it’s a secondary machine, it’s very usable for day to day development/devops.

​@@JoshuaBlaisyou recommentef chocofi, and i now i am on chocofi 😕 but i don't love the thumb clurster tbh,

thumb cluster is pretty hand specific, if you have really big hands I could see it being an issue for some. I naturally fall on the middle of the 3 buttons, so use that as my space/backspace button on either hand.

That sounds awesomme, make a video about your thoughts on it! Ferricy looks cool, it cuts off the extra parts of the ferris and looks like the chocofi. I have thought about looking into a netbook style mini laptop for ARM and linux, haven't found one I would want to get as of yet!

you bet!

@@JoshuaBlais is there a reason for the modified colmak? i just noticed the G-B-D-V are in a different order

@@glitch015 It is Colemak DH layout - using this base layer: github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

God bless, comments like this keep me going!

Thank you for your kind words! God bless

Thank you man! God bless and feel free to email me to chat if you like!

You use the opposite hand to hold the modifier - it actually teaches you proper touch typing, as that is why all keyboards have two shift keys. It took some retraining for me, as I always only used the left shift key when I was typing.

@@JoshuaBlais thanks! Funny, when I saw you had replied, my brain instantly went "oh.. duh, the mods are mirrored on the other hand..." before I even read the reply. My brain must not have been functioning properly yesterday. Thanks for the explanation!

@@SilkieRoo You are most welcome!

I agree entirely. The protocols have always been a bit hard to setup - matrix seems to bridge the gap a little, but I still would consider XMPP to be the gold standard.

The >< are just on shift for the , and . keys. I like the 36, 42 I don't know what I would do with the extra 6 keys, 34 I would miss out on a couple macro keys I use very frequently and would have to put them on either a double key or change out the layout I've got pretty well ingrained now. Just my $0.02

@@JoshuaBlais Thanks, I can see your point. The reason I'm still looking for 42 is because I live in Belgium and occasionally have to type in French as well, which requires characters like ç,à,é,è, ...

@@DenCato That makes total sense! You could always configure another language layer though

@@JoshuaBlais Yes, there is indeed still some room for another layer. One more thing though. Sometimes I need to use software where I use modifiers with multiple keys where the home row modifiers might give an issue. Let's say in your case you have to type CTRL-SHIFT S E, where CTRL is actually a long hold of those same S and E keys. Do you have a solution for these, I must admit, edge cases? Or am I stretching it 😁?

@@DenCato That would be a severe edgecase, if I ever run into something like that, I will likely remap keys in my Window manager (hyprland), or in the software myself. You can also create a macro button that literally actuates all of those keys at once in the ZMK software -- it is highly configurable!

The floor sitting naturally increases movement as I cannot sit in a locked-in position for very long, that is why I think it is having such a positive effect on my posture. Generally more than ten minutes in a given posture, I shift up and move onto another. I have also started putting the "desk" ontop of the counter for a standing desk. I will probably do another video about this because it has had such a great effect over the last couple months!

We are all about the memes on this channel! Haha

You use the modifier on the opposite hand so right hand hold modifier to capitalize T, left hand hold to capitalize N, etc.

@@JoshuaBlais doh, obvious now you say it, my brain clearly not working right today, thank you for replying.

I've seen it! Very interesting concept, a little less portable from my understanding though

Ah. that has to do with typing speed - so the &shift would be on my index finger, therefore it has a 185ms tapping actuation, the base &hm has a 200ms tap, and the &weak (my pinky for the meta homerow mod) has 230ms tap. This I found helps to forgo any accidental key presses based on finger speed to tap.

​@@JoshuaBlais ooh, so it's mod-tap but with different tapping actuation times, thanks for the explanation, I just flashed your keymap to my keyboard, hopefully it can convince me to change to 5 column layout, Thanks!

@@liluzi4579 You bet, you may have to play around with the timings, that seems to work well for me but everyone's different. Keep me posted how you like it!

I believe the temper would be very similar to this version, I am not sure if the temper has support for the nice! view screens however.