Had a tech drive an hour and half to a site where the onsite staff couldn’t get a server to boot last week.
Somewhere between scheduling and actually driving down (half a day later), someone came to work that understood how the power button works, but didn’t bother to let anyone know that it was already booted back up and working.
I’m sure it’s a mixed bag, with plenty of small companies jumping in.
I own a very small company, but I also write a lot of our code, and we’re not touching anything “AI”. Not in our code, not in our products, not in any system we can keep it out of: We just migrated our last server from Azure a couple of weeks ago, we’re dumping MS Office this year, and starting the long slow migration from Windows desktop to Linux as an option for our customers (we’ve long been Linux on our servers, but have a lot of desktop software that needs to stay on the desktop).
But it’s everywhere. I had a call from our phone system vendor a couple of weeks ago. He kept trying to sell me their new AI call attendant, and couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t subject our customers to that BS. It’s been forced into our accounting software, billing software, cloud backup, everywhere you look it’s there now.
Any QMK based board that supports VIA should work, since the macros and key bindings are stored on the board, and you can use a browser to configure it (even if you have to configure it on another machine, and swap back to the Steam Deck).
Alternatively, I believe that Solaar is available in Discover Store for Steam Deck, and that would allow you to configure Logi devices (but I don’t have any personal experience with this yet).
Works great in some situations (I run two dev environments and a couple of test machines as VMs), but not always. I need a physical Mac to do iOS development / builds, so need a USB switch to switch my keyboard and mouse to it when working.
Do you really need video?
My monitors have multiple inputs, so I just use a USB switch for my mouse and keyboard, and then switch the monitors between devices as needed.
Plate and stabs are stock (so screw in stabs, and PC plate).
The stabs are the least rattly that I’ve had so far (although my daily driver for the last few years no stabs, as it didn’t have any keys over 2U).
I’ve had acrylic, and stainless plates on my prior custom builds, and my Ergodox has aluminum plates, and I’m quite happy with the poly carbonate. At some point (when they come back in stock) I’ll probably get an aluminum plate just to check it out, and will grab the Pro => Max sound kit as well.
I’m using the K Pro Banana switches. I’ve run Gateron Browns primarily, but I my Erogodox has the V2 Zealios, and another build has R6 Zealios. The Zealios were a bit heavy for me for all day typing, but I like the banana switches.
I’m using the stock caps for now as well. I’m not entirely sure I love them, but I figured I’d give them some time before switching to a GMK or DSA set.
I have the Q5 Pro, and it’s definitely thocky (and a beast of a slab of aluminum after having a few layered acrylic cases).
The Max is probably a bit less thocky with the extra foam (it has 3 more foam layers than the Pro).
I haven’t used the Shift V2, but for me the extra column of keys and the full ten key, was more important than the aesthetics and adjust-ability of the Shift case.
30 years ago I did 12 hour shifts at a factory, and it really wasn’t too bad. It was 4 on 3 off one week, and 3 on 4 off the other week. The OT on week one made up for the lost hours on week two, and having 3 or 4 days off was pretty sweet. But it was a QC job, for a European company in the US, sitting all night inspecting small parts, and was pretty chill.
My brother in law worked at the BMW factory in SC, and they did 4 10 hour shifts, with the days off rotating each week. They only ran 6 days a week, so you’d end up with 5 days off every 4 weeks whenever the days off from two weeks lined up. He liked the 5 days off when they happened, but the rotating days off didn’t line up with my sisters schedule, so that was tough.
We have a binary file that has to maintain compatibility with a 16 bit Power Basic app that hasn’t been recompiled since '99 or '00. We have storage for 8 character strings in two ints , and 12 character string in two ints and two shorts.