Joshua is a walking paraplegic hailing from Edmonton, Canada. His personal journey has led him to becoming an Orthodox Christian Inquirer, a Father, and business owner, focusing on projects to set people free from the world. He spends his time building, writing, reading, thinking, and with his family. Join him on the path. Get Joshua's debut book, Mountain: mountainthebook.com Buy a Home in the Edmonton Area with Revere: reverehome.ca Join the movement for Freedom: labrynth.org Read more on my website: joshblais.com
I have been messing around with Linux for the last month, I have gotten remarkable results gaming. I've had no games fail to launch, out of probably 10, and some games even run better. Snow runner for example I get 20 more FPS in Linux, and about 10 more FPS while streaming it to my tablet, compared to windows
i'm at 36 as well, I didn't really think I would want the extra two; but they end up being keys that I hit with my palm. Using a keyball39 with an EC11 on one side, and a trackball on the others :D
This production quality is insane! Amazing video. I'm looking forward to one of those mech ergo keyboards. Those wrist rests also look cool, where did you get them?
For me the end game keyboards are the dactyl manuform and the stenographer keyboard (both of which are aimed for typing, not for playing games. If you want to play a game, just get the half one). For a low-profile, travel friendly keyboard, I would also go for the chocofi
What software are you using to map your layers? If I wanted to do the same for my keyboard, where would I do that? ( referring to the graphics that were on the screen)
Great vid. “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, oh Lord” -Saint Augustine. I think you have found the evidence of mind of the Logos in the transcendentals and the way it orients you to the Logos himself is awesome. God Bless it and Christos Anesti.
How is the autonomy on your wireless split kb ? I hesitate to put screens on my future build as I'm scared that the screens are going to eat too much battery.
for first split keyboard ? i cant decide between chocofi with ZMK and piantor with QMK vial both of them really similar (3-5). in your opinion which firmware is user friendly and pro and con. so if my MX switch is 45 linear switch. so should i go with 35g or 20g for choc switch .
I only have experience with ZMK and ZSA's version of QMK - I will say that they are very comparable for functionality at the end of the day, ZMK being a little more difficult to configure (but you can clone my layout to get started!) I like the wireless board for the chocofi, but piantor I have heard good things. I came from 45g silvers and went to the 20g choc blues - I like them but some might say they are too light.
2:20 if it makes you feel better i bought a 42u thinking i was going to fill it out and i have like 2 more things than you lol. 7:58 One of my 2u "servers" is actually just 2 mini pcs mounted inside with breakout cables because modern mini pcs sip like 10watts and have huge amounts of processing power. A comparative intel i3 i5 system will use nearly 100 watts. N95 chips are amazing.
will it? I searched and found www.kingston.com/en/memory/search/model/96252/lenovo-thinkcentre-m910-m910q-tiny only supports 32, I could absolutely be wrong!
The sd cards on RPi actually have a high failure rate (4 to 5 years)(Yes even sandisk) and you will lose a ton of work done on a home assistant install. Much better to just use a ~100$ mini pc.
@@Fine_i_set_the_handle I agree! That is why I moved everything on a nvme Raspberry Pi 5. Now relaxed that everything is safe and secure with every alternate day backups to 2 different locations. 😌 It seems restoring from latest backup works pretty well. I was nervous when moving from my Pi4 to Pi5 but it went well without any issues. 🥳🥳
Ya, you really need to connect the UPS to the PCs so they know that they need to shut down. There's a pi Network UPS Tool that looks solid and would be a great use case for the spare Pi.
@@JoshuaBlais I'd also recommend setting a pretty short shutdown delay, maybe 20 seconds or so. Most UPS units don't run on battery for very long at all, and servers take a while to actually turn off (Proxmox will shut down guests first, possibly even in multiple groups, before executing the host shutdown).
@@JoshuaBlais Network UPS Tools (NUT). Typically one system is connected directly to the UPS via USB/serial, and the other machines (also running NUT) connect to that machine over the network. NUT also lets you read the power consumption (assuming the UPS supports it), which can be a cool thing to include in a dashboard.
I can't help but the laugh at the idea of an ITX board in a 4U case. 😂 I will agree that most people could consolidate their labs down to a very small amount of hardware though. It's just not as fun. Also there's some things you can't get in a compact setup unfortunately. Always seems like you have to compromise if you want to keep things small.
Your username checks out! Haha, kidding. I am with you, it definitely is not as fun, but we are going to be leaving our hometown behind and can't really bring all the hardware, so going a bit of a minimalist approach to my stuff for now - call me the "travelling server guy"
I’ve moved to virtual private servers instead of physical servers at work, and I love not managing hardware, but it is tough when I know a tiny Lenovo would far outperform the virtual machine for a fraction of the price. Nice setup, I’m interested in where you go from here. Out of curiosity, are you still using a tiny split keyboard? They travel nicely 😅
I agree wholeheartedly, and I am debating going to a slightly beefier mini PC (Lenovo p340-60 or p3) or an m1 mac mini running Asahi Linux for travelling. I love the setup that I've built for services, but I don't need all the hardware especially if we'll be on the road! I am still using the chocofi everyday and it is one of the best investments I've made in recent memory - I brought it to Italy with us last month and it fit inside my hard shelled tech pouch without issue, highly recommed it!
Hey man really cool stuff! I'm looking to experiment with this for use with my linux machine. I'm curious on the usability for gaming? Could I create a separate profile/layout for wasd movement and other gaming controls, and then switch back to a productivity profile for everything else? Also could you still easily use a regular keyboard if you have to use a laptop or something?
for gaming, you could set up a permanent layer that allows you the movement keys (or remap them to colemak/whatever layout you end up on) and it would be fairly seamless. I have setup a kmonad configuration mirroring my colemak DH layout on my laptop keyboard and can't really see myself going back to qwerty as I don't really have to use other people's computers. If you do, it might take some getting used to in order to be able to switch muscle memory (some people say it is easy - I went from about 110wpm qwerty to <60 after learning colemak)
You deserve so many more viewers! This was such an conforting insight as someone in my early 20s and grappling with many of the problems you mentioned. I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel!
Do you ever run into connection issues with the wireless? I have a low tolerance for that as it just turns into a distraction in the middle of work. Not no tolerance, but just not much tolerance.
If - my fellow spinally suffering brother - you're interested in looking further down the rabbit hole, check out the Svalboard - if you don't know it already. I've heard great things and it's probably where I'll end up. After that, I think it's brain in a jar for me. Best to you.
That thing looks like its from the year 3024. 1200 Canadian pesos is a bit much, but in the spirit of science (OCD) this might be a future consideration! God bless!
I have exactly the same back issue, from an injury playing Rugby when I was 16. I guess I wouldn't be overly interested in these kinds of keyboards if it hadn't happened to me. All the best to you.
Do you use org roam to keep notes on characters, places, world building, plot points etc..? I want to write a fiction novel, and am looking for functionality similar to scrivener.
I have never written fiction, but I don't see why you couldn't use it to like between characters and their relationships, locations, etc. Emacs can be really whatever you want to make it. www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-write-a-book-in-emacs is a decent resource.
I actually ran a 36 key layout emulated on my laptops built in keyboard with kmonad for over 6 months while I slowly worked on my actual split 36 key board. It’s really excellent software, and let me make sure I was interested in the concept before I committed to the hardware. 8/8 highly recommend. Once I had my finished hardware, there was no learning curve as I had been using the layout for months
I also now run a kmonad setup on my laptop, just went backward from the layout to the laptop haha! I love using home row mods and a number layer on a laptop, it's game changing.
@@AX-fx7ng definitely! The kmonad git repo had plenty for me to get started with it, if you’re keen on a 36 key layout, take a look at Miryoku, there’s a pre-configured kmonad config for it, and it was the perfect starting point for me. These days my layout is pretty customized and resembles miryoku only in the core design fundamentals, but my actual layout is almost entirely different
The thing is I write stuff like this in roam. I write too but i have entries in my roam directory and tag it for classification. I frequently write notes on my writing to imrprove as I go. I need my notes to be in my roam dir so I put my writing stuff there too.
Awesome ! So glad I subscribed following your Chocofi and Matcha video. I don't know, most of your videos resonate with me. Going to turn 31 soon too but I think some of these things really reminded me of what I (should) have learned in the past.
That means a lot! I think the thing about life is it is not linear at all, and we can learn these lessons very quickly depending on our circumstances, it need not be in our 20s. Much love!
Also switched from ergodox to small keyboard. I'm on dasbob, the only thing I would suggest to add mouse emulation keys to your keyboard. That is really handy.
I'll have to explore that, currently really trying to limit mouse stuff almost entirely, but there is still things a mouse is better for than vim keys. Thanks for the suggestion!
Cost can vary wildly depending on some options and whether you already have access to some tools or not. A corne-ish zen costs hundreds of dollars, but if you go full DIY you can probably build a corne for around 60 to 80 dollars wired and around 100 to 120 wireless. It will take a bit of work and probably won't look as polished, but for me, that's part of the charm of weird DIY keyboards.
If you love Cochofi but you are missing keys, totally been there, consider Lily58 from Leo - he uses both cherry and choc sockets on the same board, it's great!
Nice video man, it’s nice seeing new youtubers. I will just give some constructive criticism so you can hopefully blow up :), talk a bit faster. I just got into the rabbit hole and can’t help but think how good wooting analog switches would be for these types of keyboards. If they made shorter ones with a clear tactile bump at least a third of the way down, you could easily have it as a light tap is an alternate function to that of the main function from a full press.
I do second the endgame here - I did go with building my own crkbd/corne-chocolate, modded with wireless and soon enough (1mo in) did get rid of the 6th column. which from the looks of it makes it very similar to your setup. I am still to find the good solution for tenting - things I've tried so far add bulk to the keeb and are a bit fiddly - at times I do like banging the code in when I'm in the flow. With home row mods, I know it did get better, I still need to chop off a few milliseconds when typing CamelCase, otherwise I get jcameljcase :)
If you have a look at my ZMK config, I use different timings for the more dominant and less dominant fingers (180ms dominant, 200ms for ring and pinky) that seems to, for me, alleviate the issue you are talking about! Tenting wise, I will do a new video - I have got some superclamps and mounted the keeb to my desk in a way that allows fully vertical tenting and my posture is already improving
@@JoshuaBlais I will have a look - mine is a Frankenstein of urob’s timeless hrm and miriyoku layout, another steal wouldn’t hurt, right?)) I’d be interested if you made a YT short proving config performance on monkeytype with a programming language of your choice :p Consider a challenge ;)
I just bought a ZSA Voyager and it is a fantastic keyboard. It's also very slim and minimal, but is a 52 key keyboard. When I got it I wondered if it was going to be hard to use and would have too few keys. Having used it for about a month, I can definitely see how a keyboard like this (the one you showed) can be used. I have a symbols/numbers layer like you do and I pretty much always use that instead of reaching for the numbers row on the main layer. I also just started learning Colemak DH as well. I'm up to about 20wpm. Still slow, but getting there. One thing I don't like about other keyboards like the one you showed is how far tucked in the thumb keys are under the rest of the board. I like to open my hands up a bit while I'm using the keyboard. So I'm not sure how comfortable it would be for me to use one. Great video by the way!
Definitely depends on your hand size and shape - with the ergodox I never used keys beyond the internal thumb cluster so I felt 6+ keys on each hand were going unused. Thank you for your kind words!
