@wohali OH MY GOD YES

merry fucking christmas to me

@Rtzq0 outdid himself this year

this bitch is set in machined aluminum, backlit, with cherry mx browns, three mouse buttons and a nubbin

spoiled forever I tell you

@roxmsauce @Rtzq0 tell me more! I am nubbin addicted and would love one.

@wohali @Rtzq0

RIGHT RIGHT AMIRITE

so this baby is a 60% mechanical keyboard by Tex, a quick web search yields

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3094

idk though, I remember these being impossible to find like a year ago? Hopefully they'll stay in production. I seriously cannot function without a nubbin and this thing is just WAY TOO NICE

@roxmsauce @wohali there's a reddit thread somewhere where Tex says they will go into a mass-production phase. No idea how "mass" mass is in this case. Owing to the general lack of demand, you'll probably need to keep a close eye out to catch them when they do. I didn't hear about this keyboard at all until the drop ended.

@roxmsauce @Rtzq0 OK, it's the one I already knew of. I want a full-size or TKL, not a 60%...so I passed on the Yoda II. Lenovo did a limited run of those with their badging even.

How's the nubbin for you compare to a e.g. ThinkPad keyboard? Heard some reports it was a bit stiff.

@wohali @roxmsauce really? I thought it was a bit floppy. Not as bad as a unicomp, but not nearly as stiff as my x220.

The only other nubbin external I know of is the UHK, but the nubbin thumb module is not set to ship until May (barring further delays).

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce oh maybe it was the other way around, floppy instead of stiff. Unicomps are pretty bad, yeah. :(

@wohali @Rtzq0

hmm I guess by "stiff" I meant I have to push it pretty hard to get it to scroll - the nubbin itself moves around more than on my thinkpad, and at first it was really too sensitive, but that was fixed just with the pointer preferences. the scrolling I haven't figured out yet

@wohali @Rtzq0

It is, now that you mention it. I figured I just hadn't dialed in the calibration yet - I want to change the nubbin sensitivity (YEAHHHHHHHH) and also change some of the key mappings. Still, works fine right out of the box, linux woo! I have an insane number of input devices plugged in right now and they all work, hard to believe I don't have more calibration issues honestly

@roxmsauce @wohali as many frustrations as I many have about the stuff coming out of RH these days, the libinput autodetection/hotplug defaults have gotten pretty good.

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce Haven't explored it. Definitely systemd averse (that's putting it mildly...)

@wohali @roxmsauce I may at some point move away from arch to something openrc-based. Unfortunately linux in the business space will continue to involve systemd, since it's now the init in all the major server distros. It's possible to use libinput and wayland w/o systemd I've been told, but I haven't had the free time yet to put in the legwork.

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce I've moved most of my business deployments to fbsd, as much as possible. Feels nice leaving SVR4 behind, oddly. Like a homecoming.

...yes i am old shut up

@wohali @roxmsauce hashtag unixisnotlinux *but*....

If you're from a Solaris background curious if you've spent any time with illumos? Also curious about your choice of BSDs if you're interested in sharing.

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce Spent a bunch of time with SmartOS. I'm not going back to Solaris any time soon. I can get into this at length but preferably not in a public forum.

Mostly freebsd for commercial customers. A few friends work on netbsd which is my choice when I need bsd on a weird or old platform. Theo is primarily why I won't use openbsd ;)

@wohali @roxmsauce that last sentence is fair.

There are many things that exist in Solaris that I wish the Linux community would prioritize, but realistically it seems that people don't want them (support for good fACLs being high up there.)

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce Right, and fbsd (well, ZFS, really) has pretty good ACLs overall. You can zfs-on-linux if you want, but the licensing bothers me, possibly more than it should.

@wohali @roxmsauce zfs-on-linux doesn't get you NFS v4 fACLs (still an open issue https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4966). On Linux I still use primarily btrfs for the "zfs-like" use cases, as it ticks most of the boxes and doesn't risk module misalignment (which is a concept that is outright terrifying to me for a filesystem driver).

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce I'm still seeing high exposure data loss with btrfs in QA environments so I won't touch it for, oh, let's say another year at least.

Yup, when people come to me and say "i really want ZFS" I say "you really want FreeBSD." :)

@wohali @roxmsauce I would *love* to hear about btrfs data loss experiences outside of the RAID 5/6 case. I keep hearing people say that it's common but I've yet to see it.

@Rtzq0 RAID 5 is a pretty common use case for what I do, so unfortunately, I can't give you that data point. Sorry :)

Couple of interesting pointers here. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4f5xvh/saving_power_is_the_btrfs_dataloss_warning_still/

@wohali RAID56 on btrfs is still the one area of absolutely do not use so I'll agree with you there https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

@Rtzq0 basically, we deploy a sharded DB where speed matters over redundancy, since the DB itself ensures at least 3 separate machines each hold a copy of the data stored.

So RAID5 and sometimes RAID0 are the weapons of choice.

@Rtzq0 @roxmsauce Weird that someone on your link is complaining about fbsd's network stack not being good enough for high throughput/bw. I saturate multiple Infineon 40gb links with it regularly... *shrug*

@wohali @roxmsauce TCP mystifies many...at least that's my experience from performing interviews.

@wohali @roxmsauce nubdiction is bestdiction