GarlicDeliverySystem - Linus Tech Tips (original) (raw)

  1. OK, then let me give it to you straight: ISO keycaps are the exception in the custom space, if it is not stated it is NEVER ISO. Apart from the high-end keycaps sets, international or ISO kits are not sold separately, so your idea of them sending you the keys separately would mean that they would need to find a full set and then take those out of one. At which point they could have just sent you the whole thing, because the rest would be next to worthless (incomplete and opened) now. Keychron customer support doesn't have the best reputation, but the issue with ISO keycaps being rare and not supported is an industry wide issue. Only those big gamer brands and office suppliers really have the numbers to do those. The rest is either local niche brands with limited price-to-quality, or you have to get lucky with some random kits where someone was motivated to make UK-ISO. Furthermore, you could have avoided this by using the filters:
  2. I mean, I haven't checked in detail the complete list for what is the newest hardware obsoleted by this, but I think the newer mainstream ones would be Ryzen 2000 series? Which was released in 2018 or so? 7 years is not stellar support for an OS, but in the wider and longer context of OS and hardware not unusual. Crucially, as far as I know they don't brick or lock the devices after the last update. So you can continue to use them, although without security support it might not be the smartest idea. So I don't see them really as responsible for the demise of these PCs, though I don't like it, of course. Plus, if this is all about being environmentally friendly: upgrade to a used machine. while some of the older stuff on windows 10 is still fine, there is also plenty of newer older stuff out there that is supported. AM4 machines could be upgraded to 3000 or 5000 series, and 8th gen and newer office machines are also gonna be around a lot.
  3. Get a barebones and then go with Kailh box switches. They put the contacts inside the switch inside another box (hence thee name) which in theory makes them more reliable. Alternative is a Hall Effect keyboard like the Wooting. Though mostly marketed towards gamers, the switches are just hall effect sensors, measuring a magnetic field from a tiny magnet inside the moving part of the switch. So unless we are talking metal or magnetic dust, they should be the most resilient to dust. Another option could be Topre, but I have no personal experience with them or heard anything about their 'dustproofness' (that a word?). They are capacitive with a rubberdome though, so in theory also not a huge issue with particles getting in between contacts or membranes.
  4. I mean, cool to see that the technology exists. But maybe as an aside because I saw it came up in the WAN show that the video did poor: Personally, I really don't care about new TVs or displays presented at CES or other shows. Because it will be months to years before anyone can get them, and I am not buying a 100+ inch TV anytime soon. So I don't really see the point in these videos, unless there is some really major technology showcase or exceptionally new. But "newer, shinier, bigger TV at CES" is just.... meh? Now, watching those getting installed, dropped, etc. is at least entertaining. A deep dive on the technology is also informative, especially when you can actually buy stuff with it. But otherwise I don't see a point in it, when it will never be relevant to the consumer (or at least seems like that). I know that is true for other stuff like the server videos or those on weird tech like the bug detectors. But at least those are a bit more than "person next to TV prototype nobody can afford and talks about very limited info they get from manufacturer, plus a bit "wow, colors! brightness!".
  5. It really needs more context. Gaming is one thing, but the questions go on from there: What do you already have in terms of hardware, what games are you planning to play, how much time do you see spending with it etc. Especially when you start from scratch, I would agree that the budget for the PC itself should not be that large (800-1000) to leave plenty for the monitor, peripherals, desk and chair (!!), and just games to start with. Otherwise though, it really boils down to perceived needs, disposable incoming/budget, and relative value of the components. One thing I learned a while ago is that especially the relative disposable income and value are hard to transfer. When you live in an area where salaries and costs of living are insane, spending 2k on a PC might seem normal and adequate, being the equivalent of maybe 2 weeks of the average rent there. In other places that 2k could pay someone's rent for two or three months or be a nice vacation. So even if someone had the money in both cases, the value proposition might be seen quite different.
  6. When you say smooth operation, I understand it should not have any 'indents' or tactile feedback? Or just very easy to turn? And looking at the Surface Dial, it is quite a lot larger than the usual keyboard know. those are usually on the order of a keycap or slightly larger. So the size doesn't matter for the use case? If it is really only about the dial, I would look into custom macro pads and rotary encoders, not into full keyboards. Simply put, only a tiny fraction of the budget goes into the knob on a typical keyboard, but a larger fraction goes into one on a macro pad. e.g. stuff like these: https://drop.com/buy/megalodon-dual-layer-knob-macro-pad?defaultSelectionIds=984203, https://drop.com/buy/megalodon-triple-knob-macro-pad?defaultSelectionIds=983859, https://drop.com/buy/binepad-bnk9-macropad) (ignore that they are all from drop, I just had that page open. You should be able to find these at other places as well).
  7. Kailh Jade or navy, maybe also try the whites. They have different actuation weights, so that might be a factory or could be interesting in itself. Cherry Blue switches are not the loudest ones, nor do they have a reputation for the clickiest/tactile either. If you only need a few for now, have a look at: Gateron Melodic, uses a tiny click leaf Zeal clickies, very expensive but have a loud click and large click leaf. Can be modified to tactile only Gazzew U4 and U4T, they are tactile, not clicky, with the U4 being semi silent while the U4T is pretty loud novelkeys cream clickie switches, which are linear but have one of these snapping little metal sheets in them, so they do click but have no tactile bump for it afaik. Going really off the rails would be to look for old/broken keyboards with Alp switches, they are supposedly superior in the clicky department. They are no longer produced though, and make sure you get the right type of switch from them. Another funny one would be either old IBM beamspring switches or buckling spring switches. But those are not easy or near impossible to source alone. There is a company that makes new Model F keyboards though. Maybe contact him?
  8. Let's see where this goes. Some of it seems really interesting, like texture upscaling and the improvements in frame gen. But I am skeptical until someone independently has a look at it in terms of artifacts and performance. Prices are... not as bad as feared, but not as low as hoped. Plus it is uncertain what actual retail will be, with taxes, shortages etc. I remember the 30series launch and how stoked everyone was, only for nobody actually being able to get a GPU for the next year or so.
  9. I think you might have missed the point of the video: It is not that SteamOS in its current generation is the thing that moves people over to Linux, but it could be in a future iteration once it actually deals with all the flaws it still has. Like, as you mentioned, all the limits in supported hardware and the fact it is not officially supported on anything but a steamdeck. The thing is though, while many have heard of Ubuntu, I would say the main issue is that people simply don't really want to care about their OS; they just want it to work and use it. Part of that 'just use it' is to not worry about which one to pick, which distro might support which new technology or gets support for the new GPUs when. They want game devs, hardware manufacturers etc. to treat it like windows: give it good enough support from launch. And currently that is not the case. And there is where SteamOS comes in, because it has a large company behind it that not only bankrolls it, but also drives the development direction and keeps it coherent. You don't need to worry about which flavor of linux you install, you just go with SteamOS and stop worrying about it. This argument is also not inconsistent with saying that it won't find mass adoption soon, since most windows installations are still done by OEMs or on business devices. But it could be the case that instead of arguing the benefits and hardware support capabilities of various distros, linux gaming is just normal with out of the box support on one major distro everyone agrees on.
  10. It would seem marketing people have a weird sense of math and an incomplete alphabet. But let's see where it all lands in price and performance. Kinda curious about the new mobile stuff, wanted to upgrade from 11th gen to something more efficient. Plus I need to talk my boss into a new workstation this year, so I for one welcome our new AI MAX PRO buzzword overlords.
  11. Supply and demand. Top level chips for an older legacy platform are sought after as final upgrades, without committing to a new mobo, RAM, etc. At the same time, the used supply was never that great to begin with, since overall sales numbers are much lower and you don't have those waves of cheap offers coming in from fleets of office PCs getting decommissioned. 20 series still going strong probably I think has less to do with the cards themselves, rather with the value proposition and availability of newer models. I still remember the cryptowave after the 3000series, when suddenly my two year old 2060 was worth more used than when it was new. Simply because nobody could get GPU at all. So without really worthwhile budget offerings from team green, people look on the used market for previous gen. Hopefully AMD/Intel can change something here, but it will take a long time for the mindshare (is that the word?) to establish. Plus GPU prices are all over the place anyway, it seems.
  12. Average Joey Gamer hasn't heard of Bazzite or Nobara, but average Joey has a Steamdeck, knows someone with a steamdeck or at the very least heard about it. Joey G. also knows that it is not running windows but some kind of Linux called SteamOS, so Joey wonders why he can't use that on his PC instead of Windows. After all, Linux is supposed to be better than Windows.
  13. Not gonna lie, this sounds a lot like "try this new distro, it's revolutionary, trust". I understand where it is coming from and that various forks and distros are key part of linux and the community. But maybe you understand that for a lot of people they don't want to really keep up with their distro changing/updating, or moving from one to another. Just look at how many people complain about windows updates taking forever and breaking all the time: when you ask whether they are doing them when prompted by the OS, they often say "Nah, I ignore or stop it until it no longer lets me. Don't want to update all the time". And I don't believe it is an issue with the updating process itself, since honestly I think windows update hasn't given me any more headache than Linux updates in the past years (still have to use some Linux for work every now and then). But it appears people don't want to think about their OS, updates or whether to change distros etc., and I feel like that is the opposite of how many Linux devs and enthusiasts think.