What's crazy is my 19yo daughter can type like 90wpm on an ipad. (that's like her record on typeracer when we used to race)

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It does seem like you have to wade through a lot more crap at the top of google results lately - depending on the topic.

I had to look up AMP btw: https://moz.com/blog/amp-digital-marketing-2018

Yea google results have definitely been ass lately

ya internet sucks now. totally went corporate.

+1 to that sentiment. It's much harder to get good results and that isn't a new thing. 10 years ago it was much better.

I don't know if it has gone corporate but certainly everything has been monetized. I was looking for reviews on wireless earbuds yesterday and the search results are just a bunch of random blogs ranking things with their Amazon affiliate link.

I looked it better when blogs and reviews sites were passion projects rather than content farms meant to gather eyeballs and harvest pennies

Reviews are obvious targets. Every shady business, just about every business, at least entertains the notion of doing fake reviews. It seems a little shocking how many blogs are like 2 paragraphs which I guess are just meant to get clicked on and that's it.

Wireless earbuds are a tricky thing and I'd probably just pick a decent brand, read the reviews on amazon and expect to be buying and returning a few if need be. For a lot of things I narrow it down to some particular item, then youtube for that model name and look through quite a few videos - these are often affiliate spam too of course, but not always and even when they are you can get good information just from seeing the item in use a lot. Checking a channels other uploads can show if they actually have a clue about anything, what else they cover and such.

Also once an certain item is selected, googling for "chosenitem reddit" is often super useful.

I will add on to the talk of mechanical keyboards, I find the backlighting way way more useful than I ever expected, and would now not want to use an unlit keyboard again for significant time if at all possible. I have it on low brightness, static colors for different areas, no silly animated effects etc.

That's funny, I turned the lights off on the gaming keyboard after trying them for a short while. Don't see the use.

I've been working on an electronics project last month or so. Basically a microcontroller that can take input from a lot of different sources (keyboard, mouse, button arrays, foot switches, even a custom keyboard) and produce arbitrary inputs (joystick events, keyboard events, mouse events, MIDI events etc). You can map inputs to outputs with a fairly simple config.

I've been wondering if a gaming specific keyboard would be useful (to me). Just like the 10 or so keys I need for a few specific games, laid out how I want them. The biggest question is whether I can map the latency that good keyboards have (probably not)

I can do some stuff that you can't easily do in software though. Some of it would probably border on cheating, like mapping buttons to key or mouse combos that are very difficult to do by yourself.

As a dumb example, in the game Apex Legends if you hit the crouch button while toggling your weapon, there's no weapon switch delay, otherwise it's a couple seconds. Lots of people map these to adjacent buttons and mash them together, but I could make the normal weapon switch button do both.

Or like, a lot of games will have say "press m to show map, press m again to make map go away" and I could easily remap to "hold m to show map and when you let m go map goes away", etc.

I don't really know if there's a product or even a useful open source project there but it's been really fun. I'm rounding the corner on a unit that is stable and compact enough to give to people to try out.

Oh, and it takes peripherals basically - the unit has a couple of PS/2 connectors and you can connect almost anything to it. One of my test units is a 3x3 grid of keyswitches. Kind of a neat little clicky thing.

i hate wireless headphones/buds cause i don't want to have to charge ****, but corded buds die so fast.

When I was doing a lot of hiking I checked out several BT headsets because the cord was such a pita when you are wearing lots of layers. From cheap to expensive the ones I had the best luck with were the Powerbeats which I used for years, now I use Apple Airpods which I’ve also had good luck with, the charging case idea is much better than plugging one of those micro usb cords into the Beats. The the other BT would lose connection too often when my phone was in my pants pocket.

I wear the earbud wire under my first layer, which keeps the cord from flapping around and getting caught on stuff, and also if you remove or add layers it won't get in the way.

Dealing with Strava, story selection, or taking pictures that made using cords in the winter a pain.

It's like 7 consecutive miracles for a set of bluetooth headphones to actually work well and fit my ears w/o falling out. I buy 3 different brands at a time just hoping one will work out.

And of course when I finally find a good pair I lose or break them almost immediately. Then when I go to order more the model has changed.

You sure appreciate working from home when you don't do it all the time. I'm getting the oil changed, got a haircut, walking around on the beach on a gorgeous day with the retirees and soccer moms. Later I'm gonna go pick up the dry cleaning and maybe spend $90 on half a bag of groceries at Whole Foods.

I've only tried a couple devices, but I'm off bluetooth headphones/speakers. I just live with the cord.

I have a gaming keyboard that can map button presses like this. It’s definitely out there. I’ve used it to “cheat” in certain Mmo’s that required really repetitive tasks.

I know they exist, but mine can do things that I think are relatively uncommon. The variety of inputs/outputs is greater.

For example you can output mouse events, including mouse movement. In BFV to select orders you press a button and then drag the mouse in one of those wheel/pie menus. So I can have a macro who's output is "press button, pull mouse down and 20 degrees left for 200 pixels, release button"

I made a proof of concept for cheating in shooters that have recoil. For games with fixed recoil patterns you could have zero recoil, for games like PUBG that have random recoil, you could greatly reduce it by having the mouse "pull down" at a defined rate. It's 100% outside of the computer system so it would be very difficult to detect.

I can also produce MIDI and joystick events. Not that I have an immediate use for those.

I'm thinking about starting to use it while programming. There are a few ugly commands I use a lot like alt-ctrl-shift-n (which in pycharms will let you find the definition of a symbol) that I could just bind to a footpress.

That’s pretty cool, yea if it’s device level i’m not sure how you could get caught cheating

When I was playing 17 SNGs at a time - I had a pretty sweet combo of AHK and Poker Stars built-in table alignment modes working with my MX Revolution mouse. Wheel up (segmented scroll) was +1BB, wheel down was -.5BB. Back button was all in. Forward button re-aligned tables. Right click was fold.

Of course with GTO now I should be doing 2.27 BB raises or something. One reg was always raising 2.1BB (ahead of his time). I 3bet him or called and played back post flop constantly. Gotta send a message.

Not that it's really my goal to cheat, though. But it does make you think. If you gave me a few hundred bucks I could give you a mouse or keyboard with this kind of capability built in.

This sounds like a list of reasons why most employers won't let us work from home

Install the vim bindings and that last thing becomes just gd

I'm still working, just getting some other **** done. Most of that stuff was done before 10:30 which is when I normally start.

I'm slaying it out here is what I'm saying.