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 No.2350[Reply]

It's no secret that excessive and unergonomic computer use is linked to debilitating health problems like RSI and CTS, sushis. This thread is for discussing good practices and ergonomic tools that can prevent or alleviate these problems.
Do you practice good ergonomics?
Do you use any ergonomically designed equipment? Many people swear by split mechanical keyboards and trackballs, but I've heard mixed reports about them. I have very stupidly been using my laptop keyboard for years and want to get a mechanical keyboard, but I'm not sure if ergonomic ones actually worth the extra cost.
Are there any stretches and finger exercises you've found useful?
Have you ever developed an injury from computer use? What helped your recovery? And if you didn't recover fully, do you do anything to minimise pain at the computer?
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 No.2408

>>2404
unrelated but you don't need the https everywhere extension anymore, it's been built into firefox (and chrome) for a few years now

nice setup btw, i like the taskbar too

 No.2409

>>2408
I didn't know that lol. Thank you

I install these extension on every browser I use eversince 2016.

 No.2411

>>2409
no problem sushi! they actually discontinued the extension a while back too because there's no need for it anymore. i don't think firefox enables https-only mode by default (i could be wrong), but it's in the settings under privacy and security

also worth mentioning:

- privacy badger is kinda useless with ublock origin (as far as i'm aware), since ublock blocks trackers too

- "i don't care about cookies" is also redundant with ublock. if you go to ublock's settings -> filter lists, there's a section for cookie notices. i don't think they're enabled by default but they're there.

also that extension got sold to avast a while ago. there's a community fork called "i still don't care about cookies", but again idk if it's necessary with ublock

- clearurls is also largely redundant with ublock. under filter lists, enable "adguard url tracking protection", and under custom, add this url:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/refs/heads/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt

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 No.2417

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What's a comfy position to read books? I used to like having pdfs up on the PC moniter because the text is nice and large and you can make notes at your desk, but sitting in a chair all day is uncomfy. Laying down and reading is nice but makes me feel sleepy and lethargic and there are no way to make notes.

 No.2418

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I had problems with wrist pain for a while, but switching to a trackball fixed it. I used a kensington expert, it's only serviceable, part of the downside of using a trackball is that they're very niche so you're paying a premium for something that is kind of shitty and poorly designed. I like it a lot, though. I play Xonotic with and I do well enough, but I would switch to a regular mouse if I actually wanted to be 31337.
I was starting to have back problems, so I put together a standing desk and it's great. Other than that, switching away from keyboards with numpads on the right kept my shoulder from being bent outwards when using the mouse, or compromising by having the keyboard too far off to the left. I use monitor arms to keep all of my monitors at the correct height.


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 No.2373[Reply]

Anyone working on any hardware electrical projects? I just found this wiring book at a store and I fixed a handheld emulator switch with some soldering and an extra switch I had.
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 No.2385

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>>2384
Not sure what you mean, but my soldering is mediocre. High temp (~350°C) low time, make sure to heat both pad and pin. I use rosin core leaded solder and pretty thin gauge of it since I only work on stuff like this, and not power stuff. This let me have a good control of how much I add. (And I need to add a lot of solder quickly I can always braid it.) There are plenty of good tutorials on youtube. I remember seeing an old 60s or whatever soldering vid from US, that was fun and full of good tidbits.

 No.2412

hey sushis, is there any book/digital course that can teach me the basic of electronics from basic physics to knowing how to solder stuff?

I need this skill to make different projects with trackballs and keyboards.

thx:3

 No.2413

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>>2378
Your blogpost is really pleasant to read! nice project =w=

 No.2414

>>2378
I’ve found your site before, adjacent from Sushichan! I don't remember exactly where, though, you might have featured briefly on the Neocities home page or possibly been linked with a Hotline webring participant.

 No.2415

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>>2412
IDK anything for electronics themselves, but for soldering I think I watched this apart from some other videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926EC0F1F93C1837
As for electronics, you might want to check The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. I heard good things but haven't read myself since I am lazy.

>>2413
Thanks!
>>2414
Oh cool, I never used neocities so I am not sure how I got there. But I am glad it's not just 2 of my friends who read the blog :P


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 No.806[Reply]

Post a screenshot of your current cool/cute wallpaper! Both desktop and phone caps are ok!

I'll start with some vaporwave vibes.
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 No.2396

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Here's my desktop

 No.2397

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I love this image so much

 No.2398

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This is my lock screen

 No.2399

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And my current wallpaper.


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 No.257[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Let's talk coding and software, sushis, because I don't do enough of it and I really should. Let's hear about projects you're working on, stuff your coding, learning. Trade secrets, info, tips, whatever. Programming isn't something that should be done alone in a corner.

I guess if we need a thread starter, I want to brush up on my coding skills. I want to find something to play around with, something not as mainstream as the stuff like Java and C, but will still be useful in a professional setting, something I can make usable stuff out of.
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 No.2316

I've been programming full-time for 5 years as a full stack web developer, usually working with the Spring/Angular/Mongo stack.

If I can offer any useful advice, feel free to ask!

 No.2362

>>2314
Aaaah! Its been two months and I didn't even touch it!

 No.2363

>>2059
I still don't get this groupoid interpretation of identity types. What are those so-called non trivial elements besides identity ?
It's also not clear to me what univalence brings on the table. Is it just another formalism to do synthetic homotopy theory without having to define infinite groupoids from sets ?

 No.2367

I am thinking of getting back to programming. I have a couple ideas. On one hand I'd like to write interactive fiction, probably using inform. On the other hand, I'd like to try and use webgl to make interesting computer graphics using GEOMETRY and LINEAR ALGEBRA!
I'll probably do the latter.

 No.2368

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>>2053
>>2048
>>2055
>>2054
I'm 2 years late, but the pic is not gibberish at all. It's asking for the cohomology ring of n-dimensional Real Projective Space (Here it's notated by P^n(R) but as a topological space it's notated by RP^n) with coefficients in Z/2Z which is the field of 2 elements. (Computer scientists here might also recognize Z/2Z as the intergers modulo 2 or the group acquired by the XOR operation on the set {T,F}. The field can be easily obtained from the group.)
I don't even know where to start in explaining everything I just said but just know that it's real math, specifically a part of algebraic topology).
Feel free to throw yourself into a math rabbit hole if you're curious about the arcane language I'm speaking in.
The answer to this pic's question by the way would be that "H*( RP^n ; Z/2Z) is isomorphic to to the quotient ring Z/2Z[x] modulo the ideal generated by x^{n+1}" or more compactly "H*( RP^n ; Z/2Z) ≅ Z/2Z[x]/(x^{n+1})".
Algebraic topology surprisingly has an application in data analysis although it is extremely niche.


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 No.2333[Reply]

Hi sushi.
I recently found some lost media hosted on
a website, issue is there is no option to download it,
only to play it.
What would the best way to get it into an mp4 format on my computer be?

 No.2335

yt-dlp or jdownloader.

 No.2338

>>2333
what is it? im interested in knowing more

 No.2339

>>2333
wget

 No.2340

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Can't you like go to inspect element and then in the elements console do a ctrl+f for ".mp4", which is usually attached to the direct video link, copy that and then right-click + "save video as…"?

Or are we talking about one of those websites that makes everyone's life hard? Because those are usually the mainstream sites and in that case I have to ask if you're really sure it's "lost media"

 No.2341

just because a video is hosted on a mainstream video streaming site doesn't mean it's not an endangered file. i lost my favourite (fan made) music video coz i didn't back up my music video downloads and when i went to find it again on youtube it was gone.

i doubt there is another copy of most videos on youtube and once it goes away you'll never see it again. you should always download everything you want to keep and then make backups.


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 No.817[Reply]

What is the most treasured file on your computer?
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 No.1683

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>>1682
Tibetan is really hard though.

 No.1688

>>1648
Nah, it's done. Only God has those memories now. I'm okay with it.

 No.1710

>>817
It's not on my computer, it's the copious amount of garfield porn I obsessively hoard

(it's actually my wallpapers)

 No.2260

my diary. for some reason i went the weirdo route and didnt just get a paper one. there's 101 entries there, about one every two weeks. i have a lot of issues with memory, so its the best record i have of my life and stuff that happens >~<

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>>2336
recently i have been thinking the same


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 No.697[Reply]

Hello everybody, I need a comfy place to talk about VNs. /vn/ on 4chan is filled with literal pedos who only talk about eroge, and I don't like Reddit's format enough to use r/visualnovels. So what have you all been reading lately? What are some great games that we've been missing out on?
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 No.2325

>>2324
How are you enjoying those two so far? I've always wanted to try them, but the tags on VNDB are off-putting to me. I'm worried they might be too 'dark' in a sense.

 No.2326

>>2325
I'm liking them a lot, Tsukihime is really interesting but it can get very shocking and disturbing so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't want that kind of content; on the other side Ef gets tragic and intense (I just played the first part but I remember a bit because I saw the anime years ago) but the overall tone is beautiful and uplifting, mature and emotionally engaging, so I think you will like it. I'll share more thoughts once I finish them.

 No.2327

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>>2320
I am thinking about this image a bit too much.

Any shorter (under 10 hours) VN you guys could recommend?

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Recently finished 9-Nine. The plot and chuuni aspects were kind of forgettable but I really liked the girls and humor, almost wish it had just purely been a moege instead. Art is also very nice. It's getting an anime adaptation but the VN's format seems especially ill-suited for an anime so I'm not expecting much.

Currently reading Kin'iro Loveriche and finished my first route which didn't leave much of an impression, hopefully I just happened to start with a weaker route.

>>2327
Saya no Uta or Planetarian are probably the go-to short VNs, there's also Narcissu and True Remembrance.

 No.2330

Moved to >>>/arcade/2180.


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 No.2291[Reply]

Did Sushi contribute to any open source projects? Or, have you discovered any cool ones worth sharing?

I have found this one!
https://github.com/taisei-project/taisei

 No.2297

>>2291
Not sure whether it really counts as contributing, but I like to give feedback or report bugs or other issues for the game engine of my choice. It's very small and obscure.
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev

 No.2305

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came across this project the other day:
https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

it's basically a minimalist pdf reader with some enhancements for reading text books and other academic-ky stuffs like the ability to jump to a references or figures mentioned in a paragraph even if the author didn't bother linking them, open a popup so you can view those without losing where you are in the page, etc.

it's not perfect tho: so far my biggest gripes is the inability to add popup note-type annotations and the lack of integration on any reference management platforms (which is just baffling).

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One time, I did a thing on Catacylsm DDA. It was really scary and hard and i had to get my friend to help me with the git commands and I was so scared.

 No.2307

I contribute by reporting bugs ;)

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>>2307


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 No.168[Reply]

How much does the average sushi roll's computer cost?
How many of you own fancy GPUs/processors, and how many of you prefer simpler/cheaper hardware?
Does anyone own more than 2 or 3 computers? If so, why?
As always, keep it comfy~
Thanks for your input!
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 No.1932

I have a little acer netbook I got at a pawn shop. I barely use it, but it's comfy. When I first got it I liked to think of it as my little hacker box. I did some programming in it, a lot of distro hopping, and so on. Sometimes I hold on to that old feeling, but I don't really have much to do with a computer, y main device is a tablet as some 80% of my screentime is reading books and I do it in bed, on a comfy chair, or sometimes at a table with a notebook, which could be anywhere.
I also get very anxious about what I am running and what my workflow should be like. It's very stupid, but I can't seem to help it. I like a minimal linux box but I constantly feel I should be using this or that environment or programming language. Ultimately, though, I have nothing really worth doing on a computer. So I spare myself the trouble.

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I built a PC for myself in 2019…
Athlon x4 845
Radeon Pro WX4100
32gb RAM

Adding up the parts, it comes up to about $640, but I spent more due to it being my first box, and making a few missteps during the process. It's a low end box, but it does most of the tasks I ask of it, so I'm happy with it. I'm happy I built mine just before the prices of GPUs ballooned in to insanity.
I mainly run Linux on it, though I have a Windows partition available just in case I need it.

 No.2292

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I urgently needed a PC for developing an Android app for my thesis. Using my company's laptop wasn't comfortable, even ignoring all the spying software.

Unfortunately, I had to buy my setup during the release of a new component generation, so I paid a premium. My setup includes a 13600k CPU and a 4080 GPU, costing me around 2500 euros.

I also have a giant OLED screen, which I use as my only monitor. I absolutely love it for gaming, but the font rendering doesn't seem as good as on a regular LCD. Additionally, on uniform light backgrounds, there's slight evidence of burn-in.

Regardless, I love my 'puter! All of my friends are inside it!

 No.2293

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>>168
I have 4 computers:
A ThinkPad P52 I use as a daily driver with an eGPU setup (RX 6700)
A Thinkpad P51 I used to use as a daily driver until the charging broke somehow (I think it might be a port issue but I haven't found the right part yet)
An old Ryzen Ideapad 330
An old desktop with a 2008 Athlon
An old Dell Latitude a first gen i5
I used to have a T420s when I was a teen and carry it around everywhere with the dock plugged in

I'm emotionally attached to all of these machines. I used to always make sure to use my secondary computers for some kind of task because of the memories I held using them. They all had little quirks and annoyances and were generally underpowered compared to my current PC, but that didn't stop them from providing me with many comfy days.

 No.2303

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I have a tablet that cost about 400 dollars and I bought a logitech wifi keyboard so I can pretend its a laptop. Someday I will be able to buy a computer I hope. I might even build my own.

I've owned several laptops over the years, the last one just recently died (Acer Windows 7) but the last Desktop computer I had access to was probably my Dad's old Dial Up in 2009. I absolutely need a PC eventually because I absolutely must finish reading Majikoi before I die.


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 No.1543[Reply]

Hello, this is not a shill post. So I decided to create my own chan in python as a hobby (using the flask library) and this is what I have come up with so far. Just give me feedbacks here in this thread or there.

Currently you can only upload jpeg , jpg , png , gif, webm below the size of 4mb.

(IDK shit about frontend btw)

https://rikchan.pythonanywhere.com
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 No.1546

>>1545
I hope op does not follow this advice. It would make the site better in every conventional sense, but the unrefined unprocessed feel has charm that polished corporate sites don't.

 No.1547

>>1546
The truth is that the message matters more than the format. If you're bringing people together for a purpose, it doesn't matter if it's a website or an IRC channel. Anyone worth a damn will figure it out and most those who don't bother aren't worth the effort it would take to include them.

Inclusion is a corporate game, gaming for numbers. Authenticity and purpose is what the rest of us have.

 No.1548

Thanks for the advice and for showing the love in my site :). Means a lot.

 No.2256

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Hello I'm from India. Are you detective Goonkesh Hawshi from indiachan.net(if you want to advertise, use the sticky thread on /lounge/)

 No.2257

>>1543
What is your goal through? Do you have people you wish to bring together? Any sort of glue, legacy or personalities that will make the users wish to join and stay? Any blogs, regular content or articles they aren't reading elsewhere? This is personally much more important than however the page itself looks, people are using IRC to this day and it's definitely not because of its superiority 🤷

Tech-wise: I might sound ironic but either make the entire site stretch its reply boxes across the page or align and add margins for everything, especially the posts. Whether or not content should be columnized is a personal preference but consistency is my motto.


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