That's one of the things that freak me out about Wayland.

The DIY/BYOB experience is perfectly viable in the X11 world. I don't think I've ever had a piece of software balk at me because I used FVWM instead of kwin. I don't want to be railroaded into a desktop environment with strong opinions and mediocre tools when there's a sprawling flea maret worth of software to explore.

And surely that isn't happening either, though? Hyprland, Sway, Niri... I hear people are loving them. Enjoy!

wlroots is self-described as "about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway." It's also a moving target and you'll probably have to retool when wlroots updates.

That seems like a huge burden to carry around, considering that a minimal X11 window manager can be a few thousand lines of code and probably still compiles after 15 years.

You can still get a handful of non-RGB cases. They're usually sold as the "Silent" version (i. e. Fractal Pop series, Gamemax Titan Silent series) since the non-glass side panels often have sound-deadening material glued in.

15 bucks of rattlecans will make any case beige. :)

I'm sort of waiting for a motherboard manufacturer to weigh in though. Even the "pro" ranges tend to be black PCBs with a lot of complex silkscreening. The boards that don't have any of that tend to be OEM-tier boards with skimpy features. Surely someone can make an X870E-VINTAGE board with a green or yellow-brown substrate, no nonsense silkscreening, and finned brass heatsinkage that looks like the sort of thing you saw permanently glued to your 486DX2/66 CPU?

I want the aesthetic, but that can still be implemented in the context of no-compromises modern hardware.

It sounds from their blog posts, they tried to crib some config details from the MSI Intel boards they had done work with, but it seems like a relatively small part of the story.

I bought one a few months ago because I had wrecked the PCI-E clip on my old ASRock X670E Pro RS, and it was my first time in a Micro Center. :P

What drew me to it was the large number of conventional PCI-E slots (one day I might want to dust off my old Hauppauge HVR-1250 or Sound Blaster Audigy-RX)

The one novel feature compared to other similarly priced B850/X870 boards is that it has 5GbE when most have 2.5Gb.

The tech people have done a terrible job of using their leverage.

They're inventing the cool hardware and infrastructure, but for some reason, they let the content people dictate terms. I want to see the LGs and Samsungs of the world announching "we're making this amazing 16k OLED panel, and the only interface it has is unencrypted DisplayPort. If you don't want to your precious movies on it, there are still stock traders who will buy it to fill with graphs or programmers who will fill it with StackOverflow tabs and vim windows."

Sure, Sony could try to make some sort of sealed box viewing system that never let the raw bitstream out-- by the darkness, they've spent the last 30 years trying-- but most of the content firms don't have the technical chops or the market power to make it happen. I can fully imagine them trying to sell multiple different set-top boxes, each of which is only capable of decoding one studio's DRM.

On the other hand, what ended up liberating the music market wasn't some grand audiophile product, it was the market full of $29 no-brand/minor-brand "MP3 players". It was such a fragmented market, running random bare-metal firmware on the cheapest MCUs available, that nobody except Apple could possibly make a play out of selling anything but DRM-free content.

It's probably a turtles-all-the-way-down problem.

Three or four blank lines is probably the least hostile and most foolproof way to handle addresses.

But the cart software has distinct address-line-1, address-line-2, city, state, zip-code fields.

And the CRM they export into has similar fields.

Probably to be compatible with some further pipeline of tooling going back decades.

I suspect if you go back far enough it ends at pre-/semi-computerized data processing systems which would print addressed envelopes and documents from stacks of Hollerith cards, using extremely rigid fixed formats that were probably fine for their original buyers, likely US-centric and old enough that they were just getting it to the right city and letting the local postman figure out the nonsense on the envelope.

I went year-make-model many years ago when I did an autoglass website.

The filtering value is big as you said, and the model year as a first filter is easy to type in, and probably gets you reasonably close if you're off-by-one. Accidentally picking an '05 Sonata instead of an '04 probably has similar parts, but if you pick Honda instead of Hyundai, you're way off in Wonderland.

It looks suspiciously like a Kensington Slimblade.

That makes me wonder if the functionality could be done on random off-the-shelf trackballs in firmware or drivers, in which case you're not a product, you're a feature.

Creator here - yes, it's a mod of a Kensington SlimBlade Pro, mentioned on the site. Rotatrix is the hardware mod (added controller), firmware, and software stack that extracts 3DOF rotation and integrates into CAD and other apps. It's possible with firmware, but you need a trackball with dual optical sensors to do this (which very few have), and the system is patent pending. More on the architecture in the earlier Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990422

Thanks for taking a look.

I got my General in late 2024, but haven't done much with it. Collected a few HTs, built one little 2m-specific antenna, but I'm a bit embarrassed to hit Transmit when I'm not sure I've got everything configured right to not intrude on other repeater users.

I had two atypical goals with it:

- If I could present a certificate that says "the Government admits that I know something about how RF operates" maybe my irritating brother would acknowledge me when I tried to explain that Wi-Fi multipath concerns no longer apply when we plugged his machine into a hard-wired Ethernet socket.

- Being able to brandish "the FCC allows me to build a 200-metre antenna tower in the backyard" as a counterargument when the local HOA hassles me about the weeds that apparently have evolved beyond vulnerability to the stuff they sell at the local home centre.

It feels very "bifurcated" as a hobby -- you either do 2m/70cm stuff with little $100 handhelds, or you start doing outright construction projects to deal with antenna sizes, and spending four figures to explore HF.

I understand the Fitt's Law concepts behind a top menu bar, but I wonder if this is a scenario with moving goalposts.

On a 1984 Mac, you had like 512x384 pixels and a system that could barely run one program at a time. There was little to no possible uncertainty as to who owned the menu bar. (Could desk accessories even take control of the menu bar?)

But once you got larger resolutions and the ability to have multiple full-size programs running at once, the menu bar could belong to any of them. Now, theoretically, you should notice which is the currently active window and assume it owns the menu bar, but ISTR scenarios where you'd close the window but the program would still be running, owning the menu bar, or the "active" window was less visually prominent due to task switching, etc.

The Windows design-- placing the menu inside the window it controls-- avoids any ambiguity there. Clicking "File-Save" in Notepad couldn't possibly be interpreted as trying to do anything to the Paintbrush window next to it.

Since OS X 10.3 (2003) Control+F2 moves focus to the Apple menu. The arrow keys can then select any menu item which is selected with Return or canceled with Escape. Command+? will bring you to a search box in the Help menu. Not only that, any menu item in any app can be bound to any keyboard shortcut of the user's choosing not just the defaults provided by the system or application.