I code with it, yeah. Just have those symbols wherever you want them (I never used those inner upper keys either, except for things that I don’t mind lifting my hand for). Layers layers layers. Also home row mods.

For my next board, I’m probably going with a 6×3+3, I don’t use the number row either. Keypad on a layer under the right hand is so much nicer…

That’s correct. Btrfs will simply divide your disks in 1GB chunks, and when writing, always ensure that a bit of data is always stored in 2 chunks on two different disks. You can also do 1C3 or 1C4 if your data is truly that critical, which means data is always stored in 3 or 4 chunks (on different disks), respectively. Of course, that also requires at least they amount of drives.

This chunking is also the reason why the sizes of the drives don’t have to match, as long as it’s possible to divide it evenly you won’t lose space as unused. Simply put, make sure your largest drive is not larger than your other drives combined and you should be fine.

In my case, data will always see one copy on the 4gb drive, and another on either of the 2gb drives.

As for the reason to switch: that’s something I can get behind, although you could also just slap Proxmox on it an do all your experimenting in VMs; at least that keeps the server itself running as smoothly as possible, while not limiting you in your learning experiences.

As for btrfs: it most certainly does have RAID functionality. RAID5/6 is considered unstable (although I’ve heard/read from plenty of people who have great experiences with it, provided you don’t run into the edge cases), but I’m sticking with RAID1 because I don’t need to run the risk, and I’m not sure if waiting for a checksum calculation whenever something does go pear-shaped is going to do a whole lot of good for me.

Anyway, as for my setup: an HP Microserver (an oldie, a Gen8 with a Xeon switched in) running Leap, powering a few VMs, a collection of Docker containers, and a few “native” services (nginx, PHP, stuff like that). The root fs is a single SSD (btrfs SINGLE with some directories having a flag to disable COW), and there’s a data pool of 3 spinning disks (2x2 and 1x4GB), 4GB effective, that contains “data”. Most of it is setup with Ansible these days, hence no real use for YaST on that machine for me.

You’ll lose more than just snapshots, btrfs does a bit more than just that.

I’ve been running my NAS/server on btrfs for years, now. I started out on Rockstor (which was still based on CentOS back then, they switched to an OpenSUSE core some years ago), later I decided to roll my own setup on Leap, partially because I already had (and love) Tumbleweed on my workstations, and keeping everything on one distro is just less mental overhead. For me, it’s been rock solid. I like OpenSUSE, I like btrfs. Snapshots have saved my bacon on the workstations more than once when bleeding edge updates and nvidia clashed; it’s never been an issue on the server of course, and I don’t really use them for data (although the option is there). I do however use RAID1, on 3 drives, and being able to just add a drive even if it’s not the same size as the others (within reason), is a big plus and one of the reasons I opted for btrfs back then.

OpenSUSE as a distro is great, there’s a fair amount of software, stuff that’s not in the default repos might be on OBS. It’s a fixed-release distro but the cadence feels somewhat different from Ubuntu’s. YaST is great when you want to have some easily accessible menu driven interface to setting things up, rather than poke around in config files (I’m more of a config file guy, but having the option is nice).

Of course, as for opinion… It all depends on what you want to use the machine for, where your experiences lie, and so on. What’s the NAS doing, besides file shares, what do you hope to gain by switching distros? Where are you on the scale from “I want it to just work, something like a Synology would be nice if they weren’t so pricey” to “I hand-compile kernels for fun”?

Eh, the split part is easy, it’s the lack of row stagger that’s going to trip you up for at least a couple of days.

You do get used to it, though, and after that a “normal” keyboard will feel as weird as it actually is, when you think about it.

Something I couldn’t find in the readme (could be my fault) is the “why”. What did you tweak, what where the things in Iosevka that you we’re missing?

ascetics

I think you mean “aesthetics”, an ascetic is something quite different. 😛

Why not make a “game” layer that doesn’t get in your game-playing way, and have mod-taps on the rest? (as far as they don’t interfere with the chords, of course)

Sure! I have several:

• the kit for the Lily is from 42 Keebs
• the caps are the Monster clone from Ali
• the case is based on the Lunar58 but with bolt eyes (or whatever they’re called) tacked on (I’ll ask the guy who did that for me if he plans on opening up the files)
• printed with Devil Design Copper filament

I have two control keys! They’re under D and K, through the miracle of mod-tap. Look into home row mods, it’s a game changer. Here’s my keymap for reference — it’s a bit of a work in progress, I keep finding little things to tweak or improve.

As it stands, the two outer thumbs (App/Alt) aren’t even mapped at the moment, they’re too tucky for my hands, and the outer row on the left isn’t exactly what the cap legends say, either.

They’re more ergo than a regular keyboard, I think, so personally I’m fine with it.

What are we looking at? Do share some specs!

Kbin can do Microblogs, but I’m not sure what you mean with “alternative to chronological feed”?

Oh, that is glorious.

If there’s a next time, I’ll use two MCUs and a TRRS like a normal weirdo.

Go RJ45 or go home! ;) With a Japanese duplex matrix you should have plenty of wires to have that layout working, I think. And if you go with two MCUs it’s even less of an issue.

Fun writeup, and you ended up with a functioning keyboard as a bonus! How’s the double row of thumb keys working out for you? Or do you only use your thumbs for the lower two and index/middle for the other ones, or…? I’ve never tried a board with two rows of thumb keys and somehow I don’t see myself liking them, but I see them around enough to give me FOMO.

Oh, that colemakclub one is more pleasant to use than colemak.academy which I used before. I’ll also certainly check out they Keyzen one, there might be something to that as well.

These tips are all solid, and reflect my setup. Database (MariaDB) and PHP files on the SSD, data storage on spinny bois. Don’t underestimate the importance of a recent enough version of PHP, OpCache, enabled, and so on.

There’s a whole chapter on performance tuning in the manual, and the “Security & setup warnings” part of the administration settings should point out some configuration issues, when it finds them.

My setup might actually take a (smallish) performance hit because I use btrfs for all my filesystems. Just don’t get roped into the whole “wsl on Windows” thing, that’s just not going to work out, it’s a kludge that MS offers to not bleed users to Linux too much, but it’s certainly not meant for server workloads.

The hardware should not be the bottleneck at all, the 1265 in OPs machine should not be significantly slower than the 1280 in mine.

Eh, my gen8 is chugging happily along with Nextcloud, Synapse, Jellyfin and friends, docker-mailserver, a GoToSocial instance, Home Assistant in a VM, and so on. I don’t know what else is running on your server (and, admittedly, I’ve added some RAM and stuck in a somewhat beefier Xeon CPU), but it should have no problems running a web app like Nextcloud, especially if you stay away from the more intensive stuff like office apps.

That aside, I’ve gone through a fair amount of note taking apps, and so far I like Joplin best, too bad it doesn’t seem to work out for you. Not sure when you last checked out the Android app, but I do know there’s been some changes in the editor it uses recently-ish, it might be worth it to check again.

I really enjoy the board, but the thumbs are waaaay too tucky for me

Yeah… I took one look at that image and my thumbs started cramping up right away. ;)

It does look very snazzy, though!

Ha, kinda the same story for me.

For my first ergo split, I wanted to build a Corne, but ended up building a Lily due to not being able to order the Corne and being somewhat uncertain of “just 3 rows”. Now my mapping has gravitated to something that’d fit on a Corne, I don’t use the outermost thumbs and am weaning myself off of the num row. Still considering whether I should try and work with 5 columns instead of 6, but there’s some useful keys there — for now.

I can see myself building another split in the future (something that’s slightly more travel-friendly than the Lily), and it’s probably going to be a Corne. The Lily’s thumb cluster is slightly to far to the outer edge for my comfort.

Or being forced to find a headset somewhere because my hearing is shit and I can’t make out what they’re saying (and don’t get me started on the auto-generated sub’s).

Also, not having ads waved in my face on YouTube is a plus.

Also, I read a lot faster than the average youtuber talks.

Some things benefit from video, but tech articles tend to not fall under that category.