| nhaines | My new Microsoft Sculpt Ergnomic Desktop keyboard and mouse set have arrived. It's been 5 minutes but so far I like it. | 00:49 |
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| nhaines | Separate numeric keypads are the bee's knees. And it's all working out of the box in Ubuntu. I'm sure Windows 8 will have to think about how it feels about USB HID devices for the requisite 3 minutes of contemplation. | 00:50 |
| pleia2 | welcome to never being able to type on a normal keyboard again | 00:50 |
| * ianorlin is using a ps/2 keyboard | 00:51 | |
| nhaines | Nah, I've been using ergnomic keyboards for about 20 years now. ;) | 00:51 |
| pleia2 | ah ok :) | 00:51 |
| nhaines | Everyone's like "zomg how will I learn to type on one?" And I'm like "the same way you're supposed to be touchtyping on any keyboard you noob!" | 00:52 |
| * ianorlin is able to use the mouse with both hands | 00:53 | |
| nhaines | Ha, the mouse has a "Windows button" on it that's mapped to the Super key. | 00:53 |
| nhaines | Wonder if it's feasible to replace that with an Ubuntu logo with an orange background. Well, I'll worry about that later when there are fingerprints over everything. ;) | 00:53 |
| nhaines | Middle clicking doesn't make me want to throw the mouse against the wall, so that's nice too. | 00:55 |
| * ianorlin doesn't like touchpads that you have to use multitouch to middle click | 00:58 | |
| ianorlin | why can't I have a third button? | 00:58 |
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| pleia2 | also, I realized another one of my favorite features of my android watch is that it tells me when it's disconnected from my phone, great when I'm a block from home and don't know if I brought my phone or not, no more digging into the TARDIS-like inside of my purse | 01:44 |
| nhaines | TIMEKEEPING FUNCTIONALITY DISABLED. BATTERY KILLER MODE ACTIVATED. | 01:44 |
| pleia2 | I wish it would find my keys | 01:44 |
| nhaines | Now that's something that needs a proximity unlock mode. :) | 01:44 |
| pleia2 | my home? | 01:44 |
| nhaines | Also car. | 01:45 |
| pleia2 | car may be scarier "steal phone, wander round parking lot..." | 01:45 |
| nhaines | Someone described some kind of hack to do that with a little Linux server and an electronic lock for his home on Slashdot a decade ago. | 01:45 |
| nhaines | Someone commented "Yeah, but if the power goes out he's fscked." | 01:45 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 01:46 |
| pleia2 | well you still carry keys | 01:46 |
| pleia2 | it's just when you have a handful of groceries | 01:46 |
| nhaines | No, I think he completely replaced the lock. Which.. well. :P | 01:46 |
| pleia2 | ah, that's amusing :) | 01:46 |
| nhaines | Thinkgeek was selling RFID keypad locks I think. | 01:47 |
| pleia2 | reminds me, I was coming home from Target during a lunch grocery run and the streets were maggoty with salesforce conference people | 01:47 |
| pleia2 | just like, standing on the sidewalks, not moving | 01:47 |
| * pleia2 gets the local grumpies | 01:47 | |
| nhaines | Ha. | 01:47 |
| nhaines | All 20 Google apps updating on my phone: "This application requires an update to Google Play Services" | 01:48 |
| nhaines | Me: "Dear phone, please just do the things." | 01:48 |
| pleia2 | are you using a dev version of GPS? | 01:48 |
| nhaines | Nope. Just wiped my N5 and installed Android 4.4.4 on it. | 01:48 |
| nhaines | Although to be fair, this was because th dev version of GPS (in "L" preview) broke everything two days ago and my phone was unusable because every 3 seconds: "Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped." | 01:49 |
| nhaines | Do you *promise*? | 01:49 |
| nhaines | I am now a developer! \o/ | 01:50 |
| nhaines | Okay, reinstalling Ubuntu. Hopefully for good on this phone. :P | 01:59 |
| jyo | nhaines: Yeah, TIL that one peripheral devices manufacturer also makes operating systems. huh. ;) | 05:17 |
| nhaines | jyo: they're fantastic mice and keyboards. Except left Ctrl and right Alt didn't work consistently on the old one. On this replacement everything is fabulous. | 05:18 |
| jyo | I'm guessing they wanted to expand from peripherals to tablets so they wrote an OS for the tablet. </lolhistory> | 05:19 |
| jyo | pleia2: I heard a rumor that Juno is dropping Python 2.6 support? | 05:24 |
| pleia2 | jyo: Kilo | 06:01 |
| pleia2 | Juno still has it | 06:02 |
| pleia2 | oh, lollipop :) | 18:42 |
| nhaines | pleia2: and just in time for me having wiped my phone. :) | 18:52 |
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