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  • That is several questions.

    Near the top of the AntiMicroX window are buttons to save and load profiles. Once you set up controller input to keyboard input, save that profile in a folder somewhere you can find it later. It should automatically load the last profile you used for a given controller.

    The GameCube controller doesn’t work for any games i’ve tried it in. Again, probably a drivers issue. But maybe it would work if i tried it in something like Dolphin emulator.

    I used to use DS4 for everything when that was my only controller. When i got Hollow Knight it was buggy, only accepting some inputs, so i got the Logitech and now i use that for all my Linux games that i don’t play with a keyboard. Right now that’s mostly Hollow Knight, Final Fantasy VII, and SSF2. The GameCube controller is mostly used for Smash Ultimate, and occasionally other Switch games that support it or don’t put anything super important on buttons it doesn’t have like L3.




  • I’ve never played Asuna, but the research thing sounds like it’s copied from Terraria’s journey mode. Research enough of an item and you can duplicate it endlessly, as an alternative to a more traditional creative mode.

    Sounds like there’s more Terraria influence too, like slimes holding items and the lack of swimming. I wonder if you’re supposed to find boots of water walking or flippers for swimming, so you can cross water easier.

    I don’t have a problem with that. Terraria has a lot of great ideas, that’s why so many Minecraft mods (and apparently also this) also use them.





  • I run apt update && apt upgrade every few days at slowest, or whenever i want to install or remove something with apt. That’s Debian.

    I’m pretty sure the only programs on my computer that automatically update are those by Mozilla, since i don’t know how to stop them.

    Debian is known for being very stable so i trust that when it tells me to do a system update i should, and so far nothing has broken except what i break.

    Usually i only don’t use the latest version of something if either the latest version is worse than an older version (KiCAD seems to get less usable over time, from what i know) or the latest version isn’t available to me for some reason (PolyGlot has unsatisfyable dependencies so i use an old version).



  • Things were mostly broken (i couldn’t get fluxbox to start) until i used tasksel to install Cinnamon so i could use a browser to look some stuff up (i only have one computer). I removed Cinnamon but whatever it left behind fixed my system enough that i’m now typing this in LibreWolf with not too many weird graphical issues. Some stuff doesn’t work at all yet, like my laptop’s function keys for things like brightness and volume.

    So all in all, better than i thought this might go.



















  • I forgot how frustrating Blender’s boolean modifiers can be sometimes. I did try but Blender crashed my computer.

    I’m about ready to give up on solving this problem that i have no personal stake in, but here’s what i was planning to do.

    1. Open a blank keycap model in Blender and import that SVG.
    2. Convert all the line segments to meshes and join them into a single object.
    3. In edit mode, extrude Tux to make him 3D.
    4. In object mode, line him up with the top (or front, i guess) of a key and shrink and rotate him so he sticks into the cap.
    5. Select the key and make a boolean difference modifier on it with Tux. This should cut a Tux-shaped hole into the cap.
    6. Export as STL and import into a slicer program for 3D printing.

    I found suitable caps for MX and Choc V1, though i didn’t get around to trying the Choc files.

    The SVG i used is based on the flat one here, and my monochome single-object version is here, since i can’t upload an SVG in a comment here. It’s text but you can copy that into a plain text editor (xed, Notepad, etc.) and save it as an SVG file.

    On the custom keyboard i’m designing, my plan is actually to use U+2756 ❖ as the legend for my super key if i ever put legends on the keys. That key doesn’t have a standard symbol but this one works well enough.


  • It looks out of place as a sculpted key next to keys with printed legends. I think what would be better is a slightly simpler picture of Tux with thicker lines that can be filled in like a normal key legend. Or the lines could be filled in with a different color on the printer, for printers that support that.

    But no, i haven’t seen any better Tux caps. I also haven’t looked, so for all i know they’re out there. I could probably throw something together in Blender if people really want this.