It’s spring, and that means… it’s time for spring spring swapping?

At least, that’s what I ended up doing.

Following up on my last post about the ZSA Moonlander I’ve switched to the Drop Holy Panda X keyswitches. Since not everyone thinks they are entirely deserving of the Holy Panda name, and I don’t want to type that a thousand times, I’ll just call them Drop HPX switches.

I’ve never owned any other Holy Panda switches, but I can say for sure they’ve got better tactility than any of the standard browns: Cherry Brown, Kailh Brown / Box Brown, but they were far heavier. Turns out, I’m not a heavy typer, so that’s how I started down the path of swapping the springs.

Updated Mar. 18, 2022 with instructions about how to downgrade game versions while mods are being updated, because ScoreSaber only supports 1.19.0 right now.

Geefr has released a new GUI mod installer for Linux! I recommend you use that now instead of the terminal / scripts option detailed in this post.

Old mod install method:

1.3.0 broke mods again! Use these scripts to get them working again! Read further below to see more details about this update

So you’ve probably heard that I’ve recently started using an HTC Vive I acquired (or you’re somebody I’ve never met…) and I also love rhythm games, so you see where this is going.

Beat Saber works great on it’s own with my new PC (details in a previous post: Triangulum) but I needed more out of the game, since I’m used to the custom community, songs, skins, etc from OSU (Lazer!).

It’s not too hard to get everything working, just needs some extra tweaks here and there.

For quick reference, the programs I will be using are:

• Protontricks: github.com/Sirmentio/protontricks
• BeatDrop: github.com/StarGazer1258/BeatDrop
• Steam Proton v4.11-2

That’s all you’ll need! Now let’s get started!

I am the proud new user of ZSA’s Moonlander MK1, and in fact this is my first experience using an ortholinear keyboard.

It’s only been a few days since the unboxing, and already I am absolutely loving the experience of typing on it, even if I am spending a few seconds hunting for a special key I had to reposition.

In just 4 days since I opened the box I am already achieving more than 50% of my original typing speed on the UHK (which I still love, btw) and I seem to be improving at a much faster rate compared to the UHK, which was my first split keyboard.

And so I upgraded from Pop 20.10 to 21.04.

Fortunately there were no technical problems during the upgrade, however upon being greeted with the new Cosmic desktop I was not happy…

KUB hosted a public forum on Wednesday, May 26th in order to bring in opinions on it’s new plan to roll out municipal broadband to the greater Knox County area, basically everywhere KUB currently services.

Even before I attended this forum, I had a very strong opinion in favor of municipal broadband, and I don’t think anyone will be surprised to hear how I agree that the current oligopoly in the ISP space is seriously hurting America as a whole.

Most people who aren’t voicing their support for municipal broadband either don’t know the whole picture or are on the side of the greedy and consumer-disrespecting private Internet Service Providers. (ISP)

I highly recommend anyone in the area of influence of KUB read their documentation on the matter, which shows not only the plan itself but supports it with real-world examples such as Chattanooga’s municipal broadband and the rates of Knoxville’s current limited selection of providers.

I attended the in-person forum to show support for KUB’s rollout plan and was happy to see the majority in strong support of the plan.