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Off Topic / Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)

« Last post by noisyturtle on Fri, 16 October 2026, 19:40:15 »

Finally have some real money in my account.
Spent it all in 2 days paying off way past due bills.
And I walk away with nothing. Not even a feeling of pride or accomplishment. Not even some pizza and beer to numb the pain.

The adult grind is relentless and unrewarding.

Interest Checks / Re: [IC] KKB 1001 Nights

« Last post by wanderwell on Fri, 16 October 2026, 17:05:33 »

The fluttering books

Have you considered including the numpad in the alt alphas? Always bugs me when it is omitted, but I am also aware of numpad sales trends and that it wouldn't be worth it for a lot of sets.

Interest Checks / Re: [IC] KKB 1001 Nights

« Last post by MartinThePolarBear on Fri, 16 October 2026, 15:55:36 »

Since this is KKB, can you add 10u Spacebars to the Spacebar kit?

Interest Checks / Re: [IC] KKB 1001 Nights

« Last post by marwan38 on Fri, 16 October 2026, 15:17:46 »

Love the colors. I wish the arabic sublegends were printed smaller, I think it looks much more elegant that way and including the alternates (Shift + key).

geekhack Media / Re: Post your Alice keyboard and ergonomic keyboard

« Last post by dankthock on Fri, 16 October 2026, 13:38:41 »

I posted mine back in december in 'make stuff together' but the topic never got approved. I guess this is a good topic to post it. I named the layout the 'full split multi spacebar alice' layout, aka the 'Malice layout'. I have been using it for almost a year now at work, the battery life easily exceeds 1 year. Production files can be found on this gitlab page. Enjoy if you will.

Protective hardcase

Off Topic / Proper Anime Video Settings.

« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 16 October 2026, 11:39:58 »

MPCHC (year 2020) + Madvr is still the quintessential, light weight, most performant video player/scalar.

Beloved VLC

is convenient, but there is a massive image quality gap.

This is not trivial "sharpening"

SuperRes filter, post upscaling step, downscales the image back to original resolution, checks for errors, compensates, Repeat 4 times.

Madvr also renders in higher bitdepth + dithers with error diffusion, preserving pristine gradients.

In succinct terms, the Combo brings out every bit of Detail, GRAIN, Softness, Shadow, Color Ramp.

It's like watching anime for the 1st time.

But WHY is GRAIN important. You don't watch 1 video frame, you watch 24 frames a second.

So, if you evaluate a SINGLE frame, you might consider grain "noisy", but when you watch all 24frames in 1 second, the GRAIN Elevates TEMPORAL resolution, giving you a higher resolution perceptual experience.

The 24 frames of grain, also SOFTENS the hard edges themselves such that you don't really feel like it's too stiff.

Tp4 has included his detailed settings, There's no wrong way to set it up, but this is just to get started.

AI NGU upscaling is also available, it's very sharp, but this does in fact add artifacts that're not in the video data itself. (Not recommended by Tp4, ontop of massive power consumption.)

One can also use Madvr to deliberately produce a "soft" look like VLC, it's up to you, you'd still get the advantage of Madvr's dithering which is Top notch and validated by instrument measurements, Even professionals in the field use madvr tonepatch generator to calibrate certain PC oriented equipment.

The dithering is a big deal, it gives you 10bit+ lvl performance even if you output 8bit from an 8bit source.

GPU requirements, at least a gtx 1050 for SDR, 1060 for HDR.

You can get Madvr from https://www.videohelp.com/software/madVR

Download the base 0.92.17, then download the latest test build same page, and extract the test build files directly into the 0.92.17 folder, then run install.bat as admin.

Once you install MPChc, you will also need to install Lav filter.

Set lav filter video decoding to dx11
Set mpchc to use Madvr renderer in the options menu under output>directshow video>madvr

VLC