It’s to verify if either a configuration in Bazzite is the cause(such as your drivers), or if it is hardware related. The other comment asking if you installed the Nvidia version of Bazzite suspects driver issues as well, so a live USB would be able to rule it out or confirm it.

Alternatively, and probably the better option is to just take backups of your files and such and then reinstall Bazzite to the system, making sure you are using a version that is compatible with your graphics card. You don’t seem as though you know a tonne about Linux, so I would probably recommend that over trying to rebase the OS, as it will generally be easier for you to do I think, and more completely insure system stability.

Yes as I’m afraid that was one of the expected parts.

According to NASA, the length of the celestial object is 366 meters. The distance from 387746 (2003 MH4) to the planet Earth will be 6,676,580 km.

If an asteroid approaches the Earth at a distance closer than 7.5 million kilometers and its size exceeds 150 meters, NASA considers it a “potentially hazardous object.”

So there is basically no chance of impact as I understand it unless some suuuuuuuuper unexpected shit happens I guess.

Hey all, I discovered two issues with the QK101 on Linux, figured out the fixes, and I thought I would come back to explain the fixes for any other Linux users such as myself who might be looking for a solution to the same problem if they purchase this board in the future.

As a reference point, please note that I am on the stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64.

I encountered two issues. The first was that when going to VIA to configure the board (the QK101 SPECIFICALLY uses the version of VIA found at https://cfg.qwertykeys.com/ at the time of writing), even after pairing the HID, VIA would not do anything and would not detect the board. To fix this I made two changes. First I swapped to the cable that came with the board. Second, instead of using a Chromium based browser, I found I had to use Chromium ITSELF.

I had done some other stuff I can’t fully recall regarding permissions of the hidraw devices under /dev/ as well, but I think you only have to touch these if the device doesn’t show up as a choice when choosing a device when authorizing it in VIA. If one thinks they need to change permissions on these, note that the keyboard has multiple hidraw devices mounted, and they can be determined by opening via and chrome://device-log/ in different tabs and then trying to authenticate. Using the device log you should be able to see which hidraw devices you should be working with.

The second issue was that even though I could remap keys, change some colors etc, I could not perform firmware updates, or make custom animations for the screen/LED matrix - trying to save would just state “Save failed” on VIA.

The problem here is related to the permissions of the serial device as it is represented in the OS.

To determine which interface it is on one’s system, they can run the command sudo watch -n 2 "ls /dev/ | grep tty | column" and unplug/replug the keyboard as needed to determine which tty represents the keyboard. In my case I found it to be ttyACM0. Once this is determined, you can quit out of the watch command with ctrl + C.

If the user runs cat /dev/ttyACM0 and receives a permission denied error, it will verify that the user account does not have access to the serial interface of the device, and this is why VIA is unable to write certain data back to the board.

The best fix here is to simply add your user to the dialout group, which will have the effect of giving the user account access to the serial ports. This is achievable with the command sudo usermod -aG dialout USERNAME where USERNAME is your username.

Some information on the internet states that you only have to log out and back in after this to have the group addition take effect, but in my case I discovered that I had to restart the system entirely. To verify if you are in the group, you can just run the groups command by itself.

Once this is done, you can go back into via to test adding an LED Matrix animation or some sort - for me it worked at this point.

Thanks!

Lol, yea I had a similar thought when writing it.

My Mom who plans these games takes it seriously because she wants people to have a good time, but has a really difficult time finding something which she considers accessible enough for everyone while still imparting some kind of challenge. She usually defaults to trivia, but then thinks that it should be Christmas trivia. The problem therein is that after 30 or more years of doing this, it has become wildly stale as there is only so much Christmas trivia, and it is not very engaging at all.

Last year I came to her with about 5 different new game ideas, all but one was shot down for some reason or another. The one that did get through went really well, but I am still thinking of others things I could bring to her well in advance, as she needs to mull over the logistics of whether they would meet her criteria for an acceptable party game.

I swear to god, one of these days the update will be “Today Youtube has announced that they will be removing the annoying videos from their ads”.

I love you. Please spread it fucking everywhere when you do.

Even people who would buy from Nazi’s still want a functional car.

These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.

The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.

I’ve heard a lot about Kubernetes, but haven’t actually had to interact with it once incredibly. Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!

The couple I have built are mostly built by myself with some outside suggestions from a friend. Usually you are safe to browse anything so long as you can find some legitimate user reviews (Video reviews preferably) - pre-orders, and especially group buys can be risky. This goes for parts as well as full boards. It’s also good to look into whether the seller has good documentation/a build guide if the keyboard does nifty things that are not very standard. I just got a QwertyKeys QK101 which I finished building last night - I can verify that they as a seller were really quite fast as far as delivery goes, and the board is working quite nicely, has some really neat magnetic connections inside that connects the battery to the PCB and the PCB to the screen which made that really easy. Also hot swappable for the switches, so I didnt have solder anything. Have also heard pretty good things about their other boards. For switches I use a seller called RNDKBD, and for caps I usually look at DeskHero or CanonKeys.

I made a post with a picture and part list you can see on my profile.

Nice! I just finished building mine last night - it has Gateron root beer floats.

Which switches are in your keyboard!

Pretty much any of them will outlive you. All you are looking for is your preferences - if you don’t have any, then you don’t have to worry. Some people like key switches to be linear, some like ones that have a tactile feeling to them, others like them to be really clicky audibly. Some people just want it to plug in with a USB cable, others prefer bluetooth, others want 2.4 GHz wireless, some people want it to be capable of all 3. Some people want key caps that are aesthetically pleasing, others want ones that show the bindings for non-latin characters, some people want really big letters, or none at all. Some people want a non-qwerty layout, some want the qwerty layout but with variations like a split shift key, numpad + key, spacebar. Some people like the spacebar to be longer instead of having a right alt key, some want to have an F13 key. Others want really small portable keyboards instead of a fullsize, some want them to be light or heavy.

This goes on and on and on, it’s all about what you want and what you like, and the fact that if you treat it right you never need another keyboard unless you pour a glass of water onto it.

It’s out of my eye line so it’s fine in my case. I chose the QK101, less for those features, and more for the others such as its PCB + the fact that it is a heavy full sized.

It’s an LED matrix. It contains a 7x7 grid of RGB LED’s which can run different animations that can also change in real time depending on your typing speed at the moment. It is configurable and can take custom animations as well if I am not mistaken, just like the LCD next to it which can accept foreground and background speed-changing GIF animations.

I was waiting on the key caps forever for this - the carrier took them to the mailbox instead of dropping it at my door as requested (this was a problem as I don’t have a key to my mailbox for the next couple weeks for reasons I won’t get into), so I had to go pick the lock on my own mailbox in the middle of the night to complete the build.

Moral of the story - Invest in lock picks.

Thanks, I think the chassis color and corresponding key color has a lot to do with it - I don’t think this particular color for the QK101 is very popular as before purchasing I could not find any pictures of it outside of the vendors website haha.

Thanks!

A 3 way PCB is capable of making a connection using USB, Bluetooth, or 2.4 GHz wireless.

Unsure why link I added isn’t working for the image. Can see it here:

https://files.catbox.moe/jd6mv1.jpg

Wow thanks!