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I use Mozilla Thunderbird and have an old hotmail account (tied to microsoft outlook).
I received an email today from MS that states:
"Action Needed – You may lose access to some of your third-party mail and calendar apps"
It kind of feels like a phishing email but I think it is real.
Have you received any of these?
Email goes on to say:
Quote: Update your sign-in technology before September 16th, 2024 to maintain email access.
The safety and security of your information is top priority for Microsoft. To help keep your account secure, Microsoft will no longer support the use of third-party email and calendar apps which ask you to sign in with only your Microsoft Account username and password. To keep you safe you will need to use a mail or calendar app which supports Microsoft’s modern authentication methods. If you do not act, your third-party email apps will no longer be able to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live.com email address on September 16th.
What do you need to do?
If you are receiving this email, you are currently using an email or calendar app that uses a less secure authentication method to connect to your Outlook.com email account. You will need to upgrade your third-party mail and calendar app to a version which supports modern authentication methods.
Microsoft provides free versions of Outlook for your PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices which can be easily downloaded and connect to your email account. Using an updated version of an Outlook application will ensure you are connecting in the most secure way.
I don't know what technology it is actually talking about that will need to be updated.
Anyone know what they're nattering on about?
Thanks
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I recently vowed I'd never purchase an M5 product again after more than $100 USD worth of kit just up and died on me. Not one unit. 3 of them.
Enter Makerfabs. Good build quality. Nice kits. Little bit on the expensive side but see build quality.
They've been my go to lately. However, recently Arduino got updated, and so did PlatformIO, and it broke every single RGB interface makerfabs board because of an interconnected series of issues.
Arduino on the ESP32 runs along side of and sort of on top of the ESP-IDF. The ESP-IDF is necessary to control RGB interface screens. Since Arduino was updated, what was also updated was a major version change of the ESP-IDF it runs along side, breaking code.
Authors that have developed graphics libraries that can interface with these screens have yet to update their libraries to support the latest bits.
As such, you need reference an old version of Arduino to get it to work.
Well, one of the old permalinks to that older arduino package dried up and is no longer available.
So you can't even build for these devices anymore.
After some digging and some help from a friend we finally found a workaround. I'm so relieved.
I have a $50 piece of kit from them in the mail to me right now (i ordered it before i found out about the above)
I just want some hobby kits, not anxiety.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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So I am looking for a mechanical keyboard that is quiet enough for an office setting. The one I have now is way too loud, even though it was advertised as being quiet. 
Anyone have any recommendations for one that is really quiet?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Wahdyasay? I can't hear you over my own keyboard. I get complaints about it from down the block.
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Yeah, my keyboard caused someone to emerge from his office to see what was making all that racket.
The difficult we do right away...
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My Das 5QS isn't particularly loud. It's mechanical though, so there's that. It's certainly noisier than the more common membrane keyboards.
Can you upgrade or replace your coworkers with a more noise tolerant variety?
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Look for linear switches
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Can you upgrade or replace your coworkers with a more noise tolerant variety?
 Wish I could!
The difficult we do right away...
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Most of the newer ones have options to get a quieter switch type. Back in the day you only had one, but now you have several different switch types.
The one I use is a wired Logitech G513. It's technically a gaming keyboard but doesn't have all that gaming nonsense on it that some gaming keyboards do. It's sturdy. And it uses brown switches, which don't really click loud. I never had any complaints about switch noise in meetings either. Maybe they were being nice though. But, no complaints so far.
Site Note: They say some of the really super duper keyboards that are wireless don't have any lag, but I still go wired because from a lag standpoint nothing beats it. I would suspect that most professionals are fast typers still go with a wire.
Oh, I should say, I work from home. So when I'm typing in meetings it's usually over Zoom, Teams, etc. It may be too loud for an office, but out of the switch types, the brown ones are quieter at least when compared to some.
Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks for the comments, Jeremy. Do you game? It's the only reason I could imagine for being concerned about latency.
The difficult we do right away...
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Do you game? It's the only reason I could imagine for being concerned about latency.
Sometimes, but it's usually on the Switch or PS5. Unless I'm sick I generally only use my computers for coding and/or work.
For me, just when typing in a text editor I could feel the latency with your typical wireless keyboard. Was enough to drive me crazy.
Jeremy Falcon
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I am a glorified hunt and peck typer. Even the slowest keyboard reacts faster than I can type.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I use a Corsair. It is lit up which I didn't care for originally but I have gotten use to it.
Not sure I would like it if it was too quiet. But doesn't seem loud to me. I think I use the noise at the subconscious level to affirm my typing.
But maybe if your keyboard is too loud then they will give you an office.
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I once used a Corsair. You know what I don't like about them?
Whatever technology they use to inscribe the symbols onto the keycaps sucks, so that the black paint rubs off after a while, and the keycap is defaced.
The difficult we do right away...
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I ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) my Logitech K120[^]. It's a reliable, no-nonsense, quiet soft travel mechanical keyboard. Before that I used a Dell QuietKey SK-8000[^] for over a decade. It was amazingly reliable but died after I spilled an entire cup of coffee on it. 
/ravi
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I think all mechanical KBs are louder than the equivalent, but ... they are robust and feel really good to type on.
My DAS 4 doesn't seem too loud to me (now I'm used to it) but it does use the Cherry Blue which are designed to be "clicky" - they do a Cherry brown version which is quieter.
The model numbers are DASK4MKPROCLI-UK for the Blue, and DASK4MKPROSIL-UK for the Brown.
Both are rated for 50M keystrokes per switch, which is at least a weeks typing for the Codewitch! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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