I recently found out about this Lego tree outfit and it was just too perfect to not pick it up. And, thankfully, it turns out it's relatively cheap to order Lego for this kind of stuff! And I could use a free program that worked on Linux to design it beforehand so I knew exactly what pieces to order! (Bricklink studio).

This is my Symic hybrid Artificer Boomhoofd, based on this forum post I found a long time ago. He is completely minmaxed for grappling, which I have a lot of fun with.

I styled him after a tree—that is, this is an insane former elf that made himself a tree-shaped Armor of Magical Strength and claims to be a tree. No-one believes this, of course, but he remains adamant. Being a symic hybrid, he has two extra appendages with which he can also grapple. In this case tree branches.

The armor is filled with hatches, gears, hidden shutes, you name it. Very mechanical, and all his spells are also flavored to be something like, a hatch opens, a spray of this and this shoots out.

Of course, the new 2024 rules will significantly hamper his grappling abilities, so I'm hoping our DM will be lenient with those specific new rules...

Also shown is his homunculus servant, an owl.

I'm using labwc at the moment and I was missing something like this. Next up is installing batsignal for battery notifications.

devify: https://github.com/pog102/devify batsignal: https://github.com/electrickite/batsignal

I was annoyed by my default terminal bell sound and that got me thinking!

Doom is foon!

Has anyone made a half-decent Tux keycap to replace the ubiquitous Windows key with? I found this 3d-printable one but I can't say I'm crazy about its looks... I mean, look at this:

(To be clear, this is not my keyboard.)

Maybe the way to go is a generic penguin-themed keycap?

Just got this puppy second-hand for a reasonable price. A Keychron V5 Max... I would've liked another brand, but these were just the only ones with VIA I could find second-hand nearby.

The plan is to slowly customize it with second-hand switches and keycaps, 'cuz I can't really justify buying new stuff... Financially and environmentally!

Also part of the plan is opening it up to add some foam and do a tape mod... Curious what that'll do. I already stuck some painter's tape on the inside of the space bar, backspace, backward slash and enter keys, which makes a big difference already!

...But man, it's hard to resist the temptation to order something new anyway. Also, does anyone have any tips for making the key with the Windows logo into a little Tux? I found this, but I don't think that would ever look actually pretty...