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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 45 minutes ago

But, and here me out, it's also wicked cool.

Ours is more stick-shaped though, and really only good for candle wicks. If we smoked, you might be able to get a cigarette into the arc. It'd probably also work well if your grill's or gas stove's spark iginter was broken.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

All with full 40s sets?

Oh, God no. Sorry! Mostly they're on more normie boards, but the Mitospeed being R3 and full of nonsense legends would go well on a 40 or 40-adjacent.

I've reluctantly come to realize that I just don't like the feel of Cherry all that much. I prefer DCS if I'm going to go cylindrical. The sharp edges on Cherry are just all wrong for my poor typing technique.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I got Tatooine, Oblivion (Hagoromo), Laser, and Mitospeed for some pretty steep discounts, as well as the DSS Honeywell from PrimeKB. My options for cheap but unused SP are quickly drying up though, lol.

Funny enough, the board I come back to most often is the first one I did on the no-stabs PCB (minimum order quanity is a burden to us all!), which has semi-sculpted Akko SA on it.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

SA Teletype is such a pretty set, and I really like SA R3, and the designer seems like a good guy. It was the one time I was seriously tempted to pay full price for "name brand" keycaps. I don't even use 40s, but I had a layout rigged to adapt an existing no-stabs FRL 1800 PCB I designed a while back.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Why do you think Starfleet had to set that up in the first place? You think they WANT a huge network of oversized saltwater-flooded Jeffries tubes running alongside the constantly infiltrated and poorly electrically insulated normal ones?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Interesting. These say they're from Mexico. It would be pretty underwhelming if there's a blander variety.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

But the tart ones are the good ones.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Raspberry for me, though I'm not sure if it's fully artificial or "just" ultra-processed. It's also partly because I like that flavor but I'm mildly allergic and about 25% of the time I eat it, my lip swells a bit, so I try to minimize how often I have it.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fair enough if that's what you think, but I've played them all, going back to 1 and 2 on computers where I had to check the system requirements, and I find the show to be very watchable and fun. Have you given it a chance?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I don't know what they're on about. I was just doing a replay of F:NV, and the Strip and Freeside sets alone are enough to satisfy most of your fan service needs. There were little nods to the lore and game mechanics all over the place in both seasons, to the point where I actually got pulled out of the story a couple of times.

I get why they didn't focus on feral ghouls, because this isn't The Walking Dead, but...

spoilerThey are there, and Cooper in particular does drugs specifically to avoid going feral.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Deep cut here, but the old Rocky and Bullwinkle had a "Fractured Fairy Tales" that was often pretty fun.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was using a 2012 "vintage" minitower PC that originally came with Win7 as a crappy little plex/local FTP/Minecraft server, and I had been wanting to try MacOS after not seeing it for a while, so I got a Mac Mini with an M2 in it, and while I've hardly stressed it, it seems really nice. It's small and completely silent, and if I did want to use it more, Apple has certainly tried to keep their walled garden pretty and well-organized.

 

I've printed up 7 of these, plus I have a lid and one less-satisfying prototype from my diode laser. They fit in the footprint of a sheet of US Letter paper, hold a little over a TKL's worth of keycaps, and use about 1/6 of a 1kg roll of filament, so maybe USD $3 per try with the cheap PLA I always buy.

 

Made this a few years ago myself. Mostly with my Shopsmith, since we were about to move and I’d sold most of the other tools. Floating tenon (DIY domino, basically) on the joint.

 
 
 
 

Fun to see/hear something from before the hobby blew up, but after Model M's were "retro."

 

Can't be a terrible person if you don't also make the playoff.

AAANNNDD… he got arrested. Holy poop.

 

I had spare PCBs left over from an earlier project. I got the Signature Plastics DSS Honeywell keycaps on sale from a vendor who was closing down. I made the plate design using online tools, then cut it and the bottom plate on my home laser. I designed the 3D-printed case to look like the original terminal keyboards that inspired the keycaps. I used black switches because a heavy linear feels right for something like this. Firmware is QMK/VIAL. More info here. There's much that could be better, but I'm pleased with how it came out.

 

Obviously an insanely imperfect analogy, but kind of fun to noodle on, after having the initial thought actually in the shower. At the simplest level, do you need to cram multiple epic adventure tales, liberally dosed with didactic religious content, into a single human brain? Meter and repetition and tropes become your best friend. Beyond that though, there are still ways that poetic techniques pack more meaning into fewer words than prose, which gets described as "poetic" when it effectively does the same things.

If you find the right turn of phrase, the combination of sound, connotation, and (hopefully) shared cultural touchstones (""Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"?) means you can describe an entire scene effectively without the multiple paragraphs otherwise needed to set out every morpheme of intended communication. Now, as pages of writing become cheaper and more accessible, they also take over the use cases where efficiency of communication was imposed rather than sought, but the toolbox remains there for those who simply like the exercise, or where there is still value, such as in verbal communication tied to a musical arrangement that needs to wrap things up before the audience loses interest. Also like compression, there are libraries that need to be installed and processing overhead involved to decompress the meaning that has been encoded into fewer words than strictly necessary.

Limitations to the analogy I'm already thinking of: Subtext exists regardless of how wordy you are. It might be a false dichotomy to think you can separate poetry from music at all.

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