If we're ever gonna get Hondo, this is probably it. Knowing Lucasfilm, it'll probably be as a five-second end-of-season stinger though.

I agree the trailer looks fun. Goonies in space, plus a Jedi.

There's just been a certain cheap and rushed quality to recent Star Wars outings, both in writing and actual production values, that has made them a lot less enjoyable than they could be. I actually kinda liked the Acolyte and hope in particular that we see Manny Jacinto again, but I can't deny it was mostly just "kinda okay" and definitely seemed to squander its budget on cheap fake beards and fat toy lightsabers.

A breezy, fun story could handle that campy vibe a little better than ponderous end-of-galaxy stories, though. We need an infusion of charisma, too. I dunno. As always, I'm cautiously optimistic.

But you see, Maduro is an unhinged left-wing authoritarian, and trump is an unhinged right-wing authoritarian, so they're very different!

I'm sure he would say think you by cheeping sweetly, then hissing like an asthmatic snake.

I should make him pay rent!

I have an ortho I made, and I just couldn't get used to it. I've never had any keyboard-related RSI, and my "spider dance" typing is very much a hand-eye coordination task, so... ehhh. No neuroplasticity for it.

I don't know of anything marketed as such, though some ortholinear POS terminals can be easily repurposed into big keyboards. The ortho users tend to be very interested in ergonomics, and one of the guiding principles there is minimizing hand movement (sometimes I personally think this goes a bit far; it seems to me that if it's good to move the rest of your body from time to time, it's good to move your arms and hands too). Most of them are quite small. The biggest size I've seen regularly is 75 keys in a 15x5 grid. Of course, ortho/ergo is also a very DIY-friendly space, so sometimes you see... outliers. LOL.

I hung by Billy as long as I could, but Florida simply does not look good and, importantly, doesn't look better, even just eye-test better. On the lose-big, lose-small, win-small, win-big arc, we're often still losing big. We also don't look "normal" bad. We look weird-bad with a huge staff, but no special teams coordinator, a lack of discipline, a bizarre NIL strategy (hopefully in the past), and stubbornness you usually see from coaches on the far side of much more success. He might make it to bloody Sunday if we come to a back-room understanding with someone associated with a playoff team, but I don't see any way he coaches the Gators past this year.

FSU sucks, but I think they pull four or five wins out of their butts this year, and Norvell gets one more year to find a better quarterback and see which year was the fluke. In all honesty, they probably don't want to be in the market with us in the same year anyway. If both of us suck, why not go with the one with a richer alumni base and no conference insecurity? You don't necessarily have to go through every top SEC team to make the playoffs anymore.

There is absolutely no doubt we're going to test the water. Kiffin at this stage in his career would certainly be an upgrade over the Kiffin from his Gatlinburg UT days, and he's like the not-as-good-but-then-again-what-could-be modern version of Hatin'-Ass Spurrier. If nothing else, he seems to know how to separate a donor-base from its NIL dollars.

The lack of an endorsement is a big blow to Trump, who invited O’Brien to be the first Teamsters leader in the union’s 121-year history to speak at the Republican National Convention in July.

Sounds like O'Brien knows that he went a step too far in assuming a Trump win was inevitable and kissing the diaper.

OP said about 1/16", which would be what? 50 or 60 mil? Honestly, though, it's woodworking. In the right context, like coarse slab flattening, 1/16" might be fine, though I would reckon that the point where fine tuning by other means is not that bad would be closer to 1/32".

Yes, I work from home, but he's been to workplaces before, and nothing so boring as a simple office. My wife got him as a chick in college, and he still needed a little bit of syringe feeding, so for a week or two she took him to the restaurant where she was a server and got her manager to put him in the business office away from any food prep areas. I've known him since he was around 5, and I'm not entirely sure whether my being able to get him to fly to me made her jealous or made her love me more. Maybe both. :-)

He's finally, in the last year or so, visually showing his age just a bit, though he's still got the energy to molt and grow new feathers, and he's also still loud and an active climber, although he doesn't like to come out of his cage anymore, even when the door is open. "Flying" is also more "falling with style" these days, but he gets quite the attitude when he needs help to get back to the cage. I feel pretty good that we've still got a year or more with him, though you never really know with birds. I'm just glad his vain little self has decided to grace us with his presence for so long.

The best moment in our current house was the day a local hawk caught sight/ear of him through the cracked-open window, then perched on that black fence you can just see in the background, and finally lazily swooped in for an easy meal, only to thump into the "force field" of glass. Hawky boi was fine after a few minutes resting back on the fence, but I wouldn't have thought you could identify "WTF" as a bird emotion before that day. He's returned once, though he didn't try the swoop again.

Why do you think I still live in Texas?

I don't know if he hates it, but it's definitely tied to something almost compulsive:

His mother urged him to go to college, but he dropped out of East Carolina University after two weeks. Instead of going to class, he spent most of his time on campus editing videos in his car.

“That’s all I ever talked about at school. I thought I was a freak of nature,” he told content creators and podcasters Colin and Samir in September. “People would tell me, ‘All you do is talk about YouTube videos. You’re too obsessed with YouTube. Get a life....’”

...In past interviews, Donaldson has said he studied the YouTube recommendation algorithm and other creators’ stats meticulously to come up with a recipe for making his videos popular.

I mean, horses are mammals that sweat. It probably mostly works fine, but between lower stakes for the manufacturer, different dietary needs between taxonomic Orders, and our Rebel friend's apparent decision-making, I think we're pretty close to !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world territory. I'm particularly concerned that the copper sulfate and manganese sulfate may not be where you'd like them.

Tim Walz once told his football team they needed to give 110% to win. This was a double lie, both because no one can give more than 100%, and his team could not have won without giving 117%.

If you're not getting any flex in that aluminum, then it should be fine. MDF has its durability issues but as long as it's dry, it's ridiculously stable.

It would blow your budget somewhat, but there is certainly ONE manufacturer to at least look at and smile.

As others have been saying, Keychron is currently the go-to for recommendations for first keyboards. They have a bewildering variety of layouts, most of them at several price points, and they have better European "ISO" support than most pre-built companies.

For switches, if you want it to feel a little more like your old ThinkPad, the biggest move in that direction would be to switch from Linears like your Cherry Red to "tactiles" like Browns. Those recommending "hot-swap" boards have a good point, but you'll want to make sure the printed circuit board is well supported if/when you put in new switches. The most common damage people get with modern mechanical keyboards is a hotswap socket tearing away from the PCB.

Thank you for sharing.

I think. LOL.

my desk is too small with my work and personal computers

I also work both from the same desk. I keep the home keyboard and mouse on a deskmat that I just slide the very edge when work actually needs my undivided attention. The Model M's don't come out to play too terribly often, and most of my weird little "1800" layout variants that I make as a hobby take up a good deal less space. Still, sometimes you just need some pingy buckling spring goodness in your life.

So this fairly counts as light reading, but my kiddo just finished the Amari YA series by B.B. Alston. It's basically Harry Potter meets Men in Black, but with an actually diverse cast. The main character and her family are from urban Atlanta. Super derivative of course, with it's chosen-one narrative and coming of age, but it's a page turner with fun universe-building, and I like being able to talk to my daughter about what she's been reading.

I'm also working through 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline. I understand some of the conclusions are a bit dated, but he's a well-known scholar in the field and it's very readable. Even if he's a bit dramatic about who did what to whom, it's real archaeology and not your Gavin Menzies conspiratorial nonsense.

Fair enough. That makes a lot of sense. I have heard that the failure model for this thing likely would have been some cracking sounds, and then the implosion, but I probably shouldn't speculate quite so hard. At any rate, the whole thing was a disaster waiting to happen, and whaddaya know, it did.

At approximately 2,274 meters, the Titan sent the message, "All good here," according to the animation.

The last communication from the submersible was sent at approximately 3,341 meters: "Dropped two wts," meaning drop weights, according to the Coast Guard.

All communications and tracking from the submersible to Polar Prince were lost at 3,346 meters, according to the Coast Guard.

I'm assuming a lot here, but dropping weights would likely mean they were trying to ascend. They may have had just over five meters' worth of knowing something was going wrong (whatever that means in terms of time) before the implosion.

True, that's where you have to start thinking about re-working your furniture to fit your tech. I guess an OSHA directive came down that keyboards shouldn't be that tall, and that's part of what led to the buckling spring on the F, as well as other stuff, like Space Invader switches and a certain German company making little polyhedral switches with cross-mount keycaps. Wonder how that worked out?

As lovely as they are, the XT abuses the right to use stepped keycaps. I can't deal with that, even if I fully appreciate a desire to avoid stabilizers. 🤣

I had to poke around their website a bit, but yes, it looks like they're standard detachable USB C.

Judge for yourself.

Good to know, and I believe it. The M is simply a value-engineered F, after all.

I last used Model F's in Junior High (AT's, IIRC, but maybe XT's), where I would get annoyed at the layout while trying to play BurgerTime on an amber monitor after typing practice.

Looks nice, and I completely believe that they put a lot of care into them. I would love to try one of their beam-springs, though I admit the photos are not exactly glamor shots with those slightly rusty vintage cases and Dolch Vortex keycaps (a set of which I actually have and like)

EDIT: On second thought, I don't know where they're sourcing their beamspring keycaps. Looks a lot like my AliExpress VSA though.

Yeah, re-creating a capacitive circuit board for a vintage switch mechanism and putting it into a solid metal case is pricy, and the market is inherently rather small. Basically niche within niche within niche.

Those have been discussed in some depth in some of the keyboard communities, and the charitable opinion is that they are for a very niche audience that wants to pay for a specific level of configurability without buying new keycaps, and that is willing to sacrifice features that hobbyists like to pay for, including modern design elements, mounting methods, and somehow both standardization and further customizability. Of course, you're also taking a positive step to support System76, which I can't complain about.

Basically, though, you're paying a lot of money for the dream keyboard of one System76 engineer, circa 2019. It's not "bad" exactly, but it would be understating it to say that it is a quirky product, even among keyboard nerds. It's also, within that space, a very different product than these 20- to 40-year old classic buckling spring boards.

"threads.net" = downvote, I reckon

I was all but bending over backwards trying to hear how it might have been just a slip, bringing to bear the fact that both words have a nasal consonant and hard 'g' sounds, but... nope. He enunciates an 'n' again, clearly after he's done saying "Haitian" and therefore where it doesn't belong, and then he gets all the way to the hard '-er', a “murmur diphthong” that simply doesn't exist in 'immigrant' or 'migrant'. The most charitable explanation with any plausibility whatsoever is that the n-word is a part of his spoken vocabulary and he failed to censor himself quickly enough.

Fuckin' gross.

Unicomp has buckling spring boards in TKL. A bit pricy, but cheaper than a vintage Model M "Space Saving Keyboard". For 60%, the closest thing I know of is the even more expensive Model F Kishsaver layouts (adapted from an old and insanely pricy banking keyboard from ~1980). I have never tried one of their boards, but I know they exist.

So, I don't want to send you the wrong way with the technical details, but whatever this keyboard does, a Soarer's Converter worked fine and it did not require me to have any deep understanding of how the keyboard worked. I understand the Hasu Converter software for the same MCU and wiring can convert damn near anything.

This one was fairly late, like 1998, so it supported "normal" keycodes. I was able to wire up a completely standard "Soarer's" converter and simply use dupont connectors on the internal header. The cord itself is just a random one lying around, with a cable tie for strain relief.

New ones are available from Unicomp, and I understand they're quite nice. In addition to this one, I have a "GE Medical" Model M made by Unicomp around 2014. Both of mine have homemade "Soarer's Converters," internal for this one, and PS/2 to USB external for the other. I also use the external one for my 90s military keyboard. I do still have a PS/2 port on my motherboard, but it's nice to be able to add a Windows/Super key.

I found my Model M's on eBay and waited around until I got the right deal, about USD $45 shipped for each one. Later models are considered less desirable because they're (slightly) lighter and some of the manufacturing tooling was getting worn out, but by and large they work perfectly and have fewer miles on them. I also love the keycaps on the medical board. That one's not mine but is basically identical. A pre-made converter is about another $30-$40 or so on eBay. The most reliable seller is a dude making them in his house in the Philippines.

Should I avoid mentioning the modern Model F repros? LOL.

TBF, while I do have a ten year old Unicomp, and it's perfectly lovely despite pre-dating their improved molds, I haven't tried a modern Model F, or indeed used any Model F in at least twenty years.

Want to know the crazy part? This is the version after TWO rounds of value-engineering. The Model B and Model F are both a good bit more robust than these Model M's, and these last forever. The older boards are more rare due to less compatibility and a smaller computer market in general when they were released.

So I had to look this one up, and admittedly my patience for these rabbit holes peters out, but yes, it's most likely a regular passport.

I guess they do some SovCit shenanigans while applying and they think it makes it a super-secret diplomatic and sales-tax immunity passport that will 100% for sure you guys show up when it's scanned, especially when you wave it in front Darlene at Walmart who defintely has time for your bullshit. It's all been reinforced by the fact that different batches of land-transit passport cards will come with different numbers of asterisks towards the top, so they think there's a magic code there that is related to status and privileges.

I'm guessing they had to keep dialing back the crazy until the State Department was finally willing to process their application, and surprise surprise, our SovCit friend found that process onerous.