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Forwarded this to an acquaintance who might be interested. GLWS!

The scalper’s market will reach a breaking point. I hope. Can’t even buy watches now smh

And there’s no snooty elitism; in fact, that kind of behavior is discouraged.

Even when someone does not share the dogma of the superiority of mechanical watches and does not live inside the mechanical watch filter bubble at all?

I mean, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been judged by anyone ...

I don't know about r/watches in particular, but I've gotten attitudes like that from (mechanical) watch enthusiasts all the time. The overall watch community is filled with arrogance and elitism.

Yes your watch(es) may cost ten times as much as mine, yet somehow manage to be less practical, less ...

Tritian wrote: 12 Jun 2021, 20:11 People say my F122 is too big for me, but it's the last thing they get to say.

Ha! I wouldn’t be able to say the same about my watch because that’d prove their point!

Thinking back, I can now remember exactly who the OP is talking about. They do exist. I’m already annoyed again just remembering that they exist. They particularly exist in Discord servers of subreddits like r/buildapc, r/headphones, and r/watches (although, I’ll have to give credit to r/watches ...

I just have a hard time taking anything OP has said so far seriously because no one is actually saying that the Model M is a bad keyboard. There's no hate. There's no one saying that a Model M is "built like a Cherry", and if there is they're certainly in an extreme minority. Many people just seem ...

I don't know that I actually crave any super rare or expensive keyboards. In a sense, the Model M, Model F77, the Cherry G80s and few Alps boards that I have are all I could ask for.
At this point, I mostly just like finding and trying new keyboards, not because they are the best , but because ...

There was a point in my life when I used a Planck keyboard and Arch Linux, but now I can’t be arsed and just want something that works and is nice. So now I’m using a 5251 on a Mac.


I could relate to this until I realised you were "settling" for a 5251 beam spring keyboard. I'm a mere mortal ...

AT for me because I prefer the XT. But not as much as I prefer the F122.

Any Model M

Any non-5251 Beamspring. I really don’t do well with layouts I don’t find practical enough. There was a point in my life when I used a Planck keyboard and Arch Linux, but now I can’t be arsed and just want ...

I prefer to have my grave/tilde key to the right of the quotation key. I’ve gotten used to stretching my right finger just 1u over more to hit Enter

That f122 is sublime.

Ugh

Jacobalbertus1 wrote: 10 Jun 2021, 06:02

raoulduke-esq wrote: 10 Jun 2021, 05:27 Just our regular weekly reminder that Jacob has a beamship and paid less than people are asking for 5251s in case anyone forgot….

the whole thing about that was to say ONLY 2k as that's hilariously low, interpreted it the wrong way

This is exactly how I read it, lol.

Assuming PFU keeps the DIP switch configuration consistent between its various models, SW6 can be considered to be the setting for a “keepalive” function. In the default OFF position, the keyboard will power off after 30 minutes of inactivity unless the keyboard is plugged in, in which case, the ...

Mips wrote: 05 Jun 2021, 18:45 I still want a mint unit for the look though. I’m a bit fussy/OCD with that. Going to be expensive though!

I’m exactly like this for my typewriter hobby. Snagged some beautiful machines but often overpaid for them. Make sure to update this thread with pics!

But I do worry about that LED hole on the top chassis, between the - and + keys. Is it always lit when powered on?


I have an HHKB Pro BT, the first model that introduced wireless capability. The LED is off during normal use. It only turns on momentarily when you turn it on/off or are ...

ok ‎

Not for some. For all. In mathematical notation,

∀v ∈ V : “win”

Well, at least micmil’s comment made this whole fiasco a net win for the community.

LOL his comment isn’t the one I had a hard time reading through.

And eloquence does not necessarily have to imply prudishness, because that post was eloquent as fuck.

Fuck. It just doesn’t have the same impact when the profanity is euphemized.

God damn, I knew I was witnessing history right before my eyes before I even finished reading it. You can count on me buying you a beer too. If too many people pile on, you might die of alcohol poisoning.

Good stuff. I guessed correctly for the top two but was fooled by the bottom one.

I’d like to buy a German board if anyone’s willing to spare one!

micmil wrote: 31 May 2021, 05:42Ah…

Now this is some proper internet bullshit hall of fame material. Easily comment of the entire thread.

I know. And so be it. That’s why risk assessment is a thing. If risk had to always be determined to be 0% before taking any action, then nothing would ever get done.

I still think it’s stupid. I still can’t understand how anyone in their right mind would expect even the most casual hobbyist to ...

I took a look at that page on ncurses’ licensing. And…

Okay, I hate this legal stuff. What an absolute nightmare and an exercise in frustration. Screw coding; I’m gonna go play my guitar now.

I just don’t see how it’s at all productive to mire creators of art and/or technical stuff in all of this ...

[…] they couldn't understand how everyone had been so cavalier […]


Don’t get me wrong; I don’t doubt the importance of compliance. In fact, ironically, I’m working on GDPR compliance at work right now, and I’m actually loving it. I feel like my coworkers take legal compliance seriously too. And ...

When I started at my current job (software engineer), one of the classes during orientation was on open source contributions, IP law, and general legal stuff. I found most of it to be non-intuitive and non-obvious. Within the first few minutes of the class, I already understood that I could not rely ...