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Liquid Communism posted:This is what I'm using at home now, on recommendation of a friend who spends as much time typing as I do: https://www.pcgamingrace.com/products/gmmk-full-brown-switch I have the tenkeyless version of this. It's nicely built, and the only logo/text is on the backside. The ability to change the switch is actually really nice. I started with reds, then put heavy clicky switches on Caps, Win, Esc. After a few weeks of gaming on it, I think reds are a little too light, and I'm putting Kailh Berry switches on it instead, for a little firmer press. Also, being all in on Android/Pixel, I like that it's USB C and I can move more accessories that direction.
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STR posted:I went with the red switch version instead. I want something quiet, not CLACKCLACKCLACK. Unfortunately the LEDs are only red. I kinda want rainbows. Hey I might have an Alienware with brown switches at my store, I forgot AMEX had a $100 rebate there. I’ll check what kind it is and if you want it I’ll send it to you. Brand new but let me check what type of switches edit: i just went and checked it says red switches everdave fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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I'm gonna wait for another red or brown switch to pop up at a decent price, preferably backlit. I'd just run to Fry's, since they still had a reasonable selection of gaming (and "gaming") keyboards, but uh... yeah, they ded.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Anyone here use a waterpik or water flosser of any sort? Would recommend? Wouldn't? Better than traditional flossing or what? I have one but don't use it all the time, just every once in awhile because it's a bit cumbersome to take out and set up compared to just regular flossing. But it's great to use now and then for a "deep cleaning" so to speak. Just make sure you turn it off before you take it out of your mouth or you'll waterpik your eyeball like I did
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STR posted:I MIGHT try the blue switch version, $27 is hard to beat. But that's supposedly one of the loudest. Depends a bit on the keyboard brand but yeah blue is louder than the other switches. I sent my Unicomp keyboard in to be fixed. I'm excited to have it back.
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STR posted:I went with the red switch version instead. I want something quiet, not CLACKCLACKCLACK... If you're coming from membrane switches even reds, or switches labeled 'quiet,' will still be louder than you're used to because instead of there being a rubber dome at the end of key travel it's plastic-on-plastic. I'm still retraining myself to not mash the keys because the switch actuates at ~25% travel instead of 100%, so the noise level varies a lot as I type. Especially since the one key I cannot stop suplexing from orbit is spacebar, the loudest key on the board. Clicky type makes a click when the switch closes, so it's easier to tell when you can stop pressing down (browns are much more subtle, which is why people deride them as 'scratchy reds') which might help you not bottom out and make your typing quieter. Hopefully the typing noise is acceptable to you/your environment because trying to get really quiet seems to be a quick route to mechkey insanity.
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LobsterboyX posted:Ah, very cool - I actually interviewed for a job as a hotwheels designer - a friend of mine is one already - Shortly after I interviewed I got the news that the position had been taken by some whiz kid from a heavy duty design school that actually studied transpo design. were you able to check out the Automobile driving museum which is also right there? cool little spot that flys totally under the radar. I've been in to the mattel offices too - great place. Sadly, I did not make the time to go to the Driving Museum. Guess that's another one I will need to visit if and when I'm that way again. I did drive up PCH, and almost stopped at Neptune's Net, but it was only 3 PM and crowded, so I kept going for another hour or so, and found a seafood shack on the beach that served me a gigantic plate of Everything for a ridiculously cheap price, which I ate at their picnic tables also on the beach. I feel like I came out ahead. IOwnCalculus posted:I'm legitimately shocked it took this long. The last time I went into one, years ago, the place was nearly loving devoid of both customers and inventory. The Fry's here in Irving, TX has been a ghost town every time I went by. I went in looking for some thermal paste months ago, maybe a year, and it was... sparse.
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everdave posted:Hey I might have an Alienware with brown switches at my store, I forgot AMEX had a $100 rebate there. I’ll check what kind it is and if you want it I’ll send it to you. Brand new but let me check what type of switches Whatcha want for it?  Shipping would probably be to 78717.monsterzero posted:If you're coming from membrane switches even reds, or switches labeled 'quiet,' will still be louder than you're used to because instead of there being a rubber dome at the end of key travel it's plastic-on-plastic. I am coming from a membrane keyboard (Logitech K120 to be exact), but it's LOUD AS HELL thanks to the keys bottoming out if you look at them funny, and also from the keys rattling while I type. Having it on a cheap plastic folding table doesn't help, but having owned several K120s, this thing is insanely loud compared to every other K120. It's louder than some mechanicals that I've owned. Even hunt and peck winds up waking up the whole house. I'm not sure what changed over the years with these, but it's the loudest membrane keyboard I've ever used. I've been using this model exclusively for ages, they used to be nearly silent until I got my current one. You know how cars with worn bushings creak and rattle and clunk and generally complain over every tiny little imperfection in the road? That's this keyboard (... also my car).
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I'm using a 30 year old Apple Mac keyboard on my work MacBook at home, since it was the last mechanical switch keyboard Apple made (Apple Extended II) My home Windows PC uses a Corsair K70 mechanical keyboard
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STR posted:Whatcha want for it? I don’t want anything but maybe you’d rather have the aukey? Both are cherry switches
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I'm using a Ducky One 2 Skyline fullsize keyboard, with Cherry Clear switches. It's great; even if I ordered it in May of last year, and it didn't arrive until October!
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Maybe the ridiculous grovertruk isn’t your cup of tea. You still owe it to yourself to see how helpful Motronic can be when trying. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3957433&perpage=40&pagenumber=32#post512769682 bolind posted:I'm looking for a thingamajig that'll let me monitor the temperature in our craptastic server room (last outfitted some time in the mid 90s, by the look of things.) I have a friend who works at a company whose product is this, but for construction sites so more bells and whistles available and probably super expensive. I don’t know how much they cost, but they’re supposed to be really good. Here’s the website. https://pillar.tech/
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builds character posted:Maybe the ridiculous grovertruk isn’t your cup of tea. You still owe it to yourself to see how helpful Motronic can be when trying. Oh poo poo that's great lol.
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builds character posted:Maybe the ridiculous grovertruk isn’t your cup of tea. You still owe it to yourself to see how helpful Motronic can be when trying. Motronic may not be the hero HCH wants (because he's a huge rear end in a top hat) but he's the hero they need, and the hero they have. E: I have to bite my tongue in that thread so much.
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Elviscat posted:Motronic may not be the hero HCH wants (because he's a huge rear end in a top hat) but he's the hero they need, and the hero they have. I stopped trying to egg you on after you didn’t take my very obvious bait of teaching the guy to weld.
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Oh poo poo I'm pretty sure I used to work on the same floor of the same office building as your friend. They had various iterations of those green boxes scattered all over the place.
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I'm still trying to get the dumb bastard to have safe, reliable electricity. Motronic definitely has the right idea about how to deal with someone who is as deluded as Rytheric
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Safety Dance posted:Oh poo poo I'm pretty sure I used to work on the same floor of the same office building as your friend. They had various iterations of those green boxes scattered all over the place. Huh, that's crazy. He's a tall dude with a short beard that likes motorcycles. The Door Frame posted:I'm still trying to get the dumb bastard to have safe, reliable electricity. Motronic definitely has the right idea about how to deal with someone who is as deluded as Rytheric I wish you the best of luck because that dude seems physically incapable of changing course no matter what.
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STR posted:I am coming from a membrane keyboard (Logitech K120 to be exact), but it's LOUD AS HELL thanks to the keys bottoming out if you look at them funny, and also from the keys rattling while I type. Having it on a cheap plastic folding table doesn't help, but having owned several K120s, this thing is insanely loud compared to every other K120. It's louder than some mechanicals that I've owned. Even hunt and peck winds up waking up the whole house. THE loudest bubble KB is the Apple "butterfly" keyboards on the MacBook Pros for the last few years up until 2019. My god those things are loud AND they're poo poo, to boot, according to typists. You Am I posted:I'm using a 30 year old Apple Mac keyboard on my work MacBook at home, since it was the last mechanical switch keyboard Apple made (Apple Extended II) How are you doing that? ADB to USB adapter? I think I have one of those aircraft carriers kicking around still. edit: I had to stop reading the Grover Truk thread. I can only facepalm myself so much before causing injury.
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builds character posted:Huh, that's crazy. He's a tall dude with a short beard that likes motorcycles. My stance is, chisel your heart away, it can be zen as gently caress to use only hand tools on something. Just have a more robust electric system than an inverter running off an overtaxed truck battery of unknown age Like, he doesn't even have a jump pack in case he accidentally kills his battery by living off it, but ponders how to make electricity out of wild tubers in an emergency situation
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builds character posted:Huh, that's crazy. He's a tall dude with a short beard that likes motorcycles. There's a non-zero chance I complimented his pants once. I worked for the commercial ship optimization startup, but I left that job just over a year ago.
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Safety Dance posted:There's a non-zero chance I complimented his pants once. I worked for the commercial ship optimization startup, but I left that job just over a year ago. come ride dirt bikes, thank you in advance. The Door Frame posted:My stance is, chisel your heart away, it can be zen as gently caress to use only hand tools on something. Just have a more robust electric system than an inverter running off an overtaxed truck battery of unknown age I am really enjoying the thread but it's all fantasy. So far he's bought some balsa and some french doors he left in the rain. Based on the picture of his canoe with a sail I can't believe that he's actually capable of doing anything remotely like what he says he's going to do. Also, he doesn't need a jump pack, he will just daisy chain potatoes together until he generates enough voltage to jump the truck.
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builds character posted:come ride dirt bikes, thank you in advance. It will go one of two ways: 1) He tries to gameplan every last detail to perfection, forever dreaming and never doing anything, or 2) He half-asses something really dumb and it all blows up. I'm on tenterhooks.
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I can't really articulate the rolling sensation his pattern of behavior makes me feel in my neck, but he reminds me of the way I feel when I'm off my meds. It was funny at first, but now it's viscerally uncomfortable and I want it to stop
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The Door Frame posted:I can't really articulate the rolling sensation his pattern of behavior makes me feel in my neck, but he reminds me of the way I feel when I'm off my meds. It was funny at first, but now it's viscerally uncomfortable and I want it to stop What kind of meds are we talking about here? When I stop taking my antidepressants I get the absolute worst headaches possible. Honestly that's most of the reason I still take them at all honestly. Well that and if I don't take them I slip into a horrible unshakable depression lmao.
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Deteriorata posted:It will go one of two ways: Just tag me next time, drat
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kastein posted:Just tag me next time, drat I would be much more interested in watching you try and build a timber framed house in the woods than Rytheric. Actually I think you have a solution, tool, or skill to solve literally every single one of his problems.
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64bit_Dophins posted:What kind of meds are we talking about here? I just started on antidepressants to try and treat my headaches. On a 10mg dose of amitryptaline a day and I’ve already nailed a couple of the side effects 
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64bit_Dophins posted:What kind of meds are we talking about here? Antipsychotics, so "danger to myself and others" territory The impulse spending, darting ideas, and pie in the sky poo poo are red flags for me to the point that the missus has the authority to take away my wallet, keys, phone, and knives when I start to behave in the way he's posting
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Everyone getting keyboards this years AI:SS
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Humphreys posted:Everyone getting keyboards this years AI:SS Everyone will have keyboard by that point but how about some lovely  keycaps?
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Deteriorata posted:It will go one of two ways: I know people like this. Both of these things will happen to the guy at the same time! 
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freelop posted:Everyone will have keyboard by that point but how about some lovely Well I know who I don't want to be my santa this year
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builds character posted:
NGL the thread was funny to start but there's a weird vibe coming off it too much like 14" for my liking and it looks like other than AI posters he's being egged on. AI posters are seeing things that are uncomfortable because we saw the trainwreck at the end of the 14" odyssey and just how horribly bad it ended, thence we're being (understandably) taking a different stance. I hope the situation doesnt go the way I fear it will and ends badly.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:NGL the thread was funny to start but there's a weird vibe coming off it too much like 14" for my liking and it looks like other than AI posters he's being egged on. AI posters are seeing things that are uncomfortable because we saw the trainwreck at the end of the 14" odyssey and just how horribly bad it ended, thence we're being (understandably) taking a different stance. This is definitely the vibe I'm getting too. Though the good news is he seems isolated enough to not be in a position to harm others
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cakesmith handyman posted:Anyone here use a waterpik or water flosser of any sort? Would recommend? Wouldn't? Better than traditional flossing or what? Count me interested in this too- My teeth are stupidly tight together- so much so that the dentist standing over the top of me with two hands cant get floss between my teeth, so I've been suggested i look into one of these gadgets too
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Elviscat posted:Motronic may not be the hero HCH wants (because he's a huge rear end in a top hat) but he's the hero they need, and the hero they have. I will leave it at: He has a wealth of knowledge and reliably will point people in the generally right direction, whether they ask for it or not. You can also always count on him to correct people, even the ones who are right. Snark aside, the forum wouldn't be the same without him and I absolutely am one of the people he's course-corrected. He's somewhere in the vicinity of me and if he needed a hand or was a beer short I'd help the guy out. Apropos of nothing: any homeowners in here who have not refinanced, do it now. I talked to a broker yesterday who said rates started to climb back up. I can still get 2.875% on a thirty-year and 2.625% on a twenty-year through him, and better.com has 2.25% on a fifteen-year. (All no points.) I'm torn: I would love to pay off the house. But here's the thing: 1) The monthly payment difference between the 30 and the 15 is $769. 2) If I overpay $769 on the 30, I pay it off in 15y11m, at a loss of $22k, but have the ability to back off of payments if we need money. 3) If I don't overpay at all and pay it off in 30 years, I lose $78k in accumulated interest. 4) If I invest the difference in an index fund that pays out 5% annually, which is less than the historic average of the S&P 500, in 30 years I end up with ... $640,000. 5) If I just invest for 15 years and pay off any remainder, 5% return would leave me with $204k in investment minus the Goddamn. tetrapyloctomy fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Five days ago my forums account turned eighteen.  yup. Mine does too in a few months.I turn 38 in 10 days. Wife turned 39 in late January. We've been together over 20 years. 21-year old me would be jealous, but bored. builds character posted:Maybe the ridiculous grovertruk isn’t your cup of tea. You still owe it to yourself to see how helpful Motronic can be when trying. sharkytm fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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cakesmith handyman posted:Anyone here use a waterpik or water flosser of any sort? Would recommend? Wouldn't? Better than traditional flossing or what? Ferremit posted:Count me interested in this too- My teeth are stupidly tight together- so much so that the dentist standing over the top of me with two hands cant get floss between my teeth, so I've been suggested i look into one of these gadgets too Yeah I bought a WaterPik on the recommendations of my Dentist and it's pretty great. I'm a terrible regular flosser (mostly just remembering to do it) but having this giant thing in front of my face reminds me to squirt the water over my gums and they've never felt cleaner. Well worth it. I even put a few drops of bleach into the water to help prevent THE GUM DISEASE GINGIVITIS
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