A real tragic loss: it seems the road was damaged. :(

IBM SK-8845 Ultranav USB keyboard

IT’S GOT THE RUBBER MOUSE NIPPLE AND EVERYTHING! Fucking lol, that’s amazing. I’m tempted to go that route just for pure nostalgia sake… I should probably avoid anything that’s long-discontinued though, as I probably wouldn’t be able to repair it if it stopped working, and then I’d be back at square one.

Cherry MX Brown switches

The actual post in the center of those is brown, right? I popped a key off, and the ones in mine are kind of a yellow-orange color like the Helios v2 ones you posted, but with a black housing. The noise they produce is pretty much entirely from the bottom of the keycap hitting plastic when it bottoms out (which is significantly dampened by rubber o-rings I added to it) and then another plastic-on-plastic sound on release… which maybe that is the components of the switch hitting itself? Most of the noise is from release. Slowly depressing a key until it bottoms out, then slowly releasing it so that all of the plastic-on-plastic collisions are super gentile, a keystroke makes virtually no noise.

Kind of intrigued by this option as well. My knee-jerk is that this is 100% outside of my skill level: I’ve never done any kind of real circuitry type stuff. Is there a for-dummies guide you’re aware of that treats the reader like an absolute dumbass who needs adult supervision through the entire project? …cuz that’s what I’d probably need to not fuck this up. At the same time, I do kinda love the idea of making my own unique board!

I would bet dollars to donuts you would love something along these lines if you swapped out the standard keycaps with low profile ones.

I’ve never even heard of magnetic switches. I’m intrigued! Trying to imagine the feel of spring pushing against a magnet, I think I you’re right: that sounds like it would feel great! I’m going to hit a few local electronics stores to see if I can find one to try out - seems like an endcap-display kind of thing.

Skimming that second link you posted, I see a few options on the keycaps, but none that say low profile. Would that be a 3rd party purchase thing, or am I overlooking something from Keychron?

The magnetic switches themselves don’t actually click, right? I pulled up some reviews and it still sounds clicky, but I’m guessing that’s the plastic-on-plastic sound of the keycap hitting the post… so, does the rubber o-ring trick work with these to make it fairly silent?

The Ornata also looks like a solid choice per my wishlist. I haven’t had great luck with Razer - tbh, part of me’s been looking forward to the Blackwidow finally breaking so I’d have an excuse to be done with them. But… a match is a match!

Thanks for the feedback!

Please send help.

Yeah that’s called escalating. If the Nazi’s policy is to kill on sight, the solution is to kill the Nazi before it sees you.

That dude is basically ordering Florida civilians to engage cops in guerilla warfare.

Nice police-work, dipshit. 👍

key roll-over

I’ve heard people mention that issue with membranes. In a gaming context, the most I ever see myself hitting would be while sprinting diagonally (shift, W, A or D), jumping (space) and using an item or ability (1), for a total of 5 simultaneous key presses.

…is 5 within reason for the cheapies? …and do any of them have supporting software that isn’t shit? I had a Logitech gaming mouse a few years ago and writing macros on that trash was a nightmare.

Cheering for a traitor is traitorous. The traitor in question being the president doesn’t mitigate that in the slightest - to the contrary, that’s the most damaging traitor we could be cursed with.

100%. Whatever spine the US built its foundation on has long since dissolved.

Go on, America, prove me wrong.

We will not.

More of a Darth Jar Jar. He can get away with as much evil as he wants so long as he plays a convincing enough dumbass while doing it.

Every single person in our military literally swore an oath to defend the constitution against domestic threats.

We don’t need ‘someone to save us’, we need the people employed into the systems designed specifically to stop enemies of the US like Donald Trump to do their fucking job.

But yeah, shy of that apparently-fucking-pipedream, when legal justice isn’t on the table, vigilante justice is all that’s left. We also have a subculture in the US obsessed with the 2nd amendment that regularly has wet dreams about using their trusty boomstick to save the US from tyranny, so if one of them does want to step up and save us I certainly wouldn’t complain.

We seem to have a lot of would-be heroes asleep at the wheel.

Think a drone could get up above it and drop something into the propeller?

I mean, nowadays the can of worms is long-since opened, and there’s the whole spiel about how definitions change over time with use, so… sure I guess?

AI became synonymous with computing in general, and “AGI” moved the goal posts in an attempt to un-muddy the waters? Give it time, I’m sure marketing will fuck that one up too and a couple other randoms on the internet will be having this same conversation but between AGI and whatever the new flavor is.

2nd Amendment fanboys

That was just cosplay.

Where the actual fuck are all the active duty military personnel who all swore an oath to defend the constitution from all threats, foreign and domestic? They are literally oath-bound to engage Donald Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the United States.

Do your fucking job already!

Bring some lube, too. Not all Marines prefer to consume them orally.

The “Artificial” part isn’t clue enough?

Imo, no. The face-value connotation of “Artificial Intelligence” is intelligence that’s artificial. Actual intelligence, but not biologic. That’s a lot different from “it kinda looks like intelligence so long as you don’t look too hard at what’s beneath the hood”.

Thus far, examples of that only exist in sci-fi. That’s part of why people are opposed to the bullshit generators marketed as “AI”, because calling it “AI” in the first place is dishonest. And that goes way back - videogame NPCs, Microsoft ‘Clippy’ etc have all been incorrectly branded “AI” in marketing or casual conversation for decades, but those aren’t stuffed into every product the way the current iteration is watering down the quality of what’s on the market, so outside of a mild pedantic annoyance, no one really gave a shit.

Nowadays the stakes are higher since it’s having an actual negative impact on people’s lives.

If we ever come up with true AI - actual intelligence that’s artificial - it’s going to be a game changer for humanity, for better or worse.

Not for a very long time, though!

No instances, but I’ve blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don’t understand or topics I’m not interested in… the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.

I’ve found I don’t really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I’d rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my ‘All’ is fairly personalized now, so I’d recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.

Elon Musk is an enemy of the working class. Anything that states otherwise is an absolute lie.

Availability is likely a factor here. House cats are everywhere, but professionally prepared cat meat is not. If it was in the cooler at your local walmart and priced comparably to beef, we’d see a lot more people eating cat. If the taste and texture are better than beef, we’d probably even start to see a market shift as more and more people start thinking of them as food instead of pets.