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Whatever you get, I'd make sure it is hot swappable. I can't stress how much I hate tearing the whole keyboard apart to desolder and replace a switch.

My current keyboard is an E-Yoosa I found cheap at a bin store, and I swapped the switches for Glorious Pandas. I love it. And the whole build (keyboard, keycaps, switches, and damping o-rings) was under $100.

Yeah, so keyboard -> hot swappable. If you get keycaps, PBT is a nice feeling plastic. Double shot if you can mind the price. O-rings aren't necessary, but they really do change the sound and feel. They are available in a variety of diameters and durometers. I'd say do some research into those if youre interested.

Cherry has the best blue switches I have ever felt.

I feel that. Except with watches. Started off modding Invicta Pro Divers with the Seiko movements. Now, my watch collection is easily twice that meme.

Uhhh... Because it's easy?

Can't have something that doesn't exist.

Hmm.. I guess I'm a normie. I shall inform my wife.

Same! Four here. Such a good use of space.

30 degrees Fahrenheit? Hell yeah. It's practically tropical. If it's sunny as well, I'll be rolling my windows down.

(Not me in pic, but I've been him)

Bonk's Adventure for the TG16.

Oh no!! Were you able to save the sourdough??

Oh, wow. That makes that scene in Death Wish 3 so much worse.

There are so many funny X-Files episodes. I do love Jose Chung's From Outer Space, but what about Dreamland? Or Arcadia? Small Potatoes. Post-Modern Prometheus (it even had a drag Cher impersonator!). Hollywood AD. I could go on and on. Honestly, I love those even more than the plot relevant episodes. Man, that was a great show.

I have a hard time thinking of someone with the same degree as me (BSME) as a science guy. I know I'm no science guy. I would think a science guy would have a graduate level degree of some kind. Something that involves research to acquire. I'd watch the shit out of Dolph Lundgren the Science Guy, though.

My printer has a regular paper tray and a photo paper tray. I find it very difficult to print things properly to the photo tray. And I had to get drivers for one of my PC's Wi-Fi adapter off github. Other than that, I have been quite happy over the last few years of daily-ing Linux

Mechanical Engineer. 14 years in automotive interiors. I design tooling for instrument panel toppers, door uppers, arm rests, etc.

Primarily, the type of tooling I specialize in is known as edge wrapping or edge folding. Basically, you have the plastic "substrate" and the leather or vinyl "skin" that is either vacuum formed or press laminated to it. Extra material is left around the edges, and that is heated, wrapped, and glued around the back of the part with a number of metal fingers. I do the wrapping tooling, as well as the lamination tooling.

The most complicated tool I ever designed was for a large, flat component behind the back seat of a car, by the rear window. Let me walk you through the sequence for it.

Operator loads plastic substrate in tool upper
Operator loads flat skin pattern in the lower on skin pins, and a clamp in the rear
The infrared heating shuttle moves in and the upper closes to the heating position, where the skin and substrate are blasted with tens of thousands of watts of IR heat to activate the glue
The IR shuttle retracts, and the tool fully closes to the lamination position, and the skin pins all retract. In the case of this tool, it had (I think) 0.25mm of compression a-side of the part.
Seven slides extend to laminated areas that were either undercut in tool draw, or protruded in a way that prohibited skin loading.
Three 200C hot air heaters extend down from the upper to heat the back edge of the part, and around the two speaker openings.
Once those retracts, 25 edgefolding pieces wipe the skin around the back, and up through the speaker openings (that's the coolest part)
The edgefolders retract in the reverse sequence of which they extended
The slides retracts
The tool opens, and the skin pins extend
the Operator can now step in the light curtain to remove the part, then return with the new substrate and skin.

So far, I would say it is the pinnacle of my career. But car parts are getting more complicated all the time. My design focuses lately have been focused on simplicity over that level of complexity. Where can we use a guided cylinder where we used to use linear rails? Can this detail be made in multiple pieces to reduce waste material? What components can be 3D printed? It's great fun, really. I do love my job.

When did these come out? Wow, that was a steep enshitification slope.

I can't believe how good they sound for the money. They are worth carrying around a USB-C DAC for.

Family of 4? Dang, I'm happy if I'm under $40 for my family of 3!

Milk is 87% water. This is going to create a loop that will end up with all water-based liquids on earth becoming powdered milk.

I don't even remember the last game I bought that required an internet server. If I can't host a local game or private server for multi-player, I'm not interested. Of course, I only buy maybe one game a year, and it's never anything current these days.