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puts away pitchfork and lit torch
Thank you
- Wasps not bees.
- The wasps probably won't be able to emerge if the concrete dust sets.
- Imagine being entombed by your parents. Born in an inescapable coffin.
First thing in the morning and now you've missed your own meeting.
This is the planet wide equivalent of the microwave interfering with the wifi signal.
I didn't know what premature babies were my first time in the maternity ward. "Eww why those babies so ugly‽‽‽" I said out loud (no filter lol) to the embarrassment of all my companions.
Tokyo is full of meanderthals walking and biking while looking down at their phones. Standing still while waiting for the lights to change is tame.
There's even a word for it here: aruki-sumaho
Notable sightings so far in 2025:
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A pack of middle school boys all playing a mobile game while walking with their faces in their phones and blocking the sidewalk. Three abreast in marching band formation, maybe 15 of them.
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Salaryman holding a laptop and on a conference call while rushing towards a train station.
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A few face-in-tablet while walking, that always gets a smirk out of me.
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Lady in heels, approaching the upward stairs while watching a video on her phone in landscape mode, arm fully extended and airpods in. Misses a step and eats it, goes full scorpion. I was impressed she managed to hold onto her phone and keep all her teeth, she just missed chomping on a concrete step by a few cm.
Its extremely common here. Enough that I usually have to stop walking on the sidewalk and just wait for them to notice me to look up and move out of the way, you can't always side step them because they're frequently not walking straight and they'll wander across the path anyway, hence the term meanderthals.
(Edited for grammar/spelling/links)
Its all losses on paper, unrealized losses.
I could see them all coming out ahead in some other way, tax minimization, write downs/write offs, other financial methods not accessible to normal people that don't have a fleet of accounts and tax lawyers on retainer. And they'll all be ready to profit massively during and after any future crash.
The cynic in me says that they all have a bunch of call/put options, algorithmic high frequency trading and dark pools at the ready, or other bets that'll make them massively rich and any upcoming stock market crash is calculated and planned by influencing a bought president. Maybe that's giving them too much credit but the people that advise these billionaires and the president are definitely ready to profit off of whatever is coming.
touches every laptop screen, tv, monitor.... "the touch screen is broken" "what's a keyboard and mouse?"
Kept a hand knit wool scarf (they made for me) for around a decade. Outgrew the style but it was a damn good scarf.
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My mechanical keyboard with split spacebar (System76 Launch)
(leminal.space)
TLDR:
- Keyboard: System 76 Launch
- Keypad: Keychron Q0 Plus QMK Custom Number Pad
- Keycaps: XDA profile
- Switches: Cherry MX SPEED SILVER Switches RGB
- Wristpad: Keychron Wooden Palm Rest (Wooden / K3 / K3 Pro / K7 / K7 Pro / S1 PR4)
www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/ for the last picture with the key layout
Details and Flavor:
This is my first hot swappable mechanical keyboard after having a few Durgod keyboards (switches are soldered to the board).
After the INCIDENT- I spilled a whole jack and coke on my Durgod - the entire thing was unsalvageable because only thing I could do was remove the keycaps, I couldn't remove the soldered switches or take it apart further. So the whole thing was a sticky mess even after drying it out, and the spacebar and CTRL were never the same. I probably could have dunked the whole thing in rubbing alcohol or something, but I just recycled it. So that led me down the path towards customizable mechanical keyboards with hot swappable switches.
Keyboard: System 76 Launch
84 Key variant of the 75% layout, with a split spacebar and extra key for super/function bottom left Super fucking useful why aren't all keyboards made like this I'm never going back to a keyboard with a full spacebar.
Keypad: Keychron Q0 Plus QMK Custom Number Pad
Has survived one accidental drink spillage, luckily it was just water (a whole pint) and I got it unplugged immediately and taken apart to dry. No shorts and all switches and the board were fine after air drying. There was some green paper taped to the bottom of the PCB that did not survive though. I bent a few pins when I manhandled the swtiches back in place, but nothing some tweezers and reinstallation couldn't fix.
Keycaps XDA profile:
I like the profile but these seem to be rarer and its difficult to find any see-through variants with the numbers/letters clear (to let the RBG shine through so I can PWN more in FPSs) Also having keys with a standardized profile, same shape keys regardless of the row, was important because of the oddball layout and key sizes for the system76 keyboards. XDA Tricolor Keycaps
Handmade Abalone Mother of Pearl Keycaps.
These are abalone round beads (meant for a necklace or bracelet) glued to 3D printed keycap mounts. Purchased for around $3 each from my local keyboard shop. They have some cool custom keycaps here: https://shop.yushakobo.jp/collections/artisan-keycaps?page=1 And even more in the store that never get put online. If you are ever in Akihabara Tokyo they are definitely worth a visit. Big disclaimer though: "Every product from this store is hella overpriced." https://maps.app.goo.gl/s4pksssA9sGrz75Z6
So look at the pretty things, but maybe check online or somewhere else first before buying anything lol
DIY if you wanna recreate the abalone keycaps:
There's a bunch of free models you can find online for the "keycap mounts" that might work. I haven't gotten around to making my own, still need to figure out a program in linux I can edit 3D models and figure out how to use it. Super easy to get them 3D printed once you get/make the models. The beads you can find on sites like esty, "mother of pearl round beads"
Switches: Cherry MX SPEED SILVER Switches RGB
I found the Kalih Box switch options from system76 to be too scratchy and I didn't like the Gatreon G Pro switches from Keychron either. I was used to the Cherry MX Speed Silver from my old Durgod keyboard. I prefer linear, super smooth feeling switches especially for gaming, so I went back to the MX speed silver.
Layout:
I used to prefer 96% or 100% (a lot of excel formulas) but the wide keyboard kept getting in the way of FPS gaming and I'd be constantly hitting my mouse against the keyboard, even with maxed out mouse DPI and minimal wrist movement, the keyboard was too wide. So for about 8 years or so I've been using a separate numpad.
Festivus Airing of the Grievances:
I had trouble customizing the keymapping on the Keychron keypad. I wish the keychron keyboard was more straightfoward to customize in linux, or at least compatible with system76's keyboard configurator https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator so I didn't have to dig through 10 year old arch forums and reddit threads.
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Portable Music Player with Open Source Firmware and CAD Files (Now in production)
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Portable Music Player with Open Source Firmware and CAD Files (Now in production)
(www.crowdsupply.com)
"On 17 September 2019, the Japan Audio Society (JAS) certified LDAC with their Hi-Res Audio Wireless certification."
Something something oxymoron. Bluetooth is trash, its why I still use wired whenever I can.
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shifty
joined 1 year ago
GrapheneOS for now until Liberux NEXX becomes a thing or whatever linux phone with good enough security, privacy, and hardware. I'm most hopeful for liberux due to the hardware and the desktop mode so you can use it like a PC.