[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're talking about the tucked-in arrow keys, you'd be surprised how quickly you adapt. I've gotten so used to it that the more spaced-out configuration feels unnatural to me at this point. I don't think I'm alone, as I'm seeing this layout more and more.

Give it a try (maybe not on something as expensive as this is!) Maybe you'll like it and it'll open up more options for you.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191341035/nasa-voyager-2-spacecraft-contact

Sounds like it's a recoverable error (if the scientists can't do it the spacecraft has an automated process that'll kick in in October.) Still, I can't imagine what that must feel like.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

What's always maddening about this is we tend to do a kind of communal thing in our household where we all connect to the smart TV and stream short little videos.

But shorts won't stream. So you'll see one, want to share it with the group, and be completely unable to do so. Why they are restricted that way I have no idea.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is so heartbreaking. That ecosystem is so much more fragile than it seems. I wonder if replanting would help in this instance, or if it would be too difficult/expensive.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Very impressed by the people who do this work; it's got to be soul-crushing. I'm glad they caught the guy and I hope it brings his victims some peace.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I'm so excited. I really enjoyed this book when I read it a couple years ago, and I know the narration will only improve it. It's a fun read.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It was like this in my CS department a decade ago, too. There was me, one other gal, and for a while a German exchange student who wanted nothing to do with either of us in the entire grad program. I learned to talk a lot louder over the course of that program.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation! I've been putting off a travel keyboard for a while now, this time I'm actually planning ahead so I have plenty of time to mod. I'll look into the mint switches and see what they've got in stock. (Ah, the classic struggle.)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

Hi all, I'm looking for a keyboard for travel that will be quiet enough not to bother folks on a train. Ideally I'd like a mechanical keyboard, but I'm curious what experiences folks have with low-profile switches in a quiet environment. My current daily driver (silent switches, a fair bit of foam and lube, etcetc) is what I would consider office-quiet, but you can definitely hear when I get going and I feel like it'd be a little rude on a leisure train trip.

Right now I'm looking at the nuphy and keychron low-profile keyboards, but I'm open to other options. Currently for travel I use a foldable membrane keyboard so just about anything would be an upgrade.

Does anyone have experience with low-profile keyboards? Are there silent options? Thanks in advance for your help!

Edit: realize I should have specified that I prefer 65 and 60-key layouts for portability.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This was just so sad to read about when it happened. I felt bad for the intern: one arguably small mistake led to such terrible consequences. I felt really bad for Hickam too; he tried to help the intern but I don't know what came of it.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always wanted to learn skateboard but at 40+ it seemed like a really dumb hobby to start, given that you spend more time falling at first than you do on the board.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

That was a rough read. It's so hard not to project these smaller-scale issues onto our larger political climate. I wonder how this whole situation would have shaken out if it had just been two businesses and noise/odor complaints, without hate and political tension to fuel things.

It's hard to know from a single article, but it sure seems like the tensions here are motivated by a serious (and unfounded) persecution complex on the part of the Washers. Either that or some very poorly-masked bigotry. It's hard not to view them as the aggressors in this situation, and my heart goes out to the Front Porch folks (and the whole town).

I wish we could walk back the increasing tensions in our country. It's hard to keep perspective.

[-] fuzzy_goldfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just picked up a bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Ajisai. It seemed so pretty in swatches, but in the pen it's just a flat, pale blue with no purple in it at all.

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