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by phaus 7y ago
I'm OK with people making fun of my nerd hobby. I have also spent $800 on a 100 year-old fountain pen so I can do some spencerian copperplate calligraphy. I got functional utility out of that purchase, but most of fountain pen collecti
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by phaus 7y ago
You would have to be careful. Most people buying cheap kits get the same stabilizers that everyone uses in every high end build, its like a $20 upgrade. They also clip the stabilizers, make sure they are lubed properly, and some people put
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by phaus 7y ago
$1100 Iphone - I'm with you on this one, I have a super expensive phone and I don't see the quality over the flagship phones of what seems like yesterday being $600. There's a lot of expensive, cutting edge stuff in my Note9
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by phaus 7y ago
It did until 2017 when I traded my 2015 MBP for a new one. If you liked your MBP good for you. I'm not sure why me not liking mine makes you mad.
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by phaus 7y ago
For headphones, the audiophiles are right. They are even right about quality for a $2000 set of headphones, if its the right model vs a fashion brand. Each price tier tends to have a certain level of quality, and within that tier you can ex
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by phaus 7y ago
I upvoted because I did poorly word what I meant by the latter part of that statement, see above.
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by phaus 7y ago
I spoke poorly, I meant there's nothing wrong with people spending money on expensive things simply because they like the way they look/sound. I don't like predatory pricing. Limited Editions are OK, but when every single pro
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by phaus 7y ago
Yes. They used buckling spring switches. Different from Cherry MX's. I think there are modern versions but IMO the way to go is what you suggested, keeping an eye out for a good deal on a real vintage one.
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by phaus 7y ago
You don't have to miss them, go on ebay, there's an entire hobby around vintage keyboards too. You can get adapters that enable you to use them on a modern system. Those things were built like tanks and sometimes you can get them
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by phaus 7y ago
I believe some of Microsoft's Ergonomic keyboards are highly regarded. I didn't try any of them. Not mechanical but I hear good things. Some of them seem to have a similar tilt to mine. Its not adjustable though and the ergodox fo
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by phaus 7y ago
yes but its only been a couple months with that setup, I think having the ability to tilt each half so the inner side is higher than the outer side has helped my right wrist's tendonitis, but it could be because the tilting forces me
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by phaus 7y ago
There are switches that cost several dollars each that feel distinctly different. In general though I agree, with a specific set of switches, there is likely not a quantifiable improvement to be had by spending $800 more. However, each keyb
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by phaus 7y ago
I think we'll see it grow. I started collecting old and new fountain pens a long time ago before it started to become a thing again. I've slowly watched that turn into a decently sized niche hobby. There are thousands of quality m
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by phaus 7y ago
there will probably be another edition eventually but as someone still somewhat noobish to this hobby i've heard lots of people are ok waiting a year or two for a new group buy to start for a specific set. If you want one now keep sear
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by phaus 7y ago
amazon has them too but I don't want to keep posting links to stores like I have been because I don't know if it violates the rules and I'm certainly not trying to sell anything. search box jade switches and you should get so
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by phaus 7y ago
that's different. Those are nice but there's a company called ZealPC that makes a few different models of switches. They don't have to be purchased from his site directly, there are a few other places that have them. Healios
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by phaus 7y ago
There are different shaped keycaps, like different profiles. I don't really understand that yet, I have some made specifically for an ergodox style layout, so they probably have slight differences. I'll give a few recommendations
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by phaus 7y ago
Some people still prefer blues, I might be slightly exaggerating. Not everyone wants a key as hard to press as a box jade but I love them. When they did a survey of /r/mechanicalkeyboards the most common favorite is Brown, Blue wa
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by phaus 7y ago
My setup is the white version of this with the tenting kit but no wrist-guards (don't need them when its tented). https://imgur.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards/BjycwBN Here's the link to the keycaps alone with
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by phaus 7y ago
Yea, not a photography guy but I have friends that are and its a bottomless rabbit hole of cool shit to spend money on.
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by phaus 7y ago
I have a $600+ keyboard so I'm a part of this hobby. However, only a part of this can be explained by the expense of manufacturing at a small scale. The hobby fully embraces the drawbacks of the small scale and intentionally does nothi
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by phaus 7y ago
The examples you gave were all extreme cases of gross negligence. You're feigning ignorance and acting as if they are highly trained people dealing with incredible complexity and unmitigatable danger. Its as simple as it sounds. They p
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by phaus 7y ago
Gun owners accidentally shooting themselves means there's a 100% chance they were doing something that following the most basic gun safety controls that everyone knows about would make impossible. You can infer from this that those peo
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by phaus 7y ago
They look funny, they stim, they do that flappy thing with their hands, or rock. The problem is you are attributing the low end of high functioning with all of them. Either you have also met autistic people much closer to normal than that,
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by phaus 7y ago
one extreme: Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people, and would prefer to avoid them to the greatest extent possible. The other extreme is the way you interpret my statements to mean that I have some delusionally idealistic view of h
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by phaus 7y ago
You keep going to extremes. I'm not saying everyone treats autistic people perfectly, I'm just not agreeing that most people are so repulsed that they feel physically unsafe around us and treat us like creeps. The act of socializi
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by phaus 7y ago
>He’s autistic. He probably gives almost everyone he comes into contact with the creeps. Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people, and would prefer to avoid them to the greatest extent possible. This is an incredibly ignorant opini
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by phaus 7y ago
I know they did some cool stuff a long long time ago, but how do they manage to pull that off? From my experience government contractors make even the coolest job/project a miserable, bureaucratic nightmare destined for the bottom tier
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by phaus 7y ago
There are tons of people that write code that aren't college graduates and aren't very educated in math. I'm a high school drop out. I'm teaching myself functional programming and I'm slowly relearning HS algebra so
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by phaus 7y ago
I never even made it to pre-calc and I suck at Algebra but I'm teaching myself CS and functional programming. The title made me interested and the warning tells me I'm probably not ready for it.

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