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[–] shifty@leminal.space 8 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

If they're wearing headphones outdoors/in public instead of earbuds or noise isolating in-ear monitors, they deserve all the sweat lol.

Otherwise for those of you at home:

What Are Open-Back Headphones?

The 6 Best Open-Back Headphones of 2025

No more sweaty ears once I switched from noise-cancelling Sony and Bose bluetooth headphones, to a cheap bluetooth neckband type earphones. I swapped out the earbuds for some silicon noise-isolating ones that fit snugly in the ear canal.

Got a fancy open-backed headphone for gaming/music on the PC.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

America's Test Kitchen has a bunch of reviews

Edit: as others have said, look at restaurant supply stores in your area. Besides stainless, I'd also recommend carbon steel or cast iron since you're looking for durability and food safety.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Good luck finding a parking space.

Average US parking space according to wikipedia is 8.5 to 9 ft wide. The Escalade IQL is 85 inches (7.1ft) wide with mirrors folded. That gives you 1.5 to 2 feet of space total (not on each side), so you'd probably have to trap your passengers just for the driver's side to get out in many situations like strip malls, movie theaters, hotels, parking garages that were designed for normal sized vehicles. (For comparison a Toyota Corolla is 5.8ft wide would have about 3 feet of space). Expect a lot of dinged doors and door dinging.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

First thing in the morning and now you've missed your own meeting.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Specifically leather belts and footwear.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instead of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, it'll be 6 degrees and we're all bakin'

[–] shifty@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

More than meets the eye 😏

[–] shifty@leminal.space 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I cancelled my Kagi subscription as soon as they started rolling out their "AI" features.

Edit: Otherwise I was happy to pay a monthly fee for privacy respecting search. Now I use a mix of 4Get, SearXNG, Startpage

[–] shifty@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Its not even summer yet...

 

This is a newer product on the market, its a great idea, where the USB-C plug can swivel. I assume their goal was to make it easier to charge your device while also using it, and to make the cable last longer. The swivel part is great when it works but it's super fragile and broke for me in two weeks.

 

Figured this would resonate with people here and have some overlap with this community.

"The idea behind this is that we want to log every single instance of a company taking part in one of these anti-ownership practices where they deceive you, where they take away your ability to have privacy, where they take away your ability to repair what you own, where they take away your ability to say you own what you own."

Video Explanation: Consumer Action Taskforce: EXPOSE EXPLOITATION & HOLD COMPANIES ACCOUNTABLE!

Work in Progress Wiki: CAT Consumer Action Taskforce Wiki

 

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.

 

"A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant"

Mechanical Keyboard Details

  • Standard stagger, 80 keys
  • Kailh Choc Brown switches
  • N-key rollover
  • Layout: QWERTY-US, laser-etched legend (international keycap sets available)
  • Custom MBK Glows keycaps by FKcaps
  • Customizable RGB backlight
  • Raspberry Pi RP2040 controller
  • OLED screen for system control functions
  • Open source firmware
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