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I actually had a slightly different issue. Having an Ender clone of dubious provenance, I needed to let just the tiniest amount of slack into the Z-coupler so the screw wouldn't bind and cause banding. It's the upright extrusions that should provide lateral stability for the Z axis.

I've had a fairly decent one with a Canon small-office B&W laser. It needs to be reset every so often, and it doesn't seem to like my wife (though no printer ever does), but its apps and drivers are mostly business related, so while they are more than happy to help you buy supplies, they don't force the issue, and the printer doesn't care what brand of toner you shove in it. 99% of the time it's just sitting there quietly on its LAN address, ready to print something successfully.

She just got an HP multi-function from work, and dear god that thing is annoying. It kept claiming that its own demo ink was counterfeit. Also fairly mediocre color prints.

Do you mean Kevin Stroud's linguistic history one? If so, I do listen to it and like it a lot. I didn't include it because his degrees are in poli-sci and law, but he at least follows my main shibboleth for a thoughtful podcast by not shying away from "it depends" as an answer.

What I don't like as much are the "well I need to make sure I tell a good story" types who read one secondary source, misinterpret one primary source, and then spend the rest of their time making sure they are awesome and dramatic. I don't have time or motivation to keep up with the literature on Egyptology, but I'd prefer to get my survey of the subject from someone who does.

"A lot" is always relative, I guess. I feel like I type a fair bit, and I do some gaming, and I can say I've never got tired, though to be honest I've never tried a commercially available keyboard or component that was enough to make me tired. I've noticed the extra effort after using something lighter for a while, but I quickly readjust and heavier just feels more natural. To the extent I use them, I prefer my linears and tactiles to be heavier as well.

The potentially big caveat is that I don't properly touch type, and even composing from scratch I top out at about 70 wpm.

Agreed they're nice. If they were to become standard on introductory boards instead of the blue click-jackets, I think many more people would stay on Team Clicky.

Q is a little bit nervous about Floridaman Santa being his upstairs neighbor. Go Gators.

Also in pic: that feeling when you got too cute and your own bespoke layout has a shift key you can't quite get used to.

Box whites are a very nice light tactile switch.

I know what you're thinking, but I said what I said.

I have Box Navies in a DIY aluminum sandwich board that's about the size of a TKL, and before that they were in an FL-Esports FL980, which is an 1800 style, so very nearly full size. I've heard the Jades are ever so lightly louder, but I like heavy switches, so the Navies are perfect. They're very snappy, and in the DIY board bottom out is almost rumbly if I don't use a deskmat. It has been decades since I used buckling spring, but I find the Navies come closer to my memory than any other switches I've tried (though still not the same). I prefer them to Box White, Gateron Green, Outemu Green, KS-3 Gateron Blue, or various commodity blues I've tried.

I was assured by Ted Lasso that this will turn out okay.

I tend to like history podcasts by academics, so here are three:

History of Egypt Podcast
Emperors of Rome
AskHistorians podcast, but I admit I pick and choose episodes with that one. I do wish they'd come over to the Fediverse, but I kind of get it, as their stated goals are broad outreach and getting warm&fuzzies for their mostly younger academics.

There's rarely a strict cutoff for this sort of thing. If you're on the edges, it's sort of "whichever feels right". I am only a year older than my wife, and we were both born in the late 70s, but I had a brother 7 years older than me and she was her parents' first. Based on the TikToks she sends me, she identifies as a millennial. I am much more in tune with the Gen X zeitgeist.

Thanks! LOL.

Those specific issues could be changed with software and a keycap puller in about 5 minutes. Obviously I can't get ESC back exactly where it "should" be, but the idea with this layout was to look and feel a bit like old 8-bit computer keyboards without forcing a drastic departure from modern "ten-key-less" layouts.

Well, I didn't fully realize the depth of my addiction when I ordered the aluminum plates with the switch holes cut into them. :-)

On one of the three keyboards I made, I cut out the aluminum between those two holes which allowed me to set the switches in so the bigger and smaller one are flipped, which is exactly what many European keyboards do in that corner, but actually cutting out the room to include the full size shift would mean a more extensive rework to accommodate stabilizers. I'd originally thought I was being cute and copying what the Commodore 64 did.

You live. You learn. You have three shift keys.

Super key is the Win next to Right Shift. I may flip it with the Fn key on the bottom... not sure, but it's a few keystrokes in the firmware, so I'll see how it goes.

The double shift is because I got a little too cute when designing the layout. Every single button is completely reprogrammable, but ultimately I found that 30+ years of typing (poorly) on big American style left shifts has left me preferring a large landing spot.

The description of the Hogarth series is probably about as close as I've seen to what OP seems to be asking for, but obviously creatives in all media have been adapting Shakespeare for ages.

They may find a basic "nuts and bolts" adaptation to be a bit lacking though. Ol' Willy Shakes tended to lift his plots from middle-brow history books and from earlier plays. The brilliance came in the specific use of language and from stretching the psychological intimacy and realism of the characters in ways that were unprecedented, but which has become the norm, and might feel stale at this point. Frankly, the plays would have been viewed as sloppy and vulgar by many in the upper class, even if they found them compelling in a "best of that lower sort of thing." Shakespeare had to hustle and write "proper" poetry to build a reputation during his lifetime, and what was the net result of being the most brilliant literary innovator in English since Chaucer and possibly ever? He got to be like the second or third richest man in little Stratford-upon-Avon and told enough lies and paid enough bribes to get his dad a coat of arms.

I'm hopeless with sound profiles, but it's mostly not bad. Maybe on the line between poppy and thocky? Is that a thing, even?

In the end, we have heavy tactile switches (which I kinda like, despite being obvious knockoffs, but I'm usually team clicky), tall & reasonably beefy ABS keycaps, an aluminum plate, a cavity inside that's maybe only 1/2" thick, full of wires and with more aluminum on the bottom. Oh, and a typist who pretty much ALWAYS bottoms out keypresses. Whatever that adds up to. :-)

Spacebar is a little hollow sounding, and despite a little bit of silicone on the stabs, the one on backspace is a bit rattly (pretty sure that's the one from a batch I used to fill out an AleExpress order minimum, where the other two are durock). So, in the end, it's... fine? It's not quiet, but quieter than my Box Navies, which I will probably go back to in future builds because I need MOAR CLICKY.

Space: Above & Beyond

I was enjoying the hell out of that show until they ran out of money and decided that since they were "Marines" they didn't have to fly their ships anymore.

That was the classic "Oh Fuck! No Budget! Time travel to LA!" move. See also, Picard, season two, though I wonder if that was more to do with the cast not wanting to deal with sci-fi shit.

There are some very small fillets that ease the edge just enough for when I do touch the front edge, but honestly that's not too often. If anything, I may just need a wrist wrest, as I usually use lower boards.

While there are a lot of "happy accidents" in the design, being kind of flat-nosed was on purpose. The case's design is meant to evoke the final (and largely unloved) iterations of the 8-bit Atari computers, the XE line. My first real computer (though I had no storage device) was the XEGS.