Seems like it's from the same dude's library as the one from last year, and he was into Epicurean philosophy, though not the hedonistic caricature that's come down to us.
LOL, usually the dye sub is better than that, but you will almost never find a non-clone design on XDA. I have limited sympathy for designers who think they can avoid having people make shit that's the same color (though it's more commonly the people who bought the real thing than the designers themselves), but I do feel bad that their unique novelties get lifted as well, and then used and abused forever after.
It's doubly unfortunate because XDA is pretty nice, but now the stigma is self-reinforcing.
If it were to happen the way it's "supposed" to, if Canada were admitted as one state it would instantly become the largest state and gain FIFTY electoral votes, as a state gets the same number as they do Senators and Representatives combined. Again, barring the very shenanigans that would likely be the only way this could happen, those fifty votes would be Democratic-leaning for at least a generation. Alberta and the Prairies combined don't have many more people than the GTA.
You could mitigate the presidential-electoral hit by letting them in as 13 provinces, but then you're probably adding 16-18 Dem Senators versus 8-10 Republican. The only real hope is to get the Canadians to vote against their interests and split their Electoral votes when almost no other states (and no other large states at all) do so.
That's assuming it happens aboveboard, of course, which naturally it wouldn't, and would instead plunge the entire continent into violent misery if not outright war.
In addition to the other people you're hearing, "dwarf planet" also has specific criteria associated with how the body interreacts with its solar system. A dwarf planet has to orbit its star directly and be big enough for its gravity to have pulled it into a roughly spherical shape, but small enough that it hasn't cleared its orbit.
A dwarf star is just a star that's not particularly big and bright for whatever reason. While the terminology is similar, the usage is very different.
Looking forward to this, and to FAM season 5. They wisely let the Danny Stevens plot go in S4 and even if it’s still not quite as sharp the more speculative they have to get, 4 was much better than 3.
So only someone who knows your exact sense of humor and thought processes is ever going to get any of these other than possibly adorable fascist Flareon. Got it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I say this out of love, by the way. Growing up, my friends all said "pulling a wjrii" meant announcing some non sequitur that was only revealed as a joke after I explained at least three silent leaps of thought that I assumed were self-evident.
If you're ready to take the plunge into mechanical, Keychrons are a solid way to get one that is not absurd if all you want is "one nice keyboard," but usually has enough customizability to be satisfying if you fall down that particular rabbit hole. For a bog standard board, any of your listed options are fine, as are most of the options on pcpartpicker.com, and even dumb ol' Walmart will have a couple of logitechs and some rebranded thing stuff no worse than your average pack-in desktop keyboard, and potentially even a couple of mildly satisfying low-end mech boards, once you turn off the godwaful RGB.
If you shop the actual electronics at Amazon, I'd recommend "sold by Amazon" or at a minimum fulfilled by them. If you do Prime, limit to Prime listings. Your includion of BestBuy implies you're in the US, in which case I might avoid vendors that ship from China, at least until the tariff situation stabilizes.
Clickbars and jackets work so differently from one another, I'm not surprised you can hear a difference. I have a batch of Speed Navies right now that I got on sale from Novelkeys; how do you like them? I have a little RK96 that's been sitting in its box with nothing to do for over a year, so I'll probably load it up soon, especially if the slow-boat EBay keycaps I ordered before the new year ever clear US customs. Might yank its battery, though.
The two most famous generations of IBM-made keyboards actuated a keypress by pushing down on a spring connected to a plastic flipper and held juuuust a bit off center, so at a certain point, instead of continuing to compress, the spring crumples over and causes the flipper to trigger either a capacitive pad (Model F) or a conductive membrane (the later and more common Model M that set the continuing standard for the PC layout).
People really like the way they feel and the fact that the buckling is directly, physically tied to actuating the key (not always the case with modern switches’ “tactile event” if they even have one). Some people love the loud clicking sounds.
I have a Unicomp (actually two, but one is the quirky rubber dome they made) from the early 2000s and a Scotland-made one from the 90s, and they feel pretty similar. I understand the biggest thing is just that molds wear out over time and eventually there was a little slop. I have heard, but can't personally confirm, that the "New Model M" they sell has tightened things back up via new molds.
Somebody a few years ago was trying to cram a buckling spring mechanism into a Cherry MX footprint, but AFAIK it never went anywhere, and even the Asian market "Alps Buckling Spring" modules still actuated a membrane.
For actual buckling spring feel, people will recommend heavier Kailh Box clickies, but while they're some of my favorite switches and generally recommend them to people who don't need to worry about sound levels, they don't feel like buckling springs to me but rather their own thing. I have some really cheapo "Outemu Dustproof Green" that I like quite a bit, actually, and feel a bit more like buckling springs, though I know we're not supposed to like click-jacket MX switches. Nothing sounds like buckling springs though, not by a long shot.
"I like Box Whites. They're like this delightfully gentle and quiet tactile switch," he typed from his keyboard full of Box Navies on an aluminum plate.
If I were to dabble in ergo mechs again, I think the 58-key to 60-key splits would be about my speed.
People have varying opinions about clones (for me, I feel for creators whose novelties get copied, but it is what it is with colorways), and you can get virtually any GMK or SP set cloned in XDA, so XDA ends up underrated as a typing experience.
I got an Outback in 2013 when my wife was expecting. Then nine years later I got the world's most boring mid-life crisis car and just got a new Outback, but this one is black and slightly lifted and has the turbo. It’s almost three years old now and I expect to have it for many years to come.
I love the actual utility. It rides like a car and fits where a car does, but holds as much as an SUV, with more interior volume than a Forester.
lol, I have a lot of keyboards, many homemade, but I don’t think I’ve spent over a hundred bucks or so on any single one of them, and most are closer to half that. No Model F of any kind here, much less a new one.
It's electrically identical to a regular Model M, so almost certainly not. In looking into it, they changed three things:
dense little rubber domes in each key's barrel instead of the buckling-spring assemblies
keycaps with stems that are mostly solid to actuate the domes. I put in a spare buckling spring keycap to see if it worked, and while nowhere near well enough to rely on, it snapped right in, and if you push hard enough it'll actuate.
removed a thin sheet of rubber that cushioned the membrane from the plastic flippers attached the buckling springs.
That's it. Same controllers, same membranes, even the same cases.
Seems like it's from the same dude's library as the one from last year, and he was into Epicurean philosophy, though not the hedonistic caricature that's come down to us.