I have hunted and hunted for the short, but while I know exactly which keys are affected, I can't tell why. One interesting development is that while working on another board I plugged the Focus in to check a USB converter, and it worked okay for a minute or so. That makes me wonder if I might get away with simply replacing the capacitors, as I know several of them are for cleaning up the signal. Focus's engineers were bonkers AF with their value-engineering and never met a kludge they didn't like, so as an English major with a soldering iron, who knows what hijinks they were up to. I didn't see any tell-tale burnt-out caps, but the fact that "resting" helped even briefly is interesting. I may try that before I murder the PCB.
We're just literally in the phase where Elon is operating Trump as a puppet via his distended asshole to achieve every pet project imaginable. I assume that Ketamine legalization is next, followed by changing the name of the country to the Xnited Xtates of Xmerica.
Yeah, OP should just find a hot-swap Keychron they like and call it a day. If the keeb bug bites, it’s plenty good enough not to find embarrassing. If it doesn’t, it’s a solid and repairable board to use for a long time.
Wasn’t gaming basically aynonymous with gambling at that time though?
Yes, in large part, and certainly to the way that the introduction to a book of that era would have been presented to the censors; there would often be a wink and a nod, though: "what a horrible thing to be doing! Now, so you can be completely sure how not to get caught up up in it, here are the complete rules to every game we can think of." This book is almost entirely consumed with games that were most often used for gambling, though stakes can be set at any level and played for fun at any time.
I think gaming as a recreation without gambling didnt really come about until the 1940s - 1950s, right? Commonly, of course.
I'm sure there's an element of truth in that certain direct modern lineages of trends in non-gambling gaming are sort of post-WW2 phenomena, but overall I don't think that's fair. Even just in the narrow sense, Monopoly was released in 1935, and other American board games date back much farther, which at east one scholar referring to the 1880s to the 1920s as a "Golden Age" for board games in the US. Also, certain games, like chess, have always had cultural associations beyond gambling. Children's board games have also been common forever. Additionally, TTRPGs and Wargames trace back not to gambling, but to military planning and education.
EDIT: Also of important note, in 1638 the Puritans in the US state of Massachusetts (colonial at the time) enacted a law that made gambling illegal. It outlawed ownership of everything gaming related from dice to cards, and citizens were not allowed to even play in their own home.
True enough, but there's an important context that they banned all forms of "idleness," and gaming got wrapped up in that.
Thanks. Yours came out brilliant, btw. I think the old school sandwich cases are perfect for low-profile switches and caps. Mine here uses "half-height" or "dwarf" Outemus that have standard MX footprint, and a profile from Aliexpress called "JWA".
For higher-profile designs, you can tweak the concept to stack additional layers (swill can generate them, but I still prefer to directly edit the DXFs after) and have the 3D-printed spacers extend out and around like a shroud. You can also just put some threaded inserts into a larger 3D-print and have a kind of top-mount.
Super satisfying, right? Mine are all in KMK, and I've only done one half-assed PCB design (I literally just left a linear row of vias to hand-wire to the RP2040), with the rest being hand-wires. When you're done, and it works as well as a commercial keyboard but you can see all your choices made real, it's really cool.
Even in the video, the modern version looks like the kind of game where the “gentlemen” decided that the riff-raff have taken over squash and made it an undignified game.
Yes, and as someone who stays on Facebook as a proxy for actually communicating with people I'm fond of but don't want to call (as well as some practical communication needs), you get basically a daily dose at this point, with a single click to reshare. I click it probably once a month for my fellow olds who are still on the site, though most of mine are baby pictures of my kid.
I didn't really mean it was ever an explicit position, beyond possibly your Carville strategist types in smoke-filled rooms, but the fact remains that Roe v. Wade was always being chipped away at, in courts and statehouses and law schools, and at several points in the 50 years that it was in effect the Democrats had the power necessary to put up a legislative firewall (see, e.g. Obamacare), but they took no action while reminding voters every election who supported choice. They didn't even have to lie, but there was always a "better" use of political capital, and nothing was done until it was too late.
Labour is in a somewhat analogous situation, in that they have taken power, and they can blame the hardships of Brexit on Tories, and they know the UK is better off in the EU, but they have other priorities. I am fully aware that they need to be prudent, and maybe repairing relationships is meaningful progress, but this could also be tickmark #1 on a ledger called "Times that Labour could have fixed Brexit but didn't."
Constantly posting pictures from high school to social media. Everybody likes a few 'member-berries, especially as we get older, but they are a garnish, not an entire diet.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer aims to improve relations but won’t re-enter the single market, as both sides cautiously rebuild ties.
I get that right now feelings are still raw in Europe and the UK would get a shit deal that would probably undo the (imminently sensible) desire to forget Brexit happened, but Labour needs to be careful they don't follow the US Dems down the same path they took in never codifying abortion. It's more politically expedient to have a persistent bludgeon to use on the other party than it is to fix the mistake, but eventually there are political consequences either way.
Like a binary star system, the UK and the US will do an eternal dance to see who can troll the French the most with mangling the loanwords. The Brits win this one.
The shocking part is that Subaru never explains why the hell you'd want a Forester when the Outback exists.
Wagon Life, BAY-BEE!!!!