Even some Kalih Box clickies of his preferred weighting would be better, though I have to admit the bottom-tier Outemu "dustproof" Greens I have on some of my boards are surprisingly nice if you're into clickies.
Nice choices! the QK seem to hit that sweet spot of Group-Buy custom features at 1/3 to 1/2 the price. I'll get one someday, I reckon, but right now I'm having too much fun building junkboards from scratch.
I find that I want some politics, and the politics that leaks into News and elsewhere is just about right. I un-subbed from anything specifically with the word politics in it and I mostly avoid .ml, and generally I find it very pleasant around here.
I have mine, and frankly I still use it to read about college football and Star Wars and check AskHistorians and post about keyboards. For shitposting and actually engaging with humans -- yes, many of whom are my political speed or even further left -- I really prefer it here. I "left" during the Mod Rebellion and APIpocalypse when it kind of became clear things were not going to be getting better. If it dies, it dies. We got beans over here.
Plenty of clever boys at well-funded public schools have an ancap phase. Most of them grow out of it.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Nah bro! You see, I'll be invested in the corporations so their success is my success, and furthermore the market forces that definitely won't be manipulated by the most powerful players will ensure that things are so much better, and the illegitimate use of violence has never occurred in the history of private enterprise ever, and they're also making plenty more land and natural resources so duplicating efforts is not problematic, and separate will be as equal as people can afford, and we're definitely also all starting from a place of utter fairness! Like, if anything I'm starting from behind! My allowance is only 100 bucks a week and Eddy down the street makes 200 with his job at McDonald's!!!!!!!!!
Literally the one undeniable success of the post-WW2 order was the lack of a global-scale hot war. Everything else is tainted by smaller scale conflicts and self-interest and economic inequality and picking winners and losers in a callous and awful way. But, you could always say it's been 60, 70, and then 80 years with no world war 3. We didn't nuke ourselves. We didn't devastate our species' potential to make the world better for more people. I guess on net there was even progress, statistically speaking, though that's small comfort to those it bypassed and the benefits sure as shit were not distributed equitably.
That one thing, that lowest of bars -- no global shooting war -- is now at risk because a handful of men who are stupid or evil or both, surrounded by people orbiting around them on those axes of stupidity and evilness, have decided that too much is not enough.
Yup! They got the safest of safe Albertan Conservatives to just cuck himself publicly (that's what they like to say? Right?) for Poilievre's benefit, because an "unstoppable movement has grown under his leadership."
Well, it came out great! I've always liked the concept of ortho with normal keycap kitting, though it's kind of amusing that you went with a custom and unsculpted set for the one and only ortho that didn't need them. Absolutely no judgment, though. I have spent a lot of time making "bespoke" boards in my garage that are barely any different from commercial offerings.
Everybody is on the right track that Torx or Robertson are by far the best driver heads, but y'all are not even looking at the threads and shanks. Lots to unpack here. If you are allowed an angle grinder or die grinder, then going longer might be better. Hardwoods don't like fine-pitched threads at all, and while sheet metal screws can work in a lot of wood products it's not ideal. Then, can you countersink, or are you going to be stuck the rest of your life with screw heads standing proud of the workpiece?
This is some serious shit, you guys, and should not be reduced to "Robertson 4 LYF!" We need a couple of committees and some use-case analyses and some brainstorming on workarounds with our inevitable compromise pick. It's gonna be exhausting!!!!!!!
Hi. I have largely settled in on a pattern for making my boards, which I admit will always reveal their DIY nature when you look close, and sometimes even from afar, LOL!
Import that information into the swillkb or ai03 plate generators
Edit the outside profile of the plate manually in 2D CAD software, and usually use that to also make a baseplate
Only done this once, as I usually hand-wire, but here is where I'd design the PCB and send it off for manufacturing, at least in the before-times when this wasn't prohibitively expensive.
Import the plate into 3D CAD software and design a case around it. This is still a time-consuming undertaking for me, so a couple of times I've skipped it and just used standoffs to separate the switches and circuitry from the base plate.
3D print the case and any other bits that need it, like feet or blockers or MCU shells.
Laser cut the plates from something that my cheap Diode engraver can get through, generally "Masonite" hardboard.
Install switches into the plate and solder it up; for handwires this takes an awhile.
Install and edit the firmware. So far, I've always used KMK, but at some point I'd like to move on to the more common QMK.
Assemble the rest of the keyboard.
I haven't sold any DIY boards yet, but for the right customer, someone who understands the aesthetic limitations but still wants to pay too much for my time and needs something unique, I'd certainly consider it. I'm under no illusions that this is a large market, LOL.
Even some Kalih Box clickies of his preferred weighting would be better, though I have to admit the bottom-tier Outemu "dustproof" Greens I have on some of my boards are surprisingly nice if you're into clickies.