300 pennies!

It doesn't have to be this way. My grandparents and extended family were war refugees and on the receiving side of bombings. Fortunately they and their children made it, but they lost everything else -- their homes, belongings, friends, neighbors, possibly relatives. Took them maybe 25 years of group effort to emigrate, resettle, and generally rebuild to a modest life. To my best knowledge they have never bombed anyone or participated in other violence.

So yeah, be like them. Get the fuck out of danger, take care of each other, and don't perpetuate the cycle.

The cell walls are the walls of the cells :p

Always loved this one. Watterston did an amazing job making the faces and postures so incredibly expressive. Likely a good study for other aspiring artists.

What happened? Did they kick your dog or something?

Oh cool, glad it helped. I don't know the current key models but if you want to get even closer, try to find something with the same mechanism but a slightly heavier spring. Or swap the springs yourself if you're dedicated.

It still won't be perfect. When buckling springs actuate they pull the key downward a tiny bit (not to the bottom), and when they de-actuate they push the key back upward with a small force. That satisfying bouncy feeling just can't be replicated by linear springs. But the Kailhs come the closest IMO to matching the actuation force, press and release timing, and tactile clicky feeling.

There is also Unicom and ModelFKeyboards.com for true buckling springs, but those are all expensive and ugly IMO.

I used a proper IBM Model M as long as I could. Nothing felt as good (except maybe the rarer Model F). But eventually I had to replace it.

So I got a sample pack at one point and was easily won over by Kailh bronze. Those are the next best thing to the buckling springs.

My partner hates the clicky sound though so I also got a set of the quieter purples. Those are almost as good.

Eventually I switched to Holy Pandas because I wanted something even better. They were expensive. Honestly, I think I prefer the Kailh bronze, for both work and gaming.

Just checked the Kailh website and looks like they have totally different models now so oh well, maybe this is no help.

But fuck Cherry. Their switches are inconsistent garbage.

What's better? KDE? Or GNOME?

Cinnamon.

Nah just kidding. What happens is that you use enough different OSes and DEs for enough time and you start to see through the matrix. You realize they're all just visual wrappers for the underlying systems that do the real work, and the DEs don't really matter. All the major ones are good enough. And when they don't work, that's when you use command line. Then eventually, after doing that enough times, you say "fuck it all, get this GUI out of my way" and just start using CLI for everything.

That's an interesting question and one that's worth exploring. Reddit certainly has been the source of many homegrown memes, common retorts, and witticisms used across the web. But here, you can try switching to Linux. Download various distros for free and try out combinations of release cycle, built-in apps, and desktop environment to find your favorite.

Belfast has the red edition.

I'm sure this is what service members want tax dollars spent on. Y'know, instead of veterans healthcare benefits.

There's no such thing as rewatching Black Books too many times.