mask bullseye*

the guy is representing himself as having special knowledge about what Signal is doing internally and what they’ll do next.

I didn’t get that impression- to me it just came off as him being cynical about platform enshittification.

Like, with recent news of Nexus being sold, my reaction was to join a chorus of others excplaiming that Nexus is about to be shit. We don’t know that - we just know it’s being sold. But we’ve all seen a ton of services follow a similar path, so the assumption feels justified. If a Nexus employee came out and said “Don’t panic, literally nothing is going to change!” Whether that came from the janitor or CEO, I’d have a similar knee-jerk as the dude in the OP.

I also have no idea who the old or new CEO of Nexis is. If it happens to be a woman, me arguing with her wouldn’t be from sexism, it’d be because Nexus is setting the stage to go down the toilet.

Dude in OP absolutely could just be a misogynistic prick, but there’s certainly not enough info in the screencap to say so with any certainty.

It definitely does; my take is only that is has the hallmarks of more benign activity too. I can’t say with any certainty that it IS one or the other. Suspicion is justified; torches and pitchforks, not quite yet.

Important context. Yeah that definitely reduces the benefit of the doubt, but I still wouldn’t jump to sexism. People refer to the organizations they’re employed by as ‘we’ all the time - that doesn’t imply any kind of authority. He definitely assumed she was a nobody, but 99.999% of us are just peasants milking a roof over our heads from a system we have absolutely no control over… so, assuming she’s a nobody is a pretty safe assumption. Were she a dude and all else the same, I don’t see the conversation going any differently.

There are tons, and tons, and tons, and tons of examples of demonstrable and absolutely clear misogyny in our dumb fucking society - it’s really not necessary to try to find it by attempting to read between the lines.

So… unless that dude has a history of misogynistic bs, imo the safer assumption is that he’s being cynical about platform enshittification (and reasonably so when you consider the patterns shown by every single other platform), vs an attack based on gender.

What it costs to make vs what they charge at the pharmacy are two very, very different numbers.

In all fairness, if a CEO doesn’t introduce themself as a CEO, there’s really no reasonable expectation for random internet strangers to know that.

I would have had no idea who that was.

Hold up, orangutans are chill as fuck, don’t do them dirty like that.

Trumpanzee*

Iirc Ramstein and E Nomine were basically my gateway drug that led me to symphonic metal.

Shit still slaps. No fucking clue what they’re saying, and no desire to change that: with no meaning in the lyrics, they just melt into the rest of the song as one of the ‘instruments’.

‘lol-butt-plug’ aside, bass is as much about how it feels as how it sounds. I wonder if bass generation from a rectally inserted speaker would cause that booming/fluttering feeling you get in your chest at a concert.

I mean… It’s a testable hypothesis at least. For science!

A real tragic loss: it seems the road was damaged. :(

IBM SK-8845 Ultranav USB keyboard

IT’S GOT THE RUBBER MOUSE NIPPLE AND EVERYTHING! Fucking lol, that’s amazing. I’m tempted to go that route just for pure nostalgia sake… I should probably avoid anything that’s long-discontinued though, as I probably wouldn’t be able to repair it if it stopped working, and then I’d be back at square one.

Cherry MX Brown switches

The actual post in the center of those is brown, right? I popped a key off, and the ones in mine are kind of a yellow-orange color like the Helios v2 ones you posted, but with a black housing. The noise they produce is pretty much entirely from the bottom of the keycap hitting plastic when it bottoms out (which is significantly dampened by rubber o-rings I added to it) and then another plastic-on-plastic sound on release… which maybe that is the components of the switch hitting itself? Most of the noise is from release. Slowly depressing a key until it bottoms out, then slowly releasing it so that all of the plastic-on-plastic collisions are super gentile, a keystroke makes virtually no noise.

Kind of intrigued by this option as well. My knee-jerk is that this is 100% outside of my skill level: I’ve never done any kind of real circuitry type stuff. Is there a for-dummies guide you’re aware of that treats the reader like an absolute dumbass who needs adult supervision through the entire project? …cuz that’s what I’d probably need to not fuck this up. At the same time, I do kinda love the idea of making my own unique board!

I would bet dollars to donuts you would love something along these lines if you swapped out the standard keycaps with low profile ones.

I’ve never even heard of magnetic switches. I’m intrigued! Trying to imagine the feel of spring pushing against a magnet, I think I you’re right: that sounds like it would feel great! I’m going to hit a few local electronics stores to see if I can find one to try out - seems like an endcap-display kind of thing.

Skimming that second link you posted, I see a few options on the keycaps, but none that say low profile. Would that be a 3rd party purchase thing, or am I overlooking something from Keychron?

The magnetic switches themselves don’t actually click, right? I pulled up some reviews and it still sounds clicky, but I’m guessing that’s the plastic-on-plastic sound of the keycap hitting the post… so, does the rubber o-ring trick work with these to make it fairly silent?

The Ornata also looks like a solid choice per my wishlist. I haven’t had great luck with Razer - tbh, part of me’s been looking forward to the Blackwidow finally breaking so I’d have an excuse to be done with them. But… a match is a match!

Thanks for the feedback!

Please send help.

Yeah that’s called escalating. If the Nazi’s policy is to kill on sight, the solution is to kill the Nazi before it sees you.

That dude is basically ordering Florida civilians to engage cops in guerilla warfare.

Nice police-work, dipshit. 👍

key roll-over

I’ve heard people mention that issue with membranes. In a gaming context, the most I ever see myself hitting would be while sprinting diagonally (shift, W, A or D), jumping (space) and using an item or ability (1), for a total of 5 simultaneous key presses.

…is 5 within reason for the cheapies? …and do any of them have supporting software that isn’t shit? I had a Logitech gaming mouse a few years ago and writing macros on that trash was a nightmare.

It’s part of a whole-health or holistic model of healthcare. It’s good in that it acknowledges that there’s more to a person than the specific issue(s) they’re checked in for. We have a tendency to become kinda desensitized and lose sight of the human vs the ‘lap chole in room 4’. Spiritual health is one of the pillars of that model, and that’s what chaplains are there to provide.

The problem is that “spiritual” is just assumed to be religious, and religious is just assumed to be Christian, at least here in the states.

The other problem is that chaplains assume they’re part of a patient’s healthcare team by default, so they tend to just waltz into patient rooms and start talking to them as though they’re automatically welcome. Many patients lean on their religion when they’re stressed, and if that makes them feel better, then fuck yeah that’s cheap medicine. Some of them are so distressed that they want to speak to a religious official - enter the chaplain. Ideally, the chaplain functions like part psychiatrist and part liaison, tackling whatever it is that’s causing the patient spiritual distress and then connecting them with the people or resources needed to put that at ease. In other words, it shouldn’t matter if you’re a Christian or Satanist or astrologist or Pastafarian or anything in between - the chaplain should be able to see to the needs of each with equal competence.

In actual practice? “…well that’s why Jesus di–” OMG SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

Even looking at them through the lens of “they’re healthcare providers” it’s still super fucked up that they just butt into the patient’s space unsolicited. Like, imagine if a urologist did that… “Hey it looks like you’re here for a lap chole? Nice, nice… anyway, you’re a human with a prostate, so don’t mind me, I’m just gonna… get… up… in there… Alrighty that’ll do it, have a nice day!”

…and given the state of healthcare in the US, that’ll probably come back as $1700 extra on your bill that your insurance won’t cover cuz that doc was out of network.

But yeah, imo the chaplain should stay in their office unless a patient specifically requests to see them. Not every patient feels empowered to say no when the fucker just drops in right next to them and asks if they want to talk about whatever god they’re trying to push.

Cheering for a traitor is traitorous. The traitor in question being the president doesn’t mitigate that in the slightest - to the contrary, that’s the most damaging traitor we could be cursed with.

100%. Whatever spine the US built its foundation on has long since dissolved.

Go on, America, prove me wrong.

We will not.