It was never a real ad. It’s a pre-internet fax and photocopy meme redone for the web around 2014-ish.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wd40-ad/

This motherfucker is bringing back god damn sumptuary laws?!?! Is this god damn 14th century London?

Squid actually posted something about this on [email protected] a week or so ago. If I didn’t quite fall down the rabbit hole of cetacean evolution, I at least tripped over it.

So long, and thanks for all the nugs.

Yeah, if not for all the people raising hell, I think this is normally one where they just agree to silently let the lower court ruling stand.

As for the law, it’s stupid. I am willing to consider that there may be some concerns that are unique to a Chinese-owned social media app becoming so popular in the US, but we were nowhere near the tipping point where we needed specific TikTok legislation, and even if it were warranted then something much more narrowly tailored could have worked. It was a boomer kneejerk to come down so hard, and especially to do so without considering the potential for backlash among voters that both parties want to court. It also isn’t a good look that this all goes down while the mask is coming off of our homegrown social media, and it’s becoming more blatantly obvious that their interests are not particularly aligned with an average American’s either.

Ahh, but they are already convinced that they have the best people to broaden their customer base because those are the people they picked, and therefore there is no need to spend any money on staff and initiatives to tell them they are wrong, when that money is better spent on bonuses and marketing. Business nerds at Wharton may spot some general trends, but they don’t know Company X, which has the best management team ever assembled.

And what, pray-tell, is your description of our little stellate amuse-bouche there?

Getting this court to agree 9-0 on a politically sensitive case is pretty fuckin’ impressive. You want to regulate commerce with a foreign-owned entity for professed national security reasons, then you pass a law in Congress. That’s the way the US government is actually meant to function, and it’s sort of facepalmingly hilarious that they did something so stupid so well. If no one wants the law anymore, then it should be fairly simple to extend the deadline or repeal the law, riiiight? You own this mess now, Republicans. You own all the messes.

Never underestimate the degree to which corporate management believes that they already do everything they need to and have no blind spots, or how much they resent any cost which is not directly revenue-generating.

The video posted elsewhere in this thread shows a clay tablet containing an expanded ruleset from the Hellenistic period that allows the basic rules to be intuited with more confidence.

I can also appreciate that he cut right to the chase.

They’re really more for use cases like yours and for gamers who want/need one but want to keep their mice close in. As with most well-known layout concepts in the hobby, Keychron sells some. I found it to be… fine, but obviously mine has more compromises than usual. I mostly use one of those smaller ones that still has a right-hand numpad (typing on the F-Row-less black and white one now), or I keep that external numpad to the right of my mouse.

Oh hell yes, the compact layouts that keep their numpads are my usual preference, though in adding numpads I also decided to do my own plates on my home laser, and that was easier without longer keys, so they got a little… weird.

• First one. Did my own (slightly cockeyed) legends on the keycaps.
• Second one. F Row returns. Tried to make a case that fit the weird layout. More DIY legends.
• Third one. Tried to do a southpaw and minimize the need for custom keys, though it still benefits from a few.
• Back to F-row-less. Careful selection can make this work with purchased caps. It also has a PCB, though the microcontroller is just manually wired instead of being integrated or even socketed.
• HEHEHEHEHEHE.
• Bonus. Numpads don’t have to be part of the board.

Thanks! They’re the twins of the one I just spruced up. The gray one is bare aluminum with oak spacers. Construction wise, it ended up looking a LOT like Matt3o’s BrownFox from like ten years earlier. No surprise, I suspect. The Swill plate generator I used was likely borne out of people wanting to do similar projects. It has Box Navy switches combined with Vortex-designed VSA keycaps that you can find mislabeled all over ebay/AliExpress/etc. as “double shot DSA”, except for the BBC Micro inspired F row, with is just 12 red DSA blanks and one that I lasered a design onto.

The yellow one has “Fauxly Panda” no-name heavy tactiles from Aliexpress, a 3-D printed case and feet, Akko “SA-L” keycaps, and a design (very) loosely inspired by the later Atari 8-bits. The color scheme is meant to sort of vaguely evoke the original 400 and 800. I am really pleased with this layout, which is just a TKL with the F-row shoved over, a few missing keys above the nav cluster, the Shifts split in two, and the modifiers shrunk down and reduced to give that “dangling spacebar” look so many old keyboards have. Only thing I’d do different is not split the left Shift. I just never got used to having two keys there, so all three boards now just map shift to both keys.

This has been an immensely fun hobby, and I’ve probably done a dozen projects by now, though I’ve probably topped out how refined my designs can be and still be fabbed on a 5W diode laser and an Ender 3 clone. Last project before the solenoid and aesthetic retrofit was my goofy no-stabilizers Battlecruiser, which I’m currently using for work.

Around a year and a half ago I started making my own keyboards. Like, I still use normal switches, normal keycaps, and off-the-shelf microcontrollers & firmware, but the layout and the structure are my own design, mostly fabricated at home. After a few experiments (one ortho, one ergo, one macropad, and one gutting of a broken off-the-shelf to try something larger) , I had three keyboards’ worth of aluminum plates made. One was pretty basic but has remained a favorite and another really hit my retro intent for the design, but the second was sort of an ignored middle-child because it wasn’t as refined as the third, or as earnest and satisfying as the first. I fixed it by designing a wrap-around case for it, changing the keycaps, and adding a little solenoid so it sounds like a telegraph machine whenever I flip a little switch. I’m really pleased that I was able to retrofit it to make it stupidly fun to type on. My boards are not exactly the perfectly-finished CNC aluminum showpieces some enjoy, but it’s deeply satisfying to go from a pile of electronic bits, some sheet goods, and a reel of printer filament, to a functioning piece of daily-use equipment.

Not even there. DoD is ~$840B and DHS another sixty. Not even one trillion in the entire US security apparatus, but they were going to so easily find twice that. It was always pure nonsense.

Sometimes people don’t include the reminder in their outlook invite. They have no right to expect me to show up at all if they do that. At the very least, they need to apologize when they send me the stupid “Are you attending my meeting?” Slack message.

I never cared about your meeting, Derek. No one cared about it. We only show up to meetings when Outlook tells us it’s time. Our calendars are just endless strings of soul-sucking meetings no one wants to be on, and I will never check mine pre-emptively. I accept everything I’m invited to, Derek. Everything. We all do. Remember the fucking reminder, Derek.

Indy, his nuke survived.

If you look close, you can just make out the little bullwhip and fedora!

I dunno. I guess? I’m not subscribing to any of them.

If this is a useful and interesting project for you, by all means go ahead and enjoy until and unless Reddit messes up your scraper or API access. Based on what I’m reading here though, I don’t think the more vocal lemmy users are really feeling it.