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Comment Re:Model F (Score 1) 28

Finding a full size mechanical keyboard is actually a surprisingly difficult challenge these days. Sure you can get them, but they're nowhere near as many options for them and many product lines simply don't have them.

It's not even slightly difficult. Just search for 101-key or 104-key keyboards.

People seem to love the strange key layouts caused when you try to mask the function keys and navigation keys into just the number and letter key areas.

I just bought a 75% keyboard on purpose. It drops the number pad and does shove the remaining keys together. However, it has fkeys. Unless you actually need the number pad, it's much better for gaming because it allows you to use that space for mousing. I also have multiple 104 key keyboards.

What's relatively hard to find now is wired keyboards with nifty features, at least without finding lots of wireless ones. Everyone seems to want to make them wireless now. I don't want a keyboard with a battery in it, except for the tiny one I use with the TV. And searching for wired keyboards rarely helps reduce the number of wireless results in the search.

Comment Re:Was this shitty comment written by AI? (Score 1) 56

#2 The Amish are really the only subculture that has managed to artificially hold back technological progress to maintain their way of life, and it's debatable whether they'd have been able to pull that off without resources they acquire from outside their communities.

There are now Amish who use motorized farm equipment with a diesel engine with an electric starter, but pull it around the field with animals. Those have not maintained their way of life, they just have some typically quaint excuses about why and when they are allowed to go around their stated belief system and still claim to believe it at the same time.

Comment Re:How did we all decide to use the phrase vibe co (Score 1) 56

AFAIK it was a joke phrase some individual came up with to gently mock the idea of "coding" without actually knowing what you're doing... and then (some) people somehow went ahead and adopted it as a serious idea anyway. (I wish those people luck, they are going to need it)

No problem, they will just pull themselves up by their respective bootstraps.

Comment Then it's not the same (Score 2) 28

If it doesn't have the original style of guts then it isn't the same thing.

The feel is what's important, not the look. And, BTW "The Vortex M eschews the normal eye candy we expect on modern keyboards" is bullshit. I expect that I can buy a modern (in production, recently designed) keyboard as plain or as fancy as I want, and in fact I can.

Comment Re:Two questions (Score 1) 60

This requires paid journalists. Paying journalists requires making money. If newspapers don't have a means to make money, no, you're not getting in-depth investigative journalism.

Papers make money with ads. You can't sell ad space if you don't have readers. You don't have readers if you don't have worthwhile articles.

So yes, paying journalists requires making money, but making money also requires paying journalists. They seem to have forgotten that part.

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 2) 20

It is more like a Switch 1.25 than a Switch 2, but hey if God decided there's a sucker born every minute what can we do about it?

Apparently the customers know, because Nintendo raised the price on the Switch 1, but not the 2. The die hardest fans are claiming it's due to tariffs, but then it would have affected both consoles.

Comment Re:Least effort (Score 1) 28

Least effort doesn't make sense if you want to restore it. Least effort would be to use it as is. The problem with any of these Airstream, Streamline, Elko et al airspace-grade aluminum trailers is that you have to drill out hundreds to thousands of rivets and then replace them again for any significant repair. Doing it correctly takes a truly painfully long amount of time. Also, while these might have been sealed with something more serious than butyl like most of these were, whatever it was has almost surely gone brittle by now. Therefore, if you do not want to be chasing leaks around for perpetuity, you will literally do a full down-to-the-bones restoration of any vintage aluminum travel trailer (or one of the rare motor homes like this.) Also, while you're at it, you're going to want to take the skeleton off of the frame and replace the plywood decking anyway.

Given all of that, instead of trying to remove paint from the original panels, you would replace it. These trailers are made out of war surplus Alclad. It's great because it's both strong and easy to polish, but it's essentially unrepairable. If you have dings in it, you can try heat/cold shrinking them, but even if it were practical to repair (which it ain't, too thin among other reasons) access is nonexistent. Since it's made out of really thin material, the material costs are a small part of the cost of the job.

I got five 5x20 rolled sheets of Alclad for a 1962 Streamline* "Duchess" TT for like five hundred bucks, maybe $550, shipped. No doubt it's gone up a bit since (this was over a decade ago) but you could probably get all of the skin material for around two grand if you shopped around. If you're going to do it, do it right. In the process you'd seal it with polyurethane sealant and it'd last longer than the buyer would live.

* Streamlines were a side project of Lockheed so they wouldn't have to lay everybody off after The War. This one had a little sticker inside above the doorway that said it was made by "Lockheed Missiles and Space Company". They were taller and straighter than Airstreams.

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