Sterile_Technique

Heresy, right? I've had a mechanical for the last couple of years, and while it's served me well enough, I still don't like the feel or clickety-clack compared to a membrane switch - and my current one is the Razer Blackwidow Stealth w/ rubber o-rings added to the base of each key, which I think is as non-clackety as a mechanical gets.

Anyway, the Blackwidow is starting to have issues - F5 key died months ago, and lately it's been doing this annoying thing where I press a key and it registers the downstroke, but not the release, of the Tab and D keys until I pull it from its USB port and reinsert. It's time.

...but the initial search for a replacement all I'm seeing are either mechanical or mimicking mechanical (like a membrane switch but with the big blocky keys that mechanicals use).

My favorite keyboard 'feel' 100% is an oldschool laptop style keyboard. Like the IBM T60 - flat, light to the touch, and no dead space in between the keys like you see in a lot of today's laptops (the 'island' style... not a fan).

I don't think my entire wish-list exists in a single product, but what I'm after is:

• That T60 style described above

• Programmable keys (remap / macros)

• Corded... unless cordless options have really improved in the last decade or so: I recall a noticeable delay, and constantly running out of battery.

• Extra keys specifically for binding macros like the Blackwidow

• Backlight. Low priority, and I don't give a shit about RGB (or aesthetics in general), but it is nice to be able to be able to see which key is which when the room is dark.

...is anything even kind-of like that on the market, or should I just shut up and get another mechanical?

Inspired by this thread.

I could have sworn when I was in highschool (y’know, like 25 thousand years ago) you could order a bag of like 50 3.5mm audio jack plugs but with no wire or connection after the plug. I'm searching for these now, but the closest I'm seeing are legit components designed to be an adaptor or connect to a wire.

It was just a 3.5mm audio plug with matte black plastic cap on the end, so you’d plug it into a TV’s headphone jack and some models of TVs would be permanently silenced until someone unplugged the cap, because it was sending its audio to the ‘speakers’ that were just plugged in. And once plugged in, it just looked like a screw cover cap - nothing protruding. But also didn’t damage anything, so you couldn’t get in any real trouble for doing it.

Shoddy photoshop to illustrate the gist:

…am I just imagining shit? If anyone knows what I’m talking about and figure out the magic search terms to actually pull it up, please drop a link to a product that can be ordered.

Anyway, the TV in my work's breakroom is one of the culprits, so I'd love to hit it with one of these and see how long it takes for them to figure out why it won't vomit out the misinformation they're addicted to.

Audio jack sabotage aside, any suggestions on how to otherwise fuck with it would also be golden.

Thanks all!

What's up chefs,

So one of my coworker's kids has been in ROUGH shape the last couple months - couldn't keep anything down. After a ton of labs and testing they FINALLY figured out she has CSID, and they've got her diet narrowed down to foods she can actually stomach.

But, there's sucrose and maltose in like everything, so she's going to be super limited on what she can eat for the rest of her life.

So... I want to send her mom home from work with the best fucking dessert she's ever had, and as many recipes as I can get a hold of, especially comfort food kinds of dishes.

If you've got any that sound like a good match, please share!

Thanks all!

US - For the first time in my life I'm not living paycheck to paycheck, but now that I've got a bit of savings it feels like the US dollar and economy is on the cusp of death.

I'm wondering if I should split my bank account into another one that isn't affiliated with the US, maybe even have a percentage of each paycheck go to that one automatically. The thought being to not have all my eggs in one basket.

No idea the best way to go about this, or if it's even remotely a good idea. What do y'all think? Any relatively stable economy to shoot for / ease of opening/accessing an account in a country I'm not physically in?

This is new territory for me - my financial planning historically hasn't gone much past comparing the price tags of 40 lb bags of rice, so... Idk, I have no idea what I'm doing. I have this dread that the income I have now is about to become worthless, and not sure how to protect myself from that.

My death cult is better than yours.

Thinking along the lines of Freeman's Mind, Neeb's Subnautica, Red vs Blue (their channel is locked behind some kind of 'join' thing... wtf...)

Anyway, nursing student here! ...it's melting my brain. I don't trust my time-management skills to actually fire up any games right now - the addiction is real, and I'll fuck up my grade; but the 'itch' is also real, so I'm trying to find something to give that gaming fix, but in little short bursts so I don't one-more-level my way out of the program.

Study up, give my brain a nice 10-20 min break, then get back to it.

Not really picky on the game or genre, just looking for something in-character. YouTube is absolutely STUFFED with videos of people just playing games, but hardly any focused on delivering an actual story. Or rather, I'm sure it's there, it's just lost in a sea of low quality slop.

Any recommendations on picking out the gems?

Nursing student here, nearing the end of the program (WOOOOOO!). Most of my textbooks are digital, cuz those were cheaper than the physical versions, but when I log into my 'eLibrary' now, there's a little notification flag that pops up saying access to it ends soon (a month or so after I graduate).

Um... what the fuck?! I'm still going to need access to that material through my nursing career or if I decide to go for a higher degree type.

Most of my textbooks are published by Elsevier, and hosted in an 'eLibrary' at https://pageburstls.elsevier.com/ - once the book it open, it's obnoxiously locked down: copying via ctrl+C does nothing, printing a page or print-to-PDF results in just the sidebar text and page header, but the actual 'book' is blank; and trying to save a copy with the Firefox extension "Single File" also results in a blank page. There is a copy feature built in, where you highlight text and a little window pops up with "Copy" and a few other options, but doing this fails to capture images, and makes an absolute mess of tables, which both make up a lot of the material. And I'm sure my usage of the 'copy' feature is logged, so if I did that to an entire textbook I'd probably get my account flagged or disabled.

I'm probably the least tech-savvy person on Lemmy, so I definitely don't trust myself to torrent this shit without attracting a small army of lawers hell-bent on ruining my life... but I do at least want to keep the material I fucking paid for. I know there are places like LibGen, so textbook piracy is very much a thing: whatever tools are used at the start of that process to rip content hosted on a webpage and get it converted to a PDF or word doc or something sound like the things I should be using.

We have a summer break coming up soon, and backing all my shit up might be my summer project... what tools should I use to accomplish this?

As Youtube becomes filled with more and more shit, I'm increasingly interested in block/hide type features. Even for videos that aren't shit, I'm seeing the same ones appear constantly in the recommendations, even if I've already watched them.

Or in the 'videos' page of a channel, being able to zap-out-of-existence ones I know I don't want to or have already seen: basically the channel should appear completely blank eventually if I've had enough time to pick through it, giving me an at-a-glance gauge of whether there's new content in future visits.

Figured there'd likely be an extension that does this, but I'm not seeing one...

Using Firefox. I do have uBlock Origin, and my first thought was to use the block-element feature to accomplish this, but that's doing things like hiding all the thumbnails vs the content specific to the video I targeted with it.

Any tips?

Edit - y'all are awesome! I'm gonna check out all of these - thank you!!

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A family member is moving out of country and convinced the best way to keep in touch is with WhatsApp. I really don't want to install any Meta shit on my phone.

Any recommendation for a FOSS or other alternative from a company that's less of an ethical dumpster fire?