What's you topic you never miss a chance to talk about and haven't had a chance to recently?

pretty sure it's professor bees

Turbo Encabulator is a classic technobabble monologue. Very fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW0bx_Ooq4

Standard Issue Steel Frame Hybrid, like straight up the most boring "european man on a bicycle" thing imaginable

I feel bad about bullying people in general but "I can't believe you are using a TKL when 60% are leetsauce. Afterall HHKB is 60% and not TKL, it basically speaks for itself!"

But for real tho, if it works for you then that's what matters. The hobby can be extremely expensive so having cheaper prebuilts that aren't the run of the mill Corsair K60 or whatever is actually cool. My first board that got me into the hobby was a cheap no-name with Outemu Blues. Those switches fucking slapped.

Another no-name(ish?) to look for are Gateron(my basic bitch choice). They are better than Cherry, like no contest. Stay away from their Blacks tho. They look very close to Yellows on paper but the spring gets heavier as you press so you don't get that bottom out feeling and they just feel heavy heavy heavy.

I haven't been on /r/mechanicalkeyboards much lately so I'm not sure about what the new hotness is but that sub loved their Creams for a long time and then Glorious Pandas and Boba U4Ts for a while. I personally like Everglide Oreos for MX stems and Kailh Sunsets for Chocs.

I think the main difference between the surface level switches between brands is that a Kailh Brown might feel scratchy and less bumpy than a Gateron Brown but otherwise Browns are Browns, Blues are always gonna be clicky, reds and yellows are gonna be linear. Maybe this is me sounding fighty but I don't get the amount of hate that Cherry gets in the hobbyspace. I don't use them but I think if someone has Cherry Browns and they like them, cool.

I switched over to a column staggered split board and also switched to Colemak-dh at the same time and it took me 6 weeks before I could type confidently again. But like that was my journey. If typing on a prebuild 75% board with dedicated arrow keys work for you and your wife, that's what matters lol.

Saurkraut:

• cabbage
• salt
• spices(optional)

1. Fresh cabbage is best as it will be crisper and have more water in it. Shred the cabbage into ribbons.
2. Put shredded cabbage into a large bowl.
3. Add 2% salt per cabbage weight. Measure by getting weight of bowl first, then weight bowl with cabbage, subtract bowl weight, and mulitply by 0.02. That will be your salt amount.
4. Toss and massage cabbage/salt and let rest for 1 to 4 hours. Massage occaisonally until brine starts to pool at bottom of bowl.
5. Pack tighly using kraut pounder into jars. Make sure kraut is fully submerged. Leave abuot 1 inch of space at top of jar and put airlock on.
6. Ferment for 4 weeks on a baking sheet to collect any overflow.

Spices: Caraway seeds, mustard, dill, etc will all work. Between a tsp and a tbsp depending on spices. 1 tbsp for caraway per head of cabbage, for example.

Baechu Kimchi:

ingredients

• 2 pounds napa cabbage, cored and cut into 1-inch pieces (one large cabbage)
• ¼ cup sea salt
• 2 cups shredded carrots
• 1 bunch green onions, sliced white and chopped green
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, sliced ( 2-3 disks, peels ok)
• 6 cloves garlic, whole
• 2–6 tablespoons Korean-style red pepper flakes (gochugaru)
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 teaspoons sugar

instructions

1. Cut cabbage and place it in a bowl with the salt and toss. Add enough cool water to cover the cabbage and stir until salt is dissolved. Keep the cabbage submerged with a plate over the bowl and let stand at room temperature 6-8 hours (giving a stir midway through if possible) or overnight.
2. Drain the cabbage, saving the brine. Rinse cabbage, drain, squeeze out any excess water and place it back in the bowl, adding the carrots and scallions.
3. Place the ginger, garlic, red pepper flakes, fish sauce and sugar in your food processor. Process until well combined, pulsing, until it becomes a paste.
4. Scoop the paste over the cabbage and using tongs or gloves, mix and massage the vegetables and the red pepper mixture together really well, until well coated.
5. Pack the cabbage into a large, two-quart jar (or two, quart jars) or a crock, leaving 1-2 inches room at the top for juices to release. Add a little of the reserved brine to just cover the vegetables, pressing them down a bit. Add weight and airlock.
6. Ferment for 3 to 14 days.

Sourdough:

Day 1:

Levain - 8:00am

• 37g starter
• 37g bread flour
• 37g whole wheat flour
• 74g water

1. Mix all ingredients in a clean jar and leave out at 74-76°F for 5-6 hours. In the oven with the ONLY the light on works well.

Autolyse - 12:00pm

• 907g bread flour
• 641g water

1. Mix flour and water by hand until flour is completely incorporated and leave next to levain for 1 hour.

Mix Dough - 1:00pm

• Levain
• Autolyse
• 50g water
• 18g salt

1. Add the levain, water, and salt to the dough mix. Combine by pinching, pulling, and folding until well incorporated. Place some place warm, around 76°F.

Bulk Fermentation - 1:10pm to 5:10pm

1. At 1:40pm, 2:10pm and 2:40pm, stretch and fold the dough. Pull from the north, south, east, and west across the dough ball.
2. After the third set of stretch and fold, continue to bulk ferment until 5:10pm

Divide and Preshape and Shape - 5:15

1. Flour your work surface and scrape the dough out onto the work area. Cut the dough in two even halves and pull each into a ball. Let rest for 25 minutes
2. At 5:35, shape each ball. Working with the floured surface, dust the dough balls with flour and carefully turn upside down so the floured side is on the bottom.
3. With floured hands, pull the side of the dough closest to up and ⅔ across the top of the dough.
4. Stretch the left side out and fold over. Repeat for the right side.
5. Finally pull the top down across the dough
6. Flip the ball over and pull the dough towards you in a circular motion to form the ball.
7. Once the ball is formed, place dough in a heavily dusted, towel-lined bowl, seam-side up. Cover with a damp towel or plastic shower cap, etc. and leave it on the counter for secondary rise.
8. Repeat this for the second dough.
9. Leave dough to proof overnight in fridge.

Day 2:

Bake – Next Morning: Preheat oven at 8:30 a.m., Bake at 9:30 a.m.

1. Place dutch oven in oven and preheat for 1 hour.
2. Take out first loaf and flip it out onto parchment paper using cutting board/flip trick from website.
3. Score top however you want. I use my half wheat design.
4. Carefully take dutch oven out of oven and take lid off.
5. Carefully place bread into dutch oven, replace lid and put back in oven.
6. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove lid and set next to dutch oven in oven and bake for 15-20 more minutes.
7. Repeat for second loaf.

My kimchi recipe has been compared to "the real deal" from Korea from vets in the past. I'm tried several store bought ones but, and not to toot my own horn, but mine really is good shit. I do want to modify it to be vegan sometime maybe this summer but we will see. So if she doesn't wanna bother searching, I got you covered. My recipe IS modified to be a bit easier to make in the States so I use carrots instead of daikon radish. I'll post it as a separate comment to not clog this one.

My saurkraut is really simple to make but also hits it out of the park. It took me a few batches to figure out the crunch but I got it. I will post that separate too. The main trick is to make sure to use the weight percent of salt related to cabbage, and also save a few outer leaves to put on top before that final press and adding weights. This part is crucial to getting that legit crunch. If you don't you risk soggy.

For most veggies, a 3-4% brine and just submerging is all you need. I do this with hot sauce when I get a bug up my butt to make it. I have a whole fridge drawer of artisan sauces so I never have room for my own and super hots are only available a few weeks out of the year here. For a hot sauce, 3% brine, a medium onion, or half, a bunch of peppers of your choice, and some garlic, and maybe a carrot if you want that orange style, and especially if you are going for a hab sauce. Let it sit for 3 weeks up to 3 months. The longer it sits, the more yeasty flavor it gets. After it's done, toss it all in a blender, reserve the liquid so you can adjust the thickness. If you want you can cook it down but this kills all the yeasty boys and bacteria.

My Kombucha never carbonates on it's own but literally if you dump a bottle of GT's into an extra sweet gallon of tea, you have kombucha in 2 weeks. That thing that floats on top is not the mother. This is a isconception and you can literally throw it away. People call it a scoby and make "hotels" for them but it's just a byproduct. The swirly cloudy stuff at the bottom is the mother and that's the good shit. That is the living culture that feeds off of the sugar and stuff.

I can also share my sourdough recipe. I had a small cult following when I was making it during the height of the pandemic but I got busy and got rid of my starter.

Sourdough starter:

• whole wheat fluor
• water

1. Day 1: mix 100g flour and water in jar, let set for 48 hours, covered loosely with a jar lid.
2. Day 3-10: Scoop out 100g of starter into a new jar and add 100g flour and water. Mix well and cover.

You can probs use bread flour once it's healthy and going, King Arthur OO or Peter Pan bread flour is what I use for both starter and bread, I forget what I used for the wheat.

years ago I was getting a Info Tech tradeschool/cert thing and one of the profs there was a big cybersec nerd and was like, "check out Linux" and gave me an Ubuntu 9.10 disc. I went home and tossed it on a machine and realized real fast that there was a whole ass world out there that did all the shit that Windows and proprietary paywalled software did but for free. It blew my mind.

Ironically this is the point that I also started to become radicalized. Just the realization that information not only could be free but should be free. I used this as a lens for when I started college and took a bunch of polysci and econ classes. From that perspective capitalism and consumerism just all seemed like complete bullshit. I usually state to people that I started college as a Dem and left as a Soc, though I was still a reformist. A few years later after the deprogramming/deconstructing happened for me, I finally made it over to revolutionary.

So thanks FOSS!

Will join c/libre. Didn't know it existed. I just finally migrated full time over to HB from Lemmygrad and am slowly filtering my comms lol.

I have 2 Cantor Remixes(36 key variant fork) actually. My daily driver is a Ferris Sweep, so column stagger with the same aggressive pinky stagger and 34 keys. I'm using Choc Sunsets in it because they are amazing I hand-dyed my own keycaps too.I use Vial for my firmware and my own custom keymap inspired by Miryoku, KKGA, and this write-up. You can see what it mostly looks like here.

I also have a A.Dux that I've been wanting to build but just haven't gotten to it. If I ever get into a legit IT job, I wanna get a unibody split but I don't wanna deal with diodes so I my spend the money to have it build for me, even though I kind of like soldering. I'm looking at a FauxFox from Fingerpunch since it seems close to what I'm after. I want lowpro switches, angled halves and a touchpad. Extra bells and whistles are fine but I'm not really after anything to gimmicky. The idea is to still get my split but without having to worry about trying to use an actual split while on the go.

I started on Ubuntu with Gnome, then Unity. After a while I did my distro hopping and used Arch for maybe a year on my laptop before finally settling on Mint. I'm ok with troubleshooting and doing a lot of the extra work that comes with actually owing your machine but at the end of the day, Mint "just worked" and it allowed me to focus on other things instead of troubleshooting video or wifi drivers and navigating the AUR docs all the time. I still like Arch and also am considering checking out Debian proper at some point but for now Mint does what I need, it's a fairly OotB experience and I'm used to apt(at least as an enduser, some of the fancier package management stuff is still mystical to me unless it's part of a written guide or whatnot.)

I use Cinnamon. I moved to it after Gnome a few years ago and haven't had many issues. I still do like Gnome though. If I am using an older or lower spec system then it's usually LXDE or XFCE. I've messed around a bit with tiling managers and they are cool in that "hacker sense" but the workflow aspect just never clicked with me and I hate feeling like I needed a cheat sheet the entire time just to navigate. I get not using a mouse if you don't need to but my brain just never could get used to tiling managers.

It seems like every time I try to use KDE it breaks my system. I've messed with Kubuntu in a vm before and like it and can see the appeal but I just have had nothing but bad luck lol.

Fucking tell me about it lol. I've been trying to either get an IT job or a software job for 10 years now and still suck at jobbing. I'm literally going back over all the same shit I already know but people don't care if I don't have certs and degrees that I dumped a bunch of money into...

The top one is giving me big Atreus maybe mixed with Revuing. I used to want to make a Revuing while I was trying to figure out what board I felt would work for me. I can dig it. I don't have a number row or an F key row but I like seeing stuff like this tried more as it just makes more sense to me in general. I think I'm one of those "tiny board" exception to the rule people tho.

The bottom one, to me looks like what the Sea Breeze should have been. I'd much rather have a 10 key instead of dedicated nav keys. Unless you are putting the nav cluster on the right? But also southpaw number pad is based as fuck. I don't get why people spend their entire life using a row staggered keyboard with a big ass numberpad between the alphas and their mouse. I think that is me being a elitist dweeb tho. But I don't have to reach all the way across my desk to move the mouse lol.

Curious about how that thumb cluster turns out too. I have put way too much thought into what a perfect thumb cluster should be like lol. I thought I needed 3 per half at one point, and now use 2 per. I used to want an Ergodox at one point to and that thing has like 7 per side.

I'm eager to see the end result to both of these.

Lol oh no, I'm a fraud!

I'm actually going to seek out gochujang soon since it's been on my radar but just haven't gotten around to checking it out. This is literally the first time seeing gochurang mentioned.

My specialty is sauerkraut and kimchi. I even sold them during the height of the pandemic for some survival money. I also make mead for my wife since I'm the world's worst vegan.

If I ever get back into the hobby in a major way, I do wanna start playing around with stuff like miso so maybe I can look more into gochurang and gochujang.

Did a quick couple of searches and even Maangchi's recipe doesn't call for gochurang. If you can find anything on it I'm interested.

Tbh, a $10 membrane every couple of years is prooooobably the better route to go fiscally.

I can see cheaper mechs failing maybe but if the PCB gets fried somehow. But for the most part, once built, they should be good for a long time as long as they are kept well. Switches are usually tested and good for like 100 million presses. And a lot of people are gravitating towards boards with hot-swap sockets which allow you to pop out the switches and replace with different ones without having to do any soldering. This is great for if a switch might be bad.

Another anomaly that happens is that once you get a mech, you want like 3 more. It's a meme in the community for saying your next build is your endgame. Endgame is a myth basically. So maybe they got bit with the bug and is going through the process of finding the next endgame.

I own 7 boards total. Have a build I meant to do last year and have 2-3 others I kind of wanna make.

E: I reread the first part of this and sorry if I sound a bit too blunt. I don't mean too and think people should be allowed to enjoy things. :(

So I usually don't really buy into the "gamer keyboard" thing but it's mostly because of the hype around marketing. The bigger name keyboards are kind of garbage and I don't think someone is gonna be a better gamer just because they can press a key a nanosecond faster.

But with that said, spring weight is absolutely a thing. linears like reds seem to be marketed towards gamers because they are around 35g spring weight so they are easier to press, but spring weight only really matters with regard to typing fatigue. So for me, as an example, I can type on 45g springs all day long but I tried out 55g Gateron Blacks for a while and hated them. My hands just felt tired and would get crampy after any amount of typing. I think this experience translates to gaming too. If you are doing a longer gaming session, spring weight is pretty important since I think the last thing you wanna get frustrated over when losing all day in Apex(that me) is your keyboard fighting you.

The video on their site when they cover activation point, that's just actuation and it's normal on mechanical switches. I've seen some discussion on Lekker switches but not a lot so can't speak fully on them but outside of like sound dampening and the D dumb style tactiles, there really hasn't been that much new innovation in the MX style switches. Cursious about the tiny magnet they mentioned though.

My current rec for anyone that is just wanting to get a mech is to go with Keychron but I will keep an eye on Wooting.

With all that said, my focus is on split, columnar stagger instead of row stagger. Our fingers naturally move up and down better than laterally and column stagger addresses this and row stagger doesn't. This is part of what causes repetitive injury in people that type a lot(carpal tunnel and ulnar deviation) Ulnar deviation is how your wrists are unnaturally bent outward while typing. My split boards allow me to adjust each half into an arch that matches the natural position of my hands, and I get to space each half out which also relieves strain on my shoulders. When I type, I never move my fingers more than one key away from homerow and I never move my wrists/palms. It's fucking great too. This is a relatively surface level coverage of this topic, and I know you probably don't even notice strain or anything right now but as soon as I switched, I felt it immediately in my shoulders and hands. I know this isn't exactly what you asked about but I promised wall of text.

Gamer boards are mostly gimmicks but what comes with them is a generally better typing expreince than your standard off the shelf membrane keyboard. And they really are the defacto gateway into the hobbyspace so I can't hate them completely.

I would say though, if you are looking for a new board, do some research. Look up a few reviews on Wooting and a few others. Figure out what you are after and get out if you don't wanna go down a rabbit hole inside a rabbit hole inside a rabbit hole. Don't stay too long because you might find yourself sitting on the credit card end of a new Key Cult case, 3 year waits on group buys and a pile of switches that need lubing and filming.

If I had to make a keyboard specifically for gaming, and I'm actually toying around with the idea of making a left half of one of these for a gaming pad, I would go with a Sofie or a Lily58. You get your dedicated number row for shooters and whatnot, but you get a less aggressive column stagger. Literally my only complaint about column stagger is with strafing with shooters since I need to drop my ring and index finger a bit too far for where A and D is on QWERTY. This is where ortholinear boards actually do better at but I digress.

My biggest gripe is that turn based combat games are fundamentally strategy games, as opposed to beat em up action games that the entire series was built up around. Now, I'm not opposed to turn based RPGs or strategy games at all. I love the both of them, the problem is that it ultimately it's just not a good turn based RPG.

For the previous action/brawler games. There were upgrades and they were important, yes. But even the hardest, most difficult bosses of Yakuza 3 still felt beatable so long as I could learn my opponents attack patterns, move around them carefully, focus clearly. When I lost, it felt like my fault because I didn't put enough effort or attention into it, and it was possible to win if I sat down and focused.

In other turn based combat games, it's a game of strategy where you shield your party from the boss's powerful attacks, dish out healing/revives where needed, keeping up buffs on your heavy damage dealers, hitting them with efficient but powerful attacks. In a well made turn based combat strategy game, there are many strategic factors in play that you can use to negate your subpar character stats. When I lost, I felt like I didn't think my plan through clearly enough and I could win if I more carefully managed my moves

In Y:LAD, the only stat that really seems to matter are your character's stats. Status effects and debuffs are extremely weak and last for far too short of a time to be worth it. This goes for both status effect on your team as well as the enemy. It's been a hot minute since I've played but I remember getting hit by bleed effects and learning that the most effective solution was to just ignore them. They might hit your 200+ health character for 6 health a turn and it will be over in like 8 turns. Stat buffs/debuffs are in a far similar boat to where they don't do enough or last long enough to justify even bothering with. Again, they fade away too quickly to matter and in no case did I ever find that they were worth using over just another big attack. The elemental status effect type damage was so poorly explained and difficult to even notice that I didn't even know it was a thing until months after I closed the game for the last time (this one might just be because I'm stupid, I don't know)

The end result is that when fighting a difficult enemy, the only reliably good strategy is: Use all the biggest damage moves you possibly can, burn through all your mana as fast as possible, spam out high end healing items to get them back up, repeat. This strategy doesn't work if your stats aren't good enough either, which means you have to go and grind out boring combat some more to bring your stats up and grind the farming mini game to get more healing items. When I lost, I felt like it didn't matter what I did, I could only win if I ground more boring combat to get my stats up

that's my main gripe with just the gameplay, anyway. there's loads more I could get into regarding the narrative being so bizarrely split between "let's do something new" and "let's reference the old games"