Both are gold, great reads.

Its fine for legs, but dont put it anywhere near millions of nerve endings. Last time I looked it they were clear about not using it near genitals.

not having to work until I die at my desk

Lol this guy thinks there is a chance he will die at his desk. I wish I could feel that optimism.

Chances are better that at best you will die in gig or part time job like Walmart. The most likely is in you kids house, really yours but you will give it to them, and without medical support beyond basic hospice.

Many of your peers and friends will die in homeless camps or from police violence.

many times, shucking is a very valid way to get large format disks for cheaper than retail NAS parts. But be aware of what your buying and make sure that the disk your getting if its a white label is a reliable disk. WD Easystore/Mybook are generally good, as are the larger format Seagate external.

Im not sure Intel has any worthwhile CPU’s unless you are getting them used.

Currently E cores are mostly trash, and not all that “efficient” and letting a P Core turbo up and get the task completed uses less overall power.

Secondly Intel is lying about its heat output, and power use. Everything from 10th gen up is a power hog if you dont limit the performance to well below “stock” settings.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2612-intel-core-i5-13500/

This is a good match up between an i5-13500 vs R5 7600, which is the most interesting IMO. The R5 7600 seems to be about $15 less expensive for just the CPU and uses 3/4ths the power which will be a greater savings over time vs Intel. The AMD Motherboards also still seem to trend a bit lower in cost than Intel.

So overall its a good question. If you can get a use 13500 or one under $150 then its probably worth it, but at retail prices the 7600 will cost less to buy, and less to own while being similar in performance.

Awesome to hear, Keychron makes some keyboards that are a great value, even if they are not the best.

I keep going back to my K4v2.

As a middle-aged white guy you can take my privilege out of my cold dead hands /s

Oppression, economic disenfranchisement, implicit slavery, oh yeah and racism.

Ok, now I am clear, if I see any unix specific key cap sets I will send them over. Sorry for all the confusion.

I mean its been 30ish years since I used a SUN or DEC system, but I know the key your talking about, what I dont understand is do you just want the key cap, or do you want the functionality of they key?

Do you mean that they the key press has nothing to do with the key cap, or just that the caps are unrelated specifically to *nix commands and shortcuts?

If you want the key press to send a specific *nix based command then you just program it to do that in QMK and create the keymap to fit your needs. You can even have multiple key maps and swap from one to another if you want a console/terminal specific map.

As for *nix specific key caps, there are not many out there and the sets I linked have some of the ones that could be used for specific tasks if you wanted. They are not perfect but they are better than a dedicated windows or co-pilot key.

So this is a programmer keycap set, with lots of options related to the key cap profile.

Cherry is one of the most common, and close to OEM which is what most mass market keyboards use. XDA is a lower profile key cap with rounded edges. SA is a very dramatic profile and reduces travel distance to upper row keys and looks more like 60s/70s terminals. MOA is kinda cool as its a square cap that lofts to a round top.

https://www.keychron.com/collections/all-keycaps/products/iso-oem-dye-sub-pbt-full-set-keycap-set-developer

This is another great set in OEM profile.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803480589363.html XDA Profile

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803480589363.html XDA White

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804636787626.html Cherry Profile

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804566903355.html Cherry in grey

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804648158345.html SA in White & Grey

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806072183351.html MOA profile

https://vala.supply/products/mv-terminal

https://www.keychron.com/collections/keychron-c-series-keyboard-s1/products/keychron-c1-pro-qmk-via-wired-mechanical-keyboard

Cheap, supports QMK/VIA on linux.

Headline from the BSA today: “BSA Joins Forces with the Department of Homeland Security on the Launch of the Know2Protect™ Public Awareness Campaign to Combat Online Child Exploitation and Abuse”

I just think its fair to point out they are trying, even if I dont love the larger organization. I definitely enjoy my pack.

thats the problem with every kid based organization.

I am not claiming its not their fault, but im not sure that its the history of abuse that attracts abusers, I really think its because its a volunteer based organization and there are kids in it so it makes them accessible to abusers.

The point I was trying to make is that it really comes down to your local leadership, and the parents in your pack. We have a good pack, we have involved leadership, and the guidance from the larger BSA organization when applied seems to be working.

Any time you have kids, and an organized group where adults interact with them you will have this risk. Summer camps, Schools, Sports clubs, anything. If you look at the history of nearly all kid enrichment programs you will find pedophiles and abusers.

I had two in my high school both of whom were teachers of mine, and I only found out years after. One was protected by the administration, the other hid is paedophilia in a buried chest in the woods for years.

I won’t try to convince you otherwise but I had to make this decision. I decided that the only way I was comfortable was by joining the pack leadership. BSA has had problems and will again not because of the organization but because the people looking for targets will go where the pray is.

The organization trains every pack leader and each year there are courses that are required for both kids and parents to help educate, and protect kids.

If my pack has a pedophile they hide it amazingly well. We enforce the buddy system for both adults and kids. The only time a kid is able to be alone with an adult is in their own tent and when they are a family unit.

But if my kids going to a meeting so am I or another family member I can trust. Hopefully vigilance am me education will be enough.

Gentoo might take issue with that but otherwise yeah…

Tradition, and its dumb as hell since we have set the official definition of every “imperial measure” to metric we just keep using the silly ones.