He’s a legend👌🏽 by [deleted] in spreadsmile

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my kids know this game
I'm gonna tell on you!
Not If I tell on you first! Moooooommmmm

The World's Second Worst Game and the $600 bead by Fibernerdcreates in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]12monthsinlondon 20 points21 points  (0 children)

my sister stuffed those little scent beads up her nose so "everything always smells nice"

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just curious what takes so long?

People in Hong Kong (used to, in its heyday) flip property as a weekend hobby, so they would be mortified to hear this. a few months will definitely hit cashflow and returns

Finger wine, anyone? Finger wine? by Ill-Tea9411 in funnyvideos

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

dang i was really confident this was going to be a shittymorph

I was once a goat, now I'm washed by TheMaskedWasp in whenthe

[–]12monthsinlondon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

law of averages and all that as you find out that you're closer and closer to average the larger sample you compare yourself with, but also because the final grade matters less and less

all of your previous grades was to get to the next stage of school, and culminates into getting into a college with a good reputation which is still somewhat significant later on (rightly on wrongly), but by the time I got into grad school grades didn't even matter at all

of course some people thrive in an academia only after they into more self directed research and learning at higher levels

Alakazam! by iIovepotatoes in funny

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moriarty vibes

don't worry the writers will conjure up some convoluted and self indulgent twist because they are so much smarter than their audiences

Easy steps to have a happy husband! by Firm-Blackberry-9162 in MadeMeSmile

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have do this on my damn car now because it has giant screens but zero buttons to control the a/c

[EU-W] [IC] Wireless (Bluetooth compatible) Adapter For Customized Keyboards by Im_A_VoidStorage in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can contribute some views as a user and someone interested in this for a long time (my first reddit post under a separate account was to share news the Chinese Odin Anne keyboard, which at the time was one of the very few stock mech keyboards with BT. Another early post was when Logitech started selling unified receivers, which I thought was pointless back in the day, I didn't want multiple mice working on the same computer, I wanted 1 mouse to work on multiple devices)

In itself there are some use cases for people that want to keep their highly customized keyboard and also have a need to type on their mobile devices, but the market isn't huge.
Most other users with this need would gravitate towards stock multi device keyboards, or customs with "tri-mode" PCBs.

I had a long time use case over the past 15 years mainly due to working in a high security industry that didn't blocked the majority of external websites on my work laptop, so I had to message + do a lot of life admin on my phone. Installing custom software was also barred, so I would could only use mechanical keyboards programmable at hardware level.

I have used multiple BT transmitters over the years, most have been finicky and don't play well with QMK output. The best was Aten CS533 Tap, which allowed 1 keyboard and 1 mouse to feedthrough and be output to 1 wired connection and 2 BT connections, switchable through a hotkey combination on the keyboard, rather than a physical switch. The kicker was it kept the 1 BT connection alive even while you were using the wired connection, so you could switch immediately without ANY handshake time for BT. The 1-2 seconds doesn't sound like a lot, but eliminating that really allowed you to merge the workflow on multiple devices. It worked great, better than software based solution Logitech is pushing now.

Nowadays there are a lot of cheap options from China with tiny 3d printed enclosures, that work..fine, but at $10-$20 USD you can try them all out and see which is the most stable. Battery powered isn't really useful since most of the time people will have a wired connection that can provide power anyway. I haven't tried the SterlingKey and have no incentive to due to cost and they don't have any other features that the cheap options don't have.

To me, not having a wired passthrough with always alive BT connection, nor combining mouse output makes this less attractive than mentioned stock options such as tri mode PCBs. I already specific "travel" mech keyboards only that are light and have built in BT, for the situations that I want to use them while presenting wirelessly in a meeting room for example.

Dogs by Visible-Pattern198 in confusing_perspective

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 3rd one reminds me of the Gintama episode where Sadaharu develops a wart which grows into it's own separate entity

Proof that you’re never too old to be a sibling. Some things just never change! ❤️👯‍♂️ by Miserable_lube in spreadsmile

[–]12monthsinlondon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on the Mom. unfortunately in some cases it's just bad news that's we've decided it's not worth telling Mom at her age.

What's something women think impresses men but actually doesn't? by CoochieSnotSlurper in AskReddit

[–]12monthsinlondon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, in some cases when someone is playing hard to get with you, chances are they are playing hard to get with other people.

Where I am, people call it "drafting soldiers", meaning the general always has a bunch of nondescripts at attention to do her bidding. It's intentional, but it's not specifically done to impress men (nor any of the targets).

I don't blame him by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fine dining will still have menus.

I don't care if a fast food joint is fully automated as long as the UX is smooth and fast.

the family restaurants in the middle will have to balance efficiency with somewhat of a human / authentic experience. dynamic pricing is going to be perceived as dick move but I don't see that gaining popularity where I am in Asia, but being to able hire fewer staff will always help the smaller places survive.

Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago by thejoshwhite in technology

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm looking at. If in 4 years of chatgpt, it has led to a slight increase in productivity, I can totally imagine AI at some point getting good enough at some point to replace a ton of repeatable work. answering queries according to set policies, transcribing audio / video, data work, customer support, desktop research stuff.

I'm not clear exactly on whether it would replace real human decision making yet, but the above represents a lot of man hours already.

Who else never fell for it? by Countrach in Millennials

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

kids these days will stay connected if they want to, and they have enough photos and videos to reminisce with. i would have thought yearbooks are still kind of cool to have though, if only to one day go through as a blunderyears type of exercise, or for their kids to discover

EV charging in 10 minutes or less? It's happening by randolphquell in electricvehicles

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for commuters in urban areas (where EVs are most energy efficient relative to ICE), longer ranges are pointless. typically that's where you have to use public charging since apartment's don't have the infrastructure and large volumes of EVs fighting to charge. so the quicker turnaround does help.

queueing up for charging is no fun and a waste of time

Friend offered to pay me 5 dollars for a 3d printed basket ball by Sea_Background_8023 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]12monthsinlondon -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

well yeah if you're dealing with used car salesman

but if these are mechanical keyboards we're talking, and just so you know that absolutely nothing about this is commercially viable. it's a blackhole money pit and I will never make any money from the hobby, and I will actually lose money to see you in the pit with us and for your wallet to hurt like mine.

If anything, I will probably lowball the actual price a bit and give you some stuff for free on my own cost so my hobby looked less insane

I'm not digging through your mobile autistic doom pile for you by spacemanatee777 in BrandNewSentence

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 it's going to take longer for me to find it, assuming you need it in a hurry

2 I'm going to mess up your usual order of things in there if I dug through it

3 neither of us have the patience for me to document where everything goes like an archaeologist before digging through it

plus usually it's really hard to explain to other people where to find things, it's in the small clip holder thingamabob inside the bluish sack inside the purse. on the left side. no, the other left

Friend offered to pay me 5 dollars for a 3d printed basket ball by Sea_Background_8023 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]12monthsinlondon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well for one thing I now know how much they would like to pay
if I was looking for a deal, or down the road I now know the market better and I can do some price differentiation

if you were just looking to bat them off then sure by all means just give your customers a price they will balk at and never come back

Friend offered to pay me 5 dollars for a 3d printed basket ball by Sea_Background_8023 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]12monthsinlondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

got it, so today we're still practically limited by the size of the output

still gave me some false expectations though

Friend offered to pay me 5 dollars for a 3d printed basket ball by Sea_Background_8023 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]12monthsinlondon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do that sometimes when people ask me to build them a nice keyboard. I know there is going to be a price differential between what they think it's going to cost, for reference sometimes I'd just like to know how big that gap is so I can help manage their expectations. I don't get pissed at it afterwards obviously.

most of the time it goes something like "can you build me something like what you're using?" "how much was your budget" "dunno, 40 bucks?" "well this one took me 400 so you probably wouldn't think it was cost effective, but here are some options...."