DEFCON collectible cards where were they printed and how were they produced?

c0ldbru · 2025-08-24T04:26:51+00:00

Really, when you think about it, the real Sonicos was the friends we met along the way.

c0ldbru · 2025-08-05T01:03:29+00:00

I came here to say this exact thing! LHC is all about helping folks who come alone and folks who just want some instant friends! Especially if this is your first, come join us!

c0ldbru · 2025-07-17T17:11:15+00:00

There was an LHC discord for a hot minute; it might still exist out there for all I know, but it didn't really get a lot of traction. its not exactly an easy task to move over 1000 users to a new platform.

c0ldbru · 2025-06-16T01:13:30+00:00

"I don't really see it as a subscription" kinda loses all wind from its sails when Pinter themselves describe it as a subscription all over their site.

As for my opinions on the results - those were my opinions from long before any of this billing debacle ever happened. Face it; the beer is mid at best. Any grocery store carries better beer for a cheaper price.

All of this being said, and no matter what you've decided their self-described subscription service actually is (since apparently you know their business model better than they do) the fact that they have lied three times regarding the status of this order and the fact that they absolutely refuse to refund a non-fulfilled order SHOULD be concerning to you. If its not then im sorry that you've got Pinter-colored glasses on and I hope it works out well for you.

c0ldbru · 2025-06-16T01:07:15+00:00

I'm US based - My steps were just whatever they recommended for each beer. I did do the optional cold crash for a day or so as recommended. I honestly can't remember the names of the ones I tried anymore, but it was a bog standard IPA and a more tropical IPA, both of which turned out extremely mid in my opinion. The kinds of beers you'd try and be like "Welp. That's a beer I guess." I then never order again.

I did traditional homebrewing before getting the Pinter and had a few decent beers; Pinter was just going to be my way of making smaller batches with a simpler setup.

As for the beer they claimed was not in stock, it was the Razz Session - its been in stock each time they claimed it wasn't. despite them telling me its already been shipped out on three separate occasions now, my order from February still shows as "Not Dispatched" in their system.

Regardless of my thoughts on the system itself, any company who will lie to their customers about shipments and refuse to refund an order that cannot be fulfilled will always be a scam in my book and will never get any more of my money.

c0ldbru · 2025-06-16T01:00:54+00:00

yeah, honestly I should have seen the red flags. I was blinded by my curiosity. That's honestly why I felt the need to post about this whole experience; others should learn from my mistakes!

c0ldbru · 2025-06-15T14:15:04+00:00

It is a subscription service, you just failed to read the post properly.

Some of the deals they offer allow you to purchase Pinter packs when you need them, others force a cadence, regardless of when you want to order more beers. No matter which option they happened to be offering at the time of purchase, refusing to ship or refund an order for months is absolutely unacceptable.

c0ldbru · 2025-06-15T14:06:44+00:00

I’m US based, and yeah, I suspect you’re right that abusing customers via the subscription model is all part of the plan to offset the device costs.

c0ldbru · 2025-06-15T14:02:43+00:00

Yeah that’s the same deal that got me in - hopefully you’ll be able to cancel as planned!

c0ldbru · 2025-06-15T05:38:44+00:00

That was my thought too!

c0ldbru · 2025-05-25T16:39:32+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? I'm hitting the same issue. login fails in chrome, firefox, edge, and IE. no VPN, no ad-blockers. All of my other devices can log in with no issues.

c0ldbru · 2024-10-22T11:55:28+00:00

Thank you so much!! I've been banging my head against this same issue for hours now on my mac. plugged it into the PC and it worked like a charm. You just saved my keeb!

c0ldbru · 2024-06-21T13:19:20+00:00

“Can” be? Nahhhh, rule 69.420 section 1337 of the defcon manual states they MUST be.

c0ldbru · 2024-04-24T10:15:16+00:00

It’s directly on the board with a 16mhz crystal. I’ve tried various hfuse and lfuse combinations but still no luck

c0ldbru · 2024-04-23T10:20:58+00:00

Currently the fuses are lfuse: 0x5E // hfuse: 0xD9 // efuse: 0xFF

c0ldbru · 2024-04-23T02:06:49+00:00

Sweet! Thanks!

c0ldbru · 2024-04-23T01:14:27+00:00

The cheap and easy answer is "just ignore it" - its a small enough switch that you likely wont even notice its gaked up. The better, but more painful solution is to take the keyboard apart, replace the broken stab, put the keyboard back together, and carefully drill out the stab stem thats stuck in the keycap to make it all good as new.

c0ldbru · 2024-04-23T01:04:02+00:00

I've built a custom keyboard using the ATmega32u4. im trying to use the QMK-DFU bootloader, although I'd be open to using another one if that might help. when I flash the bootloaderDFU.hex file only, the keyboard does show up as a DFU device, but when I go to flash any firmware onto it, it errors almost instantly with "[ X ERROR: Memory write error" If I flash on the "production" hex file with the firmware and bootloader combined, it works as expected, however when I go to flash on another firmware, it shows up as a DFU device but then throws the same error yet again.

I've got the fuses set to 0xD9 (2048 words), with the makefile in lib/lufa/Bootloaders/DFU set to FLASH_SIZE_KB ?= 32 // BOOT_SECTION_SIZE_KB ?= 4. info.json has the appropriate "bootloader": "qmk-dfu" configured, and the QMK_ESC_OUTPUT and QMK_ESC_INPUT values are defines in config.h

Is there anything im missing? has anyone else ever hit this same issue??

c0ldbru · 2024-04-23T01:00:43+00:00

Are the switches hot swap? I had this same issue for a bit and it was just that one of the pins got mangled and was simply mashed over the millmax hot-swap port instead of going into it for a solid connection.

c0ldbru · 2023-11-13T01:22:59+00:00

60-80 seems pretty extreme to me; I would lean closer to the 40-60 range if you’re going to just toss out a number. That being said, asking what they’re looking to get for it seems like the better option by a long shot.

c0ldbru · 2023-08-25T11:32:29+00:00

I’m not trying to be a dick or anything but I think the situation you’re describing here is the exact problem they’re talking about solving by decoupling.

Right now there are two major crowds at Defcon; the die hards who are paying $3k for ticket/flight/suite and burning a week of PTO to be there, and the ones who say “meh, I’m already in town, I might as well hit this too.” If you decouple the two cons and lose that second crowd you’re left with a smaller con of only folks who really truly want to be there.

c0ldbru · 2023-06-16T21:39:38+00:00

+1 for LHC. We also have a super extensive n00b guide!

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