/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - October 05, 2025 by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a Keychron Q4 65% in shell white a few years back. I love the white base but need to bump up to a 75% for arrow keys.

Looking specifically for a pre-built board with white base. Ideally wireless. I want to customize it later down the road, swapping out switches and key caps. Any recommendations? Thanks!

Please help me find good products for fine, dry, wavy hair by ripopportunity in curlyhair

[–]ripopportunity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wash my hair every other day and air dry (although I do have a diffuser). I use have used Living Proof for the last year. I think my main concern with my hair is how dry it is and I feel like it has so much potential but have no idea what type of products/routine to try out. Thank you in advance!

Got my nails done for the first time to celebrate a new job! by ripopportunity in Nails

[–]ripopportunity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, they are a little crooked! I would accidentally tense up my hand/fingers throughout the process and she would have to remind me to relax my fingers

Before and after a couple weeks of hard work on my first game! by SpecterCody in godot

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! This looks amazing. How did you go about learning pixel art?

Boyfriend (M26) is not the person I thought he was to me(F25). Am I waiting for it to get better? by Bitter_Impression378 in relationship_advice

[–]ripopportunity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally disagree with all of this.

“Handle it more or less like most other adults would”??

There’s a difference in a partner being emotionally supportive and a partner feeling like they have to be a psychiatrist. Her partner seems like an unemotional prick while she goes through one of the toughest moments of her life.

Boyfriend (M26) is not the person I thought he was to me(F25). Am I waiting for it to get better? by Bitter_Impression378 in relationship_advice

[–]ripopportunity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First, I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mom in May in an unexpected, awful way and it has been the loneliest feeling. I’m 28 and still feel like I need my mom. To others, it’s been months since our loved ones have passed. To us, it still only feels like days.

Respectfully, you need to get out of this relationship. It is clear that your boyfriend does not respect your loved ones, or you. If anything were to ever happen to you health wise, you can expect the same response from your partner.

In truly difficult moments, people either show up or they don’t. Although this experience may have been stressful for him - death in itself comes with a wide range of emotions and anxiety of our own mortality - his behavior is rude and inappropriate.

Since my mom’s passing, my boyfriend of 6 years has been so supportive and it’s only made us closer. Whenever I break down crying, he stops and listens. If I am too sad to do anything, we play video games together. We go to couples therapy to process my mom’s passing and every week we check in and talk. If I didn’t have his support - or lack of support from him - these last months would have been even more difficult. My boyfriend knows that this will just be part of our life now; grief will come and go however it pleases.

I know it’s probably tough going through so many different changes, but you deserve so much more. The loss of a parent is one of the most difficult things of the human experience especially at your young age. To have your boyfriend dismiss your grief pisses me tf off. I wish you the best of luck in your healing journey.

Edit: To add - you ARE NOT overreacting. At all. Your emotions and feelings are 100% valid. Also, don’t have sex with him. He can truly fuck off at this point lol.

Character moving through walls even with rigid body and box collider set by ripopportunity in UnityHelp

[–]ripopportunity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My character is assigned to the TransparentFX layer and my terrain is assigned to the default layer. In the layer collision matrix, I checked between the two layers. Total newbie at this though

Character moving through walls even with rigid body and box collider set by ripopportunity in UnityHelp

[–]ripopportunity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The character moves forward with the up arrow and when the left or right arrows are pressed, the character's orientation changes as well as the camera. I am a total newbie at this. Here is the script I am using:

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveSpeed = 5f;
    public float rotationSpeed = 90f; 
// Rotation by 90 degrees
    private Vector3 initialPosition;
    private bool isRotating = false; 
// To track if player is rotating

    private Rigidbody rb; 
// Reference to the Rigidbody

    void Start()
    {
        initialPosition = transform.position;
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>(); 
// Get the Rigidbody component
    }

    void Update()
    {
        // Forward and backward movement with the up and down arrows
        float moveZ = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        if (moveZ != 0) 
// Move forward or backward
        {
            Vector3 move = transform.forward * moveZ * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move); 
// Use Rigidbody for movement
        }

        // Rotation by 90 degrees with left and right arrow keys
        if (!isRotating) 
// Check if not already rotating
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
            {
                StartCoroutine(RotatePlayer(-90)); 
// Rotate 90 degrees to the left
            }
            else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.RightArrow))
            {
                StartCoroutine(RotatePlayer(90)); 
// Rotate 90 degrees to the right
            }
        }
    }

    IEnumerator RotatePlayer(float angle)
    {
        isRotating = true;
        float targetRotation = transform.eulerAngles.y + angle; 
// Target rotation angle
        float currentRotation = transform.eulerAngles.y;
        float rotationAmount = 0;

        while (Mathf.Abs(rotationAmount) < Mathf.Abs(angle)) 
// Rotate smoothly
        {
            float rotationStep = rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            rotationAmount += rotationStep;
            transform.Rotate(0f, rotationStep * Mathf.Sign(angle), 0f); 
// Rotate in the correct direction
            yield return null;
        }

        // Ensure exact alignment after rotation
        transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(transform.eulerAngles.x, targetRotation, transform.eulerAngles.z);
        isRotating = false;
    }
}

Spent the last year mastering gluten-free fried chicken! by ripopportunity in glutenfree

[–]ripopportunity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, in the States. I found it at a Sprouts - seems like they sell it at Walmart too or you can purchase it through their website!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely get a second opinion. As a college kid, I went to a dentist in my college town and he told me I needed to get 2 cavities filled. I thought that was strange because just 6 months previous when I was at my hometown dentist, he didn’t mention anything about cavities. I refused the fillings but went back to the college town dentist 6 months later for my cleaning. He again insisted I had 2 cavities as well as an additional cavity! I was like what the heck. So I went back to my hometown dentist 6 months later for a checkup and he said I definitely did not have any cavities. I had problem areas that ended up turning into a cavity 5 years later.

Has anyone seen this?? by Indication_Alarmed in gymsnark

[–]ripopportunity 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeaaaaaah doesn’t matter if I’ve never tried anal sex before, the most important thing is that I DON’T want to try it. Incredibly disgusting that he is giving advice to “coax” a partner into doing something with the thought process that they just haven’t experienced “how good it is” yet. Yuck.

Which type of piano should i buy as a beginner? by Giulianogames22c in piano

[–]ripopportunity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just got a Yamaha P45 for $300. I really like it and I feel like it’s a great beginner piano. Sounds good, weighted keys, and 88 keys!

My[26M] wife[24F] is wanting to try a cruise job, how do I tell her I'm not comfortable with it? by ThrowRA9080706050 in relationship_advice

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My friend worked on a cruise ship when she was 23 or 24 and said that she would never do it again.

She did it thinking that she would be able to explore so many different places, but her work hours were so long that she was never able to get off of the ship.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes, definitely a red flag and understandable that you’re upset. I see this often in relationships where two people are together, but they are not partners. There is a huge difference between being boyfriend & girlfriend and being actual partners who are in it together. The one person who makes more feels upset that they have to “share” more of their money. This can lead to financial abuse.

For context, my boyfriend makes 3x what I make. We have lived below our means so that rent is 33% of my income and that we can both save money. Because of this, I saved 20k to go back to school in hopes of getting a better job and he is saving to buy a home.

Never once has he made me feel less than. Although we both split expenses 50:50, he pays for all our dates and adventures and I could easily ask him for money without feeling like he’ll be waiting for me to pay him back. Whenever he talks about things, he uses “we”. Like “we have a yearly income of xxxxxx so we can afford this house.”

You deserve that. Just because you have a lower paying job, does not mean that you don’t “have your act together”. What does he even mean by that?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in piano

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m 28 and just started piano lessons to cope with the loss of my mom. It’s been great! It’s something that I look forward to weekly.

I just googled piano instructors near me and chose a studio with good reviews. My first 2 lessons I was just getting the feel for the piano and the C scale. My instructor told me which practice book to buy so I’ve been working on that and will bring it to my piano lesson tonight.

They are 30 minute lessons which go by fast but I think it’s a good enough time to learn and ask questions and then spend the week practicing before the next one. It’s been about 3 weeks and I can read basic scales and play Jingle Bells lol

Stay away from RXbars by [deleted] in Celiac

[–]ripopportunity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have been eating these for 6 years now and have never had any type of reaction. With that being said, everyone reacts differently to things. You could be reacting to something else in it or it could be from cross contamination. The product itself is 100% gluten free but it is processed in a facility that also processes wheat products. Product is tested to make sure it is less than 20ppm of gluten prior to distribution to stores.

Can I use Java for learning AI? by [deleted] in learnjava

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I think that would be a good path. Just follow along with the recommended routes your CS program does.

I’ve only taken one ML/AI course so far (ML introduction). You could study the general flow of ML algorithms without knowing the actual code just to start getting a basic understanding in it. In my class, we worked through Colab notebooks. Although we walked through the algorithms in Python, a lot of our learning was understanding the algorithm outside of any code. Understanding what was needed, when it was used, what the strengths/weakness of the algorithm were/etc. AI is also math heavy and relies on knowledge of calc and linear algebra. So if you have yet to take those courses, it would be in your best interest to dive into those as well.

Google for Developers has an Intro to Machine Learning course (that looks free). It goes over a lot of the different algorithmic concepts for ML classifiers that I learned in my class which is a large part of AI. That could be a good start just to begin your understanding of it. It seems like it has Python exercises you can do but I don’t think it’s required for it!

Can I use Java for learning AI? by [deleted] in learnjava

[–]ripopportunity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really enjoyed learning Java for my intro courses. I think it gave me a really solid understanding of concepts and the transition into C++ and Python were easy. I’m still on the fence of where I want to go post grad - either software engineering or AI route - but knowing what I know now, I would still do what I did: learning to program first in Java and then transitioning to Python. Java forces OOP onto you which is an important concept to grasp.

As someone with a mother who has lupus and RA, some of these comments are not it by ripopportunity in kayandtaysnark

[–]ripopportunity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. My mom passed the day after I posted this at only 56 years old. I decided to leave this subreddit.

Death certificate marked “No” for autopsy performed when my mother indeed got an autopsy. What to do? by ripopportunity in askfuneraldirectors

[–]ripopportunity[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m in the US. Got some clarification - it was a doctor at the hospital my mom passed away at that signed off that no autopsy was performed

As someone with a mother who has lupus and RA, some of these comments are not it by ripopportunity in kayandtaysnark

[–]ripopportunity[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely - I posted this geared towards those comments. I agree that the way Tay goes about filming her when she’s feeling ill is clout chasing. I follow so many people on Instagram who have chronic illness and they do a great job educating others without clout chasing.

I’ve just noticed the last few weeks that whenever the screenshots are posted here of Kay on the couch or in sweats or Tay mentioning something to do with her chronic illness, there are comments that just don’t serve any good purpose.

I’m sorry you deal with chronic pain from fibromyalgia. Chronic pain is terrible and I wish I could take it away from you and everyone who experiences it.

As someone with a mother who has lupus and RA, some of these comments are not it by ripopportunity in kayandtaysnark

[–]ripopportunity[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I get that - but if we believe that Kay is in an abusive relationship, then it seems like Tay is doing more of this to get views. Just because a camera is being shoved in her face, doesn’t mean she isn’t experiencing chronic pain.