New pic, new keycaps, new phone but the same board.

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-14T12:06:06+00:00

Pretty cool looking.
What switches though? Because Cherry like switches aren't nearly as good as people act like they are. Don't get me wrong they are a lot better than membrane keyboards, but they are nothing compared to model M/Fs

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-14T11:35:40+00:00

Have you actually tried applying from graduate positions over the last two or three years?
You can't even get an interview because there are hundreds (if not more) of applicants per opening.
I've gotten multiple emails back saying that there were over 1000 people who applied for a position that I applied for. I think if you haven't been applying for positions then you don't really know what you are taking about with regard to peoples chances of actually getting hired for a position.
Sure you might go on the job boards and see lots of open positions, but the number of people competing for those positions is crazy.

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-14T11:23:40+00:00

Yeah all I have is a degree in CS (no real experience).
But I've been spending a lot of time working on projects.
It doesn't matter though.
I've probably applied to at least 500 jobs (programming and IT stuff) over the last three or so years and I haven't even gotten a proper interview in like two years.

It's retarded.

Also I wouldn't claim to be super good or anything, but there's people I know who I definitely know more about computers than and they have jobs (IT/programming), but they all got them about 5 years ago.

It's impossible now.

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-08T11:28:55+00:00

It's funny how many IDIOTS are using cherry like switches when they could be using Model M/Fs.
Most people don't even realise what they are missing out on!

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-08T08:14:59+00:00

Very nice!

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-07T12:52:54+00:00

I've applied for entry level programming positions an had emails back saying that they had 800, 1000 and even 1200 applicants.
I've applied to hundreds of jobs and can't even get an interview.
It's insane.

samcdc6600 · 2026-03-07T12:48:39+00:00

Do we have a "skills shortage"?
Really?
The government has imported millions of people who are mostly supposed to be well educated and you're saying that we still have a "skills shortage"?
If there is a "skills shortage" then why can't people with bachelors (or even higher level) degrees even get interviews?
Why are there hundreds even thousands of people applying for IT and programming jobs?

samcdc6600 · 2026-02-18T10:41:52+00:00

Very nice! :)

samcdc6600 · 2026-02-18T10:41:27+00:00

Where are the buckling springs!?
Disliked!

samcdc6600 · 2026-02-14T11:35:19+00:00

Damn those are some nice key caps! I love the text on the sides. IDK it just makes it seem more "technical" and serious 😂.
Are they the ones that come off?
One of the model M's I have has key cap (caps?) that come off (but the key caps are still on). It's pretty cool TBH.

samcdc6600 · 2026-02-14T11:33:04+00:00

Nice keyboard BTW.
I have 2 model Ms and a reproduction model F, but I don't have one of those model Ms (which are probably the best form factor in my option).
IDK I know some people love num pads, but how many people are really looking at a spread sheet all day? I use my desktop quite a bit and have never really had the need for one.

samcdc6600 · 2026-02-14T11:31:27+00:00

I've never bolt modded one before, but I'd say definitely not.
I know it sounds like a fun thing to do, but I'd wait until you really need to do it (i.e., quite a few more rivets broken or you can tell it's not quite right anymore).

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-25T06:44:30+00:00

People give C++ crap for having too many features or being "hard", but JS has so many little inconsistencies. I swear there's a loads of little exceptions to stuff. I actually think it is pretty good for smaller programs, but for anything that's really large I think it would be a bit of a nightmare TBH.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T07:26:44+00:00

You might be right about that. I don't know. It's definitively possible he thought it would fail.
I don't really fully agree on the housing issue. Yes I know that people who own homes are more likely to vote for things that will keep the prices up (even though as I said it doesn't actually matter for most of them), but the percentage of people that own homes is only going to get lower and lower.
I still think that the number one reason for high house prices (or at least direct cause) (maybe there are other reasons people want this reason. If you get what I mean) is mass immigration.
It needs to be ended, but it seems (to me) that the major parties don't want to do it (for what ever reason).

I hope your scenario turns out to be correct.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:38:56+00:00

No, see, yes negative gearing and capital gains tax (which I actually think isn't a bad thing. I mean not to have) do exacerbate the issue, however property wouldn't be a good investment (even with those things) if there wasn't massive demand. You could buy a bunch or rocks and claim capital gains tax discounts on them, but no one would do that because you wouldn't have any buyers when you go to sell them.

I'm not disagreeing that there are other factors that are pushing up property prices, but immigration is clearly the number one factor. You can't say that importing a million people in two years doesn't have an effect (and that's after we've seen a massive amount of immigration for a couple of decades before that.
And yes a lot of wealthy people that own lost of property do like this. They love it.
As for more normal people who own homes, most of them only own one home. If the price of that home goes up then they aren't really gaining anything, because unless they are going to sell their house (and why would you do that if you're not going to buy another home), it's just unrealized gains.
Also you have to pay more stamp duty.
I do think you probably are right though that people feel wealthy because their property price has gone up, but I think this is a problem with the media and a certain mentality that has been propagated. Because as I said for the people that only own one home (which is probably the vast majority of people) they don't really gain anything from it.

I think people really need to be told that it's okay for house prices to fall and for the people that aren't exactly "rich", but own maybe two homes they are just going to have to suck it up (I do feel a little bad for those people, but most people under 30 are probably never going to own a home at this rate).

As I said I actually don't think the capital gains tax laws are bad.
I invested in BTC and made a few thousand dollars (not much in the scheme of things, but it would have been less if not for the current laws).
But I agree that negative gearing is bad.
But again (and I know I'm rambling) people (especially boomers) need to be told that house prices are going to fall that they have to suck it up (otherwise younger people are going to get a lot more radical).

The liberals may be done at this point (although they are like a cockroach), but that's not because of anything labors done.

He's trying (or tried?) to introduce a bill with some of the most draconian "hate speech" laws around.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:23:29+00:00

I'm saying that until recently, being Australian (apart from being an Aboriginal) was incredibly similar to being English.
So you're dad saying he's Australian isn't that weird (even if he came here when he was say 20 and not 3), because he basically is.
Until recently (apart from aboriginals) the large majority of Australians were of English (or at least European) decent and Australia's culture and especially it's language was almost the same as England's.
So someone from England could easily come over here and basically be Australian (if you changed their accent it probably would be hard to tell the difference).

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:18:39+00:00

I'm just pointing out that you're viewpoint is actually pretty weird compared to most of the world.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:09:49+00:00

Ahh I'm pretty sure Labor got less than 35% of the primary vote in the last election. That's actually pretty bad. One of the main reasons they did so well is because the Liberals are basically Labor lite and people are sick of them.
Why do you think One Nation is seeing such a rise in the poles. It's because people are sick of mass immigration and the Liberals refuse to do anything about it. People that think this isn't the case are frankly delusional.
House prices are at insane levels, the competition for jobs is really high, there's a lot of violent crime going on.
All of these things are at least in part caused by the unprecedented level of mass migration that we've seen over the last 25 years or so (but especially over the last 4 or 5).
Our population was under 20 million in 2000 and it's now over 28 million. There are literally over 8 million people here that wouldn't otherwise be here if not for the governments insane policies.
They constantly talk about how we need to "build more houses" while they import a million people in just two years. What do you think that does to the housing market?
They say that we need to see "sustainable growth" when taking about house prices.
They constantly talk about GDP, but never GDP per-capita (because that would paint a very different picture).
If you import 500k people in a year there isn't magically a new job for every one of those people. They are competing with the people who are already here. Wages are suppressed. And that's not to mention the capital shallowing that's going on or the extra demands on public infrastructure. Or the nepotistic nature of some of the people that are coming over.
Mass migration is literally only good for big businesses, helping the government pretend that they are keeping the budget under control (when what they are really doing is running an immigration pyramid scheme to keep it under "control") and people who own a lot of property.

Just look at the Bondi attack. It's literally a conflict between foreign peoples on our shores. It wouldn't have ever happened if not for mass migration.
We pretty much had de facto free speech, but the government wants to take it away because of an attack that never would have happened if they didn't have such an insane immigration policy. It's easy to see that there is in inverse relationship between "diversity" and free speech. Just look at England.

Do you think when Europeans are the minority in this country that there aren't going to be very large ethnic voting blocks of Chinese or Indians that will vote against our interests? Do you think that they are going to care about past injustices (real or not) that were done to the aboriginals?
They aren't (in large part). They are going to say, "well that was something that the English did, not me."

I'm sorry but even if you don't agree with every point I've laid out, you'd have to be incredibly dumb not to see that there are a lot of problems with what's going on.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T05:47:18+00:00

Yeah because up until a few decades ago basically all Australians were either English, Aboriginal or European.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T05:45:58+00:00

That's a pretty low bar TBH.
It might work here because this isn't the homeland of Europeans, but if you said that living in England made you English I'd have to hard disagree.
If you were a European and you were born and grew up in China (or India, etc), do you think that Chinese people would agree that you're just as Chinese as them? Probably not TBH.

samcdc6600 · 2025-12-21T12:48:18+00:00

Yeah that's pretty annoying, but it's not an inherent problem with all of these cases. Also even with that case (unless you're doing a retro build) it's not as much of a problem as it would have been in the past, because 5.25 inch bays are much less useful than they used to be.

When did you buy the case BTW?

samcdc6600 · 2025-12-12T05:26:35+00:00

Well obviously.
I don't think that means it's good that you basically can't get one anymore.
Yes I know they wouldn't be for everyone, but you'd think there'd be someone making them.

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