I poked around a few other articles. A few are identical. Most are slight variations. Few are as different as these two. My guess would be that the original submission from the author or initial editor locks in a headline for the tab/title bar, but then the CMS lets them edit what appears in the main body of the webpage.

That is nice. White Alps are good switches. I have a Focus FK-5001 with them that I think I’m about to completely hand wire to both convert to USB and to make all the extra keys fully programmable. It’ll mean giving up the built-in calculator though. The other option is to hope that re-insulating all the jumpers will keep it from shorting on the steel plate, then re-installing the PCB.

In the same auction I got a FK-7000P with a trackball where the arrows would go, but that means the arrows are on these awful little flaps with mouse microswitches. It also needed a complete re-cap, so I just harvested the switches for a DIY build sometime down the line.

I am glad to see us respect our link-aggregation heritage of ignoring the article and starting heated discussions based on what we infer from the headline. 😂

It also seems that the headline currently on the article is different and switches out clickbait tactics from misleading omission to absurd pearl-clutching: “Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people’s hearing problems?” If you combine them, you get something closer to actual content of the article.

I’m deep into the keyboard rabbit hole, but my oldest (currently working) ones are a 1998 IBM Model M and a weird military keyboard from the mid-90s.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Wheel+Mouse+Optical+1.1A+Microswitch+Replacement/117288

No worries. I’ve probably got the autobiography more in my mind anyway, and current events have probably biased me on the side of presuming propaganda. 😂

Still perfectly plausible either way, that ol’ Ivlivs handed the letter over as a pure flex or as CYA and a flex.

Any examples off the top of your head? I guess I am thinking more of chroniclers and “proto-historians” who would have thrived after Augustus solidified control of the entire state apparatus, but I am legitimately happy to have my horizons broadened.

(Although my headcanon is that he really was conspiring with someone, and the “love letter” was just a façade)

IMHO you can’t go wrong assuming that writers from the Principate are either leaving something out or adding something to make Caesar or his political progeny look better… though once opinion begins to be divided on who really is carrying forward the legacy of Caesar and Augustus, shit gets interesting again.

Say what you will about the tenets of the Obsidian Order, but at least it’s an ethos.

No worries, LOL. Strangers typing messages to each other will result in that.

So I owe you a mental apology. I was all like, “why are they bein’ so salty?!” I mean, yeah, it’s the same format as an email address, but you’d have to copy it, open your email, paste it in…

then I opened this thread Voyager.

Point taken.

There are buckling spring Model M and M2 keyboards that will use PS/2 or the easily converted AT. Also look for Focus boards (Alps white) or various Cherry boards (usually Cherry black) with either of those connectors. Hell, I’ve been trying to offload a Tai Hao with Alps clones and an AT plug for a while now.

Quality of boards takes a nose dive once they start coming with “Win” keys, but you can find decent ones even with that. Gotta be more careful if you want anything other than a run of the mill rubber dome though.

If you want new, you could try to contact Unicomp at pckeyboard.com, they may still have some beige ones in the warehouse, and they already offer special orders for other stuff, so at a minimum they won’t think you’re crazy for asking.

Mouse is a little harder, as the technology is legitimately much better now. Still, both Microsoft and Logitech sold a few native PS/2 mice with three buttons and a scroll wheel; I guess it’s possible that some of the ones that come with their own USB to PS2 converters would work fine even when re-converted back, but I’m not sure. If you get a ball mouse, remember to clean the crud-rings out from time to time.

Good. He’s Duval’s Bambi (unless he proves it’s actually him and not the previous coaches).

Seems to be working fine, and I subscribed via the ‘!’ Lemmylink.

Yes. It was a stupid thing the old EU did to retcon what was much more naturally (and at least one marked-up copy of the script says so) a shady smuggler trying to get one over on what he presumed were a couple of rubes. The old EU was infamous for taking every line completely seriously, turning every idle turn of phrase into a galaxy-wide convention, and ascribing galactic importance to every extra or creature that anyone noticed.

The fact that Solo doubled down on it was a mistake.

Are we still primitive?

Compared to whom?

Trump: No longer states that we do not support Taiwan independence.

Also Trump: Mulls crippling tariffs because they “stole” the semiconductor industry.

SNIP SNAP.

Of course. Figured I wouldn’t make it an auto-link since it doesn’t exist, and may never exist.

I had a “Diamond Mako,” aka a Psion Revo Plus. Neat device, but I just wasn’t “on the go” enough to really need it. It was slightly smaller than the 5, IIRC, and it definitely wasn’t as good for typing as even a Netbook (another good candidate for a “writerDeck” btw), but it was very slick, and the word processor in particular I remember being very good. IIRC it had NiCAD or NiMH AAA batteries hard-wired into it.

Don’t overthink (or try to be too interesting, LOL).

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I also like that’s a touch more inclusive.