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Since a few months I have been using the Microsoft Surface Keyboard, WS2-00025, Silver.
It is bluetooth, so there is no cable.
Other things I like about it are:
it takes up very little space: 4.5" front to back, and 16.5" left to right.
it is very low: 1/4" in the front, 3/4" in the back, so it is easy on my hands
keys have sufficient resistance
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Haven't read other replies but, Keyboards are personal choice, I prefer the old Dell keyboards from about 10 years ago! my previous employer was binning a load as we 'upgraded' to Lenovo PC's (which is a story in it's self! Quality Control?), I grabbed about 5 or 8, two have since bitten the dust. The others fine. Why?, simple, the keys feel like a typewriter which I learned to type on as my hand-writing was awful due to an injury I had to type school assignments (before my Amiga got a printer).
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It's not exactly easy to get used to but my RSI issues improved quite a bit after I switched to an Ergodox EZ. I haven't tried to go too crazy with customizing the layout but it's noticeably less comfortable to type on a regular keyboard now and I can't see going back to one for regular use. YMMV.
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Well, in most cases, if you are asking the question ... probably not.
In my own case absolutely. I am currently using a Razer Blackwidow Chroma with green keys. Short of an IBM model M keyboard it's the best thing I have used. I like clicky switches with tactile feedback.
Questions to ask (and possible answers):
* Do you like silent fairly silent keyboards? (if you do - then IBM model M, Unicomp or anything with a blue or green switch is not for you).
* Do you like tactile feedback (So you can feel a key is depressed before it bottoms out)? If so - blue, green, brown and Model M style keys offer this. To a lesser extent - lighter keypress, and more quiet action - but still with feedback Romer-G from logitech.
* Do you want to use the keyboard for gaming? (Mechanical switches are recognized as better for gaming because the key does not have to bottom out to register, which enables you to press the keys much faster. How much faster - I'm not a high end gamer - but I can notice the difference). Definitely avoid an IBM model M for games.
* Do you like a light action, or are a heavy typist? (Some people claim that heavier keys make them tired after a day of typing. The IBM model M has among the heaviest key presses, and the strongest feedback. Logitech Keyboards with the Romer-G switches are among the lightest).
Other than that - my only recommendation would be to try a few out and see how you feel. Often in places like Harvey Norman (in Aust.) and other chain tech stores they have a few left out that you can try.
Paul.
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You Only Live Once
Who has time for testing? QA? Software design? Life is short, get to the code!
That's what I think when I see a project named YOLO.
Thank heaven I will never use it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's weird: I think of "You Only Live Once" very differently from the "general view".
I figure "you only live once, so let's make sure I don't have to waste my valuable time doing it again, and oh, by the way: let's try to make sure it doesn't kill us".
This is directly at odds with the common interpretation which is "you only live once so what the heck - do it, if we crash and burn, so what?"
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yeah but that's reasonable, and the kind of people that use the term YOLO... not so much.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Anyways... both would be wrong in this case, because YOLO = You Only Look Once (python library for object detection in image analyse)
As it seems pretty wide used in Machine Learning...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kind of mandatory[^]
EDIT: After a bit of research I found out that the YOLO is not "You only live once" in this case, but "You Only Look Once" a library for object detection in image analyse...
I suppose it was done in purpose, but for me... it is a bad name selection.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 30-Jan-21 8:38am.
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Nelek wrote: t is a bad name selection.
Yep - they could have gone with Automatic Image Detection System or Superior Hosted Image Translation...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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People: YOLO!
James Bond: Hold my beer martini, shaken, not stirred.
Cats: Hold my catnip.
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That's what inspired my OP. YOLOv5 plastered all over my feed above the fold.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Ooops ... sorry
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Or a bunch of folks pursuing their dream of starting their business and making a difference, because "you only live once".
As opposed to being employed.
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OK, it's not my birthday for a couple of weeks, but Herself insisted I might as well use it "to make sure it works" since TNT smash the EU to UK plug adapter it was boxed with.
And I have to say it's fine - couple of poor design decisions, but nothing too major, and it makes good coffee.
So I've been experimenting with blending my own coffee and most of the results have been the same: it tastes good, but it's just going straight through me. Still, with blends like these, who needs enemas?
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OriginalGriff wrote: blending my own coffee
drool
I'm about to try 'locally' grown coffee - they grow/produce coffee in Aus (Northern NSW/Queensland) and PNG - I have a sample pack of 4 suppliers to try (All espresso)
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What make and model is your new coffee machine? pics, links? Sorry, if you posted this already in another thread.
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Gaggia Naviglio Silver | Caffè Italia[^]
It brews a little too fast - about 15 seconds for an espresso - so it doesn't probably pull all the flavour from the beans, but other than that and some poor material choices it's pretty good.
Makes way better coffee than my cafetiere did!
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Now you've gone done make me jealous!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Coffee and Beer, you don't buy them you just rent them.
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Are you roasting your own coffee? I started roasting about 3 years ago. While I will drink commercially roasted coffee, most of it tastes stale to me.
Roasting is easy enough and the entry level machine I have works fine. It doesn't have the bells-n-whistles much more expensive models have, but it fits my needs. The drawback is that you must plan ahead -- roasted coffee is usable 4 hours after roasting, but it's recommended to age most beans for 2 to 4 days, and they start getting stale after another week or so. Keep in mind that commercially roasted coffee is months old, so 3 week old home roasted coffee is amazing in comparison ...
Nothing tastes as stale as a K-cup
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No, but I can still remember the smell of the little shop that sold the fresh-roasted beans my mother loved. If I roasted my own, the whole house would smell like that, and I'd be drinking coffee 24 hours a day ...
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