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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • I’m a colemak typer and I switched my phone to it to help when I was learning and it actually works really well since it emphasizes alternating hands it makes thumb typing pretty fluid. It does also tend to have some finger rolls which really just feels like tapping as you move your fingers back to the middle of the keyboard.

    Not to say there aren’t better, I was just surprised how well it worked





  • This is exactly the thing I can seem to get anyone to agree with me on … Imported goods will never become significantly more expensive than American for the reason you just said…

    There’s a lot of money in figuring out the right margin below the imported product such that they’ll lose some sales but ultimately profit more because of the increased profit margins. Not that you were seriously saying it would be a dollar cheaper but most I talk with tend to think that difference is much bigger than I expect which tends toward single digit percentage differences









  • I had great luck with Anycubic as my first printer… If you want to have a larger variety of materials available I recommend a printer with an enclosure (depending on the age of your kid, it’s a bit safer too?)

    I will try I haven’t used them recently but a friend of mine uses a Kobra 4 which produces prints very close in quality to my X1Carbon (I know…). That one has no enclosure, but the Kobra 3 is still available for even less if you really just want to see if the hobby takes hold. They have a Kobra S1 which seems like a decent option but I haven’t done any research.

    My personal advice would be to not skimp too much on cost… Trying to stick with my older hardware nearly killed the hobby for me since everyone around me was printing higher quality it a quarter of the time…








  • Not to scare you away, but I have experience getting Linux to run on a Surface Laptop 2 and… It’s not exactly the easiest process…

    For my machine it required a custom kernel to get the touchpad and keyboard working and it just always had one quirk or another.

    Highly recommend Linux, but those surface devices need some specialized drivers…