Ahh, yeah, I stand corrected. Sleeves were gone from the Thinkpads earlier than I thought.

Add in that its episode breaks were very nearly arbitrary. I have heard that people who waited and binged it liked it a little more.

Young Frankenstein would like a word.

Potentially less of a soulless cash grab.

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Completely agree. I think it succeeded perfectly at being that, and it was the only live action Star Wars project I could get my 11yo daughter to sit through.

Acolyte I think got more hate than it deserved, but I can’t make the same argument for it. It was a quite a mess with only a few bright spots shining through.

They didn’t have much for him, it’s true, but I thought his part in the Bix coda was very nice. For me, B2 was like my dogs in Fallout or Minecraft, too precious and pure to expose to danger. :-)

This is a good suggestion. That generation of ThinkPad keyboards wasn’t the No-travel scissor switch nonsense that most laptop keyboards now anyway. It was IBM buckling sleeve technology, and a low profile tactile switch with similarly low-pro keys would probably be about the closest thing to its feel.

Stick to football, bro.

Having seen Tuberville as a college football coach, that’s a hard no. Tommy is an idiot and an asshole.

Agree. Skeleton Crew had very different ambitions, but I think it successfully achieved them. I think that Star Wars is at least slightly more than “just a setting,” but letting creatives with a good story to tell go ahead and tell it to Star Wars fans is the way to go. Favreau I think may be done after the M&G movie, and Filoni probably needs to be kept away from live action and be the animation guy plus the “spirit of George” Jimmy Cricket.

The beauty of Andor is that the story didn’t HAVE to be a Star Wars story, but it was molded around Star Wars in a respectful way that enhanced both the show and the “universe.”

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For the very basics of KiCAD, their own intro is helpful. I had to wrap my head around the workflow: first schematic, then PCB.

Once you grasp that, some keyboard specific stuff is described by Joe Scotto in this video. He tends to rush his tutorials though, so best to go through the KiCad page first or revisit the video after.

For resources, I found Ai03’s library of footprints to be perfect, except that his vertical 2U were not oriented how I needed them, which I realized too late, LOL. Then, the kbplacer plugin by adamws was absolutely invaluable and saved me so much time. I used JLCPCB, because even when US-China tariffs were at their worst (and goodness knows they could be again if Trump gets a hangnail or something), JLC was still the cheapest option for me.

If you’ve never done a PCB before, I might humbly suggest keeping to a fixed layout for the first go-round. I did that on my first board and it worked perfectly for what I intended it to be. I got a little ambitious with this one, and ambition+inexperience+impatience led to a flawed project.

SKCM white. Both switches and keycaps (and the front feet, actually) came from a fried early-90s Focus keyboard that had a trackball where the arrow keys go, and the arrows were around it on mouse micro switches with little flappy “buttons” that are part of the case, also very mouse-like.

For the PCB, lots of YouTube and searching Geekhack, deskthority, and (yes) Reddit to see how to use KiCAD for mechanical keyboards. Mine uses the “cheat” of mounting a Raspberry Pi Pico clone to the underside so I don’t have to know as much about electronics (that part actually went perfectly).

The mistakes were two tiny bits of trace that got deleted but I didn’t see, and some placement issues for the Alps version that I had to work around. I have four of them left, so I’ll just use MX compatible switches and a normal sized spacebar for future builds and avoid the worst of it.

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Western animation series on Netflix. Coming of Age story, post-apocalyptic sapient mutant animals, representation that’s neither perfunctory nor performative, inclusiveness triumphing over intolerance, and it occasionally involves a little bit of Kaiju combat. All that and they got a proper ending.

But is it better than Veep?

Kentucky is just an ACC school that accidentally found itself in the pre-NIL SEC and made the best of it, trolling the football goobers every decade or so.

Tell us how you really feel. :-)

I don’t use Solidworks, but maybe somebody who does can help out.

Yeah in Picard, S3 particularly, our guy looked very old and sounded even older.

How about the cop who decided to pop a (right leaning apparently!) Australian reporter from close range with a rubber bullet, just for shits and giggles?