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  • I was diagnosed as dyslexic as a young child, I spent a lot of my childhood reading, and it definitely helped my ability to read. So much so I was ahead of my reading age by the time I hit secondary school.

    However it did next to nothing for my auditory processing or my ability to phonetically spell out words. I did have significant coaching around this during school age but nothing ever really stuck with it.

    I still cannot reliably phonetically spell out words today, many decades later. Pretty much every word I can spell I have had to brute force learn the hard way, letter by letter with a lot of repetition.

    I have had the same problem with handwriting, its completely illegible unless I take my time and draw my letters the same way that people draw pictures, fine for forms but way too slow for notes. Thankfully I can type everything like that now.

  • I did cooking at school, all the way to GCSE, very nearly went to culinary school instead of doing A Levels and Uni. I decided against it as chefs are more likely to work evenings and weekends than your average IT nerd. I do not regret it, IT can be toxic but nowhere near as toxic as a lot of commercial kitchens.

    As I got older I realised that I enjoy cooking, and I am a good cook, but I am not a chef and being a chef is a completely different level due to the volume of food and dishes you have to make. Cooking for yourself you make for a handful of people most of the time, usually a single meals worth of dishes, and you will still eat it even if its bad most of the time. A chef might do over a 100 covers from a menu of dishes and they have to be at least good, while working as a team to do so.

    At least for GCSE there was a lot of repetition over dishes to get good at them and their basic techniques, and an encouragement to experiment with them. I must have spent six weeks making victoria sandwich cakes for example.

    Post school, cooking books and youtube to expand the range of cuisine that I can cook.

  • The vast majority of tourists in Japan are Japanese domestic tourists, like over 90% of total tourists.

    Queue spiderman pointing meme.

  • No its Lyonel Baratheon, he throws the best parties.

  • Ford serves two markets, the Americas, and everybody else, with an approx. 2/3rd vs. 1/3rd split respectively.

    Sure they sell some small amount of F150s and similar oversized cars/trucks outside of the Americas, but its measured in 1000s.

    European market is mostly much smaller cars. Ford has had the best selling car in the UK on and off with its Puma, a small SUV that is a mild hybrid.

    Outside of the Americas they are starting to move forward with EVs, and will even have their own Renault produced R5 clone with the new Fiesta, but its too little too late as its not due to 28.

  • Often they don't actually use the cards themselves, paying is the job of an assistant so its more likely to be some sort of company credit card.

    Heres Rishi Sunak completely failing to get how contactless works, literately the simplest process to pay for something, you don't need a PIN or put the card into the machine, you just tap the card reader. Its like hes never paid for anything in his life before.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/rishi-sunak-contactless-fail-video-b2043035.html

  • Macro photography is always an option for indoor

  • You can add gambling adverts to this, it would be disingenious to suggest kids do not watch football

  • Assuming you want to use the laptop for this hobby, I would suggest getting a cheap, secondhand camera, old DSLRs are like £50 with a lens and perfectly fine starting point, but you can spend as much as you want on a setup. Only recommendation I would make, is get something thats still supported today for the lens mount type, that way you know you have a constant upgrade path.

    Get the camera with the right lens included for what you want to start taking, additional lenses will increase the budget significantly even at the bottom end as they can often work well with better (and more expensive) camera bodies if you decide to upgrade later on.

    Then you can use Darktable & GIMP to play with the photos to your hearts content or "spend" on Light Table & Photoshop. You can do anything from basic image correction up to full blown re-imaginings of your photos. Plenty of online tutorials to walk you through the processes.

  • Yeah for the average user, a Mac with Apple silicon is a great choice, you do not even have to buy new as a second hand M1 or M2 can have its battery replaced by Apple for about £160 and have a warranty on the work. The M1 for the average user is still more than powerful enough if you avoid the base RAM and storage. If you get really desperate there are also the genius bars, lol.

    Sure you can pick up a secondhand Thinkpad for the same amount of money, replace the battery for less, stick whatever flavor of Linux on it you like, but the average user doing that by themselves and ending up with the same easy to use experience is unlikely. I would rather do the latter as I would pick a model I can upgrade RAM/Storage myself, but then I simply do not see the average user wanting to do that.

  • I would be in the same boat. I picked up a clockwork pi as a toy but never with the intention of learning to program it directly, despite me having a passing understanding of python. Always with the intention of sticking in an upgraded board so I can run linux on it. I like the idea of being able to program on a retro device, but the reality is just too painful.

  • Yeah SA is a little shorter than C64 keycaps, this set is all R3 so its shorter than standard mixed profile SA for the other rows.

    How you finding the Ultimate? I really fancy one but I am not sure how much I would use it.

  • I get paid for all OT, either a half day or a full day depending if I go over, its enough money to make it worth while as I am mattress stuffing being close to retirement.

  • DCS I do not like the relative height on the r5 row, not that I use it that much on 40s, most of the time its just r2 to r4.

    Yeah single row profile keycaps make 40s so much easier to kit, this set is all the better for it. Other option is a 40 with full size modifiers, those are a great way to get started, but I find them a little big to use so I end up using home row modifiers.

    Split space is the hardest for me as my preference is for 2x3u, and that normally means having to get hold of a separate space bar kit on top of the standard kit, and the 40s kit.

    Most of the CYL kits I have looked at simply do not do spacebar kits, so I have never purchased one and wont till its fixed. If I cannot use in on half my boards why would I bother?

  • Is that anti SA as the spacing on this keyboard is identical to a full size.

    SA you have to have hover hands, which you are meant to do any way.

  • For me its the left space bar, with the right space being space. I also have them mapped that if I hold them down they active different layers. I like the two most used keys on my keyboard to be for my thumbs as I like using both my thumbs. A single space bar, particularly a huge one like a 10u is more aesthetic but its slower for me to use, really depends on what your typing style is.

    However you can make any key anything you like, even macros, so you could put it anywhere you like. I find using the same basic map on all my keyboards is best as I am not hunting around working out where things are.

  • All with full 40s sets?

    I got Honeywell from PrimeKB when it was on sale back in 2019, before they stopped shipping to the UK. Laser I have a couple of GMK sets, didn't get around to picking up the SA version.

  • I have been working from home for more than twenty years now, when I started doing one or two days a week before then I am old enough to predate any sort of Internet VPN and had to dial in directly.

    In my time I have had jobs were I have never been into the office, not even once, for the duration of working there.

    Main benefits are:

    --The time and cost savings of a lack of commute, which are significant

    --Get paid London rates while living somewhere a lot lot cheaper

    --Get to spend far more time with my kids as they grew up

    --Work from anywhere, I have worked from sail boats and while camping

    --Quiet days you can do what you want

    Main downsides:

    --Busy days can turn into no sleep multiple days if you aren't careful

    --You are often expected to be available for far longer hours due to no commute dead time

    --No such thing as a snow day, and sick days you have to be really ill to be off

    --I don't get to dress up for work anymore

  • No stabs is such a good vibe, I do not use stabs for anything smaller than a 3u.

    Not sure if you saw, but there was a normie set for this, I wanted the 2.25u for this board but I couldn't quite justify the extra for the one keycap, especially when I would rather have the ;

    I have never regretted getting SP SA sets, other than SA Espresso as they fucked up the gradient order, they are so hard to get with a 40s kit outside of GB for me. You either pony up or just plain miss out, even the pre sales at prototypist tend to have very low numbers for the 40s kits.

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    Happy 40th

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