Looks like there is at least one mechanical chiclet keyboard out there.

It’s very common. Quake, as one example requires a number of simultaneous key presses for it’s movement tech. Another I just tested out is Infernax, an old-school style metroidvania. With a controller I had no problem holding the forward and jump buttons, and then hitting the attack button. If I do that with the keyboard, the character won’t attack. And to make sure it wasn’t just that game, I loaded up Timespinner to try the same thing. If I hold forward and jump, they won’t attack. Although curiously if I hold up and jump, they will attack, so I suspect it has to do with forward/back (a or d), jump (j), and attack (h) all being on the same row.

I’m honestly amazed there isn’t a company out there making making premium aftermarket laptop keyboard upgrades, including with features like key rollover. Anyone jumping on this first would have zero competition (at least for now).

If anything I want to try going as quiet as possible. I find deeper tones more pleasant than sharp ones, but overall I still want the least noise I can get.

Not a single comment with an ideal alternative, despite best efforts. We need a fediverse Amazon alternative. 😞

Wage stagnation is absolutely heartbreaking.

But even if I were making a livable wage, Nintendo’s prices and other AAA are still ridiculous. The Steam wishlist sale life is the good life.

It’s not really individual approaches that my comment is about. I was a cashier in a state where they had banned single use bags, and that seemed to make things worse. Instead of thin single-use plastic bags getting everywhere, there are now nearly as many thicker multi-use usually plastic bags being treated like single-use ones and also getting everywhere. My point was that it’s a system that needs more circularity.

Even in spite of best efforts for good systems to remember mine, I still forget them often. The problem in the US is that the system is not complete. The bags need to be made of biodegradable and/or recyclable materials, and every store needs a convenient way to turn in old bags so they can go into a recycling system. There probably shouldn’t be a charge for them either.

That’s generally even worse, cause the shop-at-home people will automatically buy the cheapest bags at cost to you and they will add up with every grocery delivery.

Wow, that definitely brings color to your desk. I was just watching a video about a Topre keyboard last night, and I think it highlighted why I don’t so much like the mechanical ones - the sound is too high. The Topre keyboard had a distinctly bassier sound, and I found that more pleasant. I have O-rings on one of the keyboards but I think think that goes far enough. I might experiment with different keycaps and other dampening methods to try to change up the sounds they make. One has clicky-sounding, uh, lavender cherry-style switches, and the other has reds which feel/sound more linear. I definitely prefer the reds by quite a bit.

This must be a sign from God that I need to pursue the American dream of monetized game streaming.

I’m ambivalent about mechanical keyboard. I hate touch-based interfaces. 🤮️

This is kind of where I’m at too. I want to get a preferable keyboard, but feel like doing so would be wrong since I have two perfectly functional keyboards already. Maybe I could give them away at some point.

Because even if vegan shoes are made of synthetic materials, leather is still arguably worse. Anyway, having more plant-based materials to work with hypothetically means anything made of those materials should be more biodegradable. But you have a point, biodegradability almost kind of by definition means the product in question is one that’s not designed to last. There’s probably a middle ground that can be found, like shoes that break down into soil-enriching materials after 50-100 years.

Umm… what?

Did you watch the video?

It’s possible, and if finances are a struggle you just kind of have to make your best guess in some cases, or buy used. Most of the time when shoes have leather, they advertise it pretty boldly, so that helps. Still, you never know - for example, what are the adhesives made out of? That’s why vegan certifications are important, a lot of things can be easily hidden, and a lot of companies aren’t particularly clear on their use of animal products even when reached out to directly.

Going vegan means learning to have to put everything under a microscope. The word ‘vystopia’ exists for good reason.

It depends. For example I just made one quick search, “biodegradable vegan shoes”, and this was one of the first results:

https://blueviewfootwear.com/

Also see here, leather at least as bad environmentally, in addition to being ethically awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQgcBUGD3g

They’re usually not, at least at this time. More R&D needs to go into plant-based materials for more options. Even so, leather itself is also anything but “organic.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQgcBUGD3g

Anybody can cherry pick isolated studies to support any argument they want. I’m not giving you the time of day on this because it never ends. That’s the point. It’s the same playbook as the tobacco industry, same as the oil companies. Corporate-backed pseudoscience that appears just about legitimate-enough to create distractions and confusions.

You already admitted to being anti-epidemiology and “respecting” people like Taubes, as well as name-dropping the carnivore diet. That’s all I need to know, to know that you’re full of nonsense.

Called it. Get your pseudoscience crackpot cheesehands diet nonsense out of here.