I'm pretty similar in the console to PC shift. Pretty much had all consoles and handhelds through Xbox 360/Switch/PS3.
I still miss the Wii controls (I hate moving my neck for anything VR) but I don't think with Switch 2 motion controls/mouse will get me back on Nintendo. Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Trilogy were awesome on Wii. Only reason I bought a Switch was for Zelda but I didn't care for it and eventually gave my switch away, never finished BoTW. I don't think Metroid Prime 4 is enough for me to justify buying a whole console. So I'm planning to get a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.
If we ever see a world where nintendo games are on steam and you don't need a nintendo account to play them, I would totally buy up all my favorite games and play them on PC.
Otherwise I really don't care for the business model of re-buying the games I already own, just re-released on the latest console. Don't care for paying for online access. And the few games they have really aren't compelling enough for me to justify buying a console when I have hundreds of unplayed games in my steam library. (my humble bundle subscription snowballed my library lol)
please do. I stole the term myself from the japanlife subreddit.
The most dangerous part of living in Tokyo isn't the typhoons, earthquakes, or tsunamis these days, its the mothers on electric assist e-bikes 'mama-chari' mid-afternoon on their way back with the whole family.
Toddler in the front, middle schooler on the back, she has pedal assist and is booking it on the sidewalk while looking at her smartphone because its legally permissible to ride with the pedestrians when you feel unsafe on the streets. The bike lanes here aren't separated from traffic. And the bike lanes here are de-facto 15-minute loading parking spaces for the massive trucks, drop off points for taxis, and uber eats scooter parking spots. So you either have to merge into traffic due to all the parked vehicles, or ride on the sidewalk.
If you ever come to Toyko, walk on the left and look over your right shoulder so you don't get run over by a whole family on a modern day chariot.
Yup, everybody looking down at their pocket computers and fucking up their posture.
Tokyo is full of meanderthals walking and biking while looking down at their phones. Standing still while waiting for the lights to change is tame.
There's even a word for it here: aruki-sumaho
Notable sightings so far in 2025:
A pack of middle school boys all playing a mobile game while walking with their faces in their phones and blocking the sidewalk. Three abreast in marching band formation, maybe 15 of them.
Salaryman holding a laptop and on a conference call while rushing towards a train station.
A few face-in-tablet while walking, that always gets a smirk out of me.
Lady in heels, approaching the upward stairs while watching a video on her phone in landscape mode, arm fully extended and airpods in. Misses a step and eats it, goes full scorpion. I was impressed she managed to hold onto her phone and keep all her teeth, she just missed chomping on a concrete step by a few cm.
Its extremely common here. Enough that I usually have to stop walking on the sidewalk and just wait for them to notice me to look up and move out of the way, you can't always side step them because they're frequently not walking straight and they'll wander across the path anyway, hence the term meanderthals.
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Second this. Get an aeropress, a burr grinder that can go down to espresso fine grind (or find a local roaster that will roast and grind your beans to your liking), a thermometer, and a scale.
Skip the machines that can break down and are expensive to replace or hard to clean.
Edit: If you decide to go with the aeropress, I'd recommend getting one of these flow control caps. A lot of recipes for the 'inverted method' of brewing deal with balancing the aeropress upside down and messing around with hot coffee sludge. Just get one of these instead of doing anything inverted and risking burning yourself or spilling hot coffee sludge everywhere.
https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-flow-control-filter-cap
I've tried every way to make coffee at home and aeropress is my favorite (over moka pot, french press, pour over, Mr Coffee, espresso, nespresso, keurig, turkish, etc)
Magic wand time: Make the entire bay area a single entity like NYC, Tokyo, or London. Extend the zoning plan to the entire bay area, get rid of minimum parking space requirements in other cities in the metro, invest in transit and build infill stations in the new areas with planned increases in density.
The drug problem is another issue, but if the bay area were more affordable there would be fewer people forced out on to the streets who then turn to drugs.
I've only ever heard Autumnal used for the equinox. Otherwise Autumn and Fall are also used as adjectives in American English. Fall colors. Fall planting. A cool autumn breeze.
I propose a combined American, British, Australian vernacular only using the word with fewer syllables. (New Zealand and Canada are welcome too)
British Wins:
American Wins:
Australian Wins:
Thanks for this, I appreciate the info!
There's two moving parts here.
The 360 degree swivel part was fine.
The left-to-right 180 degree swivel part failed. Which is the most important part cause the USB-C port is on the bottom of my phone and I like to charge it when I'm holding it.
This is a newer product on the market, its a great idea, where the USB-C plug can swivel. I assume their goal was to make it easier to charge your device while also using it, and to make the cable last longer. The swivel part is great when it works but it's super fragile and broke for me in two weeks.
TLDR:
www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/ for the last picture with the key layout
Details and Flavor:
This is my first hot swappable mechanical keyboard after having a few Durgod keyboards (switches are soldered to the board).
After the INCIDENT- I spilled a whole jack and coke on my Durgod - the entire thing was unsalvageable because only thing I could do was remove the keycaps, I couldn't remove the soldered switches or take it apart further. So the whole thing was a sticky mess even after drying it out, and the spacebar and CTRL were never the same. I probably could have dunked the whole thing in rubbing alcohol or something, but I just recycled it. So that led me down the path towards customizable mechanical keyboards with hot swappable switches.
Keyboard: System 76 Launch
84 Key variant of the 75% layout, with a split spacebar and extra key for super/function bottom left Super fucking useful why aren't all keyboards made like this I'm never going back to a keyboard with a full spacebar.
Keypad: Keychron Q0 Plus QMK Custom Number Pad
Has survived one accidental drink spillage, luckily it was just water (a whole pint) and I got it unplugged immediately and taken apart to dry. No shorts and all switches and the board were fine after air drying. There was some green paper taped to the bottom of the PCB that did not survive though. I bent a few pins when I manhandled the swtiches back in place, but nothing some tweezers and reinstallation couldn't fix.
Keycaps XDA profile:
I like the profile but these seem to be rarer and its difficult to find any see-through variants with the numbers/letters clear (to let the RBG shine through so I can PWN more in FPSs) Also having keys with a standardized profile, same shape keys regardless of the row, was important because of the oddball layout and key sizes for the system76 keyboards. XDA Tricolor Keycaps
Handmade Abalone Mother of Pearl Keycaps.
These are abalone round beads (meant for a necklace or bracelet) glued to 3D printed keycap mounts. Purchased for around $3 each from my local keyboard shop. They have some cool custom keycaps here: https://shop.yushakobo.jp/collections/artisan-keycaps?page=1 And even more in the store that never get put online. If you are ever in Akihabara Tokyo they are definitely worth a visit. Big disclaimer though: "Every product from this store is hella overpriced." https://maps.app.goo.gl/s4pksssA9sGrz75Z6
So look at the pretty things, but maybe check online or somewhere else first before buying anything lol
DIY if you wanna recreate the abalone keycaps:
There's a bunch of free models you can find online for the "keycap mounts" that might work. I haven't gotten around to making my own, still need to figure out a program in linux I can edit 3D models and figure out how to use it. Super easy to get them 3D printed once you get/make the models. The beads you can find on sites like esty, "mother of pearl round beads"
Switches: Cherry MX SPEED SILVER Switches RGB
I found the Kalih Box switch options from system76 to be too scratchy and I didn't like the Gatreon G Pro switches from Keychron either. I was used to the Cherry MX Speed Silver from my old Durgod keyboard. I prefer linear, super smooth feeling switches especially for gaming, so I went back to the MX speed silver.
Layout:
I used to prefer 96% or 100% (a lot of excel formulas) but the wide keyboard kept getting in the way of FPS gaming and I'd be constantly hitting my mouse against the keyboard, even with maxed out mouse DPI and minimal wrist movement, the keyboard was too wide. So for about 8 years or so I've been using a separate numpad.
Festivus Airing of the Grievances:
I had trouble customizing the keymapping on the Keychron keypad. I wish the keychron keyboard was more straightfoward to customize in linux, or at least compatible with system76's keyboard configurator https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator so I didn't have to dig through 10 year old arch forums and reddit threads.
Just freeze it in a bag, and defrost when you're ready for fried rice. You can also use long or medium grain rice, or cook your rice al dente, and you don't have to wait for it to be a day old for fried rice.