And from Diablo II…

“Guess what! I’ve named a boil on my ass after you. It, too, bothers me every time I sit down.” - Gheed

“He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past.” - Kane, Command & Conquer

Kane of course was just paraphrasing 1984.

Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.

I bought a mechanical keyboard back when this whole mechanical keyboard fad was in its infancy back in the mid-2000’s. Honestly, the main reason I bought it was because I thought the key backlighting was cool. It’s a nice keyboard, but I find a decent membrane keyboard (such as what I have at work) to work just as well for a fraction of the cost.

I suppose I can’t complain about the durability though, as it’s lasted nearly 20 years now.

Not too long ago I checked out the current state of what is out there, and it’s just nuts with all the choices. Not to mention all the fanatics that seem to like to build dozens of keyboards.

Interestingly, despite all the heavy customization of things like switches and keycaps, there seems to be very little ability to customize the layout. Many of the various compact keyboards out there make some interesting design choices (IMHO) about what keys they leave off, and where they distribute the keys that they decide to still include. I wouldn’t mind taking a short at creating my own compact layout, but that doesn’t seem to be what the hobby is about.

I don’t think there were SSDs that large when they first came out in the late 2000’s. I saved up for an 80GB one back around 2009, and it was an absolute piece of trash. It was fast when it wanted to be, but most of the time it would randomly stutter and just go unresponsive for several seconds causing the rest of the PC to hang up until it decided to start responding again. After fighting with it for too long, I replaced it with a traditional harddrive which at least behaved as it was supposed to.

It was several years later before I tried another SSD, buying a relatively inexpensive 120GB drive that actually did live up to the hype.