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What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?

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Each key is magnetically suspended with rare earth magnets allowing them to be 97% transparent and ultra low friction. Each switch has 4mm of travel and will be available in linear and tactile variants. They also feature a software adjustable actuation point in 0.1mm increments and rapid trigger functionality through analog hall effect sensing.

Eagerly awaiting reviews on the keys, it will take something impressive to pry my cherry mx browns out of my hands...

As someone who dabbles in all kinds of software development and media production, I feel like the screen is less of a gimmick when you consider how it can change to show shortcuts for the specific application or OS you're running. Definitely a gimmick to use it for showing flames and fireworks and waifus... but I think it has potential for productivity

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Can usenet be used for free?

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exactly this. I'm sure some of the larger hosts easily spend six figures per month just on the server infrastructure alone

Usenet is super fast, safe, reliable, automated searching and downloading actually works. I gladly support my host

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Dymo label printers have DRM on their paper rolls.

Recently learned this the hard way, by recommending a Dymo to one of my clients. They've had constant issues with it. Even with official Dymo labels, it constantly has problems, fails to detect the NFC chip in the roll, claims that the roll is empty or that we're not using authentic labels... Dymo has now sent TWO replacements and all 3 have the same issues. Insanity

I briefly looked into some hacky fixes but there's nothing I'd trust in prod

We have them set up with a Zebra now and they haven't had a single issue since

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