Budget and preferred layout will play into this a lot, but generally these days it’s not too hard to find wired-only and hot-swap. Anything else you can tell us?

You don’t?!?!?

No current keyboards with a knob (next one, though…). That said, my goofy little Class D amp has a wide flat volume knob mounted on the top instead of the front, so yes, OP, I know the feeling.

Good thinking. I dual boot. Maybe just to be safe I should also have it run an elevated privilege command prompt and run del C:\Windows as well.

Yes. I’ll set up the Fn key and right Alt key to be spacebars as well, unless I’m holding them down. It ends up working well, I get extra keys, and I don’t have to deal with fiddly stabilizer assemblies for long keys. A few other keys are also shortened or split into two.

Menu just does what menu always has, pulls up the equivalent of the right-click menu with a single press. I guess I could repurpose it for Copilot, LOL.

I like to make these boards with short keys both to pack more buttons in, and so none of them need stabilizer assemblies, which add complexity and have to be “just so” to work without negatively affecting sound or feel. I’ve also discovered “Hold-Tap” functionality, which I’m using on the bottom row. The two mini-space bars, plus Function and Right Alt are all spacebars if you tap them, but the Fn and RAlt do their labeled job if I hold them down. Even just making them all a touch bigger than normal (i.e. “1.25 units”) is good enough to keep me from hitting more than one at a time.

This is the kind of low hanging fruit I’m after. Why do two Enter keys when THREE Enter keys is 50% more?!?!!

The yellow part is actually stacked on top of an identical laser-cut plate that’s painted black. I need two for the right height, and I could change without too much work, but the yellow one felt more fun for this board, which is entirely unnecessary and verging on meme territory.

Was legitimately thinking Win+L to lock Windows or Kubuntu.

I do still have the 3D printed flywheel assembly I made last year…

I don’t know yet. I just know I wanted a big dumb button.

There’s so many normal dumb buttons on this one that I’m running out of ideas. You got any?

I haven’t listened in years, but even a decade-plus ago, you could tell he was desperate to be taken seriously as an interviewer.

Now, to be fair, with the right subject he could weave together empty-headed sex and gossip questions he knew would never get a real answer with questions that were probing but felt less invasive by comparison, and then use that to get some interesting answers. Any modestly savvy interviewee would know this was the schtick, though, and reveal exactly as much as they wanted, but even then it made it a safe place to “off brand” a bit.

I don’t know how many of the accoutrements of peak Howard Stern are still around, but I presume this is still a move by Harris to whittle a couple of points off Trump’s lead among white men in Pennsylvania, but with a host who is WAY over any fondness for Donald Trump.

In the thumbnail, ol’ Inge looks exactly like Warwick Davis.

So you know what? I do NOT like this…

But the arrangements are more complex than I assumed. I could make it through once without too much trouble.

If I had too.

Luckily, I do not.

PLUTO

DID IT CLEAR ITS ORBIT?!?

I say again, did… Pluto… CLEAR… ITS… ORBIT?

We’re missing way too much context here. Public or home? My home or someone else’s? How many other people are nearby? Which body parts are involved? If this is a poop situation, how much and how firm? Is there a bidet/hygiene sprayer?

Depending on context there are many potential solutions:

• Waddle to another stall/undersink cabinet and look for spare rolls.
• Sacrifice “lefty” until you can get to the sink.
• Sacrifice undies forever, tossing them in the trash.
• Use the tube as-is.
• Use the tube after wetting it.
• See if there are paper seat liners that could be pressed into service.
• Or, y’know, ask for help. I understand that in certain conditions, three squares to spare should do it.
• Pull up pants and move along. Make extensive and unfriendly eye contact, implicitly daring anyone to say anything.
• Move into the stall permanently. You’re a toilet-human now.

Tangentially, that cereal is super good, sweeter than you’d think but not cloying, although TBH I’m not turning away garbage kids cereals either.

Well, I’m happy to have been wrong about the support system. Heal up, and maybe view the annoyance as one of the few downsides of your lifestyle. What’s offputting to you may save someone else’s life. Best of luck!

So you’re a little older, on a fixed income, don’t have a support system nearby, don’t have a place you can stay that has dedicated bathroom facilities or even room to stand up indoors, and you just had a not-insignificant surgery that comes with, at a minimum, laparoscopic incisions, and could significantly affect the way your body processes its diet.

You may well be doing fine, but I’m not calling out either the doctor or the social worker here. Pushing you a little and making you insist you’re happy was a reasonable call.