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  • I have used both, and while glove80 is ultimately more comfortable due to the key well, I typically never use the “FN” row keys on g80, so losing the extra keys wasn’t a big deal. The size, layout, and built in trackpads on go60 are all amazing. When I was using glove80, I was using a miryoku-style layout that has only six layers, so likewise having six thumb keys per hand feels kinda overkill like the extra upper FN row felt for me on the fingers. Ultimately I feel like a glove60 (less keys, but also with the built in trackpads from go60) would be my “perfect” keyboard since I’m not regularly traveling or commuting with my keyboard. But until something like that ever happens, the trade offs for go60 are all worth it and I ended up getting rid of my glove80 after I was sure I wouldn’t regret the switch.





  • Assistive technology as a back door to normalizing use for able bodied people is a pretty common playbook at this point. AirPods use a ton of tech pioneered in the hearing aid, for example, and a lot of consumers were put off by them initially, but 10 years later they’ve become incredibly normalized.

    So as much as I agree with you that people with paralysis are an optimal case, it’s good to be careful about allowing public perception to slowly morph over time







  • porkloin@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldDo NOT buy Creality
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    6 months ago

    Something that I’ve learned over the years is that a lot of times what separates cheaper or more expensive brands or higher prestige brands from lower prestige brands is quality control.

    In the world of guitars, for example, you can get some amazing deals if you’re willing to deal with buying a guitar that might need a lot of work to be set up properly after you bring it home. Or maybe you’ll be lucky and the one you get will be totally fine and require zero setup.

    Nowadays for most products I just assume if I’m spending half the money I’m probably not getting half the value. Instead the lower price means I’m accepting the risk of a 70% chance of proper QC’d unit rather than 95% for the more expensive one.

    The problem is it’s basically impossible to know the real rates for these things unless you’re a dealer who sees a high volume and can analyze return rates and stuff so it’s kind of a crapshoot. If I’m buying something I feel confident I can fix or upgrade myself (guitar) I’ll happily save a bunch of money and deal with the risk. A lot of people have that level of experience with 3d printers, and it sounds like you do.

    A lot of other people in this thread are clearly expecting an out of the box experience that is perfect. Which is totally fine, not everyone who prints needs to be an expert. But buying a creality machine as someone who isn’t prepared to do some of their own work fixing issues out of the box is probably a bad idea





  • I live nearish to a military base so a lot of local businesses have a military/veteran discount.

    At the store I buy dog food at, the staff are so tired of asking about it that they have shortened “are you a member of the military?” to “any military?”

    After I noticed it a few times that every single employee in the store shortened it that way, I started answering “there is one, but I’m not in it.”

    Loooots of blank stares. I stopped since apparently nobody gets it or they don’t think it’s funny. I think it’s the former but idk 🤷


  • Yeah I think it’s reasonable to assume that it could have started but we don’t know about it yet.

    Some people argue that WW2 actually started in the early 1930s with Japan’s incursions into China which ultimately resulted in the second Sino-Japanese war. In 1932 that probably felt a lot like Russia and Ukraine felt to us in 2022. I think the real deciding factor on whether it spirals into a global conflict is the extent to which a bunch of regional conflicts combine into to a global clusterfuck. US shit in South America is not helping. Neither did Israeli shit in Palestine.