the corporations are full of shitbags, news at 11

FTFY. Oh, and an offtopic educational link for you grocers and foreigners and others who don't understand English:
https://www.angryflower.com/24...
I see enough of that shit on Farcebook. Note, I've been staying away from /. for the same reason, the normals have taken over the site.

I'd have assumed that a wireless mouse would weigh more than an equivalent wired mouse due to the battery. Drag from the wire can be minimized by use of a wire bungee (which Razer sells, last I checked).

I mention it because most competitive (or wannabe competitive) gamers I know prefer wired mice, both for the perception of reduced lag and not having to worry about running out of battery during a session.

(To the people mocking the "need" for such a lightweight mouse: Congrats, this isn't for you. Ultra-competitive twitch gamers may notice a difference, however. There's also nothing wrong with just being an enthusiast for this type of thing. If you prefer playing with it, good on you. If you don't, buy something cheaper.)

Mod parent up. Corsair's explanation sounds reasonable. The keyboard's macro capabilities are prominently advertised. I haven't used it nor their software, but if it has macro recording (i.e. you press a button, tap out your macro, then press a button to save it), it stands to reason that a software bug (or more than one) could cause it to

1. Start recording unexpectedly
2. Start playback unexpectedly

Nothing about it is inherently nefarious.

That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.

I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.

Banks pay a lot, but that doesn't mean they're getting better security.

They spin a good yarn about how trustworthy they are.

Banks talk a big game about security, but given how common it is to see them strictly enforcing poor password rules, only using SMS 2FA, lack of support for hardware keys, etc., it's hard to take them too seriously.

If they aren't interested in politics right now, then you have an opportunity to interest them in your side. And young people are much more impressionable.

The plural of anecdote is not data, but I know many people who have Prime and are barely even aware that Prime Video exists. Certainly few people seem to ever talk about it, whereas they often talk about whatever Netflix show they're watching.

The pitch seems a little different, since the episodes build toward a specific climax. A traditional, non-serial show, by contrast, has largely disconnected episodes. But you're right—this doesn't sound particularly novel, just an advertisement.

Take out the special effects, and it was a very forgettable, very predictable story. Competent enough in execution but not the type of thing you would ever talk about afterward.

I tend to agree I don't see a sequel being as successful as this allegedly needs to be, but I've been wrong about all sorts of ideas that became wildly popular. Presumably they've done their market research. Good luck to them.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who actually read the book. The pro-China stuff is very blatant if not exactly unexpected. It's one of the reasons I decided not to read the entire series (the other reason being I just didn't enjoy the story).

People wax poetic on all the perceived differences between the increasingly ludicrously named switches, but in my experience, if you're a fast typist, you just don't notice it while you're typing. And that's a good thing. If you're constantly distracted by the feeling of your switches, you're probably not getting much work done.

It's easy to get choice paralysis, so for my unsolicited advice: decide whether you want linear or clicky. Get whatever MX linear you can find for the former and a buckling spring (Unicomp) for the latter, and stay away from the absurd (and expensive) rabbit hole that is mechanical keyboards.

(Yes, I omitted "quiet tactile", aka browns. That's because they don't feel particularly tactile while actually working; they're more like gummed-up linears. But if you really want something in this vein, look at Topre Type S keyboards. They're really just fancy rubberdomes, however, and you'll pay a pretty penny.)

There actually is a reproduction project underway, but be warned you'll be spending quite a lot for the keyboard, and you'll likely have to wait a couple of years.

I bought one of the seller's "New Model F" keyboards. It was expensive, and it took me 1.5 years to get it (much less time than some people), but it's exactly as described. I'll likely be buying one of these beamspring repos as well, if only to have a smaller keyboard than my 6850.

It's the latter.

I got my invite yesterday and tried it out. Honestly, it's pretty neat and pretty slick. It's got some cool things going for it on the UI. I'm almost certainly sticking with Safari, but I wish them well.

test @lisperati

I know that it's a tradition to say Apple has "finally" done something, but this one wasn't even anticipated. Going into the event, people expected a new 27" iMac, not for it to disappear altogether.