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It looks like you're focusing on prebuilt boards. Most ergo mechs are sold as DIY kits with a fair amount of soldering required, and for keywell boards it's very common for them to be fully handwired.

You can also buy assembled keywell boards, for example from bastardkb and there are a few folks who build dactyls for sale. These options will probably be relatively expensive as they are basically handmade by one person.

Flat ergo boards will be cheaper in general than keywell ones. If they have a tenting option and you use keycaps with a strong sculpt like SA or MT3, that might get you a fair bit of the way towards keywell functionality. But you'll still need to find a good layout for you (which is totally personal).

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It will be somewhat easier to find fully assembled or easy-to-assemble flat ergo boards, like the Keebio Iris or Boardsource Lulu.

If I were getting a tacticool vibes bag today the top of my list would be the Mystery Ranch Blitz 30 or 2-day assault. It's almost certain to fit better since it has an adjustable yoke and comes in two torso sizes, plus MR's harnesses ares just better overall IMO. However, the internal organization on their bags doesn't suit everyone.

Hill People Gear also worth a look, that's probably a bit more BIFL these days.

For a bag with a lot of organization, people really love the Tom Bihn Synik/Synapse, and they have a great reputation for durability.

Edit: I also think Inside Line Equipment bags are criminally underrated among boxy bags with simple but beefy straps. I think for a "onebag" there's a lot to be said for something like their Race Day or Travel Pack. If speed of access/packing isn't a priority, oldschool messenger makers like Re:Load bags also a good option.

I'm referring to literal nazis, it's not a figure of speech.

I'm not a tankie and have no love for the government of China (or any government) but there is an extent to which criticism of China is deployed by xenophobes and nazis as a kind of socially acceptable rallying call or dog whistle. So, I'm all for criticizing China, but remember the allegory of the crustpunk bar

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The tricky bit with docs is that they used to be indestructible, then moved most of their production overseas, which isn't always bad, but in this case it was. The overseas docs have pretty low quality/longevity compared to the old ones.

You can still get "made in UK" docs but there's a price premium. There are some other brands in the same space, including Solovair/Gripfast which I believe are made in the factory that used to make docs

I like Chobani extra creamy oat milk, but I don't do latte art so I don't know how it is for that.

When I switched to my first columnar stagger board, it took me a few weeks ish to get comfortable with it. This varies a lot though from user to user and depending on what sort of stuff they're typing and whether they have any "bad" habits like typing b with their right hand.

The Ploopy is neat, and I find the shape very comfortable for my hand. Programmability is nice, but definitely requires building in QMK in my opinion, firmware setup out of the box doesn't really take advantage of drag-scrolling well, which is the best part of it from a UI standpoint.

Ergonomically, I find that I have to basically give it high heels with very tall stick-on feet, raising the back of the ploopy way up in order to keep my wrist angle neutral when resting my hand on the device.

The bearings are okay, but some folks use a modified shell with "ball transfer units" which will be much nicer to roll on.

I think it's very funny that it uses a USB-B connector. (Certainly better than micro!)

East Bay, my main go-tos:

• Mother Tongue for approachable and easy to brew medium and medium-light roasts (they also medium-dark and dark blends, but I haven't tried those yet)
• Hydrangea for fruit-forward alt process coffees
• Flower Child for ultralight roasts

Other cool roasters:

• Cute Coffee
• Chromatic
• Kaveri
• Queerwave

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Hey! 👋 I was getting stressed out on discord by being in too many discords, so I declared temporary discord bankruptcy on everything but like one group chat. Once my brain has cooled down I will get back into it.

Currently I'm mostly doing something close to Lance Hedrick's current recipe.

It uses a relatively coarse grind and relatively high agitation. It's a little confusing at first but the idea essentially is that instead of doing a brew, tasting it, and adjusting your next brew to be a little better (Hoffmann style), you eyeball the drawdown rate and add more or less agitation depending on the speed. So instead of dialing entirely between brews, you are doing some correction on the fly during the brew itself, leading to fewer bad cups of coffee.