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The C128 has a Z80 too ;) I don't reckon there was an SX128 though

There are many ways to be more selective about from whom to accept email. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and various blacklists are among them. They are supposed to make life harder for spammers. But they have also made running a mail server something that few dare to try anymore. Setup is not easy, but getting blacklisted is, and it causes silent delivery failure, and takes days of work to fix.

As a result, most of the email is run by Microsoft and Google. But that didn't stop phishers. They just go after people at smaller companies where security isn't as tight yet, and then they've got valid Microsoft accounts to send from. Liars and Outliers by Schneier is about this sort of dynamic.

As for PKI: If I may assume you to be, or have been, affiliated with an armed service -- Whose property is your CAC? And why did you use a pseudonym to make this post? (I mean to be pithy, not sarcastic.) I think Liars and Outliers by Schneier is all about this sort of thing - but I didn't get much of it read before it was due back at the library.

Uh, I think the Glove80 uses Choc switches, right? For heavy tactile in Choc you would want Burnt Orange. Not sure whether that's an option they provide or what.

Bastard Keyboards -- I've talked with Quentin and he seems like a cool guy. He's an innovator in the use of printed-circuit boards for keywell keyboards. That's important because it makes keywell keyboards much easier and quicker to make, without the huge cost associated with polyimide flexible PCBs. He has high quality standards, too, in my limited experience of his products.

I agree that you should get a keywell keyboard. I haven't read any specific reviews (I'm down the make-your-own rabbit hole instead), but I've seen some sentiment that the Glove80 is better than Kinesis' offerings, and I believe it's more programmable.

And about that last, if you "have to learn how to type again from scratch," you should use a key layout that will work best for you. This may not be a layout that already exists! Colemak and all its variants, for example, put A and R under your left ring and pinky finger. You might want K and J there instead. Or if it's easy to press the key your left ring and pinky are on, but hard to move them to a different key, you might be OK with A and R. Though Dvorak, for example, has left-handed and right-handed variants, I don't think there are any predefined layouts for people who want to type more letters with their right hand than their left -- or to be more likely to need to move fingers on their right hand more often than their left.

Carpalx is a body of work that lets you define the typing effort for each key, and finds an optimum key layout for you. I haven't used it myself - Colemak DH is a sufficiently high local maximum of goodness for me and I haven't gone down that hill to find a higher maximum yet. But the moment you're in may afford you a unique opportunity.

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?typing_effort

If you do end up making one, or having one made, you might be interested in something like the Concertina.

Sam Zeloof has made chips in his garage and posted a whole series about it on Youtube. He bought his silicon wafers, he didn't grow them, and his machines do take up the whole garage - but he did the whole thing himself. Fascinating viewing IMO. I don't know anything about where one would get these garnetty materials you mention, though.

Uh what units does that measure in

i got paul through the flames! but he dies if you feed him too much

mmm yeah somewhere in the 20s. it gets way funnier after wordle :D

I haven't built a musical keyboard, but I've taken apart a home (electric) organ or two. I hear that one among the many options you have if a modern pipe organ is being made for you, is different strengths of magnets that initially impede your keypresses, like the pneumatic valves would if it weren't electronically controlled; as well as different woods for your keys. There's a channel on YouTube to which I'm subscribed where the guy is building his own tiny pipe organ (like, 30 pipes, the size of a large suitcase).

The hexagonal key layout mentioned by others, and also often seen on one side of an accordion, is one among several alternative musical keyboard layouts: the white and black keys are sort of a musical QWERTY. Not the best, but the largest installed base, the most likely for new people to learn, and the most likely to be attached to an arbitrary keyboard instrument you come upon.

I have a Folger Tech i3 2020, so named because its frame is made from 20x20mm aluminum extrusion. No bed levelling, no quiet steppers, no all metal hot end, five years old. I've added a part cooling fan whose nozzle I printed off Thingiverse, a janky ring of 24v LED lights, and a cheapo 0.6mm nozzle. Sometimes I have to print part of the first layer a couple of times and move the z end stop to get it right. It takes about 10 minutes every couple of months, so not a big deal.

I say this not to recommend this printer to you today, but to say that even if you don't manage to get perfect prints out of the box, the fiddling it takes to get what you want is probably not that bad.

Besides keyboards, and an occasional toy car or something, I've printed a replacement shade for a little fluorescent kitchen light, an adapter to fit a lampshade that was on sale to a lamp that was on sale, a fancy toilet paper spool, and a custom wrench to try to remove my washing machine's tub. Oh and brackets that hold my cell phone, so I can use my ergo keyboard to type at a terminal on my phone, broadcast my pirate signal, and hack into the Matrix, while riding the bus. :)

https://github.com/alonswartz/trackpoint is one data point. I don't know where exactly you're supposed to get the trackpoint module.

There are all sorts of Corne variants, as I recall, where circular trackpads are added. Some Dactyl Manuform forks add a trackball.