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How about I just take vsev's place?

//edit: Also - and not that I have any standing to complain - but if gift partners are 1:1, doesn't that remove the "secret" part of Secret Santa?

Too late to sign up? Unfortunately, last year I had two problems: (a) I was an idiot and weighed my (international) package wrong, so it was returned to me (though fortunately I scored a last-minute save when a mechmarket post showed up local to my giftee!) - and (b) I never received anything! Didn'...

Just got the Massdrop email. Congrats!!

Damn globalization. Maple syrup used to be an easy go-to for intercontinental gifts. Same with Mexican food staples. (And both easy to find in California.) Now a quick online search shows them available in every major European city.

Different strokes and all that, but to me the fun of Secret Santa has always been to give a gift and to get a gift to/from people you normally wouldn't, and the ceremony and pleasure of opening those gifts collectively. Generally that involves knowing the recipient ahead of time and not knowing the ...

I didn't realize the original intention was for SS to be double-blind. That's more like a white elephant swap, no?

I figured questions to your recipient could be proxied by the organizer (e.g. 7bit). I'm sure he could create a bot for that :) - but FWIW the link I posted requires no registration and lets the mail redirect last as long as a month. Guess if you send something awesome enough, it will require no qu...

It might remove an shred of mystery, but if anyone has questions for recipients with short post histories (like, say...me :) ), might I suggest a disposable email address ? Actually, perhaps it could *add* to the mystery: carefully taunting them over the next month with false leads, steganographic i...

Okay, so as long as my recipient is Murium or 7bit, I know what I should put on the customs declaration. Unfortunately - and I don't think I need a spoiler alert here - my giftee is in Europe, and is neither 7bit nor Murium. Is there some kind of general consensus on how I should mark the package?

shrubbry wrote: ↑I got the mail, but maybe a conversion from Unicode -> ASCII took place? There are odd characters in it...

...and 7bit comes through with a fix. Unless European languages are *supposed* to contain LaTeX escape chars. You guys do have a lot of weird diacritcs.

I got the mail, but maybe a conversion from Unicode -> ASCII took place? There are odd characters in it...

No. Everyone bitched and whined about it. It's global. Where were you to back me up when I needed you? That's what happens when I step away from activities that cost me money to actually earn some money - everything goes to poop. Anyway, why do you care? Don't you have that whole intercontinental t...

Looks like someone forgot I PM'ed him right at the beginning of the thread...

Anyway, PM sent again. And magic number: 588. (Also, are we splitting cycles into separate Europe/CONUS?)

In. Pm'ed with address (CONUS).

What's a zealio switch? They sure don't look legit Cherry MX to me. Webwit would love that site. It's a shop where every item is a "group buy". Because, you know, you can buy it and like it, sucka! The ZealPC dude is having Gateron produce a line of linear switches and a line of new Cherry-Clear-sh...

FYI: Zealio switch pre-ordering is open from now until September 30

Yep - the Palette stuff does look beautiful - but but doesn't it seem like something that could be easily done on the cheap? Arduino + rotary encoder + enclosure...

Currently no front-print, translucent-character caps exist from any other manufacturer - so the only way you could have a backlit "ninja" keyboard would be through somehow wrangling an SI. See my write-up in the review section from a few months ago.

Oh, I agree completely - both in usability and aesthetics. Just knew there was no shot of getting there with this build. Incidentally, I'm also a fan of thumb keys *below* the spacebar, like this one or this.

That would be wonderful!! With regard to the original question, though: I was pretty sure Bianca couldn't coexist on the same PCB. Was a split spacebar (replacing spacebar stabs with switches) also a no-go?

matt3o: Somewhere in the middle of this thread there were plans to allow a split spacebar - with spaces for Cherry switches taking the place of Cherry stabs. Did that prove unfeasible? I'm assuming going full-scale Bianca is totally incompatible...

...including, perhaps, Zeal's new Gateron "Ergo Clears."

Apologies for terseness. I was going to write a whole thing here and give some juicy details the reddit post doesn't have, but I've been working for 14 hours and need to sleep. I'll update later if time. Otherwise, see you Sunday! :) https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/3d7lsb/socal...

There are a variety of different quietkeys from a variety of different manufacturers. There are traditional rubber domes ones (like I have, it's just like any other RD keyboard), conductive rubber domes (presumably over PCB), and apparently also dome-with-slider designs. Some may or may not feel be...

Noticed when people were asking for TopreBT: Hasu may have been too polite to mention it, but just a reminder that he makes a swappable controller board for the HHKB that's TMK-programmable and USB/bluetooth. For sale @GH.

I remember the QuietKeys as being horrible, mushy boards. After a friend raved, I went and dug one out of the garage...and it was pretty nice! Not amazing, but the top of the press had some good crispness and the bottom wasn't mushy. So what happened? Well, it could be my tastes have changed - when ...

tl;dr: This keyboard is either pretty uninteresting or is exactly what you've been praying for. [pics] The Rapid Si (Rapid i/Stealth Edition) is the only keyboard on the market that's both backlit and front-printed. To some people, those are the two sweetest aesthetics - and it's exciting to finally...