A recent post made by @freemo and his split keyboard (https://mastodon.nl/@freemo@qoto.org/111377477128629607) triggered me to look into Split mechanical keyboards. I am currently fielding the *takes a deep breath* Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge RGB (https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/edge/), and it is great for me. Near perfect. But not perfect yet.
So I am wondering if I should work as-is with it, or start a new fun hobby of creating new keyboards that fit my specifications. ๐ค
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@ligthert please do tag me and let me know how you like whatever you end up using.
@freemo I will keep you posted. Hardware fabrication is new to me, so maybe this is nice new hobby to throw money against. ;-)
@ligthert It can be fun to learn to solder, and i assure you it gets a lot easier.. but if it is your very first time soldering I wouldnt jump right to a keyboard to be honest... even one made to be easy to solder will be too easy for you to ruin and cost you 100$... practice on cheap throwaway projects first.
@freemo Soldering is not really the issue. Designing the board is. =)
@freemo If you are in Hollandistan in April. ClackyCon is a keyboard conference in Den Haag around that time. Should be interesting.
@ligthert Sadly with my new company I probably wont be. But that sounds really fun. Would love to try before i buy.
@freemo C'est la vie.
Hope you are having fun with your new company. ๐
@ligthert Thanks. A lot of work (doing 13 hour days), but also very rewarding. It also involves a lot of mentorship on my part and that alone can be rewarding just to teach others things.
@freemo I was just going to do Data Analysis but couldn't get the initial hardware. People were promising six figures of investment but COVID hit.
20 years? Wow that's quite some time. With your background I'm pretty certain that it's fun work.
COVID destroyed a lot of startups sadly. That said 6 figures is a bit hard to start a company off of unless its at the higher end of that, or unless its an idea you think you could totally do yourself including marketing and sales, which isnt very common.
Its certainly fun. But yea the company itself was technically founded in 2007 but was just me working for free to build it up since then. The tech was from a few years earlier already too.
@freemo I had the location, armed security, potential customers and an open minded attitude. Employees would have been Mathematicians who specialized in the computational side of Mathematics. I worked with them pen testing or hacking or in malware analysis previously. There were a few sub levels of operations including outsourced computational workloads, information analysis and more specialized tasks. Filtered power, noise isolation from the rest of the business and waste heat securely dissipated. So yes we were prepared for "Data Analysis" and to this day I haven't seen any services that could rival it.
It's not difficult to make money. The only difficulty is making money legally and morally.
If you'd like to read more about it, I could reveal more. Maybe part of the plan could prove lucrative enough and live on. The reason why the business failed is because it failed to launch. I couldn't get the minimal hardware which consisted of approximately 1200ish threads of native x86-64.
Shame it didnt work out for you then, maybe make another go?
I would say money is pretty easy to make legally and morally too. Most, almost every one, has very poor money habits. So generally most people are looking for ways to waste their money and dont even realize it. Honestly if money was a bit harder to make we might have a healthier economy because then people would have to actually provide services of value.
Im always happy to hear new ideas, but keep in mind if i like it I would steal it, so if you dont want someone to steal it you shouldnt share it (or at least get an NDA first). But yes if you publicly expose your idea ill listen and see if i get any inspiration from it, sure.
@AmpBenzScientist Obviously im not saying very much. But yea lots of fun, I have high hopes. I've been working on AGI for 20 years now and I think we are finally at the door step.