Recent Posts

Pages: « 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 »
31
Interest Checks / Re: [IC] RF—8X by keyhub - A minimalist elegant housing for the Realforce R1 & R2
« Last post by keekeen on Sun, 22 March 2026, 03:23:38 »
Hey all, I’d like to share details on the current project status and our next steps.

The second batch of prototypes was overall satisfactory, but not without some hiccups. Mainly involving manufacturing defects and minor design improvements. We have aligned on the remedies with the manufacturer now that they have returned from their Chinese New Year break. So what has changed since the initial IC:
  • Persistent anodization defects on the darker shades, specifically affecting our Graphite colorway. The manufacturer informed us that because of the board's size, achieving a perfect finish is difficult. As quality is our priority, we are dropping Graphite and replacing it with a Robin Egg Blue colorway.
  • The clear PC was significantly more blue than our first prototype and other boards on the market. We have decided to standardize a set of dyed PC colorways (piss yellow, volcano orange, robin egg blue) that are complementary to their anodized aluminum counterparts.
  • The Polycarbonate bottom option will be dropped for the GB due to added manufacturing complexity.
  • Helical threaded inserts were missed in the second PC prototype. Fortunately, these were tested successfully in the first batch. The manufacturer has acknowledged the mistake, and we will provide QC documentation in Chinese to prevent this oversight in the future.
  • Design improvement: a larger cutout at the DB will be implemented for easier JST cable access.
Next, discussions with potential vendors, a build steam planning, and more irl photos are ongoing. Stay tuned!!

Meanwhile, here are some renderings on the updated colorways  :)





32
Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by noisyturtle on Sun, 22 March 2026, 00:53:30 »
Healing the planet would take a Global effort from every single nation in-tandem, and that will never ever happen.
Earth was doomed from the moment we learned to make tools.
We cannot save this wreck, only work to prolong it. It'll just get worse exponentially, tale end of Gen X in 45-65 years things will accelerate too fast to stop it.
Era of Greed
33
Off Topic / Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 22 March 2026, 00:26:38 »
Quote from: Findecanor on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:09:33
Frieren is the best anime to have been released in the last couple years, IMHO.

Season 2 is ongoing. Not much else has caught my interest in this season's anime lineup. There's been mostly sequels to older franchises, masturbatory power fantasies, cuteness overload, more isekai and action fantasy but ... not many interesting stories.
Besides, Frieren, The Holy Grail of Eris has been the series I've enjoyed the most.

Yea, couple episodes in, Frieren is gud'.

A slow appetent mosaic reflecting the intangible elements of friendship.

An almost entirely bitter experience for the audience as it depicts what we've all surrendered to live in expensive isolation cages.
34
Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 22 March 2026, 00:17:35 »
Quote from: Findecanor on Sun, 22 March 2026, 00:02:45
Not 100%, no. but that is no reason for not striving to do as much renewable as possible.
Everything counts.

Perhaps Tp4 did not frame it correctly.

If the idea is the-Existing concept of what an economy is/does, the growth model, going Electric will put us in the same hole.

Electric transport is like cough medicine for the flu.  It may make some of the symptoms more bearable, but it Does-Not at all, cure, the underlying disease.


The disease in man is their cancerous addiction to hedonism powered by ENERGY.   Pleasure absent Purpose.

Virtually the entirety of our economy is like this.


Moving 2 Tons of steel/aluminum/plastic to move 1 person somewhere to somewhere is incredibly wasteful.

The momentum in the system is already like this,  even to maintain it AS IS, is bringing the world to a crippling halt.


We're fighting a WAR over oil and n-gas RIGHT NOW.  It's about to go nv(lrr.


AND YET,  what's on most people's minds,  HOW to balance their portfolio, some weapn stonks, some gold, gotta hedge fam!!



These stupid monkeys making money they won't get to spend on a dead planet.


We must get rid of this renewable idea. It's a lie. By calling it renewable, we maintain the false narrative that allows continued Extraction and Waste.
35
Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by Findecanor on Sun, 22 March 2026, 00:02:45 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:34:47
An electric car does NOT RUN ON ELECTRICITY, if we look at the totality of its making.
That is very true, and often overlooked.

The production of an electric car typically requires more emissions than producing a fossil fuel-driven car.
It would have to be driven for a sufficient amount of miles before its total emissions, direct and indirect,
become lower than the total amount of what a fossil car would have caused.

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:34:47
GREEN / Renewable,  short of some Alien-Tech, is pure fantasy.
Not 100%, no. but that is no reason for not striving to do as much renewable and recycled as possible.
Everything counts.

I suspect Europe is better at recycling metals and minerals than the US. For example, it has taken EU regulation to make US companies to make it easier to remove / replace batteries in devices: but the reason for that is to make it possible to recycle them because the minerals in them would otherwise have to be imported when making new ones.
36
Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by Findecanor on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:39:27 »
Quote from: noisyturtle on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:11:34
Trump just has absolutely zero decorum, what a ****ing piece of **** human. How can anyone take him seriously?
I find it weird that not more American people have seen that earlier.
But I suppose it is in human nature to see only what they want to see and to choose to ignore the rest. I suspect that is  partly grounded in a survival mechanism necessary to be able to survive wars and hardships emotionally.

We're suffering from the same problem over here in my country: the current government consists of narcissistic psychopaths but the general public chose not to see it. Our politicians have enough intelligence to wrap their words of disdain more carefully, so it isn't generally apparent if you're consuming news only passively.
37
Group Buys and Preorders / Re: [GB] GMK Noel R2 (Round 2) | Dec 26 - Jan 26
« Last post by dvorcol on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:36:19 »




More


<-- orders only

38
Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:34:47 »
Quote from: Findecanor on Sat, 21 March 2026, 22:56:29
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 21 March 2026, 16:37:55
Steel, Aluminum, Copper, Glass, Organic film, Plastic, Asphalt, TIRES, none can be produced with ELECTRICAL power alone.
Alone no, but it is a question of scale.

• There is an electric steel plant under construction in northern Sweden now. The power is hydroelectric. It can be done.
• Aluminium is made through electrolysis, so aluminium plants tend to be located where there is cheap electricity.

Plastics (soft "organic film" and other), and asphalt are oil product ... eh.
The primary component of tires is organic rubber: from the sap of the rubber tree. The world's rubber trees are under threat from diseases.

If you're talking about electric arc furnace,  it still requires coking coal.   Outside of that, you must start thinking about the WHOLE CHAIN of events.

The ORE is not obtained by electric. The mining, Transport, Grinding, Chemical leeching, etc etc, Almost all diesel/ n-gas powered.

An electric car does NOT RUN ON ELECTRICITY, if we look at the totality of its making.


We are no where close to closing the loop.

This also doesn't even begin to take into account MINERALS.


We're rapidly running out of things like copper.  10-Million tons shortfall as early as 2040.

We don't even have enough copper to complete a HYPOTHETICAL 1st generation replacement for fossil energy.


Think about how much material is required for a major infrastructure overhaul.


GREEN / Renewable,  short of some Alien-Tech, is pure fantasy.
39
Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by noisyturtle on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:11:34 »
Trump just has absolutely zero decorum, what a ****ing piece of **** human. How can anyone take him seriously?
40
Off Topic / Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Last post by Findecanor on Sat, 21 March 2026, 23:09:33 »
Frieren is the best anime to have been released in the last couple years, IMHO.

Season 2 is ongoing. Not much else has caught my interest in this season's anime lineup. There's been mostly sequels to older franchises, masturbatory power fantasies, cuteness overload, more isekai and action fantasy but ... not many interesting stories.
Besides, Frieren, The Holy Grail of Eris has been the series I've enjoyed the most.
Pages: « 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 »