I'm playing games like League of Legends and The Secret World at 2560×1440@60Hz. My 650 Ti Boost seems to be struggling with TSW, but there doesn't seem to be a good upgrade path for around the same price point ($150-ish when I bought it, could probably swing $200 currently), considering I'm planning on using multiple…

I picked an Xbox One controller because it fits my hands better. Besides, I don't really mind fiddly setup as long as it works fine afterward, and that's been the case for me. I mostly use the controller with my computer anyway, and I've had zero problems there, so I suppose it balances out for me in the end.

I set up my Nexus 7 (2013) with my Xbox One controller the other day, which was a bit of a task until I figured out what was going on. I needed this app so that my tablet would recognize the controller at all, and then I used it to make sure that all the buttons were bound properly. I was playing games with RetroArch…

I just bought my tester from MaxKeyboards so I wouldn't have to wait. It was like $22 with shipping anyway. I did buy Vortex's Cherry-profile side-printed PBT keycaps, though, and those took around 3-4 weeks I think to get to me. Definitely worth the wait, but man was I looking forward to them the whole time.

Massdrop is great; I've successfully purchased several things there (keycaps, fountain pen, notebooks, jacket), and the prices are great. Sometimes they have products that are simply unavailable otherwise.

This is why I'm leaving grad school after finishing my M.A., despite my original intention being a Ph.D. There's also the part where I absolutely hate grad school, but still! Despite how much I dislike it, though, I'm not sure that I wouldn't go if I could do it all over again, since I've learned a lot about myself…

I use my Nexus 7 (2013) a fair bit. I carry it with me nearly everywhere; when I'm at school or in my apartment but not at my desk, I use it to check social media, read emails, go through RSS feeds with Feedly, listen to music, sometimes watch League of Legends streamers via Twitch, and things like that. General…

You could also go even cheaper and live in Germantown (where I grew up). Just make sure you're on the correct side of the train tracks.

I think it's the other way around. It's illegal to be refused service unless you're gay; in the case of being gay, it's legal discrimination.

It's more like advice that was omitted, for me. I love teaching and have for years, and in undergrad I'd decided that I was going to get my Ph.D. and become a professor. Simple enough, right? I love teaching even more now, but I fucking hate grad school. No one gave me an accurate picture of what it's like; no one…

A lot of people are lied to by their universities in some form or another (professors who don't know what the job market is like, for example) and are told that they can get a good job regardless of their undergraduate major, or that they can get a job in their field doing what they love. I found out the hard way that…

One of my professors often says "Manche Probleme lösen sich von alleine; man darf sie bloß nicht dabei stören." (roughly translated: "Some problems solve themselves; one just isn't allowed to disturb them in the process.")

Check out reddit's /r/MechanicalKeyboards subreddit. There's a ton of information there, especially in the wiki in their sidebar, about all kinds of different mechanical keyboards, tenkeyless and otherwise.

$180 isn't really that crazy of a price in the world of mechanical keyboards, especially once you get into Topre territory. It's certainly more expensive than your run-of-the-mill Das Keyboard, but the NovaTouch is using Topres with Cherry MX-compatible stems so that you can actually replace the keycaps on it ever.

I use X-plore File Explorer. It can integrate with a bunch of different cloud storage accounts, FTP servers, etc. and handles .zip files. It's also got a dual-pane interface, which can be really handy at times.

WinSplit Revolution does this, and I think it's free, or at least the version I've got is. I just checked, though, and it's apparently it's no longer being actively developed, and the replacement they're advertising is paid (with a free trial). Boo.

That makes sense to some extent, and maybe my own experience is different from the norm, but in my area it seems really difficult to find work outside of a warehouse without a degree with a specific application (e.g. computer science, accounting, etc.), so trying to estimate a job would start off with a pretty shaky…

And how should people with no meaningful workforce experience calculate these things? For example someone finishing their undergraduate degree and considering applying for grad school, not having held more than a summer job before. You can't really make any calculations based on your current earnings, since there…

The sound of the keyboard depends largely on how you type, though the switch has some effect. Blues and greens make a loud, high click when actuated; whites make a softer click. Browns make no click, but you can hear—ever so slightly—the friction when you make it over the bump; clears make this more obvious because…

The sound of the keyboard depends largely on how you type, though the switch has some effect. Blues and greens make…

From everything I've seen, read, etc. they're not "homegrown" at all. They're just rebranded Kailh switches, which are a Cherry MX-knockoff. It's yet to be seen whether Kailh switches are of similar quality to Cherry MX because they haven't been around long enough to really tell.

From everything I've seen, read, etc. they're not "homegrown" at all. They're just rebranded Kailh switches, which…