If you read closely, you see that when I said “This is the only mechanical keyboard I have any interest in” I meant the Kira, because it uses a similar layout to the non-mechanical keyboard (pictured) that I currently use.

This is the only mechanical keyboard I have any interest in, mainly because of its superlative-yet-uncommon key layout. I currently use Microsoft’s Designer Keyboard, which has a very similar layout, and I love the compactness and efficiency of it.

Yes, the “nothing matters, so you might as well not matter, either” argument.

As someone who spent a lot of time as a teenager trying to LCARS-ify my Windows PC, I can confirm that, no, LCARS is not remotely usable as a user interface paradigm for any purpose. there arn’t enough visual rules for interactable or layout elements (there are no subheader styles!), and the elements that do exist are…

Sure, but if you buy an Xbox, you have a Xbox, which is a thing of tangible value.

Why is it scary? That’s $20k spread out over a lifetime.

Is that money well spent?

But it is not pointless to kristin.

that saying you can save money by not buying lottery tickets is functionally equipmentuvalent to saying using your discretionary income on anything you find enjoyable is pointless.

That’s fair... there is indeed one person in 88 quadrillion for whom my advice would be bad.

Or you could not get addicted to either.

Why is spending $100 on going to the opera or a broadway musical or sporting event inherently better than spending $100 on a trip to a casino? They’re all just forms of entertainment.

And I absolutely, positively, understand the math.

There are a million ways to save money.Not buying lottery tickets is no better or worse than most of them

Yeah, like all fake interfaces, there was always enough information on them to imply a deeper function to it. I haven’t heard that First Contact commentaty, but I’ve read stories about some of the actors who had regular “stations” creating their own shorthand for repeated functions (like firing weapons, launching…

The only article that I want to see on Lifehacker about the lottery is “Life Hack: Save Money by Not Ever Buying Lottery Tickets”

LCARS is great preciously because it’s not functional. It’s a interface designed to work on television, not reality.

Yeah, it’s certainly possible that many of the characters will be brought back earlier in the film to join the fight, or rather, the plot.

It doesn’t often fit into a paragraph of a review comfortably, but man I love Tormund Giantsbane.