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As other people mentioned, an Osprey. I recently gave away an old shoulder bag by them that I got back in the early 2000s. That’s 20 years ago! Still works, just didn’t need that kind of bag any more. Currently have one of their newer Arcane bags, and so far, it’s been promising after a year.

Technically, it’s easier, because there were 0 in the past. :P But yes, the variety of choice is dazzling!

Late to this, but you can’t call tactiles “brown” anymore; ever since Cherry’s patent expired some 10 years ago the market has exploded. Right now I’m typing on a franken tester board with some 30 tactiles of different make and model, and I barely have scratched 20% of the tactile switches available on the market, by my estimation.

In addition to a scale, a vacuum jar. Storing your coffee right helps. With the right container, even ground coffee will last a month.

Just to add, having the timer on the scale is very handy. I got a cheap Chinese-made one for like US$2.

1. You should look at sample images online, prefably with semi-consistent subjects. Some people don’t like Sony’s JPEGs, for example.
2. This is something you have to find out for yourself; eg I cannot stand using Canon cameras in general, Sonys have their annoyances. Love Nikon, Fujifilm and Panasonics. If there’s a store or a rental service I suggest you use those to spend some time with the camera.
3. Despite what some might say, all cameras can do decent in low-light. The ones with bigger sensors just do better than decent. You’re off to a good start with your choice of lens too, picking a versatile bright zoom.
4. Cameras can last a long-time if they’re not abused (too much). There are still plastic fantastics from the film era that are still working (which have more moving parts and thus more places that can fail).

What are the keyboards she is using now? Did she express any preferences about them? What typewriter is she using?

Budget and location might make things a little tight, HMRC really loves collecting their due.

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It’s just trends/fashion, I don’t get why algorithms are to blame? I read the whole long ass article but I don’t really find a compelling argument. It’s just how trends work. The algorithms of now speed it up, but it’s no different from anything in this connected day and age; I used to only hear of new PC announcements in a month (when the next issue of PC Magazine hit my mail box), now I can get it within the minute of announcement.

Yea, the moment hotswap and a degree of customisability is called for, a lot of the mainstream “niceties” tend to be dropped.

Points 1, 2 and 3 are practically non-existent in the hobbyist mechanical keyboard space. You might get a few 100% boards but open floating design is not favoured, and passthrough is considered unnecessary.

It’s going to be loud regardless, especially since the Navies have a thicker bar AND you’ll be using more force to get past it and the heavier spring.

And yes, they’re heavy. I like heavy switches (really hate anything less than 50g), but even those were a little tiring to type on the first time. You will need to get used to typing on them.

Will echo the other suggestion made, get a tester pack first.

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Oh! They’re the ways you can configure a key to interact with layers! The hover usually is quite self-explanatory. But yes, might want to do a search if some of them are not clear.

There’s actually a lot you can do; If you ever feel like VIA can’t let you do something, you can actually program strings directly with the “Any” key in the “Special” category. That lets you directly enter QMK keycodes, and you can set up pretty nifty functions if you want to. That’s definitely a long read or video for another time though.

Keychron right? There should be four layers. 0 and 1 are for when the keyboard is set to Mac, 2 and 3 when it is set to Windows.

There is one thing I don’t understand on VIA, layers where when you hover over a button it explains it to you.

Eh, what do you mean? And isn’t that good?

The 4 icons are just for you to customise with.

Double legends are meaningless on a fully programmable keyboard. Just use VIA and take a screenshot of your layers if you’re worried about forgetting.

Keycaps are easy, anything MX compatible (which is like most of them) will work. Since the V6 is a 100% it’s even easier, since it’s a standard layout and you don’t need to look for extended keycap sets that have keys to correspond to certain layout types.

Switches you need to just bite the bullet every now and then. A tester only will get you so far. Expect to make a few regretful purchases from time to time.

I’m late to this, but really, for questions like these, you really need to state two things:

1. Roughly where you live. If I recommend something from Indonesia, and you live in the UK, that’s not going to cut it, is it?
2. A hard number for a budget, cheap has different meanings to different people across income groups. Cheap to me as broke student in my 20s is different from me as a working adult in my 40s.

Eh, no biggie, though just means you’re just doing standard drip coffee!