quantensalat , vor 14 Tagen

@foone It would make for a terribly heavy keyboard

Reynardo , vor 14 Tagen

@foone you can? Ooooh. (I've got a Uranium glass jug and an ionising smoke detector to go with my Geiger counter to show my students what radioactivity is. Hmmmm. time to go to Amazon methinks).

SvenGeier , vor 14 Tagen

@foone I've had this idea for a long time so now I'm giving it to you in the hopes that someone less lazy than me might actually bring it to life: a one-button keyboard that emits the character corresponding to the ASCII code of the current outside temperature. You have to get up in the cooler parts of the day to type an "A", most of the capital letters are available year-round in southern California, if you want lower case letters you'll have to go to Arizona.

This is a Good Ideaᵀᴹ.

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

@SvenGeier oh hey! I played with that sort of idea but I ran into some accuracy problems

jrrickerson , vor 14 Tagen

@foone Ooh, individually lit key caps without LEDs? What could go wrong?

munin , vor 14 Tagen

@foone

you'll be fine if you use a hex or phillips head and stay away from the slotin kind

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

@munin ooh, I could make a demon-core based keyboard!

dko , vor 14 Tagen

@foone @munin ⚠️ https://booth.pm/ja/items/4290775

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

@dko @munin wow!

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

I wasn't planning to make a radioactive keyboard! I was looking for places to buy the comparatively safe thermite, and it turns out it's the same company that sells both.
I guess they specialize in Bad Ideas

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

I mean, I guess so do I

johnaldis , vor 14 Tagen

@foone At the point where you’re tooting the words “comparatively safe thermite” as justification for your plans… yeah.

abrasive , vor 14 Tagen

@foone I don't suppose they are called ACME

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

@abrasive better! they're called United Nuclear

ospalh , vor 14 Tagen

@foone
goes there
is fascinated by their products
falls into a rabbit hole

Did you know there are different amounts of europium in different moon rocks?

azonenberg , vor 14 Tagen

@foone I mean honestly uranium glass is probably better to put in a keyboard than thermite so...

realtime , vor 14 Tagen

@foone are they still selling those anti 5g things that are made from that plastic that constantly sheads thorium particles?

maybe someone should design a thorium filled 3d printer filament

flyingsaceur , vor 14 Tagen

@foone Tritium illuminated key caps?

squish , vor 14 Tagen

@foone ok, but Schrodinger's keyboard is obviously necessary for fuzzing a PS/2 port. For pen testing of course.

tsturm , vor 14 Tagen

@foone The really powerful keyboards need control rods between the key rows to avoid super-criticality.

baralheia , vor 14 Tagen

@foone is it UN? I bet it's UN. (also holy shit I had no idea they were still in business lmao)

foone OP , vor 14 Tagen

@baralheia it sure is!

baralheia , vor 14 Tagen

@foone Wheeeeeee yeah talk about Bad Idea Central™ lol... And a lot of their stuff is overpriced to boot haha. But credit where it's due, they got a lot of young adults interested in chemistry and nuclear engineering and other sciences over the years, and that translated into careers for many too. And I won't lie, that's pretty cool.

duffadash , vor 14 Tagen

@foone Hacking with Ramzi, eh?

michaelcoyote , vor 12 Tagen

@foone I would have known this was a foone post from the words:

"I wasn't planning to make a radioactive keyboard"

and

"...comparatively safe thermite"