u/the__poseidon

I was working at a coworking space. most of my time, but recently they announced they’re shutting down the location. Today is actually the last day. I bought the desk from them for $250, but then ended up getting all these other items I needed, including monitors and monitor stand and monitor arm and MacBook stand. Overall, I’m really happy with my setup. Just thought I’d share.

I was working at a coworking space. most of my time, but recently they announced they’re shutting down the location. Today is actually the last day. I bought the desk from them for $250, but then ended up getting all these other items I needed, including monitors and monitor stand and monitor arm and MacBook stand. Overall, I’m really happy with my setup. Just thought I’d share.

Recently bought this desk for my co-working space that is closing down. $250 for the desk. Then I realize I also need monitors and a monitor stand, as well as a. Anyway, my $250 desk easily turn into a $800 project, which took me a couple of weeks to assemble as it is hard to get things here in Hawaii

Full disclosure: I've only been into mechanical keyboards for about six months, so take this with a grain of salt.

My entry point was a pair of Epomaker Galaxy 100 Lites - bought the second one as a placeholder while waiting on this Evo. In that time I've done the usual new-hobbyist spiral: switch tester, sample packs, tape mods, spring swaps, keycap experiments. Landed on Cherry double-shot PBT for caps, and I gravitate toward Retro Sakuras, BSUN Taro/Sweet Potato, and occasionally Durock Ice Kings. So I'm not completely flying blind here.

Unpacked the Evo a couple nights ago and have been daily driving it since. Honest reaction: I don't get the hype. It doesn't feel meaningfully better than my Epomaker - even stock, with Marble White Fekers. Yes, it's heavier, the aluminum looks great, and the build quality is obviously there. But is that worth $169 vs. the $83 I paid for the Epomaker? I genuinely can't justify it.

I'll keep it - no regrets on that. But if you're on the fence and already have a solid budget board you've modded to your taste, don't expect a revelation.

Full disclosure: I've only been into mechanical keyboards for about six months, so take this with a grain of salt.

My entry point was a pair of Epomaker Galaxy 100 Lites - bought the second one as a placeholder while waiting on this Evo. In that time I've done the usual new-hobbyist spiral: switch tester, sample packs, tape mods, spring swaps, keycap experiments. Landed on Cherry double-shot PBT for caps, and I gravitate toward Retro Selinas, BSUN Taro/Sweet Potato, and occasionally Durock Ice Kings. So I'm not completely flying blind here.

Unpacked the Evo a couple nights ago and have been daily driving it since. Honest reaction: I don't get the hype. It doesn't feel meaningfully better than my Epomaker - even stock, with Marble White Fekers. Yes, it's heavier, the aluminum looks great, and the build quality is obviously there. But is that worth $169 vs. the $83 I paid for the Epomaker? I genuinely can't justify it.

I'll keep it - no regrets on that. But if you're on the fence and already have a solid budget board you've modded to your taste, don't expect a revelation.

I live in Hawaii but was in Dallas recently, and I’d been reading that Micro Center sometimes has great open-box deals. I stopped by the store and found this open-box for $2,267.

It’s the new M5 Pro (18-core chip) with 48GB RAM and so it should be a pretty major jump from my 2021 M1 Pro.

I had a MacBook Pro M1 Pro for the last 4.5 years and it served me extremely well running my small businesses. Honestly, it’s still running strong. The only time I really started noticing limitations was after getting heavily into running and experimenting with LLMs. Even though I mostly run Claude through a VPS and not running LLMs due to heavy resource use, the workload. Honestly, I dont think I need to upgrade for my needs 95% of the time my M1 Pro is doing what I need it to do. Im mostly using SaaS and 15 tabs open at a time with Claude running via CLI.