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travelingthief · 2 years

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Hermes Devotional Post!

Not a complete list of course, so feel free to add on!

Travel

Dedicated travel playlist for Hermes

Mindful packing for trips

Road-trips/camping

Trying new modes of travel

Let Him pick the music

Travel by boat/kayak/canoe

Learn to roller skate, skateboard, or longboard

Learn to surf

Go for a bike ride

Find ways to save on gas (like rewards cards)

Misc.

Draw sigils on shoes

Leave coin offerings at the location you start your travels

Travel size portable altar

Give people in need bus fare

Go for a run

Picking up coins you find/leaving coins for others

Donating to homeless shelters

Car

Keep up on car maintenance (especially in the wintertime)

Courteous driving (Letting people out, stopping for pedestrians, using your blinker)

Clean snow off other drivers’ cars

Keep your car clean

Giving rides to others

Stopping for those that need help on the side of the road

Invite Him to ride in the passenger seat

Let Him pick the music

International

Get a passport!

Keeping up on foreign affairs

Decorate your passport

See the world!

Make a travel board/destination list

Learn about places you wanna go

Try foreign foods

Nature

Take a nature walk! (Or just a walk around the block)

Dedicate your hiking boots/running shoes to him

Find a spot in nature to talk to Him

Learn about birds in your area and where they come from and go.

Learn how animals communicate (great alongside Artemis)

Communication

Write letters to friends

Send postcards/greeting cards

Call a friend or relative

Reread messages/emails before sending

Communicate your thoughts and feelings in your relationships

Practice keyboarding

Establish and enforce your boundaries

Can and string telephones

Keep secrets entrusted to you

Support your local post office

Collect stamps/postcards

Dedicate your phone/laptop to Him

Have a penpal

Language

Keep a journal

Learn a new language/Revisit the language you started learning and then neglected

Learn ASL

Learn about the evolution of language and how it is always changing

Be mindful of the language you use in daily life and consider how it affects you and those around you

Change your self-talk! Keep it positive!

Voice training (Particularly for trans worshippers)

Thinking before you speak

Learn about older forms of communication (like Morse Code)

Learn braille

Go to the library and practice reading books in a foreign language (Great to do alongside Athena)

Practice writing (great to do alongside Apollo)

Learn about the elements of writing, like allegory and metaphors (alongside Apollo)

Trickery and luck

Play pranks (remember: good pranks cause confusion, not harm)

Learn magic tricks

Buy scratch offs/play the lottery

Understand how gambling addictions affect people

Dice and card games

Learn about good luck charms/Make your own

Night at the casino

Learn about superstitions

Games like billiards or darts

Arcade/video games/carnival games

Make small/friendly bets

Poker nights!

Game of horseshoes

Learn parlor games

Miscellaneous

Smoke a bowl with Him! (If your relationship is like that)

Offer him coffee and energy drinks

Trail mix, candy, road-trip snacks,

Learn a good joke

Write/perform stand up comedy

Related Jobs

Mail carriers and sorters

Retail workers (Hermes of Merchants & Commerce)

Canvassers

Editors, journalists, and writers

Newspaper routes

Bank tellers

Carnies

Casino workers

Gas station attendants

Mechanics

Where I Acknowledge Him

Gas stations

Mail carriers/trucks

Worn-looking travelers (thinking of the eye-patched man lounging on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette. Hope to be that content one day)

Gumball machines give me his vibe

Arcade games, pinball machines, and air hockey

Flea markets/garage sales

Simple Acts to Devote to Him

Checking your mail

Checking email/voicemail

Buying stamps

Flipping a coin

Dice divination

Charm casting

Collections

Rocks

Coins/money

Good luck charms

Pens/writing utensils

Playing cards

Dice (Looking at you D&D players)

Offerings

Orange peels

Trail mix/peanuts

Road-trip snacks

Rocks & pebbles, coins, cool things you find outside

Travel souvenirs

Good luck charms

Energy drinks

Coffee (bonus points for gas station coffee)

Letters/postcards/stamps

Apples/bananas/grapes

Foreign foods

#hermes worship #hermes #mercury #hermes offering #hellenic polytheism #paganism #hellenic pantheon #hermes devotion #hermes god #mercury god #witchblr #greek gods

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gamesception · 10 months

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another new toy

I've been planning to get a number of accessories for my new computer. A new monitor, microphone, maybe one of those vr headsets. But after having it for a few weeks, one thing jumped out as needing an upgrade more urgently than anything else - the stock full size keyboard that came with it was just too large and awkward for my little keyboard shelf. I was tempted to go back to the Microsoft Compact Bluetooth keyboard that I was using with the Steam Deck... but I haven't had a "real" computer, like a proper desktop computer in decades, I wanted a "real" keyboard to go with it. Like a proper mechanical keyboard with switches and buttons and such. And so I typed "mechanical keyboard reviews" into a youtube search, blissfully unaware of the rabbit hole I was about to fall down.

If you know then you already know, but it came as a surprise to me that membrane keyboards are so cheap and so easy to mass produce that they've taken over the casual market altogether, forcing mechanical keyboards into the domain of the ⋆ ˚｡⋆˚enthusiast⋆ ˚｡⋆˚

Yes, it seems proper keyboards are a hobby now, not a very cheap one either, and the very last thing I need is another expensive hobby. But every hobby has its more affordable and approachable on ramps, and there are a number of pre-built budget boards occupying this space in world of mechanical keyboards. After watching a few dozen hours of youtube videos and reading a bunch of reviews and tutorials, I eventually settled on the RK84 'limited edition' from Royal Kludge for us$80. Which is like twice what I expected to pay when I in my naive innocence began shopping for keyboards, but I've come to understand that eighty bucks absolutely counts as "budget" in this hobby.

Pricing aside, I really do love my new keyboard. The 75% form factor is ideal, better centering the typing keys and saving a bunch of extra space on my little shelf while maintaining all the functionality of a full size board save only for the number pad. While I do like to use a number pad, I don't mind taking one out when I need it, and the keyboard even has a couple usb ports to easily plug a mouse and separate number pad into, which is super convenient and such an obvious idea that I really have to wonder why all keyboards aren't doubling as USB multi-dongles at this point, with additional usb ports, sd card ports, and so on.

For $10 more than the regular RK84 wireless, the 'limited edition' version has better keycaps, factory-lubed switches, some filler foam in the housing to reduce the hollow sound, an additional layer of sound dampening foam sandwiched between the top plate and the pcb, and a snazzy color scheme, the version I chose combining a black body and mostly black keys with a white top plate that better reflects the swirly rainbow rgb backlighting. The sound is decent, at least to my untrained ear, right out of the box. Which is ideal, as I'd like to avoid the temptation to start modding it.

Because I've gone about as far down this particular rabbit hole as I want to go.

Though I suppose it is tempting to open it up, as some basic tape & band aid mods would be cheap and easy and might improve the sound a bit...

And as much as the pre-lubed yellow linear switches are nice, I did make sure to get a hot-swappable board so it's easy to change them out later if I want to try alternatives, and I do think I might prefer tactile switches for typing...

And the rgb lighting is nice enough that it really is a shame these caps aren't shine though. Yeah, yeah, shine-through is tacky, but Cringe is Dead, and some black top pudding caps might really make the lighting pop. Or maybe a mix of black, white and some accent color to match the color layout that the board came with?

The abyss, it tempts me so...

#mechanical keyboard #keyboards #computers #I really can't be starting any expensive new hobbies #student loan payments start back up in September

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ccohanlon · 2 years

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my generation, part 1

Everything was different when I was a kid.

There was no such thing as a colour television or a personal computer, and the internet hadn’t been invented. If you wanted music, there was the ‘wireless’ or what my grandmother referred to as a gramophone and the rest of us called a record‐player. Discs were vinyl — twenty‐ minute‐a‐side LPs and smaller, three‐minute‐a‐side 45s — and musicians recorded them on two‐ or four‐track reel‐to‐reel tape. The first portable transistor radio was sold in the USA just two months after I was born, but neither eight‐track stereo nor videocassettes were even imagined yet. MTV was launched when I was in my twenties, not long before the first compact disc and the cellular mobile phone. ‘Touch‐tone’ phones with digital keyboards turned up in the USA in the early ’60s. Until then, every phone used slow, rotary dialling. International voice communications were carried only on terrestrial cables, not relayed through satellites, and you still had to ask an operator to connect a call. Facsimile machines �� we hadn’t yet learnt to call them faxes — were the size of a coffee table, with a bit‐rate that transmitted a single typewritten page in ten minutes. Even time was analogue. I was a teenager when the first digital watch, the Pulsar, with its bulky, faux‐gold casing and red LED display, went on sale. There were no microwaves, no pocket calculators and no game consoles (arcade games were large and electro‐mechanical, like pinball machines). Credit cards were for the rich — Diner’s Club, Carte Blanche and American Express — and there were no bank cards, no automatic teller machines, and no point‐of‐sale processors. A bank’s customer records were still kept in a file drawer. Your signature was your main form of ID.

It’s a sure sign that you’re growing old when you start to talk about how things used to be. I’m a Baby Boomer, born almost at the mid‐point of a generation whose first members were conceived just before the end of World War II. We came of age in the ’60s, in time for a few of us to be drafted into the first large‐scale deployment of Australian and American soldiers to Vietnam. We were the first generation to be raised in the suburbs, in the identikit, planned estates of low‐rise apartments and brick‐veneer houses that spread like a blight from the edges of Western cities during the economic boom of the ’50s, and the first whose experience of the world was to be shaped not by direct experience, but by mass media. We were also the first to be immersed in a media‐driven culture of consumerism. Ask a Boomer about their earliest childhood memory, and chances are they’ll tell you about a TV show.

Now we’re the first generation to reach old age within this new millennium — the oldest of us turn sixty this year — and, unlike our parents and grandparents, maybe unlike our own children, we’re reluctant to let go of our youth. If anything, we reject ageing altogether, marketing to ourselves the idea that it’s just a state of mind: with the right science and medicine (preferably synthesised within a viable consumer product), a healthy diet, regular exercise and a little hybrid spirituality, we might be able to live forever.

Don’t trust anyone over thirty. This was the unifying sentiment behind the barricades we built between previous generations and us during the ’60s. It didn’t just inspire the raucous anthems of post‐Beatles rock groups like The Who — People try to put us d-down/ Just because we get around/ Things they do look awful c-c-cold/ I hope I die before I get old — it became the underpinning of a societal upheaval that, in many ways, was as subversive in its bid for power and ideological unity as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution conceived by Mao Zedong in China at about the same time. And yet, by the end of the ’60s, before any of the Boomer generation had actually reached thirty, there were few among us who felt a part of it any more. We had learnt not to trust anybody, and there was a tacit resolve to extend the barricades so that we were insulated from not just the generations that preceded us, but the generations that would follow as well. Popular culture had become synonymous with youth — although it only really became known as youth culture with the launch of MTV, the source of a whole new vernacular for mass media and marketing — and we were determined not to let it be pried from our grasp, even when our youth was done.

Baby Boomers didn’t invent youth culture. We weren’t even the first to recognise the economic and social power that youth had begun to acquire, almost inadvertently, in the decade or so after World War II — how could we have been, we were infants, if we were born at all? The sudden demographic up‐welling that spilled across the USA, Western Europe and Australasia to become a surging counter‐current of new attitudes and ideas was unarguably a singularity of the ’60s, but the source of it was actually a generation whose own youth was muted by the uncertainty and hardships of the Great Depression and World War II. Rock’n’roll, the twentieth century’s great, twisted take on an ancient Bardic tradition, was the invention of the Silent Generation. From the hellfire performers who emerged from the God‐fearing rural ghettoes of the former Confederacy states — among them, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley — to unsettle the consciousness and sexual mores of ’50s America’s too‐tightly wrapped middle class, to the younger, working‐ class, urban Englishmen who hero‐worshipped them and went on to form bands — The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals and, in Australia, The Easybeats — that would eventually overshadow, if not outlast, even Elvis’s unprecedented fame, none was a Baby Boomer.

The ’50s was the first decade in modern history in which youth laid claim to a discrete identity of its own, and instigated a cultural, social, sexual, political and economic revolution that, half a century later, has yet to run its course. Never before had youth gained the upper hand in a developed society — let alone, as it has turned out, held on to it for over half a century. The allure of youth has haunted the middle‐aged of every generation, but you only have to look at movies produced before the ’50s to see that, in the popular imagination, youth used to be what today’s Baby Boomer demographers might describe as ‘aspirationally older’: Bacall chasing Bogart, not the other way around, until James Dean came along. They wanted more than just acceptance by an older generation: they wanted admission to what was presented as its more responsible, rational and coherently structured society — they couldn’t wait to grow up.

Again, the tectonic cultural shifts that disrupted this had nothing to do with Baby Boomers. These began with the frustrated restiveness of the Silent Generation, and the times’ nagging apprehension of an intensifying Cold War between the West and the then Soviet Union, with its sombre, ever‐present nuclear threat of MAD, or mutually assured destruction. There were also fateful connections made, with what was to become a generational inclination to apophenia, between what were, on the surface, a series of apparently disparate events in the decade between 1950 and 1960 — among them, the American witch‐hunts for communist sympathisers between 1950 and 1954, incited by the cynical, ambitious and corrupt Republican senator Joseph McCarthy, the emergence of an Afro‐American civil rights movement, and the defiant Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, inspired by the refusal of a middle‐aged black woman Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a segregated public bus in Alabama, USA, led by a young black minister (another member of the Silent Generation), Martin Luther King, the launch of the first living creature — a dog named Laika — into space in 1957 aboard the Russian Sputnik 4, or the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in England in 1958 (when the oldest Baby Boomers were just adolescents) by the elderly Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz and J.B. Priestley, and the middle‐aged Michael Foot and E.P. Thompson. (This last event prompted the designer and artist Gerald Holton to create the peace symbol — a simple, upside‐down trident based on the semaphore signals for the letters ‘N’ and ‘D’; in a world cluttered by graphics and logos, it endures as one of the 20th centuryʹs most recognisable and best understood icons.

In North America, Western Europe and even Australia, the twenty‐ and thirty-somethings of the Silent Generation were increasingly ready to break with traditional social orders: in their eyes, the so‐called Greatest Generation that went before them had done nothing but drag them through economic chaos and war (albeit in pursuit of the worthy ideal of creating a better world), then marginalise them in the aftermath. Nearly a decade of economic growth spurred by the postwar reconstruction of Europe and the demand it created for North America’s industries — and Australia’s natural resources — had given the Silent Generation economic independence, while prolonged peace and prosperity had encouraged it to invest in leisure, despite the slightly puritanical disapproval of older, more frugal generations. As the 63‐year‐old British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan admonished his fellow Conservatives in a 1957 speech, “Most of our people have never had it so good.”

Maybe we over‐estimate the impact of a twenty‐one‐year‐old Elvis in his first nationally broadcast TV appearance in 1956, but his hyper‐sexual posture and sardonic disdain (mirroring James Dean’s character, Jim Stark, in Nicholas Ray’s now‐ classic film Rebel Without A Cause, released the year before) channelled perfectly the pent‐up desire of the Silent Generation to get up into the face of its elders. Rock’n’roll, James Dean and the reckless swagger of Jack Kerouac’s semi‐fictional Dean Moriarty in the novel On The Road, which was published in 1957 and became an unexpected best‐seller, were the iconic foundations of a very real cultural identity that would gather momentum over the next decade.

It was an identity that Baby Boomers would usurp and, with the unseemly disregard that was to become a generational trait, eventually ‘productize’ and exploit — as they would so many others.

Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP.

Philip Larkin, from Annus Mirabilis

Even in 1967, when Britain’s repressed poet laureate appropriated the title of a seventeenth century John Dryden poem for his own celebration of a year of miracles – in which the commercial introduction of the oral contraceptive pill in the USA coincided with The Beatles’ first hit records there – it was impossible not to be struck by the irony that, as in the Dryden poem, the year in question was as remarkable for its awfulness as for its chronicle of achievements: 1963 was the year 70,000 British supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Aldermarston to London, and American networks shocked their prime‐time TV audiences with footage of a Vietnamese monk setting fire to himself in a Saigon street. It was the year British spy Kim Philby sought asylum in Moscow, and the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to voyage into space aboard Vostok 6. It was the year Betty Friedan published the first feminist best‐seller, The Feminine Mystique, revitalising the American women’s movement, and Richard Neville, Martin Sharp and Richard Walsh published the first issue of the Australian satirical magazine Oz. It was the year Martin Luther King, delivered his most famous speech — I have a dream — to more than a quarter of a million people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. It was the year one of the most popular US Presidents in history, John F. Kennedy, was gunned down in the back seat of an open‐topped limousine during a motorcade through Dealey Plaza, in downtown Dallas, Texas.

It was a year of lost innocence, in every sense. The last of the Silent Generation turned eighteen, not then old enough to vote or to drink, but old enough to be drafted into the military.

It was probably a Baby Boomer who came up with the hoary old line that if you can remember the ’60s, then you weren’t there. The Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers shared their cheap alcohol, cannabis, psilocybin and LSD, but the context of their experience of those years was different. “There was a pissed‐offness about the ’60s that gets covered over by flower power now, but it was an angry time,” American playwright and actor Sam Shepard recalled in an interview with The Guardian this year. Today, the NRMA resorts to nostalgie de la boue to advertise its insurance policies to aging Baby Boomers — speckled monochrome newsreel footage of us dancing in the mud at some long‐forgotten rock festival — but that decade began not with peace and love but with France testing an atomic bomb in the Sahara, the U.S. deploying 3,500 American troops in Vietnam, the Soviet Union shooting down an American U‐2 spy plane, and the East Germans beginning the construction of the Berlin Wall. For the Silent Generation, whose childhood and adolescence had spanned a prolonged economic depression and a world war, the escalation of the Cold War and the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation tainted their perception of the early ’60s and incited a dark, jittery sense of déjà vu.

As it turned out, 1963 was a pivotal year. It marked the beginning of what would become an acute divergence between the attitudes of the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers. By then, the Silent Generation had had enough. When their best‐loved poet – a geeky Jewish kid from Hibbing, Minnesota, Robert Zimmerman, who had reinvented himself as Bob Dylan and earned enough agit‐prop credibility to sing for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the occasion for Martin Luther King’s memorable address – scored a commercial and emotional hit with his generational anthem, The Times They are A-Changin’, the times already had.

By the early ’60s, the Silent Generation had the economic clout — not to mention a determination inspired by a childhood in which their parents’ attention had been distracted, if not lost completely, in the pervasive tensions of the war — to change the existing order of society, to make it different if not necessarily better. If any generation could be said to have given the late twentieth century its social conscience, it was the Silent Generation. Over the next twenty years, its influence on public attitudes to issues such as the proliferation of nuclear arms, the war in Vietnam, civil liberties, racial and sexual equality, gay rights and the abuse of political power (specifically, the Nixon presidency and its collapse under the weight of the Watergate scandal) was so constant and deeply felt that we took it for granted.

When, inevitably, the Silent Generation grew tired of the fight, no other generation stepped up to take its place. Quite the opposite. Nowadays, in a post‐9/11 world, Baby Boomers appear to be almost complicit with the erosion of civil rights, the increasing, covert surveillance of public and virtual spaces, the rejection of accountability by elected governments and the oppressive atmosphere of intolerance that are the antitheses of everything the essential spirit of the ’60s – its vibe – was supposed to be about.

Except it never was.

As the hardened ex‐con played by an aged ’60s icon, Terence Stamp, in the 1999 Steven Soderbergh film The Limey recalls: “Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half‐remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. That was the ’60s. [Pause] No. It wasn’t that either. It was just ’66 and early ’67. That’s all.”

The so‐called Summer Of Love in Haight‐Ashbury, San Francisco in 1967 embodied the hippie ethos of ‘turn on, tune in, and drop out’ — a phrase coined by the psychologist and high‐profile advocate of better living through psycho‐ pharmacology, Timothy Leary — but the idyll was less than the season itself.

In 1966 as a million people gathered along Sydney’s streets to welcome Lyndon Baines Johnson, the first US president to visit the country — they had been exhorted to ‘Make Sydney gay for LBJ’, which, from the perspective of today’s sexually more enlightened age, gave a whole new meaning to Harold Holt’s infamous election slogan, ‘All the way with LBJ’ — 10,000 anti‐war protesters fought a pitched battle with the city’s police, prompting the NSW Premier Rob Askin to order his chauffeur to “drive over the bastards”. Neither peace nor love were to be found anywhere by 1968. When a performance by a rock group, The MC5, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago degenerated into a full‐scale riot, the then mayor of the city, Richard J. Daley authorised “whatever use of force necessary” to quell the situation. Much the same orders had been given (at about the same time) to the commanders of the Warsaw Pact tanks that rolled into Prague in Czechoslovakia, to suppress what Moscow portrayed as an uprising (even it was really just a badly managed attempt at social and economic reform) and, three months earlier, to French riot police, les Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, when over a million striking students and other protesters took to the streets of Paris.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, held on a dairy farm in upstate New York, billed itself as “three days of peace and music” — and it was, probably, for most of the half a million people who turned up there — but four months later, at a festival at Altamont Raceway Park in Northern California, a gang of Hell’s Angels hired as security by the Rolling Stones stomped an eighteen‐year‐old African‐American boy to death in front of the stage.

Whatever illusions we still had about the live‐and‐let‐live, love‐the‐one-you’re‐with attitude of the ’60s were lost or abandoned at the bitter end of the decade. Peace and love were as dead as Wyatt and Billy after the rednecks shot‐gunned them off their motorcycles in the final frames of Easy Rider.

In 1970, a company of National Guards opened fire on 2,000 students protesting the American invasion of Cambodia on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Four students, including two women, were killed and nine were injured. Ten days later, police, supported by the National Guard, opened fire on protesting students at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Two were killed and twelve were injured. It appeared that the emergence of a cohesive, politicised youth counter‐culture had shaken up the status quo enough that the first reaction of those charged with maintaining it — the vestigial guardians of the Great Generation, the unambivalent defenders of the moral high ground and the guys who had fought the last ‘good’ war for us — had been to try, quite literally, to kill it. “They’re worse than the brown‐ shirts and the communist element and also the nightriders and the vigilantes,” the Republican governor of Ohio, James Allen Rhodes, said of the Kent State protesters in a fit of indignant hyperbole at a press conference, just twenty‐four hours before the fatal shootings. “They’re the worst type of people that we harbour...I think that we’re up against the strongest, well‐trained, militant, revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America.”

The oldest of the four Kent State students killed was twenty, the youngest nineteen. Unsurprisingly, two of these Baby Boomers had had no part in the protest at all. They were walking from one lecture to another.

Part one of three.

First published as part of a single essay in Griffith Review, Australia, 2006.

#babyboomers #generationaldivides #the60s #youthculture #rocknroll #culturewar #vietnam #summeroflove #postwar

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roadrevamp · 15 days

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View more details Key Features Full key programmable via macro Anti-ghosting technology for better gaming experience Wire mixed light for an immersive gaming atmosphere Cons Might be bulky for users with smaller desks Customization software may have a learning curve The AULA F2088 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is designed for gamers with large hands, offering a comfortable and responsive typing experience with its full key programmable macro keys and anti-ghosting switches. Its mixed light feature adds to the gaming mood, making it a great addition to any gaming setup. Switch Type Mechanical Lighting Mixed RGB Keycap Material Korea Russian Arabic cap > Gaming Keyboards for Big Hands Finding the right gaming keyboard when you have big hands can be a bit of a challenge. Most keyboards seem to be designed with a one-size-fits-all approach, which doesn’t always work for those with larger hand sizes. The key to comfort and improved gaming performance for people with big hands is in the size of the keys, the spacing between them, and the overall design and ergonomics of the keyboard. In this guide, we’ll highlight some of the best gaming keyboards that cater specifically to gamers with big hands, ensuring a more comfortable and efficient gaming experience. Keyboards with adjustable key sizes and spacing for custom comfort Ergonomic designs that reduce strain during long gaming sessions Models featuring mechanical keys for better tactile feedback and durability Keyboards with programmable macros for enhanced gaming efficiency Options that include backlit keys for late-night gaming sessions It’s important to try out different keyboards to find what works best for your hand size and gaming style. Look for keyboards that offer a good balance between responsiveness and comfort. Many manufacturers are now recognizing the need for more inclusive designs, so there are plenty of options available on the market. Remember, investing in the right gaming keyboard can not only improve your gaming experience but also help prevent potential strain and fatigue, making it a crucial accessory for gamers with big hands. Read the full article

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Electronic Thermal Management Materials Market 2024 Expected to Reach Significant Rate by 2031

Global “Electronic Thermal Management Materials Market” research report is a comprehensive analysis of the current status of the Electronic Thermal Management Materials industry worldwide. The report categorizes the global Electronic Thermal Management Materials market by top players/brands, region, type, and end-user. It also examines the competition landscape, market share, growth rate, future trends, market drivers, opportunities, and challenges in the global Electronic Thermal Management Materials market. The report provides a professional and in-depth study of the industry to help understand its current state and future prospects. What Are The Prominent Key Player Of the Electronic Thermal Management Materials Market?

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The Complete Walk through: Setting Up a Contact Form To Any API That Stands Out

In today's digital age, having a well-designed and functional contact form on your website is crucial for fostering effective communication with your audience. A contact form serves as a gateway, enabling visitors to reach out to you with inquiries, feedback, or requests. However, not all contact forms are created equal. To truly stand out and provide an exceptional user experience, careful planning and execution are essential. In this comprehensive walkthrough, we'll explore the key elements and best practices for setting up a contact form that not only looks great but also delivers outstanding results.

Understand Your Goals

Before diving into the technicalities, it's important to clearly define your goals for the Best Shopify Contact Form Plugin. Are you seeking to gather customer feedback? Do you want to capture leads for your sales team? Or is your primary objective to provide a convenient way for visitors to ask questions or request information? Understanding your goals will help you tailor the form fields, layout, and overall design to meet your specific needs.

Keep It Simple and User-Friendly

One of the most fundamental principles of effective contact form design is simplicity. Visitors should be able to quickly understand what information is required and how to complete the form. Avoid overwhelming them with too many fields or unnecessary complexities. Stick to the essential fields, such as name, email address, and message. If you need additional information, consider making certain fields optional or using conditional logic to display them only when relevant.

Optimize for Mobile

In today's mobile-centric world, it's crucial to ensure your contact form is optimized for various screen sizes and devices. A responsive design that adapts to different viewports ensures a seamless experience for users accessing your site from smartphones, tablets, or desktops. Pay attention to input field sizes, label placement, and overall layout to ensure optimal usability on smaller screens.

Leverage Effective Form Validation

No one likes to fill out a form only to receive an error message after submission. Implement client-side form validation to catch common errors, such as missing required fields or incorrect email formats, before the user attempts to submit the form. This not only improves the user experience but also helps reduce server load by preventing unnecessary form submissions.

Enhance Accessibility

An inclusive contact form design caters to users with varying abilities and needs. Follow accessibility best practices, such as providing clear label associations, ensuring proper contrast ratios, and enabling keyboard navigation. These small considerations can make a significant difference in ensuring your form is usable for everyone, regardless of their abilities.

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While contact forms facilitate communication, they can also be susceptible to spam and abuse. Implement measures like CAPTCHA or other spam protection mechanisms to prevent automated submissions and safeguard your inbox from unwanted messages. However, be mindful of striking a balance between security and user-friendliness, as overly complex CAPTCHA systems can deter legitimate users.

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After a user submits the form, it's essential to provide clear feedback and confirmation. Display a success message or redirect them to a thank-you page, acknowledging that their submission has been received. This simple step can go a long way in enhancing the overall user experience and building trust with your audience.

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Depending on your requirements, you may want to consider integrating your contact form with third-party services or applications. For example, you could connect it to your email marketing platform, customer relationship management (CRM) system, or project management tool. This seamless integration can streamline your workflows and ensure that form submissions are properly routed and acted upon.

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Before launching your contact form, thoroughly test it across various browsers, devices, and scenarios. Enlist the help of colleagues, friends, or even a small user group to try out the form and provide feedback. This testing phase can uncover potential issues or areas for improvement that you might have overlooked during the development process.

Conclusion

Setting up a contact form that stands out and delivers an exceptional user experience requires careful consideration of various factors, from design and usability to accessibility and security. By following the best practices outlined in this walkthrough, you'll be well-equipped to create a contact form that not only looks great but also facilitates effective communication with your audience. Remember, a well-designed contact form can be a powerful tool for building relationships, gathering valuable insights, and driving business growth.

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A contact form is crucial for facilitating communication between website visitors and the business or organization behind the site. It provides a convenient way for users to ask questions, provide feedback, or request information, ultimately fostering better engagement and potential conversions.

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Many third-party services and platforms offer integration options for contact forms, such as dedicated APIs or plugins. For example, you can connect your form to email marketing platforms, CRM systems, or project management tools. Consult the documentation or support resources of the specific service you wish to integrate with for detailed instructions.

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By addressing these frequently asked questions, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the importance of contact forms, best practices for optimizing their design and functionality, and considerations for integration and testing.

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User Experience (UX) Design in Subscription Plugins

In the realm of website development and management, user experience (UX) design stands as a paramount factor influencing user engagement and retention. Subscription plugins, vital components for websites offering subscription-based services or content, play a pivotal role in shaping user interaction. In this discourse, we delve into the intricacies of UX design within subscription plugins, unraveling strategies to optimize user engagement and satisfaction.

Understanding User Experience Design

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How to open a Stationery Shop

In a world that often seems dominated by screens and keyboards, the charm and utility of Stationery Shop persist. Opening a Stationery Shop is not just about selling pens, notebooks, and paper—it's about creating a haven for creativity, the place where the written word and artistic expression flourish. If you've ever dreamed of turning your passion for paper into a business venture, here's a step-by-step guide on how to open a Stationery Shop that inspires and captivates. It's a business that is available in big and small towns.

How to choose a Stationery Shop location

If you have your own space or want to rent a location, depending on the city or town size you may want to look at the following recommendations

Main Market shop:- Such a Stationery Shop covers customers in a wide area around it. These shops get much more frequent customers as people find it easily accessible. Such Stationery Shop need to keep a mixed variety of products like stationary and toys to get good sales.

Main road shop:- Such shops tend to be bigger in size with 1 to 3 floors. their advantage is the large variety of items they have as compared to the main road shop, this brings customers from all over the city to buy from you added facility like xerox machine and school projects items help in increasing sales of a Stationery Shop

Selecting the right location for your Stationery Shop is a critical decision. Aim for a spot with high foot traffic, visibility, and proximity to areas frequented by families. Consider the space size, storage requirements, and overall ambiance that will appeal to your target customers.

The layout of your Stationery Shop plays a crucial role in attracting and retaining customers. Create an inviting atmosphere that encourages exploration. Arrange your Stationery Shop in an organized and visually appealing manner, making it easy for customers to find what they want. Consider themed displays and interactive areas to enhance the overall shopping experience.

Types of Stationery Shop products

So, now you have a shop space for a Stationery Shop and you want to know what type of products to get for your Stationery Shop since the variety within Stationery is very vast we have categorized it in the following manner for ease of understanding:-Along with stationery products below is a small guide for buying toys, as most Stationery Shop keep toys to get additional sales.

By age:-

You will need toys for ages between

0-3 - Baby products like these sell the most as every parent buys basic baby products like - walkers, prams, tricycles, or cycles at least once. Apart from these, products like building blocks, water teethers, and rattles all sell well in Stationery Shop

3-6 - At this age board games, card games like flashcards, electronic walking animals, and other electronic toys sell the most toys

6-12 - This is where remote control toys (R/c toys), Rubix Cubes, Helicopters, drones, and board games, dolls sell the most in the Stationery Shop

Return Gifts :

Some of the most profitable deals are made in this category, customers buy 20-100 pc of a single product or a combo mix of different low-cost products. It is good to have things like keyrings, stationery sets, balloons, and low-cost toys for such customers in your Stationery Shop

By Type :

Toys come in a wide variety, catering to different age groups, interests, and developmental stages in Stationery Shop

Stationery Shop products encompass a wide range of items that serve both practical and creative purposes. Whether for professional use, artistic expression, or educational needs, there's a diverse array of stationery products available. Here's a list of common types of Stationery Shop products:

Pens and Pencils:

Ballpoint pens, gel pens, rollerball pens, fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and traditional wooden pencils.

Notebooks and Notepads:

Blank, lined, or grid notebooks, spiral-bound notepads, and specialty notebooks for specific purposes (e.g., bullet journals, sketchbooks).

Paper:

Various types of paper, including printer paper, writing paper, specialty paper (such as watercolor or textured paper), and sticky notes.

Planners and Organizers:

Daily, weekly, or monthly planners, organizers, and calendars to help manage schedules and tasks.

Desk Accessories for your Stationery Shop:

Staplers, paper clips, tape dispensers, rulers, letter openers, and other items for organizing and enhancing desk spaces.

Folders and File Storage:

File folders, document organizers, binders, and filing cabinets for keeping documents organized.

Envelopes and Writing Paper:

Envelopes of various sizes and types, along with matching writing paper or letterhead for personal or professional correspondence.

Labels and Stickers:

Adhesive labels, address labels, and stickers for labeling and personalizing items.

Highlighters and Markers for your Stationery Shop:

Highlighters for emphasizing text, and markers in various colors for drawing, coloring, or creating visual aids.

Correction Tools:

Correction tape, correction fluid, erasers, and white-out for fixing mistakes on paper.

Stamps and Ink Pads:

Rubber stamps and ink pads for adding decorative or official imprints to documents.

Desk Calendars and Accessories:

Compact calendars are designed for desktop use, along with decorative accessories like paperweights and desk organizers.

Presentation Tools for your Stationery Shop:

Projectors, easels, and presentation boards for conveying information in meetings or classrooms.

Writing Instruments Storage:

Pencil cases, pen holders, and desk organizers for keeping writing instruments neatly arranged.

Scissors and Cutting Tools:

Scissors, paper cutters, and utility knives for cutting paper and other materials.

Arts and Crafts Supplies:

Craft paper, glue, colored markers, colored pencils, watercolor sets, and other artistic materials.

Calculators and Math Tools:

Basic calculators, scientific calculators, rulers with built-in measuring scales, and protractors.

Educational Tools for your Stationery Shop:

Compasses, protractors, rulers with metric and imperial measurements, and other tools for educational purposes.

Conference and Presentation Supplies:

Whiteboards, flip charts, and markers for presentations and collaborative work.

Technology Accessories:

USB drives, laptop stands, and other accessories that complement digital devices.

Note Card Sets for your Stationery Shop:

Sets of blank note cards for personalized messages or special occasions.

Office Furniture:

Office chairs, desks, and shelving units for creating a functional workspace.

These are just a few examples, and the world of stationery offers countless options to suit various preferences, needs, and creative endeavors. Whether you're setting up a home office, preparing for back-to-school, or nurturing your artistic side, the right stationery products can make a significant difference in organization and productivity.To buy toys and stationery products at wholesale prices you can go to

Sellet.in and register to get the largest wholesale variety of toys at the best prices delivered directly to your Stationery Shop. Sellet sells to 1700 shops across 29 states and UTs in India already and it is one of the most trusted places for wholesale purchases of Stationery Shop.

Sales and Margin

The Stationery Shop has good margins in the retail business which is 20% to 70% on purchase value. As an example a product bought for Rs.20 will sell between Rs.30 to Rs.40. There are also some expenses like broken items, torn copy covers, and more such things which you have to account for.

Sales in the big city depending on the shop can range from 5 lacs to 15 lacs monthly.

Sales in small towns can range from 1 lacs to 10 lacs monthly.

Shop after deducting all expenses can expect between 25% to 40% profit margin.

Diverse Product Offering: - Curate a wide range of Stationery products to cater to different age groups, interests, and popular trends.

Seasonal Promotions: - Plan and execute targeted promotions during peak seasons, holidays, and special occasions to boost sales.

Loyalty Programs: - Implement a loyalty program to encourage repeat business and customer retention.

Cross-Selling and Upselling: - Train staff to recommend complementary products and upsell higher-margin items.

Online Sales Channel: - Establish a robust online presence with e-commerce capabilities to reach a broader customer base.

Conclusion

Opening a Stationery Shop is not just a business venture; it's a celebration of creativity, self-expression, and the enduring appeal of paper. By following these steps and infusing your passion into every detail, you'll be well on your way to creating a stationery haven that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of your customers. Unleash the power of the written word and artistic expression, and watch your stationery shop become a cherished part of your community. The blank pages are waiting—it's time to write your success story! Thanks for Reading...

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