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[–] roux@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

I build custom mechanical keyboards. Got into it because of the Pandemic and now I have built 6 of them. /r/mk and /r/emk used to be some of my most visited subs on the other site. I'm now known as the goto for keyboard questions in my circles of friends.

I started getting into fidgeting more lately and took a liking to magnetic sliders and now have a few that I pretty much always have with me.

And that extended into me learning about begleri beads somehow so now I am attempting to learn that. I can do slips and 2 finger wraps and occasiaonal one finger or thumb wraps but not much else yet. I accidentally learned a stall because I messed up. I need to really learn transfers since that is one of the main things you do a lot of.

I think I am also amongst the hyperfixator group in this thread. I was previously into speedsolving Rubik's cubes and roasting coffee so I feel a lot of these answers lol.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always though begleri beads looked fun but I never picked them up because I didn't think I'd be able to do it at my desk. It'd look to much like I wasn't working.

[–] roux@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have the luxury of working from home so fidgeting isn't an issue. I tend to not play with them when working as much since I end up spending most of my time picking them up off the floor. Also when you are on a phone call and hit your knuckles and blurt out an "ouch" it makes it a bit awkward lol.

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