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Mechanical keyboard nuts generally love old vintage keyboard designs—and so does Severance, Apple TV’s smash-hit, high-concept sci-fi series set in a dystopian office. Atomic Keyboard decided to combine these inspirations when it made the MDR Dasher, a revival of a classic design from the Data General Corporation in the 1970s. The Data General’s Dasher terminal series is iconic, with many classic keyboard fans loving its chunky blue keys and huge layout in particular. The Lumon employee cubicle setups in Severance are heavily inspired by—possibly even salvaged from—terminals like the Dasher 6053 from 1977, though they have an altered layout and a trackball mouse area. As DesignBoom notes, the keyboards seen on the show have no Escape, no Control, and no Option keys. It is a dystopia, after all. Atomic Keyboard Atomic Keyboard’s recreation of the massive design element keeps the blue and beige hues and the big black optical trackball on the right side, with two oversized mouse keys. The current design features a 73-key layout in a unique 70% design, an aluminum case, and a USB-C connection, in case you actually want to use it on something manufactured in this century. It’s in pre-production now. When will you be able to buy one? Who knows. Atomic Keyboard is accepting email signups and has a preliminary price of $400, which isn’t unreasonable in the space of big, custom, small-batch keyboard designs. But with the chaos surrounding international trade at the moment, who knows how much it’ll cost when it’s finally ready to head out to buyers? Atomic Keyboard Retro tech is all the rage now, as seen in Severance and the computers from Marvel’s Time Variance Authority in Loki. It’s a retro-futurist style that the Fallout games have been playing with for decades, and some observers are calling it “Cassette Futurism.” You can even see it in the trailer for Naughty Dog’s new game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, with a bounty hunter’s Porsche spaceship filled with a CD-based jukebox, chunky keyboards, printers, and CRT screens that look like they fell off the original Alien set. Read...

It’s always a nasty surprise when any service tells you that the price you’re paying every month is going up for no reason. Comcast has been a fairly constant source of that particular anxiety, especially for its Xfinity broadband service in the US. But now it’s promising that it won’t raise rates for 5 years… if you jump through a few hoops. Digital Trends reports that there’s a lot of fine details in the fine print of the announcement. First, you have to be a new customer—if you’ve been using Xfinity for years, you’re apparently unworthy of this consideration. New users don’t have to sign a contract, and they’re able to get the price lock without a commitment. But home internet plans that qualify for the 5-year lock start at $55 per month, versus $40 per month if you do sign a contract for just one year. For the cheaper plan, there’s no guarantee about the price beyond that. Oh, and the offer is only good until June 23rd, according to the promotional site. So yeah, that’s a bit of a dice roll if you’re trying to save money on these less-expensive options. (For international readers: Yes, $40-55 per month is pretty cheap in the US, especially in metro areas.) If you’re fairly certain that you’ll be sticking with Comcast for the long haul—or you have no other choice, since much of the country operates with effective monopolies on wired internet service—then signing up at the $55 rate might make sense. You’ll have the option to drop it in a heartbeat if you see a better deal, say, on 5G-based service from Verizon or T-Mobile. But if you don’t think you’ll be in the same area for that long, or if you’re pretty sure you’ll be switching away between 1 and 5 years from now, then the cheaper contract option probably makes more sense. With my deepest apologies, I might suggest you break out the calculator if you’re on the fence. And if you’re planning on holding an internet service provider to any commitment that it makes about prices staying low… well, maybe set your expectations low, too. Read...

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