hdsrob

Been a car guy for many years, and my next project will be an ev.

Not sure what yet, but there's a lot of classic conversions happening, and Ford sells a e crate motor now.

Lots of those Canadian quarters floating around in FL when we lived there.

Yea, we can process 4 different tax rates, and always list them separately.

The exception is in locations where tax is included in the price: bars that take a lot of cash tend to want to make everything even dollars, or quarters at the most, so that bartenders don't have to make a lot of change, and can work quickly.

In these situations, we have to do the calculation backwards after the fact, but it's still tracked as a separate tax in software.

I'm an owner, so make many decisions (but I also have smart employees who's opinions I trust very much).

This is a tough one to deal with, especially with smaller Android based handheld devices. In the 5" to 6" range we can get a few different things (wholesale costs):

• $150 - $200 dollar trash that will fail in a short period of time (Chinese imports direct from Alibaba / the manufacturer). << we don't sell these.
• $300 to $400 devices, with similar hardware specs to the cheaper ones, but better made to last a couple of years (both of these classes are slow, and a bit under-powered)
• $900+ devices that are fast and well made.

You can guess which ones we sell the most of. Especially since they tend to get dropped, or lost quite a bit (we're in the restaurant POS business).

For the stationary (15" Android) terminals, the situation is similar. But we sell these devices more than the handhelds, and after a few installs with well made but slower hardware, my tech lead ruled out offering the cheaper ones in favor of selling the ones with better specs, so that's where we are now.

But lots of our competitors give hardware away to get the credit card processing revenue (a total rip off for the customer, but it's the nature of the game), so they use the cheapest option.

I write POS software, and have written tax calculations that cover about 30 states, and several CA provinces.

While we do have to round (always up) when calculating sales tax, there's no way for the business to figure out how much that rounding would be, since it's just added to the tax collected.

And in all states that I've worked with, a business has to pay what they collected (even if they over collect), and can't just calculate a percentage of total sales (since many states have tax tables, rounding rules, or 3-4 decimal tax rates, and not a flat percentage tax).

So it's actually the government that gets the benefit of the rounding.

My last job paid 1st and 15th . And the company i own now does the same.

I find budgeting much simpler than with a bi-weekly paycheck.

Any QMK based board that supports VIA should work, since the macros and key bindings are stored on the board, and you can use a browser to configure it (even if you have to configure it on another machine, and swap back to the Steam Deck).

Alternatively, I believe that Solaar is available in Discover Store for Steam Deck, and that would allow you to configure Logi devices (but I don't have any personal experience with this yet).

Currently using a Keychron Q5, paid about $230.

Works great in some situations (I run two dev environments and a couple of test machines as VMs), but not always. I need a physical Mac to do iOS development / builds, so need a USB switch to switch my keyboard and mouse to it when working.

Do you really need video?

My monitors have multiple inputs, so I just use a USB switch for my mouse and keyboard, and then switch the monitors between devices as needed.

Plate and stabs are stock (so screw in stabs, and PC plate).

The stabs are the least rattly that I've had so far (although my daily driver for the last few years no stabs, as it didn't have any keys over 2U).

I've had acrylic, and stainless plates on my prior custom builds, and my Ergodox has aluminum plates, and I'm quite happy with the poly carbonate. At some point (when they come back in stock) I'll probably get an aluminum plate just to check it out, and will grab the Pro => Max sound kit as well.

I'm using the K Pro Banana switches. I've run Gateron Browns primarily, but I my Erogodox has the V2 Zealios, and another build has R6 Zealios. The Zealios were a bit heavy for me for all day typing, but I like the banana switches.

I'm using the stock caps for now as well. I'm not entirely sure I love them, but I figured I'd give them some time before switching to a GMK or DSA set.

I have the Q5 Pro, and it's definitely thocky (and a beast of a slab of aluminum after having a few layered acrylic cases).

The Max is probably a bit less thocky with the extra foam (it has 3 more foam layers than the Pro).

I haven't used the Shift V2, but for me the extra column of keys and the full ten key, was more important than the aesthetics and adjust-ability of the Shift case.