downside: no easy bykos upside: probably a lot of other tops can be used now & have similar tolerances to the old bykos combo

based on the appearance of the calipers they probably have an effective tolerance of +- .05mm or more anyway

r2 ran recently & supposedly vendors bought up a bunch of extras so if you keep up with updates you might be able to snag them sometime next year

color material & weight selection at the very least. possibly design of the stem leg profile, possibly choice of housing molds. zeals are made by gateron, gazzews stuff is made by otemu, soooo many are made by jwk like probably the majority you can think of with designer specific top mold branding

youtube might be a good place to start? https://youtu.be/yzxr96tm9lk

nzcaps does encoder knobs

difficult//tedious but not impossible. more recent ferals should be pretty easy to distinguish through population structure analysis so long as someone takes the time to genotype them and run the statistics.

figuring out that an accession was influenced by humans then escaped cultivation to continue as a feral for 8k years is more challenging but still possible, especially with wheat since we have genomic data from archaeological finds

obvious enough for it to be pretty common practice already for most major crops, at least in the Americas and Europe and China ..

& that’s still assuming no gene flow btwn wild & cultivated populations && that collected germplasm is actually wild rather than feralized

fr4 sandwich is pretty loud imo

STEM grad student so a lot of writing & data entry & code, prefer to wfh but have to go on campus a lot & am planning a second build so i can leave one at my office