You should have gone up market and bought a quality set from AliExpress

Do it

just distract yourself by swapping keyboard layouts and learning colemak at the same time!

if you wanna try mechanical a nyquist is a pretty cheap way to start - technically tenkeyless but tenkeys is only ever a keytap away keeb.io/products/nyq...

barely even broke past 78% humidity today in ham east - those are rookie numbers

Is it just the hugos or are there other awards that Joe Public can vote on?

I used to think it was, and regularly got ~5 with no ill effects. Then I started making sure I got at least 7 - the number of unsolicited comments I got about how much more effective I was suddenly being at work was surprising.

I think you are over estimating the amount of time this will save off a single trip - the ones I've seen will shave of ~ 30 seconds (maybe, depending on traffic).