Mechanical Keyboards

[Deozaan]

Oh... and the RGB.  Mustn't forget the RGB.

-wraith808 (August 20, 2018, 09:59 AM)

I hate how colored LEDs in everything somehow makes it "gamer." It's hard to buy decent computer equipment these days without it coming with garish lights all over it. I had hoped it was a fad when I first started seeing the LEDs in case fans, but it's only gotten much, much worse over the years.

[Tuxman]

Oh, don't start. I own a ROG Zephyrus M. The colors are the only reason why I dislike its hardware. Everything else is perfectly fine.

[wraith808]

Yeah... it's one of the things I look for in order to steer away from boards, and one of the reasons I like QMK so much, as I can turn off some of the worst offenders.  I like a reasonable underlight; I've found that it helps me when the room is dark (which is most of the time unless I open a window).  But I don't like the more garish combinations.

[Tuxman]

I played a game on my Unicomp yesterday. No. Just no.

[Tuxman]

I did a thing with my hardware at work. 

[IainB]

Hahaha. Remapkey.exe, old-style.   

[Tuxman]

Actually, a programmable XT->USB converter to fix the worst problems. 

[wraith808]

I did a thing with my hardware at work. 

-Tuxman (December 13, 2018, 08:39 AM)

That's ... a thing.  Yup.  Definitely a thing.  I haven't posted any of my latest.

Mechanical Keyboards

Mechanical Keyboards

Mechanical Keyboards

[Tuxman]

Two HHKBs and one, uh, not HHKB?

[wraith808]

Actually no HHKBs 

I tried Topre before and found it overrated. Those sre Tokyo60s- same layout as HHKB, but Mx based switches (using Kailh speed copper) and QMK firmware.  The last one is a Clueboard 66 v4 and is my daily driver, also using QMK.

[Tuxman]

I would go crazy with this layout.

[wraith808]

I would go crazy with this layout.

-Tuxman (December 14, 2018, 11:17 AM)

And as an alternative, I can't see myself ever going back to even a TKL, let alone a full sized.  I'm preparing to build an 1800 (the TKC 1800), as that might tempt me.  But I'm doing that more for the exercise in making a cool board, as anything else.