nearly a decade ago I discovered a bug in my keyboard and it made me so angry that I had to get into mechanical keyboards and making my own keyboards to avoid it.
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but it's way bigger than the gap between a 15$ membrane keyboard and a 30$ bargin-bin mechanical
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and if you like the 30$ mechanical maybe then try the 100$ mechanical.
it'll be nicer.but only nicer. The difference between a membrane keyboard and a mechanical keyboard is that the mechanical keyboard will work. That's way more important than "nicer keyfeel" and "neat looking caps"
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@[email protected] also keycaps are largely exchangable, find a set you think looks neat on aliexpress for 15 euros
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@syn yeah, you can always swap that later. and probably just as much onto a 300$ keyboard as a 35$ keyboard, they're both gonna be cherry
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@foone I uh... >.>;;;
I actually switched back to a membrane keyboard because I didn't like the "keyfeel" of the mechanical one that I bought.
But most crucially the mechanical keyboard I bought DOES NOT HAVE A PAUSE/BREAK KEY and does not have any possible way of getting it back, and I use that key as my Discord PTT key because *literally nothing else in the modern day uses it*
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@foone Same on my MSI Alpha 15 keyboard.
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@dragonarchitect ugh. I hate when they drop keys. my keyboard is also missing a bunch of keys and others are stuffed onto function+something
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@foone Oh also my search for a ready-to-buy mechanical keyboard is made into a fool's errand because I very much like and prefer low profile keebs. So that just further underscores that to get EXACTLY what I want I will have to literally make it myself.
I am currently quite contentedly ticking away on a Logi K270 (which has that 3-key rollover issue that you described earlier in this thread, but it's not something I've ever had to worry about so it's not a hard no-sell for me).
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@dragonarchitect yeah I've looked into low-profile keyboards and there just aren't as many. it's because the mechanical keyboard hobby revolves around interchangable keyswitches and those are mostly fullsize, so the low-profile stuff gets ignored
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@foone it’s particularly annoying when it bites your password, but only sometimes. https://phpc.social/@cabbey/113071539716702034
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@cabbey nasty!
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@foone MY my keyboard is not trash!!
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@admin Congrats! What keyboard is it?
(maybe I should make a webpage listing if keyboards are shit or not)
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@adaliabooks There's no standard for keyboard matrixes, so different manufacturers can design them vastly differently.
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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone I love* bad keyboards because people will try and play our platformers on them and then complain to me that the keys don't work if pressed simultaneously as if I can do anything about the fact they have a shit keyboard
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! last edited by
@eniko clearly it's your fault that your users have broken keyboards!
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@foone $270 is a pretty huge difference
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@Beckydog I meant in terms of feel and looks and quality, and you know it!
