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Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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[–] _danny@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks so inconvenient. Glad you like it, but this is 'awful taste, great execution" for me.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll make it even worse for you... It's setup for Dvorak.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Well that’s just sensible unlike the rest

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Possibly the only good thing about this lol

[–] Viatorem@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kinda shit you'd see an alien using in a sci-fi movie lol

[–] Deltoids@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Would totally make sense in a movie since they just hammer random keys and say random things lol

[–] arandomthought@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. Now you only need the keycaps to be half transparent and light up individual keys randomly and you've got that "visual techno-babble" perfected.

[–] numberedcompany@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Hot swappable? I'm wondering if the sockets are what make the keys sit slightly off square and even, couldn't be the key caps could it?

[–] pixxel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Wow, when I first opened the image it was squished to 50% width, each key looked like a piano key. That was a real wtf moment.

Beautiful looking keyboard

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Serious question: How do you type on flat profile without having your hands hurt? I could never get use to flat keys and spherical work the best.

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I also use flat keycaps, so I thought I'd chime in. I'm not really sure why your hands would hurt with flat keycaps, but one of the reasons I chose to use flats were to allow for easier chording with Plover.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Well, I keep my keyboard laid pretty flat and typing on flat keys makes my fingers slip slightly which in turn causes me to hold my hands unnaturally.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know how to answer you exactly. My hands don't hurt. Maybe it's because of the combo of the ortholinear keyboard and the Dvorak layout causing me to move my fingers minimally.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I love it, exactly what I want to build

[–] cloudgazing@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has a 3d printed feel from the photo. Did you make the whole thing, case, pcb, keycaps?

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, the keyboard is a kit you can get on Mass Drop. The keycaps were novelty caps from Pimp My Keyboard.

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks nice! I daily drove something like this for a couple of years, then transitioned to a split ortholinear layout, so a bit different but pretty much the same thing.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want to move on to a split ortholinear too

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, having the split is super nice, personally I use a BFO-9000 PCB with 3D printed keycaps and case.

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