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I have a filco NKRO fullsize w/blues coming tomorrow and I have to rebind my windows key before it gets here. I've had my windows keys ripped off on every keyboard I've had until now. Is it bad that I had it delivered to my job so that I can type on it until 5:00pm? Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Apr 5, 2011 |
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EvilMuppet posted:What? Why? It's probably the single most useful key on the whole board. Why would I use keyboard shortcuts? Like I'm gonna spend 150 bucks on a keyboard and not use the hell out of it. Joking aside though my APM is way too gosu to ever need shortcuts.
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Apr 5, 2011 06:43
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weapey posted:While on the NKRO topic, my Filco has NKRO, but the numpad isn't NKRO. Is that with PS/2 or USB?
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May 27, 2011 15:09
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Browns for the office. Blues for the bachelor pad (gotta impress the ladies). Blacks for video games. Reds for the infirm and elderly.
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Jun 25, 2011 16:02
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I'm pretty sure I used keytweak to setup multimedia keys on my filco. http://www.tucows.com/preview/327616 I used the / and * and + and - on the keypad and it works great. Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jul 6, 2011 |
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Jul 6, 2011 17:42
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weapey posted:Really smashed the keyboard today at work, where I have a Filco with blues, and really began to feel some RSI in my right wrist by the end of the day (didn't have a problem at all before I became a ReSharper ninja) Don't get me wrong - it would have been much worse with a crappy keyboard. Despite what some people have hinted at in this thread there is no reason to think a fancy mechanical keyboard would be more ergonomic than a regular membrane keyboard. Keyboard shape determines egro qualities, switches determines the feel. Get a Kinetic if you want both at once.
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Jul 25, 2011 22:56
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404notfound posted:Now I'm a little paranoid. In what way are the wire puller scratching the keys? As far as I can tell, it should just slip around the bottom of the key and pull it upward without any sharp edges or whatever. Is the wire itself digging into the bottom edge of the keycaps? I think people are scratching adjacent key-faces while inserting the puller.
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Aug 20, 2011 03:07
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Shofixti posted:How much did you pay in customs? Ideally I want the same keyboard you got - WASD brown. I'm trying to decide between the limited Canadian selection or paying extra to import something. The switch itself will be identical. Anytime you hear "blues" or "browns" it is a reference to the Cherry company (officially ZF Electronics) which makes mechanical switches. Cherry classifies their different switches by color, but no other company uses a similar scheme. Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 27, 2011 20:22
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jwoven posted:Why not disable it, or set it to something else? You can use mapkeyboard to map any key to any other key. Whoa! Thats a good idea. I'm going to switch the two when I get home. My hand gets super tired from reaching up with my pinky to backspace all drat day.
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Oct 10, 2011 13:43
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Maybe the glossy finish will make you more careful about keeping it nice. I started out being super careful around my filco, but slowly I started eating closer and closer to it.
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Oct 16, 2011 04:44
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You use your thumb to hit alt? That would destroy my hands. You should relearn that as a ring finger motion.
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Oct 21, 2011 12:45
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Alt+X and Alt+Z are a single finger keystrokes. 
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Oct 21, 2011 15:09
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Robolizard! posted:leopolds (at least the tenkeyless) do way more than the 6kro thats standard on a lot of these nicer mechs, its estimated at 17kro. 2 player game on 1 keyboard. For the love of liero, you should know this kind of thing.
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Nov 18, 2011 18:31
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EvilMuppet posted:Are there any plain looking boards that feel like a Black Widow? I've tried two other brands with blues (Leopold and DAS.) neither of them are anywhere near as nice and clicky. http://www.amazon.com/Filco-Majestouch-2-Metallic-Keyboard-FKBN104MC2-AI/dp/B004X4TA7S/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_3 I have one in black because they were sold out of the metallic blue, but I wish I had one of these instead.
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Nov 21, 2011 04:04
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beze posted:ugh, what kind of problems did you run into with blank keycaps? I could only imagine. The problems are probably ~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|"?><:`\[]';/., just takes some practice. If you code a lot its probably not a big deal.
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Jan 7, 2012 22:53
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canada jezus posted:Is there a best option for ordering mechanical azerty keyboards? If it was just a matter of switching around the wasd keys i'd just buy a qwerty das and call it a day, but all the little ù and $]* differences are going to drive me insane i just know it. Ideally i would be able to turn my keyboard into a rainbow of colours, customization wise but hey if i can't no biggie. You can get a custom layout from WASDkeyboards and make every ù and $]* in the correct spot and then just change your keyboard profile at the OS level.
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Jan 13, 2012 22:28
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Clanpot Shake posted:Out with the old, in with the oldschool. Just got my Cherry Brown WASD and plugged it in. Here it is in all it's retarded This is maybe the best custom WASD layout I've seen so far. Now I want a keyboard that just says "crouch" on the control buttons. Plus I would like telling people to push Crouch+Talk+Indent for task manager.
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Jan 17, 2012 09:03
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HalloKitty posted:Instead of shoe-horning gaming text onto my keyboard, I use this to game on now: Its not shoe-horning, its ART 
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Jan 17, 2012 09:24
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No, thats bland and uninspiring. The font choice and color choice are just disappointing.
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Jan 19, 2012 20:51
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Fangs404 posted:Is there any multimedia key ONLY keyboard? Basically, I'm looking for something specialized like those wacky gaming keyboards: What do you think about a wireless remote control? http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Control-Infrared-Receiver-Ultimate/dp/B00224ZDFY/ref=pd_sim_e_1
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Jan 21, 2012 19:32
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Shogunner posted:Doesn't that only work for WMP? It depends on how the remote works. If it uses some kind of software in between the USB stick and WMP then yes, but if they work like keyboard media keys do they probably emulate a keyboard pressing a shortcut. That is, when you press the media key your computers sees ALT+SHIFT+N or whatever. You can then rebind your shortcuts to be those, or if it comes with software rebind the button itself to a different shortcut. edit: this one specifically supports winamp for example http://www.amazon.com/Center-Remote-Control-Infrared-Receiver/dp/B001HBOJRQ/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1327189082&sr=1-10 Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jan 22, 2012 |
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Jan 22, 2012 00:34
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jwoven posted:They reset faster. Cherry switches actuate around halfway down, so you could just barely tap the switch, it'll register, and you're ready to go again. Even if you bottom out, it still springs back faster than a membrane board. I've been in diamond every season in sc2 and play around 180 apm and I have never noticed any difference between blues and membrane for playing effectiveness. I think the idea that different switches are better or worse for gaming/typing is mostly hype.
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Jan 22, 2012 20:44
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canada jezus posted:So the switches, in your opinion, its just personal preference sound and feel wise? Because its hard to actually find info i this, beyond "reds make you mistype, blacks make your fingers tired, lol not blues for games. Thats my personal opinion yah. Although I would go for browns if I got another mechanical. I really like my Filco with blues, but its a little loud and a little heavy/huge. I'm going to scoop one of those choc minis as my next keyboard so I can carry it in my laptop bag for when I'm offsite coding all day on my crappy laptop keyboard.
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Jan 22, 2012 21:59
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Nah, you just can't put a full-size keyboard into a laptop bag. Its like 16" or something.
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Jan 22, 2012 22:21
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Does kinesis have a model with real keys for the top row? I use vim constantly and the bad reviews of the escape key specifically is the last thing holding me back from picking one up.
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Nov 27, 2014 23:17
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leper khan posted:Is there any reason you couldn't remap one of the keys on the thumbs? For me personally 250+ dollars is the price range where I feel that I should be extremely picky about a keyboard. If its a matter of waiting a year and 50/50 they release a fully mechanical version then I'll wait a year.
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Nov 28, 2014 04:50
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TWBalls posted:I have a Kinesis Advantage (Cherry Brown switches) I no longer use that you can buy. Not sure how much a fair price for a used one is though. I know I paid way too much for it a couple of years ago. If you're serious about selling it put it on SA mart and if you do, please PM me.
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Is anyone looking for a HHKB2 torpre with blank keycaps? I was using it and a kinesis advantage back and forth for a few months and the kinesis won. I love topre but the ergonomics are too valuable to me because I type 10+ hours a day professionally. Let me know and I can kick an SA mart thread. It's got 2 months of use but I kept it very clean.
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It has arrow keys! Getting used to function + the letters took like 15 minutes. It's honestly the best non-ergo layout I've used and I loved the ctrl and backspace positions.
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Feb 16, 2016 06:04
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Having said that though let me also say that the kinesis advantage layout blows it out of the water.
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Feb 16, 2016 06:06
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abraham linksys posted:the tilde/backtick+delete keys on the HHKB seem like they would take forever to get used to I found that it took about a week to feel comfortable using it and about 3 weeks to be 100% confident using all the keys, backtick, braces, pipe etc. I work on the linux command line a lot which made sure I used all those keys pretty often and I also have the blank keycaps which made it take a bit longer than it would have otherwise. I found a similar learning curve on the kinesis, 5 days or so before I wasn't thinking about how it was harder, 3 weeks until I was 100% operational. I would say also that the learning period was the most fun.
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Feb 16, 2016 13:46
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Keyboard thread, a question: What do I do to the person who spilled an entire can of honey roasted peanuts, including the sticky honey-nut dust in the bottom, on my brand new mechanical keyboard? Combine high proof iso, q-tips, a keycap puller and an hour.
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Feb 29, 2016 15:56
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Cancelbot posted:I definitely made a mistake buying a razer blackwidow for coding, its so drat clicky and loud (and its a razer Topre. Cherry switches are for teenagers who are trying to rebel against rubber cups, but an adult understands that mature rubber technology makes a superior keyboard.
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Mar 2, 2016 17:06
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Someone at work asked me what my keyboard was so I googled it to give them a link and this was one of the results: http://www.autismenabled.com/p-19677-advantage-pro-contoured-usb-keyboard.html?gclid=CP6ppZOyr8wCFQqKaQodtooO7A
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Apr 27, 2016 18:57
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Lungboy posted:No specific budget at the moment, but paying over £100 for a keyboard would probably give me a heart attack. I really don't need all the flashy lights and programmable doohickeys, just nice keys and some kind of backlight so I can see what's going on in the dark. Main price consideration is that a mechanical switch will cost somewhere between 30c to $1+ per individual switch. When you multiply this out x100 keys you end up with a pricey product. Things like LEDs don't really add that much to the base cost of those switches.
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Apr 29, 2016 17:03
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Geirskogul posted:Topre are rubber dome pretending to be a mechanical switch. One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
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May 13, 2016 13:22
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Platystemon posted:It works the other way around, too: people who drop beaucoup bucks on something are loath to admit it sucks. The most expensive keyboard I own has browns though so you can trust me.
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May 13, 2016 14:22
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Platystemon posted:Trap sprung. I would pay upwards of $600 for a kinesis with topre and I'd probably get two of them.
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After years of struggling with wrist problems I can't give up the shape that finally solved my issues. I will take the kinesis form-factor over any other, switches be damned. I strongly recommend them to anyone with RSI. I was considering surgery when I got mine and 6 months later I'm totally back to normal.
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