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YerDa Zabam posted:GMKs new MTNU profile, which is Cherry profile with an SA twist, but not too tall. ahhhh mt3 has stolen my heart, but i may need to make room for mtnu once they get some decent colors other than r&d 1973
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yj3CkGvzQA I saw some love for transparent keyboards earlier, and just wanted to share this other one that's available. 
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YerDa Zabam posted:What key cap sets are you looking at? I had mostly been looking at GMK clones. This is the current frontrunner: https://cannonkeys.com/products/nicepbt-peaches-n-cream-lite  I love this design and the actual GMK version is $150 and ABS, which is not ideal. How good the print quality on these dyesubs is remains to be seen but the price is pretty compelling.
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yeah, that's got everything you could need. you'll be peachy oof, sorry gnatalie posted:ahhhh mt3 has stolen my heart, but i may need to make room for mtnu once they get some decent colors other than r&d 1973 I'm pretty fond of the "Granite" set with all the colour extras to play with god please help me posted:
I'm keen to get a see-thru board at some point and this is a fair bit more affordable that the poly/copper Mode I speced up to about $550 lmao YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Sep 4, 2024 |
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gnatalie posted:ahhhh mt3 has stolen my heart, but i may need to make room for mtnu once they get some decent colors other than r&d 1973 They have a set in lovely 70s brown with orange highlights that I really enjoy. The profile is nice.
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Anyone able to help me choose a new keyboard? My current one is a HyperX origins and it has bricked itself. I like it because of the solid weight, and the white pudding cap keys I installed because I have a vision disability. I need the following; TKL White keys, RGB backlit preferred Good for gaming and typing Easily accesible to purchase and have it delivered quickly here in Australia (I can't wait for something that will take a long time to get here) Sturdy, so it won't move much Reliable, quality and long lasting. Nothing excessively pricey, I am on a tight budget. There is so many choices out there, and I don't know where to begin.
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I'm on mobile rn so I can't really reply thoroughly, but if you liked the keycaps from the broken keyboard, maybe you could harvest the keycaps for reuse in the new keyboard? Might give you the opportunity to make whatever new keyboard you get more cozy, as well as taking care of your keycap preference right away. As for long-lasting, I recommend anything that is hot-swap since any key that suddenly stops working could be physically replaced. Not sure how your keyboard bricked itself, though (firmware issues)? I'd normally recommend any cheap, affordable keyboard such as Redragon, Royal Kludge, or perhaps a step up such as an Epomaker, but those usually are in lighter plastic cases... I'm sure Epomaker does have some keyboards with metal casing, if you're willing to spend more money for them. They usually come with qmk/via capability, if you'd like the ability to remap how some keys and shortcuts work on your keyboard, which is nice. Edit: just found this aluminum keyboard. I've never had an aluminum/metal case keyboard before, so hopefully someone can chime in if they think it'd be weighty enough? I can confirm that womier/gamakay is another reliable brand. Link. god please help me fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Sep 6, 2024 |
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Sep 6, 2024 17:53
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Royal kluge 98s is a bit of a brick plastic and all
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Anyone have advice on a numpad? Every now and then I like having a numpad available even though 80% of my stuff just needs standard keyboard, arrow keys, and page up/down stuff.
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god please help me posted:I'm on mobile rn so I can't really reply thoroughly, but if you liked the keycaps from the broken keyboard, maybe you could harvest the keycaps for reuse in the new keyboard? Might give you the opportunity to make whatever new keyboard you get more cozy, as well as taking care of your keycap preference right away. Thanks for the recommendation. I was going to go with a Keychron K2, but found a Royal Kludge K84 75% size keyboard for $30 cheaper, so I am going with that. Plus it looks easily modable, which I like. I am going to see if I can use the white pudding caps from my HyperX on it. Cheers!
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The Dark Project posted:Thanks for the recommendation. I was going to go with a Keychron K2, but found a Royal Kludge K84 75% size keyboard for $30 cheaper, so I am going with that. Plus it looks easily modable, which I like. I am going to see if I can use the white pudding caps from my HyperX on it. Are you factoring the costs of buying new keycaps in your overall cost? TKL keycaps are unlikely to completely map to a 75% keyboard. Your right side modifiers including shift may or may not fit and your ctrl alt menu etc keys will also likely not fit. In addition your navigation cluster keys may fit, but not be the correct profile for their location on the keyboard.
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Mantle posted:Are you factoring the costs of buying new keycaps in your overall cost? TKL keycaps are unlikely to completely map to a 75% keyboard. Your right side modifiers including shift may or may not fit and your ctrl alt menu etc keys will also likely not fit. In addition your navigation cluster keys may fit, but not be the correct profile for their location on the keyboard. It's fine, I managed to score a limited edition version in Americano Black, and I really like that colour scheme, so I think I'll just stick with that anyway.
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The Dark Project posted:Anyone able to help me choose a new keyboard? can you wait till the end of the month? Because https://novelkeys.com/collections/top-dogs/products/classic-tkl-keyboard drops in two weeks, I've heard two sound tests and this thing is amazing. You buy your own keycaps and switches, sounds great, and is only $98. Has the RBG though. Throw in your preferred linear or tactile switches, and it's good to go. edit. Just saw you bought something. Nice. Well, everyone else, the classic comes out at the end of the month, and for a TLK looks dope as hell.
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LionArcher posted:can you wait till the end of the month? Because https://novelkeys.com/collections/top-dogs/products/classic-tkl-keyboard I'd really love that, especially the colour scheme, but it's going to also cost $30USD for delivery, minimum  on top of the keyboard cost. Any reason to choose over theRK84?The HyperX I am using has blue switches. I use it for both gaming and typing. What kind would you recommend if I did choose one of these? Edit: The added costs for the additions take it out of my league, sadly. A shame. The Dark Project fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Sep 6, 2024 |
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The Dark Project posted:Thanks for the recommendation. I was going to go with a Keychron K2, but found a Royal Kludge K84 75% size keyboard for $30 cheaper, so I am going with that. Plus it looks easily modable, which I like. I am going to see if I can use the white pudding caps from my HyperX on it. Glad to help!
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The Dark Project posted:I'd really love that, especially the colour scheme, but it's going to also cost $30USD for delivery, minimum If cost is an issue, you're all good. I will say, any of those pre built boards are going to be junk compared to a custom built board, if you tune it right with lube and switches. I've had a few, and comparing them to my customs, it's a laughably worse experience. For the future, if you like Blue's, just try a few and find one you really like. Classic cherry blues are a perfectly great switch honestly.
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junk or not, i am extremely pleased with my monsgeek m1w v3 that arrived this afternoon. this thing is a god drat weapon - it weighs over 4 pounds and is absolutely Not Moving on my desk pad, which is what i was hoping for. it's louder than the keychrons i've been trying out, but i'm making waaay fewer typing errors because these switches don't trigger in a slight breeze. the default keycaps are also easier to read (side print shinethrough) and i much prefer having the knob on the absolute outside of the keyboard as opposed to nestled inside of the TKL top right section. overall i'm pretty pleased with this board at the $100 price point, good enough for entry level with room to grow
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i've been dealing with an unbalanced spacebar stabilizer and am incapable of not making it worse (skill issue), so happy to get some staebies on this board. also replaced the very aesthetically pleasing anthracite keycaps for significantly better sounding mt3 godspeeds. i'm a creature of habit, what can i say? I AM GRANDO posted:They have a set in lovely 70s brown with orange highlights that I really enjoy. The profile is nice. ohh yeah that's pretty solid color i just don't see it working with my ice blue or pc tops. blehhhhh Arcturas posted:Anyone have advice on a numpad? Every now and then I like having a numpad available even though 80% of my stuff just needs standard keyboard, arrow keys, and page up/down stuff. keychron q0+/max on for left hand with via layers for shortcuts for your favorite productivity software Chard posted:junk or not, i am extremely pleased with my monsgeek m1w v3 that arrived this afternoon. this thing is a god drat weapon - it weighs over 4 pounds and is absolutely Not Moving on my desk pad, which is what i was hoping for. nice! that's a slick looking keeb, especially the lavender colorway. my keeb weighs 7 pounds and i think it would break my foot if dropped on. coworkers are convinced they could kill people with it  also, shoutout to redleader for the absolutely brilliant idea to change capslock to a via layer toggle for common sql statements (idiot dev here): caps-s -> select, f -> from, w -> where, g -> group by, o -> order by, etc etc 
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The Dark Project posted:I'd really love that, especially the colour scheme, but it's going to also cost $30USD for delivery, minimum Hey Ausgoon! Did you purchase anything yet? I know how much of a pain it can be to get stuff here at a reasonable price, and I've got an unopened RK S98 if you're at all interested in having it at a discount?
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Heya DMC! Yeah, I ordered it through Amazon and they delivered today. That one does look really nice though! Edit: If it's the pale green version, I am probably going to kick myself. That looks really cool, and would be able to mod for STALKER 2 so easily. Dammit, I wish I had that version. But I am loving the small form factor of this one. Means I can easily reach all the keys, and the yellow switches on this are lovely and smooth, and not too noisy. I wouldn't recommend anyone get HyperX. As much as I liked the aluminium frame and all, if their software is just going to up and brick your keyboard, it's a big avoid. That and that unless you know how to solder you can't swap out anything except for the keycaps (which I can't really harvest for this new one because of the size difference). I know this is like someone with a Dodge Rabbit coming into a custom mod car owners club and talking about how nice their new ride is, but hey, for me it's a sweet buy and I know I am going to get a lot of use from it. Plus I can mod it down the line if I want to. Being tight and compact though, there isn't a lot of room for me to get creative with modding the exterior of it. STALKER 2 is on its way, and I would love to make a custom keyboard to match, but I don't really know what I can do with this to get it to fit the aesthetic. Grease it up with animal fat I guess... I've ordered some orange and black keycaps, but I don't know how soon I will be using them, as every time I look down I really like the look of the limited edition ones I have on this. I didn't know if it was going to work together, but the colours match wonderfully. The Dark Project fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Sep 8, 2024 |
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I was in here a month or two ago complaining about getting double inputs on my Keychron Q5 Max and the problem keeps coming back. Seems like every week it's a new random key showing problems. Reseating the switch usually fixes this, but this is getting obnoxious. I can't tell if it's a problem with the PCB or the socket design or the switches themselves. It's definitely not a dust/cleanliness problem, I can tell you that. I guess I can live with this for now and hope it stops happening at some point, but if the problem gets any worse then I think I might just chuck this thing and get a new keyboard from another company.
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May I ask how you have it connected? Bluetooth or RF dongle? I'm by no means an expert, but I remember having a wireless Logitech mouse that pissed the poo poo out of me (but it had flamingos on it, so I still wanted to love it), to the point where I called customer support about it. I don't think the keychron dongles are replaceable, so I can't really troubleshoot that, but I'm thinking perhaps the double inputs may be a connectivity issue that comes back even after getting a fresh start after reconnecting. Or maybe it's a keychron issue. 
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If it is temporarily fixed by reseating the switches it is likely bad sockets or failing connections with the PC and sockets ime. Twisting the pins on the switch so it sort of fills out the connection more can work. Soldering in new ones isn't too hard. If you have the time and inclination it would be a good first soldering job to do, but I get that most people don't want to do that.
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god please help me posted:May I ask how you have it connected? Bluetooth or RF dongle? I'm by no means an expert, but I remember having a wireless Logitech mouse that pissed the poo poo out of me (but it had flamingos on it, so I still wanted to love it), to the point where I called customer support about it. I don't think the keychron dongles are replaceable, so I can't really troubleshoot that, but I'm thinking perhaps the double inputs may be a connectivity issue that comes back even after getting a fresh start after reconnecting. Or maybe it's a keychron issue. It happens with all connection types. YerDa Zabam posted:If it is temporarily fixed by reseating the switches it is likely bad sockets or failing connections with the PC and sockets ime. I'm not going to solder new pins onto every switch, but I'll keep the trick about twisting the pins in mind, thanks. How much of a twist would you give them?
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Oh no, it wouldn't be that simple even, you'd have to de-solder the affected sockets (or all of them ideally) and solder on new ones. A fun project for some people, a "hard no" for most. It is most likely the sockets, not the switches. People often think it is dirt but as you mentioned it isn't that either. There are 4 or 5 main socket brands and a few versions within those and some are better than others. Some are just a bit poo poo. The twist? Hard to quantify or explain really and it depends on the pins, there is a surprising amount of variance. Some are quite thick and you can only really bend them up or down, the thinner ones you can actually twist down their length (two needle nosed pliers or strong tweezers work well) Sorry, it's hard to put in words. Really all you are trying to do is make the pins fill out the gap in the socket so they are as solidly held as possible. Whatever means or direction you can manage is best. This is also a handy tip for switches that are electrically fine, but prone to failing out or coming away with the keycap when removed. However, you are really just kicking it down the road for a while, as every time they are inserted, removed hosed about with just makes it worse and eventually you'll end up in the same place. My first Akko was great for a month or so after "fixing it" like this but then cascaded into an intermittently working/failing waste of space. Hopefully it can help for a while while you arrange something as a replacement YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Sep 9, 2024 |
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Glorious replaced a key with a "badge" in the GMMK 3 Pro: https://www.gloriousgaming.com/products/gmmk-3-pro-he-barebones-keyboard Seems goofy. The badge would replace the delete key on my GMMK 2 Pro.
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Glorious is pricing their stuff like it is still 2020 I see
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$440 aud is a lot of money, even if you’re into kb stuff heavy.
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YerDa Zabam posted:Glorious is pricing their stuff like it is still 2020 I see and they sound like garbage compared to other companies. (Yes, I have a Glorious)
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Yiggy posted:Chinese company. They’ve been marketing mostly through kickstarter and YouTube reviewers. I have a low profile board of theirs. Build quality is decent. Config tools are proprietary so it’s not via, but they do have one for configuring their boards. Thanks for this response by the way! I'll guess I'll open it up to the larger group, but for productivity and non-competitive, casual gaming, how much of an impact is a board being only 500 Hz polling rate for wireless compared to the boards that are 1,000 Hz+? I've read down the rabbit hole a bit regarding the speed of a keypress related to the polling rate, how the observed latency is additive, etc., which for the actual competitive players, I definitely could see being a problem. But I generally haven't had much issue I think (?) doing casual gaming on the MX Mechanical I've had, and apparently that's polling at 125Hz, so it made me wonder whether I spend a bunch of this Lofree or just go with something that has a 1,000 Hz polling rate or such.
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Poling rate for wired USB and 2.4ghz wireless is 1000hz. Bluetooth is the lowest at 125hz. That's the specs on my Neo 65 anyway. P sure that's standard Bluetooth is also bad at keeping a connection. Even my 55 year old senses notice BT being lovely and unresponsive sometimes. Never have any issues with the 2.4ghz dongle on this board or any earlier ones.I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference above 500, definitely not 1000+ but I'm not really the market. I might try a HE board soon though. This one on clickclack is cheap enough that it's worth a spin. A group buy, but they're pretty legit. $85 ready built, keycaps switches, case, the lot is pretty crazy. Non-mental shipping too, even to the UK and it is low enough to not get hit with import duty annoyances https://clickclack.io/products/upcoming-click-clack-x-kochi-hummingbird68-magnetic-switch-mechanical-keyboard-kit
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Arcturas posted:Anyone have advice on a numpad? Every now and then I like having a numpad available even though 80% of my stuff just needs standard keyboard, arrow keys, and page up/down stuff. If you have a programmable ortholinear keyboard (or, less comfortably on a staggered keyboard) you can set up a layer to be a numpad. I have mine set up like this. 
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Good morning! Over the weekend I picked up a Keychron Q1 HE and am really liking it. My set up is using my Mac on the left side of my monitor and my work Windows machine on the right. I am using BT to swap between the two with Function 1-2 as needed. What I'm finding is that since the keyboard is on Mac mode by default via the switch on the back, when I switch over to Windows my Alt/Windows keys are flipped. I know that I can toggle the switch to Win mode on the back when I need them swapped, but is there not any other way to have it automatically know that input-2 is Windows and input-1 is Mac and do it for me? I do switch back between the two very frequently throughout the day so it's really not feasible to do the F-1/2 and move a physical dip switch every time. I've thought about just remapping he alt/win keys on my Windows machine, however, when I use it in laptop mode or take it to the office and use different external keyboards, it'll be flipped there. So unless there's software on the Windows side that can let me map a keyboard specific mapping, then I'm a bit boned here?
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edit: Sorry, I misunderstood the problem. Edited out my earlier advice because it wasn't going to solve the problem.
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AHK? I've not used it for anything like this, but it seems powerful enough you could script something so it could swap the keys back and forth with a key combo press?
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I'm pretty sure that QMK has access to BT peer information, though it may not know about the switch position. if I'm right, you could change it to switch default layer based on what the BT peer was, and that would let you remap those arbitrarily it would involve some fiddly coding and learning a fair bit about the various QMK state machines, though
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Hrmm, didn't realize that you can do some custom code in QMK, I've just been using the launcher website for keychron. I'm surprised this is not a more common use case though, perhaps I'm the only lunatic swapping back and forth all day between a Mac and a Windows machine?
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TraderStav posted:Hrmm, didn't realize that you can do some custom code in QMK, I've just been using the launcher website for keychron. I'm surprised this is not a more common use case though, perhaps I'm the only lunatic swapping back and forth all day between a Mac and a Windows machine? I think I came up with a solution, going to try it out. In Karabiner elements on my Mac, I can make device specific key remappings. I'm going to switch the Keychron into Windows mode and then swap the keys on the Mac side, everything SHOULD be honkey dory at that point. Built-in keyboard on my MBP should be normal. e: Yes, this worked! TraderStav fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Sep 16, 2024 |
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TraderStav posted:Good morning! Over the weekend I picked up a Keychron Q1 HE and am really liking it. My set up is using my Mac on the left side of my monitor and my work Windows machine on the right. I am using BT to swap between the two with Function 1-2 as needed. What I'm finding is that since the keyboard is on Mac mode by default via the switch on the back, when I switch over to Windows my Alt/Windows keys are flipped. Quickest and dirtiest way I can think of is just having two separate keymap layers for a mac and windows layout, and toggle between the two through whatever hotkey(s) you want to set your keyboard to do. I haven't tried it, but I can grab one of my random VIA-enabled keyboards later today and see if it works.
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I picked up Steelseries Apex 3 TKL. Its switches are quiet and feel pretty good to me. I don't like backlighting shining between keycaps, but eh, it was pretty cheap. I still haven't found a numpad I like that isn't ridiculously expensive, I will hate living without one until next payday when I might get one that's like 100 euros😩
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