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fox <3
Anyways I finally managed to send Joe that fucking down payment through Wise. So that's like 1/6th of what I have to cough up, no backing down now.

WHICH tactiles do I get TODAY
there are too many options

STOP posting racist fox

>>108493504
go fuck yourself already
you lack the will to sample the lot and find your true tactile love

>>108493817
name some good tactile switches and I'll try them if they're sold by the same vendor

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>$999 to have this thing on your desk

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>here's your S tier endgame Jane backplate bro

>>108493886
>>108493897
spending more than $100 for a keyboard case alone is ultimate goycattle niggerslave behavior

>>108493504
hmx blue stars

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imagine designing this
imagine MOQ on this
imagine buying this
imagine it all

Okay. I've learned my lesson. I won't fail to bake a new thread (out of laziness) ever again.

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>lubed nylons

>>108493504
Cherry Blues on Alu

Any full-width wristrests worth a damn on Ali? Maybe some wooden ones? Wood grain would go well with my carpet mat.

>>108493291
Seggs

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>>108494277
I understand.

>>108494277
that's a fox, you know

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>>108494263
fuck your carpet
just get one of those gamer wrist rests from Razer or whatever
they offer peak comfort over bullshit like metal or wooden rests

>>108494471
That's the best part.

>>108494531
I'd be fine with a hard wristrest, I'm lazy and I don't feel like keeping my hands up for a proper typing position.

>>108493504
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/greetech-brown-50g-tactile

8 cents per switch, scratchier than MX Browns

>>108494531
metal sucks because its cold but wood is great

What do you do with all thee extra key switches you aren't using anymore?

>>108494891
I keep them in bags in an old cookie tin

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>>108494692
why not get the real deal
>Cherry MX2A-GUNW Unlubed Browns
>lubed with TriboSys 3204 on stems
>TX Films 0.15mm
>TX 18mm 60g springs (bag lubed with Krytox GPL105)
>Galatea CEM-3 1.6mm solder PCB
>Alu 1.0mm half plate
>clipped and lubed Cherry stabs with Geon wires
>DCS beige keycaps

>>108494946
8 cents per switch is less than $10 to do a full board. 1/5 the price of Cherry.

t. currently have 200 unused cherry browns stocked up for future boards

websites don't even give you force curves or reviews anymore they just say "it's a good switch sir"

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when you tune your stabs, you are in fact being trained to play with cum
you just don't know it yet

>>108495009
The fact that nobody does force curves is so maddening.

If they don't have the tech to do them, fine, whatever, but at the very least if you're trying to sell me a tactile I want to know:

- Is the bump light, medium, or heavy?
- Does the bump start at the top, or after some pre-travel?
- Is the bump long and round, or short and sharp?

Tell me all this plus the spring weight/length and I can at least make an informed decision about whether it's the kind of switch I'm interested in buying.

>>108494471
I was already sold, no need to sell me further.

I can't stop fantasizing about using MX Blacks in 3 different ways
same goes for MX Browns
I live for Cherry

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Ok so I guess it's harder to replace a USB port than I figured...

>>108495280
Yeah uhh that looks like that PCB is FUBAR

>>108495280
mangled that up good, you did

>>108495280
I wouldn't even try to desolder fine pitch SMD components with several legs without a hot air station for exactly this reason.

which fucking switches won't take inputs unless actually pressed? i'm losing my mind here with resting my fingers on the keys

>>108495372
Buckling spring

>>108495372
Use heavier springs.

>>108495372
you fell for the light switch meme
Any switch below 50g of actuation force is for women and sissies

>>108495372
MX Blacks with triple stage 60g springs

>>108495372
HE switches configured in software to only register presses when fully bottomed out

if your switches have a stupid name I'm not even gonna consider them
what fucking person can say "Yea my keyboard has Akko creamy blue pro v5 switches" with a straight face

>>108495873
#keychronthockgang

is the Type-R considered a heavy switch? 60g bottom out, 55 operating force, but also only 3mm travel distance, I play games and want to avoid something that'll fatigue my fingers

>>108496222
No adult man will be fatigued by any switch no matter the weight or travel distance.

>>108496222
it's all just preferences
some people make themselves sensitive enough to ~5g differences
most people are okay with anything below 70g
just. buy. a. sample. pack. of. different. switches. and. be. fucking. free. of. it.

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>>108496296
okay badass
let's see you type with these springs

>>108496222
I play with melodics and those have a similar actuation force and there isn't any problem

>>108493291
Thank you for posting the funny fox and brightening my day a little in-between boring stuff like studying x and researching y :)
I love mechanical keyboards! They're one of the main reasons why I could never own a laptop (yes I know some have pseudo-mechanical KBs but they're just not the same)

>>108494277
She's really, really, racist.

Assume I have to pick one of the following linear switches, price is the same for all:
Gateron yellow pro (no idea which version)
Epomaker flamingo
Epomaker wisteria linear
What's the best switch, quality-wise here?
I'd say the gaterons but then again I've been out of the loop for a while

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>>108482908
>https://www.amazon.com/BOYI-YK82-Programmable-Gasket-Mounted-Mode-Switching/dp/B0D66VZT4D
Bought this, arrived today
I'm floored, I have zero complaints about this keyboard, finish is good and the keycaps and switches are good quality and the stabs are good and it's full aluminum. Forty bucks. Goddamn

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i think the little programmable keybinds with displays is a pretty neat idea
have like a specific shitposting preset, gaming preset etcetra

>>108497011
He already said he wants her, you don't have to keep selling him on her!

>>108497649
It's a shame they seem to have run out of that color. The only ones remaining don't look very good imo

>>108497674
its on the corsair website in stock at least here in the US

>>108497649
where is the fucking NUMPAAAAD

>>108497728
Vacation

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>>108497728

>>108497593
gats are evergreen

>>108497646
Geon btfo

>>108497744
Kids like to say "the future is now" and what they actually mean is "I don't need a numpad to play League of Legends or watch twitch streams, and I can't imagine any other use for a computer"

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>>108497877
here unc damn

Thoughts on Leobog A75? Saw one listed at 60 bucks

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>>108497728
No numpad = the keyboard at the center of the monitor = more comfortable typing.
>just center a regular keyboard
Less space for the mouse. If you absolutely need a numpad having it on the left is better.

>>108494277
>>108494471
>>108494602
>>108497011
>>108497674
all of you shut the fuck up now

>creamy
Who started this cringe term?

>>108499464
>Less space for the mouse
Get a trackball if you're gonna be desktop surfing anyways. I instead got an MX Master 3S that's about to arrive.

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I spent $65 to order a GMK104 which is $10-$15 more over a GMK108 for my silent build, how badly did I fuck up on the off-chance the screen is an annoyance more than an asset?

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GET OUT OF MY HEAD

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>>108500764
heh, funny

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Noo, don't leave! :(

>>108499902
what fucking asset?
just enjoy consooming it
you paid for it, you need to enjoy it

lubricated nylon thocks

relentlessly actuating creamy long poles with my hand
whatever it takes to get thoccy bottom outs

Not keyboards but I picked up my brand new MX Master 3S and yeah it's worth the price alright, super comfy compared to my worn-out G502

>>108499902
Not much of a fuck-up, that's a really good barebones

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nice feet bro

are glorious pandas good? they're like $0.55 a switch, $1 each if lubed

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3 years now I've owned a Varmilo VA Series V2 Koi Bluetooth and I love it.
I thought I'd hate having a wireless keyboard but this battery only needs charged once a year, I'm not exaggerating. Latency is imperceptible. Silent Cherry keys, it feels soooo good and doesn't CLICK-CLACK like other mechanicals.
I don't know where this keyboard ranks for any of you but it's always been reliable for me.

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>>108502244
Dirty and grimy. Never once cleaned, but forever cherished.
I'm proud of her.

>>108502146
try them all out

>>108502324
filthy bastard

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>dark alphas
>light mods
>light numpad
what in the fuck is this?

all PBT does is make every switch feel and sound like SHIT
you are not serious if you don't use ABS caps

>>108503349
>develops shine

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I was disassembling my board to clean it and I noticed this on the back of nearly all of the switches. What is it, excess lube pooling out somehow?

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>>108502146
They're good, but unless you know for sure you want the slightly less tactile bump or the sound that pandas get you I'd rec U4Ts over them. Smoother, less wobble, just a better switch overall imo.

>>108503481
>excess lube pooling out somehow?
Yea likely.

>>108503512
There are times when I'm grateful I have the need to strip clean these things.

>>108502146
I also recommend U4Ts over pandas
I never tried out the original holy pandas so I can't attest to them but the glorious pandas have too much stem wobble

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Browns on CEM-3

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Blacks on Alu

if you are still recommending the boba u4t when the gateron type-r exists then you are a retard and an agent of satan

>>108504996
based

>>108504996
>3mm of travel
I don't mind long-pole switches with reduced travel usually but that's too much.

Geon supremacy

I got the Das Keyboard 4 pro in the mail today, the MX browns aren't as tactile as I hoped, but I do think it's for the best, evidently they're better for gaming. Also it's a bit awkward typing on it, but I just need to get used to it after using the same cheap Dell keyboard for years.

>>108503503
I'd rec MMD Princesses from KPREPUBLIC over U4Ts, U4Ts have gotten fucking pricy lately for some reason and MMD Princesses are more available and cheaper

>>108505883
U4Ts are still $0.65 each aren't they?

Spring-swapped Cherry MX Brown hyperglides again.

This time I did 14mm 55g TX springs, lubed with 107. Switches left unlubed, filmed with DrewKeys rubber silicone switch films.

The switches sound significantly deeper, as if I'd given them a thick 205g0 lubing, and all I did was spring swap and film. I was 80% sure that filming made a difference before, now I'm 100% sure. It's night and day. Not sure if these particular films make a bigger difference than most, maybe they did.

These springs feel almost the same as stock, just a tiny bit lighter. If I'd had some 60g 15mm springs I would have used those instead, but this is nearly as good. I think Cherry got it more or less right with their stock springs, other than the awful ping.

>>108505585
MX browns are barely tactile at all. It's an acquired taste. They're almost a linear.

I've been using them for over 10 years and I think they're very fine switches. But when I first tried them I did think "these feel weird, they're hardly tactile at all". I wasn't one to fuss and return keyboards just because they were slightly disappointing, so I stuck with it.

I think of those as my first 100 Cherry browns. I have purchased many hundreds since

>>108504199
Nice, very nice

>>108506007
Oh FUCK YEAH

now try 18mm 60g springs on your next batch

>>108506260
Alright, alright. But I must say I've never been unhappy with 14mm. I've tried 55g and 62g, both good.

>>108506260
22mm 65g won, so fucking snappy

What is the current year goto chink GH60 PCB on aliexpress?

>>108506699
single, double or triple stage?

>>108506719
Multiple layout options
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007960086343.html

Lubed Cherries on Alu

Why is my MX orange feels much better than MX black? fresh mold?

>>108507495
Probably, depending on how old your mx blacks are.

is gasket bounciness actually something I should give a shit about? I can spend like $60 to "upgrade" my board to make the gasket mounting a lot more flexible, but I have no frame of reference to tell if it's worth it

>>108507495
MX Blacks are trash that's why
gotta do the switch of Theseus mod by replacing everything inside it first

>>108507649
it varies based on the type of gasket but ultimately doesn’t matter that much. you’ll probably get more mileage out of doing a solder plateless build if flex is your goal

>>108507649
should probably watch some reviews about the keyboard or something
not all keyboards with gasket mounting are as flexible as the marketing suggests
I have multiple keyboards that have gasket mounting but only one of them has that unique feeling of typing on clouds (my keychron q1 v2)

>>108507541
Oh yeah you might be right, they are from my old Rosewill RK-9000

Is some kind of crash of aluminum keyboards happening, Glorious is selling GMMK 3 Pros for ~$65 on Amazon and this is after snapping up a BOYI 75% for $40

>>108508225
the chinee have peaked

>>108507702
plateless hotswap is where it's at
maximum bounce
break the mold

milky lubed nylons

I wanna go to Germany to thock balles tief on lubed long pole linears

Redpill me on wanting to have sex with the fox. What's the use case?

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imagine spending $130 for GMK keycaps LMAO

>>108509343
cope harder faggot
GMK = ABS
this MTNU shite is for faggots because PBT = faggot who can't handle Cherry SCRATCH

ah yes let's just stuff it full of foam and put on PBT condom caps
I don't want to feel that ugly scratch

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I'm too much of a pussy to ride the scratch on thin ABS plastic

What the fuck are you even on about
ABS GMK = good
PBT CRP = good
just get both of them

ABS is always thinner than PBT
ABS = less plastic between your fingers and scratchy Cherries
DCS ABS caps are even thinner
perfect for riding dat SCRRRAATCH

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safety protocols = DCSengaged
it's time to ride

>>108508225
nobody buys gmmk in current year

>>108509343
I don't have multiple keycaps of the same kind stacked on top of each other so realistically I would never notice and make this a problem.

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should i just buy this its like $40 will it be reliable for actual non-gaming computer use or will it miss keystrokes and piss me off

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>>108511377
or the Endgame Gear KB65HE which is like $50 and impresses the ocd youtube man optimum

My F1-8x v2 Classic just arrived and I built it up with Cherry Nixies (filmed) and dry. This is the first 'high end' keyboard that I am very disappointed in. It sounds so hollow and thin... just not a pleasure to type on. The Neo65cu sounds so much better and 1/2 the price, WITH tri-mode connectivity. Sad waste of $500 honestly.

>>108511434
where THE FUCK is the Home key?
>>108511377
why THE FUCK would you want an Ins key instead of an End or Home key?

>>108511505
So true sis

are MX Blaecks doomed with mushy crappy bottom outs without swapping the dicks
I mean the stems?
SS with Kailh stems used to be the meta for a reason
fucking Cherry

>>108506774
Does something like this exist in 100%?

>>108512663
just get the Venom80 and some $20 numpad piece of shit
fucking hell just use a TKL stop trying to resurrect the dinosaur 100% layout
it just won't happen
not for customs

>>108512849
>sold out

>>108512873
wait for the free market to restock it

I love scratchy cherries
other switches can fuck off

Every switch is sacred

>>108513568
aside from cherry mx blues

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you're telling me a shrimp silenced these switches?

>>108513572
each and every one

>>108511663
homeless and built for inserting... just like me...

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Found this old thing in a room at work along with other shit from the 90's. Took it home and cleaned it up. Has a fantastic feel to it, good solid keyboard with some weight to it. Feels like I could kill someone with it. The keys are fantastic as well, feels like I'm back in the public library I used to frequent when I was like 6 or 7.

Do you have to buy chinkshit PS/2 to USB adapters, or do better solutions exist nowadays?

MX Blacks

my neo ergo finally arived

gonna build it tomorrow. now I just have to decide what to put on it. it's silver. do I keep it simple and go with mt3 wob? or maybe gmk 80082 blu. I also just got mt3 dusk and camillo on clearance before drop went under but camillo doesn't have the spacebars for alice

>>108515227
MoDo Light

>F1-8x 722 V2
>Glare R2
>F2-84 V2
Geonsissies we made it

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based

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Beige on ABS
Blacks on Alu
can't go wrong with the classics

demoralized keygem customer here. july marks my 2 year keygem experience. they offered me a refund 2-3 months ago which I accepted now their official support is ignoring me for the past 6 or so weeks without a single respond. I email them on a weekly basis. as far as I can see they also started getting more and more negative reviews not just on trustpilot but also on reddit and other social media plattforms. I have written that money off but who knows, as long as I can save someone from that place I will keep bringing them up here now and then.

>>108516496
that sucks to hear anon

>>108516496
can't you just issue a chargeback?

>>108516588
It was a paypal payment from like 20 months ago. I doubt that works and desu I dont even want to bother. Dont want to find out what kind of consequences that can bring if something goes wrong. like I said the money is already written off, if I get it back its basically bonus money at this point.

>>108516662
so what are you getting instead?

>>108516735
I bought a cycle7 from ebay. It was pretty much unused and was the alternative anyway. It was techbear8 (which I ordered) or cycle8 and I picked the unlucky one. Should have went with ebay to begin with since the whole thing took like a few days from start to finish and was pretty much the same price as going with a group buy (180€
).

I'm going to import a PSU from the US because one like I want is not available in my country. I'm looking for a unit for a fileserver, with perhaps 1000W and many Molex and/or SATA power cables. Recommendations?

>>108517185
>>>/g/pcbg/

>>108517185
cherry mx blues

>>108517193
>>108517262
uh-oh

Imax Blaecks

I COMMIT
TO MX BLAECKS ON AYLII

>>108515227
crp

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Today I was dreaming of assembling my F122, it's getting out of hand. I really need to find a job quick to pay up for the damn thing already.
https://aliexpress.com/item/4001238771239.html
In the meantime I ordered this cable just so that I use up the expiring coins from last year, knocked off a decent amount on the price with them.

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>>108493291
I've been trying a bunch of switches and boards for a few years now, yet somehow a relatively simple/unexciting combo I've cobbled together on a whim has far and away become my preferred daily driver board. It's not a fancy magnetic/optical board. It's not a sturdy buckling spring board (I love my Model FSSK but it's not a daily-driver board for me). It's just Kailh BOX Ice Cream Pro Max switches in a Keychron V6, with KSA keycaps. What the fuck.

Also: rough but loving consensual babymaking sex with racist foxes.

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Why isn't it possible?

>>108519392
Too small, so it wouldn't feel the same as full size buckling spring switches. That and no one can be bothered to make it.

>>108519392
It's just not.

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Blaecks on Alu

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artisan keycap users should be hung by their dicks

>grotesque faces instead of normal keycaps
I am seriously prejudiced against "people" who do this
fucking FAGGOTS

>someone uses silly keycaps
>I have to be performatively angry about this
why

>>108519392
Would need to be a hellaciously strong spring to get the right tactility in a normal Cherry sized switch which has all sorts of manufacturing problems and still wouldn't feel or sound the same

That Silo beamspring switch problem ran into a virtually identical problem and opted instead to go hall effect, which doomed the problem by missing its own point and opting for a dedicated HE PCB to accommodate physically larger/taller switches instead of an MX form-factor that it interest-checked and initially billed itself as

Weimar Blaecks

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do you dare to take it RAW?

>>108493291
haven't been on /g/ in a while. i guess posting averi doesn't net you an instaban anymore, huh

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are these white Alps?

and is that a fucking MX Black right beside it?
the hell kind of setup is that?

>>108522558
No. Looks more like a slider over a rubber dome to me.

>>108522606
I see Alps everywhere

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MX Blacks are timeless mechanical switches

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>wake up
>remember this thread exists
>look inside
>despite tranny posting it is somehow better than what it was last year
I'm pleasantly surprised

>>108523248
we went from thocky foamshit keyboards like the Jelly Epoch
to brutally minimalist full metal foamless TKLs and Cherry ONLY
oh fuck yeah

Any preset HE with alice layout?

>>108523563
lmao you guys
you want the deep end of customs preassembled

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why can't yuros into designing keyboards
imagine greenlighting this shit

>>108523711
Yep, that looks like every other metal rectangle alright.

>>108523753
even the chinks know better than to engrave all that shit WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT
NO I DO NOT NEED TO SEE A DEFINITION OF THE WORD LOGOS
FUCKING RETARDS

>>108523629
It really do tickle me fancy

>>108523797
why do you need to be able to read what size of keyboard you're using?
are you perhaps a bit underdeveloped in the noggin?

>>108523711
>>108523797
You wouldn't get it

(Although I don't like the particular definition of Logos he chose, which reeks of Reddit)

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>>108524800
With that said... the style he's going for does feel 10-15 years out of date. But culture and style has been moving at a snail's pace over that decade and a half, so that's not as damning as it used to be.

>>108523797
>>108524800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KxsdWX9xE

>>108507495
holy mother of ESL

>>108493291
i'd fuck that fox

>>108507495
Yes I think the fresh mold in your apartment in SEA is making you think MX orange is different from MX black

MX Gays

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now this is how you appeal to pretentious wankers
PREORDER IT NOW TO TAKE PART IN STEF'S TRILOGY OF SLOPBOARDS

>>108526866
Nah, I'm just gonna buy some prebuilt chinkboard off aliexpress for a third of the price

Yeah the MX Master is comfy AF, I already got fully used to flicking the wheel without having to unlock it first like in the G502. Still gotta find a good use for the macro buttons and the vertical scroll wheel, I mainly coughed up the money for it to have a more ergonomic mouse for daily use so that my wrist won't hurt as much.

Shame it's Logitech who's left doing good mouse designs given how dogshit their build quality and their software is. I did find this FOSS project that partially replicates the functionality of Logi's trashware, so that's nice. Hopefully it'll only get better and support more mice.
https://github.com/TomBadash/Mouser

>>108526895
unfathomably based

>>108526895
Good for you nigga, I bought the expensive Euroboard. We'll see whose keyboard is nicer

>>108526964
but do you have the Pneuma and Ontos as well?

suggestions for a keyboard please?
mech keyboard with tactile switches and per key rbg backlighting. It must have a volume control. Ideally TKL or full size. UK layout. full length key travel.

I have a logitech 710+ which is great, but that i going to my wfh setup and I want new shiny.

I have seen the Logitech G PRO X TKL Lightspeed Wireless which can come with tacile switches and that looks good. I am hoping for some alternatives to compare to.

>>108527127
anything from Amazon with Brown switches

and fuck full size boards
they always sound/feel like ass
the bigger it is, the worse it sounds
that's why all the peak boards are 60-80%

>>108526981
I'll be honest I can't actually find evidence the Ontos exists

The other is a 60%... fuck that

>>108527935
Geon only for a reason
perfect 80% TKLs
you can get a separate numpad too
fully covered.

>>108527537
Wrong. Peak is between 70% and 96%, with absolute peak at 60%+numpad

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absolutely based

>>108527948
absolute peak comes at more keys, not less
with a TKL and a separate numpad, you are fully covered
LESS NOT MORE
I WILL OWN EVERYTHING AND I WILL BE HAPPY

oh my god
MX Blacks CLAAACK

life is meaningless
I've experienced MX Blacks
there's nothing more for me to look forward to

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you mean everything to me
I wish I never met you
I'll never feel the same way I felt
when I first held you

>>108523711
>defines logos as Aristotelianly but in "erm, that's a logical fallacy"-speak
>does not define logos neoplatonistly (superior)
>in English, not Latin (better) or Greek (best)
mega cringe. Luckily nobody looks that closely at some bullshit on the back of the keyboard

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Does anyone here know what's the polling rate for Matias Tactile Pro? Wherever I search I can't find the info, neither on the official site nor reviews. I suppose it's 1000Hz but it'd be nice to know for sure.

>>108529454
You could try just emailing matias. Otherwise I wouldn't assume it to be 1kHz unless explicitly stated.

>>108528551
I have those same keycaps and the bottom corners of some of them kept scrapping the keyboard when I pressed them down, since the keycaps are a tiny bit wider.

Just built my 722 and every key except the spacebar thin. Like unreasonably thin... anyone also notice this or have suggestions for improving the sound?
Specs: V1.1 1.5mm full alu plate, Apollo fr4 hotswap pcb 1.6mm, 600k actuation mx blacks 205g0, Tx stabs

>buy an epomaker
>prorprietary software is ass and sometimes change language itself in chinese and is generally super buggy
>it breaks after 1 year with buttons not responding or triple quadruple clicking like ttttttttttttttttttttt for example
>buy a Ducky
>again another proprietary software that is buggy as fuck
>randomly decide to stop working depending on the weather condition basically, and just restart working on it's own in the same way (wired and wireless)
Meanwhile i still have a $5 membrane keyboard Microsoft brand that is 20 years old at this point WORKING PERFECTLY LIKE A CHARM STILL
>tfw fell for the mechanical meme

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>>108528587

>>108530766
check your apartment for mold

>>108530766
Those issues don't have anything to do with the keyboard being mechanical, dummy. I have mechanical keyboards older than you that work fine

>>108530766
if you had asked for a recommendation, people would have told you to get something with qmk and you would have never had those firmware problems

buying bottom of the barrel trash off amazon is your fault

>>108528502
gateron reds

>>108530182
File them down a tiny bit?

>>108493291
Keyboard recommendation
>Budget: Up to $300.
>Location: Europe, but I'm ready to order from the US and have it shipped here through a forwarder.
>Switches: I have no idea. I know jack shit about keyboards and mechanical keyboards. But my use cases for the keyboard are coding, typing text, using shortcuts in programs. I don't want the keyboard to be some kind of noisy thing. I do want it to feel pleasant to type and to press the keys, whatever that means. Feel free to suggest switches or types of them. I think ideally I would prefer to buy everything in one package without buying something separately.
>Layout: ANSI or ISO, it doesn't matter. I guess I prefer ANSI, but I don't know.
>Form factor: 75%. In general I want something without the numpad, but with arrows and with Home/PageUp/PageDown/End buttons, or close to it. I kinda want my hands to be roughly centered on the keyboard. Feel free to suggest other sizes if you think they're better for this.
>Backlight: I don't care.
>Current keyboard: My current keyboard is a membrane keyboard with a layout that is like ANSI, except that the Enter key is L-shaped in exactly the same orientation as the letter L (i.e. it's not like on ISO where it's an upside down L), and the key that is above the Enter key on ANSI is instead placed to the left of backspace, which takes only one key. I do not necessarily want this layout, it seems to be non-standard.

>>108530834
Epomaker makes nice hardware (even when they aren't trying to pass off Skyloong keyboards as their own, Skyloong makes fabulous keyboards) but has horrible software

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Very interesting find, Skyloong GK68 Mix has a PCB cross-compatible with both hall effect switches and normal MX switches, and has a socket for a knob module in the upper-right that can still have a switch of either type put in it instead

Weimar Blaecks

MX Bwowunz

>>108494946
I want my Cherry Browns to feel like this

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bros I can't get enough of this layout, I'm never going back

>>108535393
Congrats. I'll never be able to feel productive on split layouts I think.

>>108535393
Wait until you use a split columnar stagger board.

>>108536114
bro, alice took like 20 minutes to get used to. split columnar stagger would take weeks. I think I'm good

>>108536151
It's less daunting of a switch than you'd think to be honest. It might take a week or two to get back to your normal WPM but just being able to use it takes almost no time.

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>>108535393
I gotta say, after using this for a little while, the tent feels good but I wish it was a little steeper. Also, it could just be my imagination but the angle on the layout itself doesn't feel as aggressive as what I'm used to so I kind of wish it was sharper.

From an engineering point of view, this is the best board with the cleanest build experience I've ever used. The tent, the split pcbs with pogo pins, the ball catch with thick silicone force breaks around the corners, the extra row on the left to try to preserve symmetry, everything is well thought out. I haven't used any other neo boards, but I can see why people praise this one in particular so much.

My biggest complaints are really just that I wish right shift had a non-split stabilized option and the front of the board is kind of plain and ugly. I see now why so many people hide it with the wrist rest in pictures. But for an in stock alice at sub-$200 this thing is in a league of its own. Basically unbeatable. Extremely easy recommendation from me for anyone who wants an alice. It's so easy to build I kind of regret going with a solder pcb. I'm going to pick up a hotswap pcb just because it's basically built to be fucked around with.

>>108533091
You'd be able to see it filed down though

>>108536906
just solder it with mx bwown

>>108537138
Well I guess it's a hopeless situation then.

>>108537365
no

>>108537385
fine
have it your way
what will you do now?

>>108537367
That's what floating keyboard bases are for

>>108537554
get a hotswap and put melodics in it

>>108538104
based beyond belief

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>melodics

>>108538261
there isn't a better clicky on the market. cope and sneethe

>>108538329
Zeal clickies. Inb4 "too expensive and/or too tactile"

>>108538372
I do prefer a less egotistical showrunner

Oolong Blaecks

actuating MX Blaecks
but only on boingy boii springs
anything smaller doesn't get my G on

>>108533239
What do you recommend anons

>>108538636
Keychron K2

>>108538659
And what switches?
>Keychron K2
Is it exclusively wireless?

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>>108308015
>>108308040
It's been over a week since my realforce r3s tkl arrived and I started using it, so I'd like to give my impressions as someone who's been using membranes for as long as I can remember.
>looks
I find the understated gold-ish coloration to be strikingly aesthetic, easily one of the best keyboard color schemes I've seen from browsing the internet and lurking here. I would have been ok with anything that doesn't look like shit so this was a nice bonus.
>fatigue and typing feel
One of my biggest complaints about my cherry stream was that it was a little too hard to press and would get fatiguing in gaming. Unfortunately, this keyboard is also kind of fatiguing, but I've been gaming less so I don't care as much anymore kek. On the other hand, typing feel has been great. The soft, smooth smushiness of the keys as they slide down is satisfying, especially with how much depth there is for each key press.
>sound
Very satisfying. This has been a complete surprise for me because I mainly just wanted to get as quiet a keyboard as possible, so I wasn't expecting the sound to matter at all beyond that. But in combination with the feel of the keys it's been a significant source of enjoyment whenever I type. My only minor complaint is that I don't like the hard thud of the spacebar and it's hard not to bottom it out with my thumb.
>overall impression
This has been a shockingly good purchase. I really wasn't expecting to gain this much enjoyment out of it, especially from the sound of all things. It makes me understand why you guys make such a big deal out of those particular details.

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>>108538780
also, it came with chopsticks!

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>>108538783
>rotate the 1st picture in my phone, rotation is preserved in the uploaded file
>don't bother rotating the 2nd picture, rotation is applied in the proper direction after being uploaded
...huh

>>108538780
based Toprechad

What switches do I get as a beginner? Never used a mechanical keyboard before. Not for gaming, just typing. Needs to be good for typing and not too noisy.

>>108538929
Cherry brown

>>108538929
oil kings

>>108538929
depends on what you want. tactile or linear? if tactile do you want the bump at the top of the press or do you want some pre and post travel

>>108538929
Melodic

>>108538929
>and not too noisy.
blue stars or silent bluish whites

>>108539014
I don't know what I want, I know nothing about switches

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>>108539240
just get Cherry Browns

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>>108539240
Which do you think you'd like?

CLACK
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0Mo6C7Wvg

>>108539240
buy a switch tester that comes pre-populated with at least cherries since everything is downstream from them

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>I hate clones so let me just shine the fuck out of my real GMK keycaps
lmao at these retards

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>I see this as generational wear, once it goes to your kids or some other loved one they will see you used it and it will have your dings and scratches on it.and then they add there own. I think it is part of the charm of using stuff, keeping everything looking 100% new and unused is boring imho.
>I love accruing various dents, nicks, and anything that isn’t just straight dirt or grime on my stuff. Like to say it “builds character”
>these are tools and tools get wear from use. embrace the wabi sabi side of tool ownership
imagine coping this hard over trash QC
nice Jane V2 CE you got there bro
wabi sabi bullshit

real pros run MX Blacks plateless
ride that fucking scratch

make sure to bend your PCB as much as possible first
for maximum gasket mount BOUNCE
coupled with boingy boii 22mm Geon springs
MX Blacks peaked

stacking geons is the only remaining path to inter-generational wealth

>>108540714
correct
especially with the price of Alu these days

>>108539415
Well I feel like this animation doesn't tell me much or maybe I'm just retarded. But from what I've read on the internet, tactile and clicky ones are good for typing, and I don't want too much noise, so probably tactile. Unless you have a reason to recommend me clicky ones?

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>>108540979
no no no
go with MX Browns
specifically the new MX2A Browns

>>108539388
>>108541046
what keyboard then

>>108541099
>layout
>price

>>108542416
I already posted it
>ANSI, 75% (unless you recommend something else, I need F-keys, arrow keys, Home/End/PageUp/PageDown are kinda useful, but not too important for me)
>$300

>>108542638
Mode Sonnet

oh wait
that piece of shit takes a while to ship
just get the Neo75 with the Alu plate add-on
>https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/neo75-aluminum-plateless-75-barebones-wireless-diy-keyboard-kit?variant=52549764940076

>>108542638
if you want to build it yourself I would say just get a classic tkl though that isn’t a 75%, otherwise maybe one of the cheaper keychron Q series boards like

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q1?variant=39898879131737

if you get the keychron, you just need switches and keycaps, if you get a custom board you also need stabilizers and 205g0. for switches, it’s difficult to recommend something that someone has no idea what they’re looking for. to play it safe I would say just get literally any hmx linear. I say hmx in particular because they have the some of best factory lube jobs (keygeek is also good in this regard) so you get the best out of the box experience as a beginner, the materials they use are always great and linear is just a safe way to play it

for keycaps I’d recommend keykobo or pbtfans just to not completely break bank while still getting something decent

>>108542929
HMX makes the shittiest linears ever
either reccy Cherry MX switches or go screw
FUCK HMX

>>108543035
your opinion literally doesn’t matter because you unironically like scratchy cherry switches

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i want a keyboard with a trackpoint integrated

the TEX Yoda II looks cool but its no longer being made AFAIK. the Shura has stupid looking keycaps

>>108543099
i wonder why more boards don’t have trackpoints. is it a patent/licensing thing?

>>108543129
ive been asking the same question. but chinese factories are not subject to patent law in any way they are completely immune to it

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the TEX Shura which is currently in production has the trackpoint system but the keycaps look fucking stupid i don't want a fucking typewriter

>>108543099
>>108543198
the more important thing that sucks about these two keyboards is the lack of a ~` key. i am constantly shift+esc out of terminals and being a piece of shit in general

holy fuck
plateless MX Blaecks

>>108543064
alright alright
tell him to get classic HMX at least
Xinhais or FJ400s not the current thock crop

>>108543129
the free market says no one needs that crap
>>108543215
man up and settle down with a 60%
I recommend the Glare65 with HMX Lunar Stones
very user friendly
zero scratch

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the HHKB Studio looks okay, i guess? expensive and its missing arrow keys without being smaller like a 60%. i don't like designs that just waste the footprint i makes no sense

>>108543250
telling anon to be a man while recommending something with a name like lunar stones. unbelievable

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Glare65
so hot right now
Glare65

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>>108543269
you shilled for HMX in the first place

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>just get literally any hmx linear

>>108543484
now there's the Glare junior in all his frakking glory
MX Browns on Alu
like God intended

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>>108543129
Too niche. The patents have since expired but no one, not even Lenovo, can be bothered to release a product like this. They used to sell picrel, now it's out of production and they haven't released a new one. Unicomp also makes repros of the M13 under the name EnduraPro, but it's Unicomp, and they only ship that within the US. The interest for those is also too low for Joe to bother to deal with a Model F repro variant of his of an M13, so we're really speaking "made to order" levels of niche here.

>>108543803
i saw this one but its got fucking laptop keyswitches so there's absolutely no point to it

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i used to have a key that did this. sat perfectly with the feet on the edges, not pressing down any keys. i would like to find another one that does this