My evening company will be here shortly. I've come to accept that I'm a feeder. #fedpoasting
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aw yeah partytime 
Have fun friend
(edit: OH NO MY "t" on my keyboard has borked TWICE now AHHHHHHH DON'T DIE ON ME KEYBOARD
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Have fun friend
(edit: OH NO MY "t" on my keyboard has borked TWICE now AHHHHHHH DON'T DIE ON ME KEYBOARD
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My laptop keyboard has lost basically its entire top row so I've started bringing around a mechanical Bluetooth keyboard made of solid aluminum. Perhaps you be autistic like me.
RETVRN
(my dad used to work for IBM and I used to be able to get these keyboards for free from him, oh how I miss my klackety keyboard, the new ones that try to be klackety are never quite the same
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(my dad used to work for IBM and I used to be able to get these keyboards for free from him, oh how I miss my klackety keyboard, the new ones that try to be klackety are never quite the same
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@scenesbycolleen @adequate @yockeypuck a company called Unicomp makes new Model M's and they're pretty good, I'm told it's completely the same tech, they bought it or something.
I attached a picture of my Keychron Q6, which is aluminum with blue switches and heavy as fuck and feels quite comfortable.
I attached a picture of my Keychron Q6, which is aluminum with blue switches and heavy as fuck and feels quite comfortable.
That one looks like it goes hard.
I have a tactical solid milled aluminium keyboard as well just in case someone thinks they're gonna come up on me
👍I bought graf's aluminum keyboard as soon as he showed it to me and it is honestly the best non-DIN-connector keyboard I've ever had. But the KEYCAPS ARE STILL TOO LIGHT.
lol it does sound like we share the same keyboard autism 
I'm daily driving a ducky one 3 tkl with cherry blue switches but if i have guests over sometimes I'll switch to the aluminum one because it's got pudding switches or whatever the fuck they are called and they're not as loud so I can make an idiot of myself online and it doesn't keep anybody awake
Last time I was at graf's place I heard him typing on the aluminum keyboard while I was asleep and I was like "what the fuck is that? oh right I know what that is."
(...but mine were free, and I'm sure this is very expensive
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@sun @adequate @scenesbycolleen @yockeypuck Unicomp hasn't done *any* maintenance on their Lexmark inherited keyboard manufacturing equipment. If you buy a new Unicomp today, rest assured the fucker will break on you. I have bought two Unicomps - both broke on me in under a year. Technical support refused to help.
@sun @adequate @scenesbycolleen @yockeypuck This is what you get when you buy a Unicomp today - an aging, brittle mold. It came like this in the post. Not acceptable for a 200 dollar keyboard.
One of my keyboards has that same sort of feel except the actual keycaps are a bit too light. The rest are just gamer trash; better than non-mechanical keyboards but not as good as the real thing.
I'm trying and failing to find a picture of the worst keyboard I ever had to use, it was some horrible mac thing with keys that were squishy and weirdly placed and you had to very deliberately press every single key, no feedback at all, maybe it also had some squishy plastic covering on it that was of course disgusting because it was in a college chemistry lab but also made it even tougher to use it AND I HAD TO DO SOME DATA ENTRY WITH IT 
And just to top it off, it had no numpad
And just to top it off, it had no numpad
@scenesbycolleen @adequate @yockeypuck power word: “Cherry Keyboard”
https://www.cherry.de/en-us/products/keyboards/mechanical-keyboards
I forget exactly which switch it is, but there is one that they make that does a pretty good job of replicating the old IBM clicky switches
I started reading this and then my brain just drifted to "my uncle works for Nintendo" and I'm now fully aware of how fried my entire grey matter is
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@scenesbycolleen @adequate @yockeypuck
Still using this lad after 20 years.
Will migrate to a bepo typmatrix 2030 in the future when possible (been saying that for 10 years).
Still using this lad after 20 years.
Will migrate to a bepo typmatrix 2030 in the future when possible (been saying that for 10 years).
@mangeurdenuage @scenesbycolleen @adequate @yockeypuck Not surprised you're still using one of those IBMs, those things were insanely well-built
Do you have a dongle setup for converting it from PS/2 to USB?
Do you have a dongle setup for converting it from PS/2 to USB?
Quick get the AED and first aid kit. Ill call 911. Colleen give cpr 