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>Keyboard recommendation template:
https://pastebin.com/n220xk9V

>Find vendors
https://www.alexotos.com/keyboard-vendor-list // Up-to-date list of reputable vendors with brief descriptions
https://keycaplendar.firebaseapp.com // Tracker for current and upcoming keycap group buys

>This keyboard stuff is so expensive!
https://aliexpress.com (or Taobao if you know how)

>Learn about Cherry MX switches
https://rentry.org/mkg_switches // Introductory guide
https://www.theremingoat.com // Switch reviews
https://www.switchesdb.com // Compare force curves

>Split and non-standard layout resources
https://compare.splitkb.com
https://keyboard-design.com

>What does ______ do to a keyboard's sound?
https://blacksimon.tv/science (Google sheet)

>Practice typing
https://monkeytype.com
https://www.keybr.com
https://thetypingcat.com
https://play.typeracer.com

>How Cherry switches do backlighting, and why it's not ideal
https://rentry.org/mkg_backlight

Should I spray paint the case white or off white?

>>106853441
I would take the exact blue color of the keycaps, offset it a couple shades darker, and do that.

DSAs feel better than SA

havent looked at the mechanical keyboard market in a very long time so I'm pretty ignorant, why is keychron discontinuing all their barebones boards that don't have a fucking knob, does anyone actually like or use these goddamned knobs

>>106853515
I wish my keyboard had a knob, it's like you don't listen to music.

>>106853534
I get that you can reprogram it, but I don't know, I already have a knob on my DACAMP, but I would never use it for volume control anyways since it's not program specific it will just turn everything up or down

>NKG-2297
>no qmk
why do they use proprietary firmwares?

>>106853515
I feel you man. I hate those stupid knobs

>>106853582
I'd reprogram the knob to some unused f-keys (e.g. f15 and f16, and f17 for pressing it down) and set those as global hotkeys for foobar volume up, volume down, mute. That way there's no context in which they do not alter the music volume the way I intend.

The thing that makes windows volume controls useless is that they are unpredictably context-dependent and sometimes do nothing.

>>106853441
>>106853465
im kinda liking this desaturated look
does your keyboard match your linux rice?

>>106853441
>>106853774
why tranny colors?

>>106853783
>trannies own pastels now i cant use them what will people think??? omfg

>>106853441
The black with the blue num/scroll lock text looks good as it is.

reposting my pic from the "keyboard thread" (since really it belongs here in mkg), the little write up about how the build went is here >>106833396

Also contains a reply to this poster(s?):
>>106807750
>>106807787
>>106807773
tl;dr I do think the Knight V4 needs lube, actually, but it's still a good stabilizer and I'm glad I bought it. Very much enjoying my Lichix silents, feels a bit like typing on rubber domes and I enjoy the sound of it

>>106853515
Cuckchron is a meme. Get Monsgeek for barebones.

>>106854209
Glad you liked the V4s!

>>106853791
Pastel gang rise up.

>>106854221
thank you

Playing on linears just doesn't cut it once you've used the Melodics and these caps.

Una deliciosa caps

This post was brought to you by 80Retros.

>>106853477
>>106854584
>>106854598
Swap your keys.
The profile of the caps might be nice but that theme is horrible.

>>106854640
*Swap your left and right arrow keys

>>106854598
that PBT?

imagine putting some cringe aliexpress retro onions keycaps on an s100

>>106853477
>>106854584
>>106854598
>>106854605
What caps are these?

>>106854221
>Get Monsgeek
Told this to an anon one time when it seemed the best fit for what he wanted was a Monsgeek. The keyboard he then bought was DOA. Never again.

>>106853477
there's a special place in hell for people who remove alphas just so they can cram every single novelty keycap into their keyboard

(it's only gonna be you there, you're the only person I've ever seen do it)

QUICK
TKD CYCLE8 OR PT 1/75?
NO I CAN'T GET AN F1-8X V2 OR A NEO GFY

>>106854330
imo the only pastel in this image is the yellow on the enter key

>>106857242
Does the Cycle8 have any of the optional upgrades?

>>106854653
Shit, I got them switched up. Fixed it now ty
>>106855024
>>106856475
80retros game 1989, shined ABS
>>106855448
Botanical 2 hoarder detected
>>106856605
I went for color matching over muh alpha autism, white to light gray to dark gray, looks gorgeous irl. You should see the rest of the novelties it came with, there's green and blue too lmao

>>106857259
Absolutely no extras except hotswap PCBs but I can get my own internal brass weights made for it since it accommodates 340g brass weights according to the specs, so that's not a big deal. I read that the board was designed with PC plated in mind but I can't get those, so will it be enough with the default alu plate and my custom brass add-ons?

>>106857294
>ABS
miss me with that shit

R8 my dremel.
Literally the only 4.5U PBT spacebar I could find was white so I had to find some set that works with both black and white for the rest of the case.
Also what should I do about the case and retarded 0.75U keys that are still disgusting ABS? Plastidip the case so it feels like old thinkpad exterior?
Cutting navkeys to fit would leave huge gaps on the sides. Opinions on mixing profiles? Would super low profile flat nav cluster and f-row work with the rest of the keys being normal profile?

I've lived a full life. I'm a virgin, I'm well over 30 years old, and I earn my living working from home. But when I am old and seconds from death (ideally), I know perfectly well what I'm going to be thinking about.
My parents. My friends. The pets I've had.
Hah, got you. I will think of my oneitis - GOT YOU AGAIN!
I will think of my parents, my friends, the pets I've had, and then I will think of the one thing that gave my life meaning outside of these people, these beings and the experiences I shared with them.
GMK.
That's right. GMK. I will think of the group buys I endured, I mean we endured as a community. Our shared suffering, our mutual misery, the pathos of not receiving my GMK Hyperfuse, the bathos of unboxing GMK British Racing Green R2 and finding all the keycaps in their proper place.
The joy of finding extras in a random Discord announcement after you missed out on a GB, the sheer bliss of holding a box of the finest double-shot ABS plastic that mankind has come up with. And finally, when I see the light, I will remember (verbatim!) my favourite product description of any GMK set ever (CYL FTRO)
>Is the future shiny? Is it chrome? Many may wonder, but rarely do we receive answers to such questions—until now. Through a garbled transmission from a date unknown, Earth of 2024 has been warned. Divert course; take back the joy of digitized input before the oppressors take over!
>Hard-coded into this message were the blueprints necessary to create a set of keycaps to aid us. Enlisting the support GMK electronic design GmbH and leveraging their techniques, this double-shot ABS keyset has been enhanced with UV printed APL operator sublegends. Take up the call with the ORIGIN base kit, or add some extra boost to your signal with the optional ALERT add-on kit.

>>106857571
>if I make my keyboard look like shit immediately, I won't need to worry about it looking worse over time

>>106857903
>immediately
Had it for 3 years, spacebar got so warped it bounced off the stabilizers if you look at it wrong. Only replacement was white or getting another of the same ABS set. PBT grain felt way nicer to touch so I decided to replace the rest.

What's a good mecha keyboard that I can buy for work? Tired of these shitty plastic one we have
t. accountant
The cherry KC 200 MX looks nice although but expensive considering I'll leave it at my work desk...

I use gay Microsoft ergonomic keyboards but holy fuck is the gigantic wrist pad making my posture dog shit, especially in game dev where I'm using WADS a ton with long presses. Would a regular ass keyboard just be better for my posture at this point? T. Wigger

>>106857939
Enjoy the smooth grain before it starts getting shiny in a few months. Plastic is plastic and all plastic shines when you rub it frequently.

>>106857981
Use a keyboard drawer, old school style. Your keyboard is too high.

>>106857294
It greatly offends my sensibilities.

I'll admit it's pleasant that the dark gray matches the gray of the board reasonably close, and the color scheme is attractive. The legends (where they are normal) are good, the caps don't show any warping or other failures to be uniform, the shined ABS with that profile is a good look. All of this I freely admit.

You can call it "autism" to have aesthetic standards which can be violated, but you would thereby relegate nearly all aesthetic criticism to the domain of the psychiatrists. I contend that it is healthy to have certain lines which, when crossed, produce revulsion.

I will never accept a violation of the purity of the alpha cluster. I will always be uneasy at a mismatch between a key's face value and its actual use. Etc. And I will always feel contempt for those who view these as personal eccentricities, and who think all is a matter of "taste", and "subjective", and arbitrary.

(This is me btw >>106854209 since I'm talking shit I might as well in fairness give you the opportunity to hit back)

>>106858391
tbf I use that one solely for COD so the shitty layout is alright by me. My regular work board has verdant retros with no modifications.
Also I like the unique Apple style font on your Photon, it looks weird but in a good way because it's consistent and the print quality is pretty sharp for such a small font.

Minimalist "muh thock" keyboard trannies need to fuck off.
Print keycaps in resin with recessed key legends, use cold porcelain putty/clay to fill them.
>B-but resin allergy
I've been using my keycaps for 2 years, no allergy at all. Or just spray them with some clear coat.

>>106859035
>Print keycaps in resin
>fuck your expensive keycaps get $1000 resin printer and shitprint your own!

>>106859075
>$1000 resin printer
You know most resin printers nowadays with 10k+ resolution are like 150-200 USD, right?
You can also just find some store that prints them for you for a couple of bucks.

>>106859108
dunno got an old ender3 didn't look into it recently. still there's extra gear like curing UV and cleaning and chemicals and shit isn't it? saw something about resin printers like last year but wasn't interested in chemical cancer

>>106859122
>curing UV
You can just leave them in sunlight, but if you want a cheap curing station, get a UV led strip and tape it around a paint can or box, works just fine.
>cleaning and chemicals and shit
That's really the worst part of resin printing, it is a chore and it's messy, you need a good organic respirator, which isn't expensive (like 20 bucks?), but still a health hazard.
Again, if you don't want to mess with the stuff, you can always send the keycap models to a shop that prints them. Just be sure to print it in a durable resin or the keycap connector columns might be too brittle.

Here's a close-up of a failed batch I made recently for a prototype.

>>106854330
I will not allow being called a tranny dissuade me from anything. During the sengoku era of Japan, Pink was considered the most manly color.

What the fuck man
I missed the OGR2 GB I didn't even know it was happening

nth for glittery filaments

Now this is what a REAL keyboard looks like.

I start breathing shallow with a higher pitch and rattling in my nostrils. There's no tape mod or grease for this. There's no cure except for buying more.

>>106859900
I posted about it at the time. Maybe you should have been here keeping our dying thread bumped. Shame on you.

>>106859279
Not bad but that legend bleed...
I found this to be more interesting but I'd need to build a small CNC
https://youtu.be/VIRkCXVwoXk

How the hell are model m adapters this expensive?
I'm thinking of just building some kind of universal adapter with RJ45, SDL, XT, and PS/2 inputs to USB output via selector switch. As far as I'm aware no one makes something like that.
Do you guys think there'd be a market for that?

>>106860177
>not full size
Not a real keyboard, that's a toy.

>>106861258
They're called layers old man get with the times

>>106857978
Can't vouch for it because I've never bought Vortex but this one with double shot PBT keycaps and Cherry MX2A Silent Red switches is $115 and doesn't look particularly flashy/desirable for theft, maybe a good pick I don't know:

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/vortex-type-wireless-hotswap-keyboard

Vortex themselves are allegedly a nightmare to deal with, so don't expect any customer support from them (as you wouldn't really expect with most Chinese companies), but in the case that it's defective it can be returned to this American vendor. (One of the advantages of not buying directly from China.)

>>106858534
full size for CoD? You're nuts!

>>106860177
Love it. Was very impressed by the Petrichor, the only AKB board I've tried, which was a gift for someone else.

It brings me pain thinking of the artisan keycaps and other bullshit other people are going to put on this board. It was made for unaccented Dolch, anything else is a crime. I'm not sure I'd even be fully OK with MTNU Dolch.

This may be an unpopular opinion but I think the 65 xt layout on this one is more attractive. Not a better layout, but.

>>106860232
It doesn't matter. There will be others. It's all the same.
That's what I tell myself.

Ali animu caps > German dweeb GMKs

Why do purists whine about foam and tape belonging on budget boards when they're necessary on practically every single board? No matter what switches you use, it'll sound far better with foam and tape in the keyboard or else you'll get endless avoidable high pitched clacks. Fucking retards.

>>106862101
I forgot to say but I'm a filthy french so I need an Azerty keyboard
The cherry one is 90€ on their site, I'll see first with my manager if I'm allowed to bring my peripherals to my workplace

Even muh premium boards have to cope with metal weights and copper or brass because NO ONE IS GETTING GOOD SOUND WITHOUT MODIFIERS

>>106862976
that fiddy?

>>106863728
No, that's Susan. It says right there.

I got this MS Basic Keyboard 1.0A from my previous company that was trashing it. It's an early 2000 model with PS2 port, works fine with an adaptor off Amazon. It's a sturdy and well built keyboard, great for typing and light gaming.

>>106852214 (OP)
>>106863796
you and OP are both gay.
>mechanical

Watch me make the cleanest cuts for my PE foam mod.

>>106863817
Your autism is flaring.

>>106861258
why are boomers so emotional about the numpad (deprecated)?

Certified hood classic.

>>106865434
It doesn't even matter. That particular kit allows for a separate numpad on either direction. It's a top tier design. I pray I can get an extra when the GB is fulfilled.

>>106852214 (OP)
Where do you guys buy your keycaps? The labels on my work keyboard's keys have faded and I need to replace them, but idk where to go. Are there places now where you can get generic ones for free, or is everyone still stuck on waiting for limited releases on Massdrop? I want something shaped like the ones in >>106853477, but with generic labels instead of whatever they've got going on.

>>106865663
keychron got cheap PTB ones. OSA profile
https://www.keychron.com/products/double-shot-pbt-osa-full-set-keycap-set?variant=40536290852953

>>106865709
Thanks, anon!

>>106865663
Just to be clear: your work keyboard is a 'mechanical keyboard' with cherry mx-style switches?

>>106865514
What am I looking at?

>>106863136
foam doesn't deepen the whole switch sound, it just deepens some of the prominent notes

>>106858534
>it's consistent and the print quality is pretty sharp for such a small font.
Yeah I really have no complaints about XMI, other than that they send the keycaps all jumbled up in a plastic bag. I don't think you can get better keycaps for $40.

Fuck me it sounds so tight now and I love how smooth and pillowy each keystroke feels thanks to the PCB tape.

>>106866060
PE tape mod.

>>106861300
That's called cope, fag.
>>106865434
Dedicated keys to do their job just makes sense from a design standpoint. Not my fault you troons are too busy inhaling e-celeb farts and fell for the gimped boards meme.
>b-b-but I can fightan gayme combo 17 other keys and have a shitty offset numpad using my alphas!
You realize how gay that is, right? Just be normal instead of gay.

Is there any particular reason why you people are making dozens of adjustments to an already expensive keyboard kit costing hundreds of dollars?
Why doesn't it come sounding good out of the box?
What the fuck is all that money for?

>>106867003
"Hundreds of dollars" does not buy you very much in 2025.

>>106867003
Think of those faggots as audiophiles.
It's all snake oil past certain point.

>>106867003
it's a reddit hobby
your keyboard isn't at it's best till you
>inject lubricant in the stabilizers
>disassemble your switches and paint lube on each part by hand
>lubing the springs too because your mechanical keyboard actually making mechanical noises triggers your autism
>fix the shitty manufacturing tolerances of every switch part by stuffing plastic shims in between each switch housing so they won't rattle even a little bit
>cover the bottomside of the PCB with painter's tape
>fill the open space in the case with foam or sheets of rubber
>fill the underside of the keycaps with sound dampening material
>all so you can type as daintily and as softly as possible
all this work gets invalidated the second you try to bottom out the keys like a normal person btw

my keyboard dosent have keys over 1u so i dont need stabilizers

>>106867055
To be fair the major players didn't make any improvements in design, especially manufacturing tolerances, for decades. Imagine if Cherry actually gave a shit about refining the MX platform instead of sitting on it for years.
MX2A is literally "new spring WHOOOOA", years and years after people were doing that themselves. Meanwhile some Chinesium switches have tighter housings and are better in other metrics for a fraction of the cost.

>>106866996
Nah coping is pretending layers don't exist, and by the looks of your post you don't even know what tt(0) or osl(0) do

You are an anarchism

>>106867231
>address how retarded of a cope it is
>"n-no y-you just don't know how it works"
Every single time. Look, if you like making yourself believe your $600 tranny board purchase at the recommendation of a guy being paid to tell you to get one is your jam, so be it.
It'll always be a snake oil toy you were memed into buying, though, never forget that. And no one that runs this desperate of damage control about how, "I'm actually super duper productive and a big boy" actually is a serious person. Surely you do have at least some awareness and realize how retarded of a cope it all is right?

>>106867231
layers and programmability don't matter on a keyboard with at least 86 keys

>>106867105
Kinda like when an r/childfree person brags about having free time and no obligations. I mean, ok. But you don't have wide keys, so what's the point.

https://youtu.be/aRGZaCoeKqo?si=q1NL8HW7p9G1ILHi&t=9

what switches is this whore using?

I've been doing this for numpad on my 65% and I'm surprised by how well it works. (My normal fn key is next to the arrow cluster, but since I use R3 control I have another fn key in the lower-left corner.) Getting used to the key locations is a little awkward because of the stagger, but now I can type my ○ — é etc. without serious difficulty. I'll have to practice a little more for it to be a serious alternative for fast number input, but for uses where the numpad keys were absolutely required at least I have them. I might try doing a custom monkeytype of numbers and operators to practice.

>>106867671
marbly bullshit with a ton of foam. did a quick google for frosted acrylic cases and it looks exactly like a Womier K66 so if I had to guess I'd say it's whatever basic Gateron red switch comes with that

>>106867726
Many laptops used to put num keys on JKL UIO to use 789 as is in both num lock and normal mode.

>>106867671
>whore
This is just some basic brown foid compensating for being a 5/10 by signaling that she's into male hobbies. Same as it ever was. Who cares?

The idea of adding a tomatometer to the Netflix browser is so fucking funny though. It takes two seconds to check this in another tab, so the utility implied here only makes sense if you watch a TON of Netflix (ie, you are a woman). And besides that, who cares? Oh no, I can't decide whether to watch Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler or Eddington (2025) dir. Ari Aster, but I see Sinners has 97% on the Tomatometer while Eddington only has 69%, so that settles it.

Wanna get old-skool keyboard like picrel
Recommendations?
>>106852214 (OP)

>>106867284
O_O Jesus christ anon
People do other things at their desk other than type oh my fucking god

Here is a letter I wrote to Adrian this morning for being a sweety and an article I am going to scrapbook.

Honestly tell me I'd be better off with a 20 x 8 x 3 inch, Grey keyboard.

>>106867315
yes it does, you can swap keys around. it matters a lot

>>106867003
>>106867055
You guys are in the wrong general.

>>106868121
>fuckhuge desk
>tranny colored gimped board
Yep. Every single time. Thanks for playing.

>>106868099
OGR2

>>106868389
nta and colors are gay but what's wrong with large desk?

>>106868389
I accept your concession

>>106868411
The point is that having a large desk and a tiny tranny board is hilarious, especially when most of the coping from tranny board owners is "muh desk space".
>>106868426
No concession anywhere, just acknowledgement of sheer faggotry and larping, as I already knew and stated earlier. Thanks for proving me right.

Just copped a Cycle8 in Peacock that I'm gonna pair with the ePBT Hellas caps. I found a local machinist who will make brass copies of the internal aluminum cover and the internal foam sheets under it that are of the exact same shape as the add-on weights. I'm gonna try it out with both BSUN Raws and Kailh BCPs, as well as Green Fogs and SWK Ghost Dragons (these are excellent for stab keys BTW).

>>106868441
Wow ok you are right I just went to Micheals and bought this calligraphy set and exacto knife and wrote a letter just to larp for this one picture to you im glad your world view remained the same despite direct picture evidence

>>106868475
Those colors will clash very badly; Peacock being a rich teal hue very much on the green side of blue, and Hellas being a very middle-blue, desaturated and baby-bluish, leaning ever so slightly toward lavender, bordering on periwinkle.

Scratch that. The Akko Green Fogs and Strawberry Cheesecakes for stab keys are now my board's meta.

>>106868916
Can't know till I try. I also have half a dozen SW keycaps on the way, all in different colourways, so one of them is bound to work out.

CONSOOM

>>106869227
>Can't know till I try
Was gonna just post picrel as a joke but in all seriousness this is just proof that playing 1000 hours of The Sims is very important life experience

I see what you mean. Well, that's me fucked. I wish I could just get a Retrocast or Terror Below. Perhaps later.

>>106869264
Sometimes the mind sees what it chooses to see.

Also wtf is up with the Sonjas, the stems don't even hold the keycaps in place, nevermind the usual barely-there fit of the bottom housing against the hotswap socket. It's loose on both ends with the Sonjas!

How about the Keykobo Poltergeist? It's like a toned down GMK Laser. Shouldn't look bad on teal.

>>106852214 (OP)
This is an odd request but do you guys know of a keycap set that looks similar to the keys from the IBM 5100 keyboard? I want to build a mech keyboard that sort of looks like this vintage computer.

>>106869402
1000 hours of The Sims and a spoonful of "color theory" is all you need.

>>106869559
Centered bottom legends are interesting. Never see that on MX keycaps.

>>106868121
Hey retarded tranny your pen doesn't have an ink cartridge in it. Get the fuck out of here with that poser shit.

>>106868121
You need new keycaps. It's the only thing that can save the board at this point. I vote beige JC Studio keycaps

>>106870279
>beige
Bro that is just straight NOT the direction this keyboard is heading. It's having a forced gender change with its gender reveal is scheduled for tomorrow

>>106870753
>Bro that is just straight NOT the direction this keyboard is heading.
The last thing I'd want is for it to continue heading in the same direction.

>>106868099
The keyboards of that era had some fun looks but they unfortunately weren't great keyboards

How retarded would it be to attempt to do this to an MTNU cap? Did a quick search and found this video on Reddit, he just used hot glue on the underside. I have a keyboard that needs to show light on the numlock keycap, it doesn't have a dedicated indicator and it's a 96% layout so using numlock is a big part of using the board. Finding keycaps that suit it is a huge pain.

Obviously I'd do a few test runs on non-essential caps first, like R1 page down, accent novelties, etc.

>>106867053
Still haven't seen any videos of this (other than the streamer early builds etc), I wonder how that group buy's going

Still haven't seen any videos of this (other than the streamer early builds etc), I wonder how that group buy's going

>>106852214 (OP)
Just buy Topre.

>>106863138
>I forgot to say but I'm a filthy french so I need an Azerty keyboard
That's such a small niche that it makes us effectively useless to you. You'd be much better-off asking around on French language forums. As far as I'm aware the availability of these keyboards over there is shit.

>>106872009
Yeah that fucking sucks
Wish keyboard layout was universal....

Hey guys can I suck dick for GMK caps?

Woah, this guy's color theory is whack

ABS is awesome.

The Hellas looks so good, it's not my problem they didn't have any extras left over in other colors, I'm gonna jam these on Peacock and fuck myself with it.

Lmao at no brass default

To any newcomers looking into this thread and trying to decide if mechanical keyboards are for you: please be aware that all the posts s○ying tf out over keycaps and saying "hnnnggg fuck me in the ass GMK" are one guy, and he does not represent the spirit of this thread generally

>>106875104
(I am, of course, understanding and forgiving when it comes to the excessive and sometimes embarrassing enthusiasm of younger recent converts, remembering my own embarrassing enthusiasm for tacky pleather shoes when I was 18)

I've bought a GK850 and a used K95 Vengeance for 200 and 250 PLN respectively, I'm thinking about selling both of them off and building my own keyboard now that I got some experience. Are there any companies that offer PCBs similar to the K95 Vengeance layout but with better positioned and profiled media controls above the numpad and something resembling those 18 extra programmable macro keys on the same circuit board as opposed to a seprate daughterboard?

If not, then I'll probably just get a separate alphanumeric pad of some kind on a separate USB connection anyway. Having the entire keyboard be programmable on a hardware level with more modifier keys and macros are more important to me so I don't have to use proprietary Windows-only software.

Oh yeah, and if they support those magnetic hall effect switches then all the better.

>>106864146
>>106865514
You just stabbing it or using a knife to cut it?
>>106867055
Honestly this, especially if you actually make it silent.

>>106875104
>>106875144
Someone's gotta keep the general alive, and shitposts serve that purpose well enough.

>>106875336
I placed it on the back of my pcb, stabbed the plate/case mount holes with stabilizer wires.
Having done that, I sandwiched it between the pcb and my plate, and double stamped each key with an HXM Cloud which was perfect because it didn't get stuck in the plate.
Then I cut the corners to size, overlaid the stock pcb switch pad to mark the stabilizers and cut those off. Then it was ready to go.

>>106875144
Did you just equate the holiest of holies with pleather?

Sacrilege! May your next GMK have crooked 1.5u keys!

If even PBT keycaps wear out and shine, why not have wooden tops on keycaps?

>>106875340
>Unironically saying "shitpost" in 2025

>>106875419
I think tasteless blasphemies like this are cringe and Reddit

>>106875491
Wood wears considerably worse.

>>106875525
You're stiffer than a torqued down alu plate.

>>106875491
Glass is glass and glass always scratches.
Plastic is plastic and plastic always shines.
Just accept the beauty of it. Nothing is built to last.

>>106875750
There is nothing more boring, stiff, and tired than the perfunctory exhortations from every Tom, Dick and Harry to "loosen up" and "not take things so seriously". What you find "stiff" about me is that I refuse to pretend you aren't boring.

>>106875845
And that's a good thing. Boring bumps keep the general alive. I will do my part as a member of the community.

Someone has to man the general. It's a bit of a janny-tier task but I'm NEVER SURRENDERING
OOORAH BITCHES
NO PAGE 10 BUMP-OFF-THE-CATALOG ON MY WATCH

>>106875525
>>106875757
biz idea: sheetrock keycaps

>>106876036
What profile though? Can't be standard Cherry. Might get takers for low profile gayming boards that use Gaterons like Nuphy.

Xinhais are surprisingly good. Anyone tried raw linears from Gatreon/BSUN? I see them shilled as endgame linears after the last few years of Oil Kings.

I broke into Ric Flair's house and found my way to his safe. He was asleep and I picked his safe open.
There was nothing in it 'cept for FIVE copies of GMK Botanical 2. I couldn't control my rage. I woke Ric up and demanded an explanation. He went
>what's there to get? I'm the NAYTCHA BOY

Thoughts on the reddragon k689?

>>106876837
Get a hyperX or Corsair in the same range, if it's available.

>>106876837
I don't trust Redragons to last. Too much corner-cutting.

>>106872242
just reprogram the keys and swap them around as you need to. wtf

>>106877053
Having to buy your own keycaps, plus the full-size ISO offerings being almost fucking nothing, is not an enviable position to be in. He's right to complain.

>>106874838
I'm not really sure I liek that. I'd expect full metal switches with small haptic actuator in each of them, with TMR tech resolution. at the very least.

How is AKB so consistent with their designs? One banger after another.

>>106877071
I don't get it. just swap the keys to azerty and reprogram them in qmk. what am I missing?

>>106877119
How does this in any way contradict what I said?

>>106877128
https://keychron.fr/collections/v-max-iso-series/products/keychron-v6-max-qmk-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard-iso-layout-collection
what tf are you talking about? you can find accesible ISO mechanical keyboards.

>>106877181
Do you know what "almost" means?

>>106877191
Christ, don't be a pedant.

>>106877238
It would be pedantry to point out that you had slightly misused a word, or to pretend as if I didn't understand what you meant because of such. It is not pedantry to point out that your entire post is based on completely misunderstanding what I said. You are making an ass of yourself.

And yes, having one option (Keychron) which comes in one color (black) fucking sucks, it's almost nothing, and I'm sorry you couldn't use this as an opportunity to act smug about how easy it is to remap keys.

>>106877319
you daft dimwit
https://keychron.fr/collections/fr-iso-layout/products/keychron-k10-max-qmk-via-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-iso-layout-collection
https://keychron.fr/collections/fr-iso-layout/products/keychron-k10-qmk-wireless-mechanical-keyboardiso-layout-version-2
https://keychron.fr/collections/fr-iso-layout/products/keychron-q6-max-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard-iso-layout-collection
https://keychron.fr/collections/fr-iso-layout/products/keychron-q6-he-qmk-wireless-custom-keyboard-iso-layout-collection
https://keychron.fr/collections/fr-iso-layout/products/keychron-k5-qmk-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-iso-layout-version-2

And there's even more options if he goes for cheaper ISO non-FR versions + a full set of PBT doubleshot keycaps, whatever color to match, they're like 45 euros or something. and I only listed the 100% layout, ISO-FR that are in stock.
and you can find different stocks at other EU websites

>new bad
>old good
yes

>>106877406
You are being the pedant here. I said their one option is Keychron. I didn't say Keychron makes only one keyboard, nor did I imply it, but that's not going to stop you from using the most uncharitable possible interpretation of the post—precisely what pedants do and what makes them frustrating to talk to.

And half of those are either in the $200+ range or are low-profile keyboards or hall effect; not what anon wanted.

>>106877472
there's 5 pages of ISO keyboards in stock anon. he can get a qwerty ISO and switch a few key around.
I specifically showed ISO-FR that are in stock, which is the most demanding find. if you limit to just ISO with whatever EU layout, there's more options

>Vendor announces new GB for an AKB board
>get excited
>it's the is0GR2
muthafucka

>>106877504
>there's 5 pages of ISO keyboards in stock anon.
He wants a full-size. Why should he care if there's another four pages of wrong-layout keyboards?

Let's put it another way. If I were a French guy, and I bought these keycaps to put on a full-size keyboard:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007307683294.html
..could I even find an appropriate-color keyboard to put them on? (Putting aside the question of whether black works with beige, which some do believe, but I don't.) After some looking, the only thing I can find is the Cherry G80-3000 in gray.

And this is one of the most 'classic' and popular keycap colors. If I were a US-ANSI guy, I could right away point to a slew of options from Keychron, Ducky, Leopold, 8bitdo, Filco, Vortex, FL-ESports, maybe more. This while it's generally acknowledged that the full-size options aren't very good compared to, e.g., TKL.

For ISO there's... black keychrons, maybe a white keychron if you're lucky, Cherry G80-3000, Varmilo, some gaymer brands like Corsair, Razer, Designed by GG. Almost none of it goes with beige. Why do you feel the need to gaslight our French friends and pretend this is lots of good options?

>and switch a few key around.
That fucks up the sculpt, so unless you mean "buy a new set of keycaps" or they happen to offer an azerty add-on kit, no you can't.

>>106877568
In his Discord he's been saying he has a new very limited-run project he's working on, but no details yet as I don't think he's decided what he's doing, he's getting a lot of input from 'the community'

>>106877863
I bet it's a 60% tranny board

>>106877965
I hope so. There's a 0% chance I'm gonna be getting one either way, but if it was something I actually wanted that would sting a little.

Why are all Asian women into these sorts of cutesy mechanical keyboards?

Explain why you need more?

>>106878010
Because they are being paid to be

>>106878055
Tendinitis

>>106878010
They don't don't have kids so they think their keyboard is a baby.

>>106877984
I feel the same. I hope he's just hyping it up and it'll get a normal run like Petrichor. I had the chance to get that in Dolch (godlike color) and I missed it because I'm retarded.

>>106878010
Same reason she's wearing that lacy black gothic top. It's her personality.

>>106878119
I got the Fool's Gold, picrel. (It was a gift, the recipient really likes it)

>>106878146
Fucking SWEET

>>106878010
I always found this kind of China junk ("ROYALAXE L98") a bit baffling, and wondered who was buying it. Turns out those mystery buyers: Chinese people. Should have guessed.

>>106878090
ok fine
I also have this

the 60% is good for my fps strafing though, much better than the red mechanical, also the HE switches feel better to type in than the reds

>>106877863
there's obviously less FR-ISO layout keyboards available, wtf I wasn't arguing they're as common as US-ANSI. that's a fucking strawman you fag
>>106872009
>As far as I'm aware the availability of these keyboards over there is shit.
>>106877071
>plus the full-size ISO offerings being almost fucking nothing
so "shit availability" and "almost fucking nothing" means you find one, on some website, and that's it out of stock atm and you gotta wait. that's what people get from how you framed it.
then when I point out your bullshit you keep moving the goalpost bit by bit culminating in "muh US-ANSI are more available so I win and much colors" fuckign mouth-breather

>>106878229
I just camp in FPS games.

>>106876368
Before I gave away my old Daskeyboard with failing end-of-life MX Brown switches I soldered in a new set of Xinhais that I wasn't going to miss. It kind of became a vehicle for getting rid of some ill-advised purchases from when I was new to the hobby, including a set of ducky OEM WoB keycaps. I put a thin layer of felt in the bottom case and it actually sounded pretty OK, looked reasonably new too with new caps.

I would never, ever do Xinhais in a hotswap board, they are just so undersized. And I wasn't into linears enough to solder them into something of mine permanently. So they seemed like a perfect fit.

>>106878223
This would have been a 400 dollar keyboard, 5 years ago

>>106878408
>that's what people get from how you framed it.
Then people are idiots. I don't care.

>>106878446
based. I caught multiple bans from MW3 (2023) for camping in S&D with a little-understood gun attachment that made it possible for me to headshot people from across the map with pixel-accurate hipfire, and I have treasured memories of forcing whole lobbies to leave by team camping Arsenal (vents) and Seaside (tower) in BO4 TDM

>>106878229
Don't let the troglodytes keyboard shame you, small keyboards are perfectly acceptable for fps and even needed depending on what your aiming technique is

>>106878223
how much does it cost?

>>106878509
nta but I'm considering building a corne just to see what's up

I fought the law (and the law won)

>>106878551
I feel you, every year my aim gets wider and my desire for a split keyboards grows with it.

>>106878482
>camping in S&D with a little-understood gun attachment
high five, brother.

>>106878620
Are they still adding guns to the game? I've never seen that one lol

>>106878706
That's from mw2. It's the only marksman rifle that's worth a damn with the scarlet laser. They had it on the kar but they removed it after people were aimbotting with the laser in WZ lol

>>106878743
I thought it was called the SPR 208, I'm confused lol

my go-to guns for the scarlet laser were Bas-b conversion kit (best for long range maps), dual lockwoods with slugs, akimbo swarms, RPK conversion kit (not as much after the nerf, obviously). also one of the semi-auto pistols akimbo, forget which but pretty sure it was one of the glocks, and the deagle if the enemy team were bad and I had to go easy

>>106878780
spr 208 I should add was like the deagle, only used it if I was going easy, outclassed by bas b and lockwoods in almost every way

>>106878542
according to google $130USD

>>106878780
It is the SPR. I renamed the class so I can identify it as hipfire-only.
That's not all. The BAL-27 with the Deathmarch mod gets a wider shotgun-style reticle that breaks when you use the scarlet laser. You can move around with it without expanding the crosshairs, stack it with the hipfire attachments and you get insane bonuses for min spread. It's great for spazzing around on shipment, perfect laser beam accuracy without standing still. Absolutely filthy

>>106878879
Ah fuck lol I forgot it displayed custom schematic names like that, it looked like it could be an actual gun name

>>106878851
is it compatible with qmk or does it steal all data?

>bought barebones and switches
>forgot keycaps
im so fucking retarded

are glorious/ducky/keychron pbt keycaps decent? i just want some nordic ISO keycaps thats not too expensive

>>106879106
Glorious easily, making durable keycaps is the only thing they are good at

>>106879106
xmi are very good
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007307683294.html

>>106879106
I found this https://youtu.be/F9N_fkS6RKE
Have no clue, considering getting a set myself.
>>106879167
How much is ISO set? Some SA profile?

>>106879197
>keycap sound test
i mean sure they affect the sound but aren't you more concerned about how they look and feel?

>>106879212
He did talk a bit about the doubleshot quality. I suppose they're at least decent. Didn't hear people instantly replacing the OSA ones, after they get a keyboard with them.

>>106879212
on plebbit some people are complaining that PBT OSA ones develop shine quite fast. but complains are from 3 years ago. maybe they changed, maybe they're the same.
still ok if they come with a $100 keyb. you can replace them later if they shit themselves

Hoo boy

Clickety clack

>>106879865
>mod color tilde
Disgusting.

Caps look high quality. Some dislike icon mods but I think they're OK. I'd prefer nav sublegends on numpad keys if this weren't a full-size, but it is, so number-only is nice. / * on numpad is ideal. Good board-caps match. Brown accent doesn't make sense to me but it's not totally offensive. Accent spacebar I dislike because there is no thematic unity between spacebar, numrow, f-keys. Rubber finish on cable is good, shame the usb-c housing isn't darker, but cables are never perfect.

Overall ok.

Have you ever seen face off? The gender swap is complete

This fucking small shift key though.... its like a subtle reminder to my keyboard that it will never be a real woman

And thf I think I threw away the f1 row this whole thing is botched and im kill9ng myself

>>106880468
https://milktooth.com/products/jcs-ansi-us-black

US Postal Service keycap legends—cool or cringe?

>>106880548
>accidentally putting the "super white keyboard" novelty cap from my Chinese keycap set made for the Chinese market on my American work keyboard and getting immediately fired

>>106880468
You might as well troon out all the way at this point
https://mechkeys.com/collections/pink-keycaps/products/soulcat-electronic-meow-keycaps

I guess the long search for keycaps i like on this evo75 begins.... I detrooned them and put some nice transparent key caps on the left, it looks good all lighting up

>>106880483
Die
>>106880791
Im not THAT Trans, jesus, it is tempting tho the hello kitty arrow keys just kill it

>>106881282
Wait for GMK CYL Gurokawa R2

>>106881282
>Die
You accidentally hit enter before you finished... "Die schönsten Tastatur-Tastenkappen, die ich je gesehen habe"

This image is a pretty good litmus test for keyboard taste: do you regard these keycaps with respect, or disgust? >>106880483

>>106881760
Beige and gray keyboards give me negative nostalgia of the 80s-90s. Mildewed woot paneling, and the buzz of fluorescent lights. Their monochrome palette evokes an unfilled paint by numbers malaise-- neat and orderly, and a juxtaposed against an unfulfilled life.

>>106880371
There are no sublegends on the Monochrome R2 and the Evil Dolch, funnily enough. The brown kit doesn't have full modifiers for whatever reason

The stock monsgeek cable is the only one that works on the S100. I got a fancy aviator one but it has what appears to be a waterproofing o-ring that makes the type-c male end shorter. The lights turn on but my keyboard remains undetected on it. Instant e-waste

Unscheduled offworld activation

How right you were about the spacebar accent being inadequate without the matching numpad. This one's done for now, I don't even want to think about the caps I'll need to match for my Half Life board. If only they had Carbon R3 in stock with all the add-ons.

Badda-bump!

Cycle8 is gonna be in my hands real soon today. Can't wait to bust out my elite switch swapping skills and do something that 1000s of other keyboard owners do but it feels SPECIAL to me and it is SPECIAL to you when you do it so we should REVEL in it anyway
ABSOLUTELY DIONYSIAN

Live to get bumped off-catalog another day

I love cherry

>>106881760
I come from a couple of backgrounds on this question, both of which inform my feelings about beige.

The first is a hipster creative sort of background, where "showing one's creativity through colorful extravagant objects/clothes/etc" was totally out of fashion, an inferior and cloying kind of "creativity" in which stupid people indulged; partly, this comes from a fatigue being around other constantly-signaling 'creatives', and a need to discriminate those who "get it" from those who don't.

The other background was MMORPG video games, especially WoW at the advent of "transmogrification". When players had the freedom to decide what they looked like, every average Joe decided to look flashy, big, and ornate. Google "WoW tier transmog" and you'll get an idea of what these players looked like. To stand around in Stormwind was to be surrounded by a million epic badass video game superheroes, and it looked like shit. In this context it felt radical to eschew everything 'awesome' and opt to look like an NPC instead. This was the mark of the superior aesthetic sensibility.

"Personalized" keyboards exist because people are vain. All of us are using them to advertise our sensibilities. My keyboards announce my judgment of everyone else's. Mine are thoroughly Puritan, demonstrating a high degree of aesthetic restraint, with no flourishes, no jokes, no "pops of color". By this absence of idiosyncracies they are also, as it happens, very anonymous; by so being, they express humility. For humility's sake I also like to see a maker's mark on a keyboard, though sadly they're rare today. Allowing a bit of branding on the face of your keyboard is allowing the maker their due credit for the piece that they have made, and I think the trend toward 'minimalism' (thankfully dying) is the height of consumer arrogance.

But most important of all, I think beige caps are beautiful, far more beautiful than every desperate grasping GMK set

>>106887314
I forgot to attach this image

>>106887314
With badges that's a foregone issue sry IA type half

BSUN Raws with Ghost Dragons for stab keys. These will keep my Monsgeek (old faithful) in play instead of sitting in a drawer. I have to say, the diffused lighting from the PE foam sheet makes RGB look spectacular. I wonder why this isn't the meta for RGB on gaming boards with shine-through caps. It doesn't hit you in the eyes at all.

I am concerned I am developing carpal tunnel and would like to get an ergo board and switch layouts. My company will pay for it if its under $250. What should I get, and what layout? I have used cherry reds my entire life.

just discovered JIS layout. I think the short space with two extra buttons each side is better than everything else

>>106889598
Make sure your keyboard isn't too high or too low for your wrists. That's probably a bigger contributing factor than keyboard layout or shape. Mine used to be too low for my table.

Make sure to keep your hair spotless and clean Wash it at least every two weeks Once every two weeks And if you see Johnny Football Hero in the hall Tell him he played a great game Tell him you liked his article in the newspaper

Let's take her past 310 before giving her the Old Yeller treatment

In my desperation to find pale blue Cyrillic caps I've tracked down Domikey's Cloudless, but I dislike the colors of the mods (? I think that's the term for shift backspace enter etc). I was considering getting Tai Hao blue gacial lake and combining them but it's difficult to tell how the colors would look together. I'm open to other suggestions of course. I have an opaque white MK870 and try to stick with a white-light blue theme.

https://domikey.com/collections/cherry-profile/products/cloudless-cherry-profile
https://klawiaturowyblog.pl/tai-hao-blue-glacial-lake-recenzja-test/

why do people like OEM/Cherry profiles so much? I'm so tired of them

>>106890685
Beats me, I've been all in on spherical profiles for a while now.

>>106887314
For me its like

>Actually having superior taste and ability to express that taste successfully > a clumsy but Ernest attempt to express your personality > just accepting you cant do better than beige >>> trying to express wealth through taste >>> a dishonest attempt at personalizing something just because you need to fill in blank space

>>106890685
Tired of them because you're a hipster or because it hurts to type on them?

Guys the BSUN Raw linears > Kailh BCP/Gatreon Sea Salt Smoothies/HMX Xinhais. Wtf is up with these switches, they feel like they're treading the super fine line between heavy and firm while being so easy and smooth to press and type nonstop. Legitimately creamy feel when typing.

>>106891113
because they look meh

>>106891113
mt3/sa soft edges feel good
cherry hard edges feel bad
simple as

>>106891210
hammerworks CRP edges aren't hard

Why does the Box White V2 have a green rubber dampener? It's very mildly lubed up too.

>>106890685
For me its that feeling you get when you take the keycaps off a Chinese keyboard you got for 20 dollars then put them on your 10 dollar board you bought at a garage sale and it just works

Thank you "eagle tech" for your suspiciously good duel layered abs keycaps

>>106891637
>duel
Im going to kill myself

>>106891622
That's not a rubber dampener, that's what the stem pushes on in order to move the contacts. The "box" of kailh box switches refers to the box the contacts are in.

Without it, you get the clicky click minus the high pitch. It's like doing the Gateron Lanes mod for Box switches lmao

I just need white function keys, and maybe a numpad. GMK sells numpad keys standalone so I could buy those, but I'm not buying a whole set just to use 8 of the function keys. I've looked around a bit but I can't find anywhere that sells specific keycaps, am I sol?

just bought this, what am i in for?

>>106892926
Just a normal, solid board. Hope you got PBT keycaps and not the shitty thin ABS ones.

>>106892926
I think you'll be a happy camper. Nothing wrong with good ol' Filco.

Hear me out
>clicky switch
>silenced bottom out

>>106893225
Would need to be a partially silenced click too imo to balance out the sound signature. Too much clicky sound with no counter-balancing deep bottom out would sound bad imo.

Battery for my Photon arrived. Realized I don't have any bluetooth devices I'd ever connect it to. Tried typing a bit on my phone, which was fun, but ofc I have no reason to do that ever. So I've added a small risk of eventual aliexpress battery explosion, in order to gain a feature I'll never use. I am very smart.

>>106892926
it's weird that these brands even still exist with how far behind the rest of the market they are. they basically just coast by on brand recognition

>>106893648
>how far behind the rest of the market they are
Far behind what? Foamy hotswap aliexpress garbage?

>>106893658
>Far behind what?
literally any custom board ever

>Foamy
if you don't want foam then don't put foam in the board

>hotswap (derogatory)
you are deranged

>>106893689
The use case for hotswap is that it's a lot easier to throw out the meme switches that come with your MUUNZI AL837 PRO when they fail after one year and put in new ones. When the board comes with Geniune Cherry MX, why would I need hotswap?

>>106893743
What if your board does not come with the switches you prefer?

>>106893743
>When the board comes with Geniune Cherry MX
so that you try out switches with actual tactility or tighter tolerances/box stems that don't have shitty wobble, or switches that don't feel scratchy even when hand lubed, aka anything but cherry

imagine buying a keyboard so cheap the manufacturer won't pay the literal cents worth of cost in parts to make it hotswap

>>106893810
>I need to have a socket for a part that needs replacing once per decade, because soldering is scary

>>106893648
they could do what BWM/Porsche did and remanufacture their "classic" shit

>>106893828
I need the socket because I like having the option to try different switches on a whim without having to break out a soldering iron and waste an hour of my life for no other reason than the manufacturer being too stupid and/or cheap to pay CENTS for hotswap sockets.

Soldering makes sense when you're buying a custom and you want some obscure non-standard layout like split space or something. Soldering does not make sense in any other situation. It just doesn't. There is no good reason not to include hotswap sockets, even if the board comes fully built.

>>106893743
Hotswap is also alot easier to clean and give maintenance to. But I guess you are some sort of office elf who always washes his hands before typing, has the lightest touch and never breaks a switch, and doesn't shed skin or oil from his perfect elf body so he never needs dust his pcb layer

>>106893858
ok, it also makes sense if for some reason you want to go plateless but beyond that there is no reason for it

>>106893859
I don't worry about cleaning my "pcb layer" for the same reason I don't worry about cleaning the PCB inside my iphone. All you really need to do is clean the caps and the plate/tops of switches once in a while.

>>106893658
You are being left behind by progress anon. It should alarm you, how quickly soldering and screws disappeared. How quickly your reality was replaced by a better more adaptive one.

>>106893872
Remember when Blacksimon clearly demonstrated side-by-side that a hotswap pcb sounded worse (due to poor switch-plate fit)?

>>106893893
Your "progress" is touch screens in cars. At best ephemera, at worst an actual downgrade. "Notice how nobody makes half-and-half without carageenan anymore, old man"

>>106893913
>hotswap totally sounds worse than solder bro
>btw I use cherry switches exclusively
is this nigger for real?

>>106893873
Its way more gross down there than you think it is especially if the keyboard is 5+ years old. Static attraction and ionization pulls all sorts of weird shit into your board. I just cleaned the pcb layer of one of my boards and it had a shit load of my hair in it, which seems impossible

>>106893926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbvXtrUbY5c&t=10900s

>>106893948
that's nice. tell me more about how great your tray mounted filco with 0.8mm thick keycaps sounds as if we are even in the same ballpark you fucking clown

>>106893973
>tell me more about how great your tray mounted filco with 0.8mm thick keycaps sounds as if we are even in the same ballpark you fucking clown
Better than you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC91V2UrMj0&t=356s

>When it has been one week since you lubed your stabilizers and backspace starts making metallic noises again, and simply blasting it with super lube doesn't fix it this time

I'm buying a fucking Seneca fuck this

>>106893913
Backup cameras are miracles that save billions of dollars in damages and save lives each year.

>>106894027
Did I say "screens", retard?

>>106894032
Now you are just being puriel, Shane on you

>>106887314
Beige keyboards aren't "very anonymous". Today's very anonymous keyboards are all black. Beige is a deliberate nostalgic affectation.

>>106894067
>X is not Y, because Z is more Y

>>106892926
Something that just werks. +100 Salaryman aura

>>106893225
Experiment with foam strips in different positions and see what results you get. Or go frankenswitch

>>106893598
Just remove it and fill the gap with Sorbothane.

>>106893913
>Blacksimon
lmao

>>106894021
Such is life when you don't buy Knight V4s. I lubed mine after Apple font keyboard anon's post and they are just delightful.

Time to get custom brass weights machined for my Cycle8. It's a good thing they listed the weight of the add-on brass plates. I'M GONNA CLACK

>>106894132
nta but i bought typeplus and they were pretty good

>>106894204
Noice

>>106868386
the keyboard hobby wasn't this gay and obnoxious 10 years ago. i'm not the one who changed. it's like some reddit style autistic corporate consoomer takeover.

>>106895188
Cope. It's democratic now. Everyone knows what switches do, what stabs are good, or how to lube stabs, use evergreen PE/tape mods. It's a very good thing. It used to be gayer before with YTers using tiny ass stab keycaps and going CREAMY MARBLY SPACEBAR IT SHOULDN'T SOUND THIS GOOD THOCK THOCK
It is infinitely better now.

>no GMK stranglehold for quality caps
>endless stabilizers so you're not SOL if your faves aren't in stock
>no more tangerine oil kang gazzew stranglehold, there's dozens of switches maximizing the diversity of linears in particular, fags can't cope that linears are all the same
>keyboard manufacturers offer different plates and weights so no need to DIY that shit unless you want to
>brands like qwertykeys release relatively cheap bangers so no one has to suffer shitty prebuilts
>even GMK is less of an ass, lead times are much better now and scalping is practically gone unless you're looking for decade old sets
>even cheaper keyboard kits come with different mounting styles, stab pads and accessories, I really like the ball catch shite they have nowadays
I'm sure there's other improvements but these alone demonstrate how it's better than ever today if you're into mechanical keyboards.

>>106895527
I just wish GMK would hurry up and make a damn ergo kit for their MTNU sets. There's like 3 or 4 sets I would have bought already if not for that.

>>106895620
I'm not touching MTNUs because I feel they'll convert me and I'll end up avoiding my endless cherry profile caps

>Unrivaled compatibility
>International Kits
>No JIS
>Never any JIS anywhere
Do I really have to use japanese mail forwarding for three keycaps or what?

>>106895826
3D print

Imma call Apple font anon Fontanon

I'm tired of rubber dome office keebs... What's the recommendation for poorfags?

I needed something small and compact, so i got the logitech 515 and it works great. apparently got a later release that fixed some issues, so that might be the case. Works great wireless or bluetooth. What switches does it use? Seems to be brown or red.

Also got a m55 mouse and can recommend that as well.

>>106896576
Corsair and steelseries have a few good, cheap mechanical keyboards. Generally look for something in the 40-80 dollar price range. Certain iterations of the k55 can be gotten for much cheaper than that even.

>>106852214 (OP)
Just got this thing for gaming. It's not bad and it's a big improvement over using my 100% Das for StarCraft II but I really don't get their logic:
>They basically implemented a full keyboard left of the T including the... capslock key? Why on earth is there a capslock key like that's needed. I just rebound it.
I had expected the fn key with the keys to at least unlock some common letter sor a very useful key like an enter key or something with something but not really It actually only works with the space to cycle through color patterns and with escape to do a factory reset. Feels like that caps lock key could better just function as an enter to begin.
It apparently be configured to do map to arbitrary things with various keys but that needs some software that only works on Windows.

The macro keys by default are just bound to the same F keys that are already on the keyboard as well.

Basically, insane defaults that need some windows-only software to fix but it's not like it matters for my use case but it's weird all the same.

Would make far more sense to at least have an enter.

Also, it's my first time trying browns rather than blues, not sure yet.

>>106869559
Okabe... you know what you have to do to find the IBN 5100... not ask netizens...

320 bitches
See you in the next one!

>>106897232
Just get a HE tranny sized keyboard and it'll btfo anything else for gayming. Lots of cheap ones around if you just wanna dip your toes

>>106895188
You are just so wrong, 10 years ago it was a faggot hipster only hobby with gatekeepers everywhere. EXPENSIVE gatekeepers

Now is a normie tier hobby with a well understood keyboard creation pipeline, cheap but quality parts, and well defined use cases for each piece.

You used to have to suck keycult's dick for an aluminum board and now china shits out keycult quality aluminum boards for 30 dollars a pop

Its straight miraculous

>>106897807
Fucking bodied

>>106897232
This thing looks like a total piece of shit anon throw it away now

>>106897232
>Why on earth is there a capslock key like that's needed
Because many games by default bind important functions to the caps lock key, since it is close to WASD

>Texas Instruments just released an application note on hall effect sensing for keyboards
>https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slya093/slya093.pdf
it's over for old binary state switches

>>106894132
Anon I don't know how to tell you this... it's literally a knight v4 stab that I was talking about

>>106898597
>>106898597
>>106898597
we made it