async sjolsen4d ago
man nobody just makes a normal fucking keyboard any more huh
Show threadasync sjolsen

there are three types of keyboard on the market today:

  • boutique mechanical keyboards. these are very pretty and cost $300 despite only being 60% of a keyboard
  • literal trash. awful squishy membrane keyboards that could well have been fished out of the dumpster at an office that just migrated off windows vista, after IT has picked through it for anything salvageable
  • suspiciously cheap mechanical keyboards that look like axe body spray and 5 gum had a baby. you probably can't turn the RGB lighting off and if you want to change it at all you KNOW you're downloading a 1GB+ electron app that only runs on windows
    • Jun 21 at 12:36amWeb
    Show threadasync sjolsen4d ago
    you actually can find fairly normal "100%" full-height mechanical keyboards for a reasonable-ish amount of money, but they all have something... off about them. maybe they're only available in mac layout. maybe the screen printed keycaps use a very strange font. maybe it requires a USB-C cable with a proprietary overmoulding.
    Show threadasync sjolsen4d ago
    anyway my dad is struggling with a PC from like 2012 that couldn't run stably when it was new, and he hates spending money or having money spent on him, so i grabbed a refurbished optiplex for relatively cheap. trouble is, it doesn't have a PS/2 port so it won't accommodate his keyboard. i can hook him up with a cheap USB keyboard fairly easily but i figured i'd look for something halfway decent while i'm at it
    Show threadasync sjolsen4d ago
    like seriously what is with all the $30 mechanical keyboards that look like a monster energy shitpost
    Show threadLunaphied4d ago
    @sjolsen just get him a PS2-USB adapter if his keyboard is tolerable. also idfk what the deal is. there's some pretty good options out there but you have to sort through so much garbage. I had to spend like $200 just to get a barebones 100% layout because 100% layouts have died off so badly
    Show threadRichard Barrell4d ago
    @sjolsen cheap USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter? Might not work but at least it will be cheap.
    Show threadMauser II4d ago
    @sjolsen My work keyboard is "3.".
    Not cheap, but there is a key combination to switch the lighting. Only that there is no setting for off.
    I have it on "permanent on", because it beats "matrix", "snake" and "slowly fade out every key you pressed".
    Show thread1awawawa2awawawa3d ago
    @wakame @sjolsen this one still uses Planck EZ
    can't use anything else
    Show thread1awawawa2awawawa3d ago
    @wakame @sjolsen can you turn the lights off by scraping the circuit board strategically
    Show threadMauser II3d ago
    @iacore @sjolsen "All problems are solvable using the right amount of destruction."
    Show threadnon-differentiable rodent4d ago
    @sjolsen never in my life have I recommended a keyboard, but the Logitech G413 is incredibly normal and unexciting. I own three.
    Show threadRichard Barrell4d ago
    @sjolsen I've seen people refer to group 3 as the "gamer anti tax". Computer peripherals of decent quality get priced cheaper instead of more expensive when they are covered in pointless RGB lights.