made the mistake of thinking that I could do with a new keyboard, and so reading stuff online about it. This is useless; everyone who talks about keyboards is a nutter about them. It's like trying to ask about new headphones for your bus trip on audiophile forums or something.
@sil this was funny and struck very true with my recent experience. I now have a keyboard that feels nice to type on but had no tilde or back tick keys. Ugh.