shomWow Keychron sharing all the industrial design files for 83 of their products is very cool. They're releasing it as a source-available non-commercial license but explicitly encourages non-commercial community modding and accessory development. This is also very encouraging from a right to repair perspective!
Kaiser 
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@shom I’ve got two of their keyboards and they are nice. It makes the WASD Code connected to my MacBook dock feel like trash, and that’s a keyboard that I loved for a long time.
@kaiser_franz yeah, they make good stuff. I got one of their keyboards for travel before I went full split ergo and it's a nice keyboard. I have it to connect to devices around the house now and enjoy it.
Ethan Black@shom Oh so these are those keyboards that the @keyboards bot keeps on posting
@golemwire hahaha yes there's a whole world and many subcultures around mechanical keyboards, not just the clickity clacks but also low profile, split, laptop mods, etc. it's wild.
TwoOfUs
Kevin Karhan@shom obviously they put it out as source available for that reason.
- And whilst one may argue that this prevents "commercial use" unless they explicitly exempt #repair shops, this is definitely better than with #Apple where one has to go to shady online forums pay on an even dodgier site for schematics and hope the seller didn't scam one.
- If it was my decision, everything sold in the #EU should come with those #schematics and design files per law, but yeah.
➡️ #Keycron certainly 👍
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