Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

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submitted 9 months ago by Kryptkravler@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They do have them. They are just accessed via a modifier key similar to shift. See here: https://qmk.fm/keyboards/planck/keymap-printout-default-qwerty.pdf

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh damn, so you can program your regular letters to do that!!! Nice. I'm JUST starting to get into mechanical keyboards and don't really know much. I have a Corsair K70 pro RGB with red buttons. It's nice, but I just can't get used to typing on it. I'm always hitting two buttons at a time. I have to lift my fingers really high and type. Second issue is the metallic ping. So, I've been doing some research to find me something I enjoy and also easy to type on. I love the clickitty clacks (or what they call thock). 😁

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, they're infinitely customizable. I have two regular keys where my space bar should be on my keyboard. As a result, I've programmed tapping the left one to insert a space, but holding it down acts as CTRL, and tapping the right acts as backspace, while holding down the right acts as shift.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The true magic of QMK is that you can flash the programming onto the device and all of these features work independent of the system it's connected to.

Often keyboards are advertised as having much of the same customizability but it depends on companion software to work.

That is not the case with QMK

[–] daed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That is a seriously underrated feature and I wish I could find a 'mmo mouse' with the same capability. Would pay many dollars for this, personally.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There's a company called Ploopy that makes some QMK mice.

I don't think they have any quite like what you are looking for, they seem to favor Trackball Mice.

[–] daed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Seems like a cool company though! Someone's gotta come around and make one someday.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago

Pretty cool. Thank you. I like watching videos on all these types of keyboards.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you don't feel comfortable soldering and building your own I can highly recommend Keychron. Good out the box feel and great build quality. They also have everything from a standard 100% keyboard down to 60%.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can solder and do all that, but I honestly don't want to now after watching how the process could be very lengthy. I'll look into keychrone. Having dedicated media keys is a very important thing to me, if a keyboard doesn't have it, I won't even look at it. Thank you for the recommendation. Do you have any model number in mind that you recommend? I like red switches and 100% size keyboard

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The K5 Pro will probably fit your bill.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago

Do you have any knowledge about the V6? My friend just gifted me one for Christmas. What are the odds!!!