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computer keyboards i will never understand paying more than 20 bucks for one
Then you should avoid going down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards.
I made this mistake, some friend talked me on to them. I wouldn't say worst mistake, caz I have a nice keyboard now, but dang it was expensive and not even close as good as how much it was hyped.
A basic mechanical keyboard will last 20+ years and will be a nice typing experience for all those years. I'm old enough to have seen mechanical keyboards go for 20 or more years under heavy use and plenty of non-mechanical keyboards going bad after 5 years or so with similar use. It's a great purchase.
I bought a couple different super cheap mechs (browns for when my partner is sleeping, blues for KLIK KLACC) and theyβre SO MUCH BETTER than I expected. They were under 40USD each and have full RGB.
My refurbished IBM Model M from 1984 agrees.
The best rabbit hole!
My nice mechanical keyboard is 13 years old. They last, and if you're going to have something for decades, why not have a nice one?
I agree in principle, but knowing what people pay for a kb that doesn't even have a numpad I would raise the usefulness cutoff to around 100.
More helpful advice is don't spend money on gaming anything. It's 10x more expensive and it's fucking shit. The industry sees gamers are marks and will absolutely fleece you on overpriced and horrible quality 'gaming' products which are cheaply made and planned obsolesce to shit.
You can get a way more comfortable experience at a way lower cost by buying office equipment instead. I have a logitech wireless headset that has been in use for 2 years, and in storage for another 2. I plugged it in and it still fucking works. The literal foam on the ears has dusted away but everything else about it is just as good as when I bought it. The same can't be said for my crappy gaming headset which was uncomfortable out of the box, hardly lasted a full year before deteriorating, and is now all but inoperable. Not user serviceable, either.
My Logitech g35 gaming headset worked for near 15 years before crapping the bed. With near daily use for several hours at a time.