this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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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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[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No Super key would drive me nuts

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Some people map the caps lock key to super.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thats what im doing and its great

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

too complicated for my smooth brain

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a IBM Model M from 1984 as my daily driver.

CTRL-ESC works, I actually prefer it.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So yours is almost 40 years old, nice. It's amazing how far technology has moved in that time and here we are still using these ancient keyboards... they have seen some things we wouldn't believe.

[–] thorcik@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Cyrix gang rise up!

[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd have thought it would have yellowed more than that, did you have to treat it to make it look so good?

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Surprisingly not, I don't think I've ever seen a yellowed Model M (or earlier Model F for that matter).

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Told you people would love it :D I'm glad she lives!

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

We have the same exact brief...ehm...keyboard.

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Man I wish I had a curled up wire for keyboard and mouse... My wires are way too long and always get in the way.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the OG keyboard, how is it?

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Amazing, really tactile and loud :D

[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Love to see the pen holder in use :P

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish more modern keyboards had them as it's actually quite handy. I use it more for decoration purposes most of the time but it can be a real live saver if you keep misplacing smaller tools

[–] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I also love the pen holder of my IBM Model M. I don't know about others, but I always keep a pen at my desk. So I may as well use the pen holder built into my keyboard.