Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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Happy 40s Day! (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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Not observant myself, but best wishes to those of the faith. My first ever hand-wired keyboard was a Planck with an extra column.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't do these. For me, it's 100% or nothing. I need my numpad and spacing around the arrow keys.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I made a lot of my own boards, and the three I use the most are:

One that's basically a "Tenkeyless", but I keep an external numpad nearby.
One that has a numpad but everything's kind of compressed and I use "Fn+number" to get the F keys. That one has a speck of UV resin on down-arrow so I can find it without looking.
One that is still a bit compact in layout, but has 117 keys, including a big red industrial pushbutton and a volume knob.

As fond as I am of this little guy, I just don't use it very often.

[–] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to have pictures of the boards you mentioned as well? You got me curious !

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

"TKL like". This one actually has a couple of siblings because it was not much more expensive to order extra aluminum plates.