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Should I spray paint the case white or off white?
>>106853441I would take the exact blue color of the keycaps, offset it a couple shades darker, and do that.
DSAs feel better than SA
havent looked at the mechanical keyboard market in a very long time so I'm pretty ignorant, why is keychron discontinuing all their barebones boards that don't have a fucking knob, does anyone actually like or use these goddamned knobs
>>106853515I wish my keyboard had a knob, it's like you don't listen to music.
>>106853534I get that you can reprogram it, but I don't know, I already have a knob on my DACAMP, but I would never use it for volume control anyways since it's not program specific it will just turn everything up or down
>NKG-2297 >no qmkwhy do they use proprietary firmwares?
>>106853515I feel you man. I hate those stupid knobs
>>106853582I'd reprogram the knob to some unused f-keys (e.g. f15 and f16, and f17 for pressing it down) and set those as global hotkeys for foobar volume up, volume down, mute. That way there's no context in which they do not alter the music volume the way I intend.The thing that makes windows volume controls useless is that they are unpredictably context-dependent and sometimes do nothing.
>>106853441>>106853465im kinda liking this desaturated lookdoes your keyboard match your linux rice?
>>106853441>>106853774why tranny colors?
>>106853783>trannies own pastels now i cant use them what will people think??? omfg
>>106853441The black with the blue num/scroll lock text looks good as it is.
reposting my pic from the "keyboard thread" (since really it belongs here in mkg), the little write up about how the build went is here >>106833396Also contains a reply to this poster(s?):>>106807750>>106807787>>106807773tl;dr I do think the Knight V4 needs lube, actually, but it's still a good stabilizer and I'm glad I bought it. Very much enjoying my Lichix silents, feels a bit like typing on rubber domes and I enjoy the sound of it
>>106853515Cuckchron is a meme. Get Monsgeek for barebones.
>>106854209Glad you liked the V4s!
>>106853791Pastel gang rise up.
>>106854221thank you
Playing on linears just doesn't cut it once you've used the Melodics and these caps.
Una deliciosa caps
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>>106853477>>106854584>>106854598Swap your keys.The profile of the caps might be nice but that theme is horrible.
>>106854640*Swap your left and right arrow keys
>>106854598that PBT?
imagine putting some cringe aliexpress retro onions keycaps on an s100
>>106853477>>106854584>>106854598>>106854605What caps are these?
>>106854221>Get MonsgeekTold this to an anon one time when it seemed the best fit for what he wanted was a Monsgeek. The keyboard he then bought was DOA. Never again.
>>106853477there's a special place in hell for people who remove alphas just so they can cram every single novelty keycap into their keyboard(it's only gonna be you there, you're the only person I've ever seen do it)
QUICKTKD CYCLE8 OR PT 1/75?NO I CAN'T GET AN F1-8X V2 OR A NEO GFY
>>106854330imo the only pastel in this image is the yellow on the enter key
>>106857242Does the Cycle8 have any of the optional upgrades?
>>106854653Shit, I got them switched up. Fixed it now ty>>106855024>>10685647580retros game 1989, shined ABS>>106855448Botanical 2 hoarder detected>>106856605I went for color matching over muh alpha autism, white to light gray to dark gray, looks gorgeous irl. You should see the rest of the novelties it came with, there's green and blue too lmao
>>106857259Absolutely no extras except hotswap PCBs but I can get my own internal brass weights made for it since it accommodates 340g brass weights according to the specs, so that's not a big deal. I read that the board was designed with PC plated in mind but I can't get those, so will it be enough with the default alu plate and my custom brass add-ons?
>>106857294>ABSmiss me with that shit
R8 my dremel.Literally the only 4.5U PBT spacebar I could find was white so I had to find some set that works with both black and white for the rest of the case.Also what should I do about the case and retarded 0.75U keys that are still disgusting ABS? Plastidip the case so it feels like old thinkpad exterior?Cutting navkeys to fit would leave huge gaps on the sides. Opinions on mixing profiles? Would super low profile flat nav cluster and f-row work with the rest of the keys being normal profile?
I've lived a full life. I'm a virgin, I'm well over 30 years old, and I earn my living working from home. But when I am old and seconds from death (ideally), I know perfectly well what I'm going to be thinking about.My parents. My friends. The pets I've had.Hah, got you. I will think of my oneitis - GOT YOU AGAIN!I will think of my parents, my friends, the pets I've had, and then I will think of the one thing that gave my life meaning outside of these people, these beings and the experiences I shared with them.GMK.That's right. GMK. I will think of the group buys I endured, I mean we endured as a community. Our shared suffering, our mutual misery, the pathos of not receiving my GMK Hyperfuse, the bathos of unboxing GMK British Racing Green R2 and finding all the keycaps in their proper place.The joy of finding extras in a random Discord announcement after you missed out on a GB, the sheer bliss of holding a box of the finest double-shot ABS plastic that mankind has come up with. And finally, when I see the light, I will remember (verbatim!) my favourite product description of any GMK set ever (CYL FTRO)>Is the future shiny? Is it chrome? Many may wonder, but rarely do we receive answers to such questions—until now. Through a garbled transmission from a date unknown, Earth of 2024 has been warned. Divert course; take back the joy of digitized input before the oppressors take over!>Hard-coded into this message were the blueprints necessary to create a set of keycaps to aid us. Enlisting the support GMK electronic design GmbH and leveraging their techniques, this double-shot ABS keyset has been enhanced with UV printed APL operator sublegends. Take up the call with the ORIGIN base kit, or add some extra boost to your signal with the optional ALERT add-on kit.
>>106857571>if I make my keyboard look like shit immediately, I won't need to worry about it looking worse over time
>>106857903>immediatelyHad it for 3 years, spacebar got so warped it bounced off the stabilizers if you look at it wrong. Only replacement was white or getting another of the same ABS set. PBT grain felt way nicer to touch so I decided to replace the rest.
What's a good mecha keyboard that I can buy for work? Tired of these shitty plastic one we havet. accountantThe cherry KC 200 MX looks nice although but expensive considering I'll leave it at my work desk...
I use gay Microsoft ergonomic keyboards but holy fuck is the gigantic wrist pad making my posture dog shit, especially in game dev where I'm using WADS a ton with long presses. Would a regular ass keyboard just be better for my posture at this point? T. Wigger
>>106857939Enjoy the smooth grain before it starts getting shiny in a few months. Plastic is plastic and all plastic shines when you rub it frequently.
>>106857981Use a keyboard drawer, old school style. Your keyboard is too high.
>>106857294It greatly offends my sensibilities.I'll admit it's pleasant that the dark gray matches the gray of the board reasonably close, and the color scheme is attractive. The legends (where they are normal) are good, the caps don't show any warping or other failures to be uniform, the shined ABS with that profile is a good look. All of this I freely admit.You can call it "autism" to have aesthetic standards which can be violated, but you would thereby relegate nearly all aesthetic criticism to the domain of the psychiatrists. I contend that it is healthy to have certain lines which, when crossed, produce revulsion.I will never accept a violation of the purity of the alpha cluster. I will always be uneasy at a mismatch between a key's face value and its actual use. Etc. And I will always feel contempt for those who view these as personal eccentricities, and who think all is a matter of "taste", and "subjective", and arbitrary.(This is me btw >>106854209 since I'm talking shit I might as well in fairness give you the opportunity to hit back)
>>106858391tbf I use that one solely for COD so the shitty layout is alright by me. My regular work board has verdant retros with no modifications.Also I like the unique Apple style font on your Photon, it looks weird but in a good way because it's consistent and the print quality is pretty sharp for such a small font.
Minimalist "muh thock" keyboard trannies need to fuck off.Print keycaps in resin with recessed key legends, use cold porcelain putty/clay to fill them.>B-but resin allergyI've been using my keycaps for 2 years, no allergy at all. Or just spray them with some clear coat.
>>106859035>Print keycaps in resin>fuck your expensive keycaps get $1000 resin printer and shitprint your own!
>>106859075>$1000 resin printerYou know most resin printers nowadays with 10k+ resolution are like 150-200 USD, right?You can also just find some store that prints them for you for a couple of bucks.
>>106859108dunno got an old ender3 didn't look into it recently. still there's extra gear like curing UV and cleaning and chemicals and shit isn't it? saw something about resin printers like last year but wasn't interested in chemical cancer
>>106859122>curing UVYou can just leave them in sunlight, but if you want a cheap curing station, get a UV led strip and tape it around a paint can or box, works just fine.>cleaning and chemicals and shitThat's really the worst part of resin printing, it is a chore and it's messy, you need a good organic respirator, which isn't expensive (like 20 bucks?), but still a health hazard.Again, if you don't want to mess with the stuff, you can always send the keycap models to a shop that prints them. Just be sure to print it in a durable resin or the keycap connector columns might be too brittle.Here's a close-up of a failed batch I made recently for a prototype.
>>106854330I will not allow being called a tranny dissuade me from anything. During the sengoku era of Japan, Pink was considered the most manly color.
What the fuck manI missed the OGR2 GB I didn't even know it was happening
nth for glittery filaments
Now this is what a REAL keyboard looks like.
I start breathing shallow with a higher pitch and rattling in my nostrils. There's no tape mod or grease for this. There's no cure except for buying more.
>>106859900I posted about it at the time. Maybe you should have been here keeping our dying thread bumped. Shame on you.
>>106859279Not bad but that legend bleed...I found this to be more interesting but I'd need to build a small CNChttps://youtu.be/VIRkCXVwoXk
How the hell are model m adapters this expensive?I'm thinking of just building some kind of universal adapter with RJ45, SDL, XT, and PS/2 inputs to USB output via selector switch. As far as I'm aware no one makes something like that.Do you guys think there'd be a market for that?
>>106860177>not full sizeNot a real keyboard, that's a toy.
>>106861258They're called layers old man get with the times
>>106857978Can't vouch for it because I've never bought Vortex but this one with double shot PBT keycaps and Cherry MX2A Silent Red switches is $115 and doesn't look particularly flashy/desirable for theft, maybe a good pick I don't know:https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/products/vortex-type-wireless-hotswap-keyboardVortex themselves are allegedly a nightmare to deal with, so don't expect any customer support from them (as you wouldn't really expect with most Chinese companies), but in the case that it's defective it can be returned to this American vendor. (One of the advantages of not buying directly from China.)
>>106858534full size for CoD? You're nuts!
>>106860177Love it. Was very impressed by the Petrichor, the only AKB board I've tried, which was a gift for someone else.It brings me pain thinking of the artisan keycaps and other bullshit other people are going to put on this board. It was made for unaccented Dolch, anything else is a crime. I'm not sure I'd even be fully OK with MTNU Dolch.This may be an unpopular opinion but I think the 65 xt layout on this one is more attractive. Not a better layout, but.
>>106860232It doesn't matter. There will be others. It's all the same.That's what I tell myself.
Ali animu caps > German dweeb GMKs
Why do purists whine about foam and tape belonging on budget boards when they're necessary on practically every single board? No matter what switches you use, it'll sound far better with foam and tape in the keyboard or else you'll get endless avoidable high pitched clacks. Fucking retards.
>>106862101I forgot to say but I'm a filthy french so I need an Azerty keyboard The cherry one is 90€ on their site, I'll see first with my manager if I'm allowed to bring my peripherals to my workplace
Even muh premium boards have to cope with metal weights and copper or brass because NO ONE IS GETTING GOOD SOUND WITHOUT MODIFIERS
>>106862976that fiddy?
>>106863728No, that's Susan. It says right there.
I got this MS Basic Keyboard 1.0A from my previous company that was trashing it. It's an early 2000 model with PS2 port, works fine with an adaptor off Amazon. It's a sturdy and well built keyboard, great for typing and light gaming.
>>106852214>>106863796you and OP are both gay.>mechanical
Watch me make the cleanest cuts for my PE foam mod.
>>106863817Your autism is flaring.
>>106861258why are boomers so emotional about the numpad (deprecated)?
Certified hood classic.
>>106865434It doesn't even matter. That particular kit allows for a separate numpad on either direction. It's a top tier design. I pray I can get an extra when the GB is fulfilled.
>>106852214Where do you guys buy your keycaps? The labels on my work keyboard's keys have faded and I need to replace them, but idk where to go. Are there places now where you can get generic ones for free, or is everyone still stuck on waiting for limited releases on Massdrop? I want something shaped like the ones in >>106853477, but with generic labels instead of whatever they've got going on.
>>106865663keychron got cheap PTB ones. OSA profilehttps://www.keychron.com/products/double-shot-pbt-osa-full-set-keycap-set?variant=40536290852953
>>106865709Thanks, anon!
>>106865663Just to be clear: your work keyboard is a 'mechanical keyboard' with cherry mx-style switches?
>>106865514What am I looking at?
>>106863136foam doesn't deepen the whole switch sound, it just deepens some of the prominent notes
>>106858534>it's consistent and the print quality is pretty sharp for such a small font.Yeah I really have no complaints about XMI, other than that they send the keycaps all jumbled up in a plastic bag. I don't think you can get better keycaps for $40.
Fuck me it sounds so tight now and I love how smooth and pillowy each keystroke feels thanks to the PCB tape.
>>106866060PE tape mod.
>>106861300That's called cope, fag.>>106865434Dedicated keys to do their job just makes sense from a design standpoint. Not my fault you troons are too busy inhaling e-celeb farts and fell for the gimped boards meme.>b-b-but I can fightan gayme combo 17 other keys and have a shitty offset numpad using my alphas!You realize how gay that is, right? Just be normal instead of gay.
Is there any particular reason why you people are making dozens of adjustments to an already expensive keyboard kit costing hundreds of dollars?Why doesn't it come sounding good out of the box?What the fuck is all that money for?
>>106867003"Hundreds of dollars" does not buy you very much in 2025.
>>106867003Think of those faggots as audiophiles.It's all snake oil past certain point.
>>106867003it's a reddit hobbyyour keyboard isn't at it's best till you>inject lubricant in the stabilizers>disassemble your switches and paint lube on each part by hand>lubing the springs too because your mechanical keyboard actually making mechanical noises triggers your autism>fix the shitty manufacturing tolerances of every switch part by stuffing plastic shims in between each switch housing so they won't rattle even a little bit>cover the bottomside of the PCB with painter's tape>fill the open space in the case with foam or sheets of rubber>fill the underside of the keycaps with sound dampening material>all so you can type as daintily and as softly as possibleall this work gets invalidated the second you try to bottom out the keys like a normal person btw
my keyboard dosent have keys over 1u so i dont need stabilizers
>>106867055
>>106867055To be fair the major players didn't make any improvements in design, especially manufacturing tolerances, for decades. Imagine if Cherry actually gave a shit about refining the MX platform instead of sitting on it for years.MX2A is literally "new spring WHOOOOA", years and years after people were doing that themselves. Meanwhile some Chinesium switches have tighter housings and are better in other metrics for a fraction of the cost.
>>106866996Nah coping is pretending layers don't exist, and by the looks of your post you don't even know what tt(0) or osl(0) doYou are an anarchism
>>106867231>address how retarded of a cope it is>"n-no y-you just don't know how it works"Every single time. Look, if you like making yourself believe your $600 tranny board purchase at the recommendation of a guy being paid to tell you to get one is your jam, so be it.It'll always be a snake oil toy you were memed into buying, though, never forget that. And no one that runs this desperate of damage control about how, "I'm actually super duper productive and a big boy" actually is a serious person. Surely you do have at least some awareness and realize how retarded of a cope it all is right?
>>106867231layers and programmability don't matter on a keyboard with at least 86 keys
>>106867105Kinda like when an r/childfree person brags about having free time and no obligations. I mean, ok. But you don't have wide keys, so what's the point.
https://youtu.be/aRGZaCoeKqo?si=q1NL8HW7p9G1ILHi&t=9what switches is this whore using?
I've been doing this for numpad on my 65% and I'm surprised by how well it works. (My normal fn key is next to the arrow cluster, but since I use R3 control I have another fn key in the lower-left corner.) Getting used to the key locations is a little awkward because of the stagger, but now I can type my ○ — é etc. without serious difficulty. I'll have to practice a little more for it to be a serious alternative for fast number input, but for uses where the numpad keys were absolutely required at least I have them. I might try doing a custom monkeytype of numbers and operators to practice.
>>106867671marbly bullshit with a ton of foam. did a quick google for frosted acrylic cases and it looks exactly like a Womier K66 so if I had to guess I'd say it's whatever basic Gateron red switch comes with that
>>106867726Many laptops used to put num keys on JKL UIO to use 789 as is in both num lock and normal mode.
>>106867671>whoreThis is just some basic brown foid compensating for being a 5/10 by signaling that she's into male hobbies. Same as it ever was. Who cares?The idea of adding a tomatometer to the Netflix browser is so fucking funny though. It takes two seconds to check this in another tab, so the utility implied here only makes sense if you watch a TON of Netflix (ie, you are a woman). And besides that, who cares? Oh no, I can't decide whether to watch Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler or Eddington (2025) dir. Ari Aster, but I see Sinners has 97% on the Tomatometer while Eddington only has 69%, so that settles it.
Wanna get old-skool keyboard like picrel Recommendations? >>106852214
>>106867284O_O Jesus christ anonPeople do other things at their desk other than type oh my fucking god Here is a letter I wrote to Adrian this morning for being a sweety and an article I am going to scrapbook. Honestly tell me I'd be better off with a 20 x 8 x 3 inch, Grey keyboard.
>>106867315yes it does, you can swap keys around. it matters a lot
>>106867003>>106867055You guys are in the wrong general.
>>106868121>fuckhuge desk>tranny colored gimped boardYep. Every single time. Thanks for playing.
>>106868099OGR2
>>106868389nta and colors are gay but what's wrong with large desk?
>>106868389I accept your concession
>>106868411The point is that having a large desk and a tiny tranny board is hilarious, especially when most of the coping from tranny board owners is "muh desk space".>>106868426No concession anywhere, just acknowledgement of sheer faggotry and larping, as I already knew and stated earlier. Thanks for proving me right.
Just copped a Cycle8 in Peacock that I'm gonna pair with the ePBT Hellas caps. I found a local machinist who will make brass copies of the internal aluminum cover and the internal foam sheets under it that are of the exact same shape as the add-on weights. I'm gonna try it out with both BSUN Raws and Kailh BCPs, as well as Green Fogs and SWK Ghost Dragons (these are excellent for stab keys BTW).
>>106868441Wow ok you are right I just went to Micheals and bought this calligraphy set and exacto knife and wrote a letter just to larp for this one picture to you im glad your world view remained the same despite direct picture evidence
>>106868475Those colors will clash very badly; Peacock being a rich teal hue very much on the green side of blue, and Hellas being a very middle-blue, desaturated and baby-bluish, leaning ever so slightly toward lavender, bordering on periwinkle.
Scratch that. The Akko Green Fogs and Strawberry Cheesecakes for stab keys are now my board's meta.
>>106868916Can't know till I try. I also have half a dozen SW keycaps on the way, all in different colourways, so one of them is bound to work out.
CONSOOM
>>106869227>Can't know till I tryWas gonna just post picrel as a joke but in all seriousness this is just proof that playing 1000 hours of The Sims is very important life experience
I see what you mean. Well, that's me fucked. I wish I could just get a Retrocast or Terror Below. Perhaps later.
>>106869264Sometimes the mind sees what it chooses to see.
Also wtf is up with the Sonjas, the stems don't even hold the keycaps in place, nevermind the usual barely-there fit of the bottom housing against the hotswap socket. It's loose on both ends with the Sonjas!
How about the Keykobo Poltergeist? It's like a toned down GMK Laser. Shouldn't look bad on teal.
>>106852214This is an odd request but do you guys know of a keycap set that looks similar to the keys from the IBM 5100 keyboard? I want to build a mech keyboard that sort of looks like this vintage computer.
>>1068694021000 hours of The Sims and a spoonful of "color theory" is all you need.
>>106869559Centered bottom legends are interesting. Never see that on MX keycaps.
>>106868121Hey retarded tranny your pen doesn't have an ink cartridge in it. Get the fuck out of here with that poser shit.
>>106868121You need new keycaps. It's the only thing that can save the board at this point. I vote beige JC Studio keycaps
