this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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Mechanical Keyboards

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My old keyboard served me well, but lately I'm having to replace a broken switch every month so I'm not sure it's worth it. It's also noisy as hell and I hate the backlighting with every piece of my heart. So here's the replacement.

I've ordered it from WASD Keyboards, hmu for the design file. Obviously Spanish layout, I chose MX Cherry Brown switches, light pastel colors to improve visibility under dim lighting, and a pattern from a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system to decorate special keys. I've added a few (superfluous) icons for editing operations and arrow keys for Vim, as well as part of an Aristotle quote I like, just because the spacebar felt so empty. I used the old Greek translation simply to avoid distracting myself (I can barely read even modern Greek, so this looks like an uneventful string of accented letters to me).

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[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know nothing about mechanical keyboards but why not switch to another layout like Dvorak or Colemak at the same time?

[–] roembol@lemmy.roembol.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I switched to Dvorak and, while it was a bit weird in the beginning, I quickly got used to the keys.

[–] mayo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Might be an issue if they use vim?