I have the black edition, and I’m really happy with it. The battery charge holds for a long time, so recharge isn’t required that often (it of course depends on usage). I really like the low profile keys, which makes me able to relax my hands better when typing. I do however experience a rare double input registration when typing. Haven’t figured out why yet.
On one hand it is a very comfortable, beautiful keyboard, and wireless has worked flawlessly. On the other hand, 2 blue leds have failed, so currently dealing with warranty.
Yeah, I like it. I’ll be playing with the acoustics for a while to get the sound I want. The wireless is solid, no drops or other headaches. I had an issue with it loosing my custom config a couple of times on the default firmware but not since flashing the latest. My chief complaint is that it doesn’t support qmk. I’m not clear on why, though, since it supports Via and I thought qmk was a prerequisite for it.
Hmmm this is interesting. I’ve bought a few things from drop, and they’ve all been pretty good quality. I’m curious to see what Corsair does here. More or less leave things alone? Or do they water it all down to meet more mass appeal?
I tried holding down windows and fn key until it flashed, it seemed to have reset my keyboard and made fn the top layer but still no go on the esc and tab.
That definitely sounds like a PCB issue then. I’d say desolder those two switches and maybe one or two others just to check and try shorting the sockets on the PCB. If you still don’t get a signal and the switches definitely work then you’ll have to replace the PCB.
I’m not sure what Ducky is like with warranty or sending replacement parts but that seems like your only option apart from getting a new board.
I reached out to ducky and got no response back. I’m out of warranty so no warranty replacement. I think a new keyboard is in my future. Thanks for your help.
That’s a shame. If you want a really solid board without going down the custom rabbit hole, I will always recommend Keychron. Their V series boards are really good for the price.
Did Drop still own Geekhack? (In some ways Corsair acquiring Geehack would be the bigger story to me at least since Geekhack is one of the key places (especially excluding reddit) that interest checks and group buys are published.)
Nice! This is a neat service, I think. If you can add it to Deskthority.net, that might be a good archive place? I’ve never tried adding anything there, but I’m also pinning out the controller board of the Cherry Multiboard v2 for a project, and was planning on learning how to contribute for that.
Edit: Could you share a photo of the other side of the controller board?
Main reason is the much better choice of keycaps that will be available.
That’s the problem with this hobby. I’m really used to ANSI ES and it’s a pain to get spanish keycaps. My solution was go for 40% and forget about what’s printed on keycaps.
Might be better to ask on ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world
If that’s how you refer to communities on here hahaha. I just swapped from basically a TKL down to a Cheapino which is 3x5 with 3 keys on the thumb. It was a really steep learning curve but tbh I only really use 4 of the 6 thumb keys so if you want to go down to 34 keys I say go for it. It will be more difficult to transition though.
As someone not into the hobby (although I have a cookie cutter mechanical keyboard), what is the point of having that few keys? Portability? Otherwise i find it more cumbersome than efficient having to constantly use modifiers to access the full range of keys I might want to press.
Edit: this was meant as a reply to the guy with a 60% keyboard
As a user of a small TKL keyboard, I can say from my own experience having a small keyboard makes it easy and less strenuous to switch between the mouse and keyboard since they are so close together. I also find I don’t really miss the extra keys, I can do my job just fine if not better without them, because of the added benefit of moving fast.
I currently do a data heavy job and almost never use my keypad. Just can’t come to terms with letting it go. 96% might be the step that gets me to ditch the numpad!
I use my keypad a lot for my job so I’ve always been kind of jealous of the people who can use the slimmed down keyboards. This is a cute little compromise and I’m glad to know it exists!
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