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What are your BEST tech purchases? (piefed.social)
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What has brought you joy?

Companion to the last question :)

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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

About a decade ago I bought my first mechanical keyboard -- tenkeyless with cherry mx red switches. The keys still feel like a dream to this day. I like 'em much better than rubber dome switches.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I don't get mechanical keyboards. Every time I have tried one I find them to have too much key travel and to be way too noisy. I've always considered Apple's keyboard the gold standard. I'm sure there is something to mechanical keyboards as they're clearly really popular but I guess I'm just ignorant about that.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    It's true they are noisier. Even the quietest switches (reds) are noisier than rubber domes. That took me a bit to get used to.

    As for key travel, 4mm is standard for most keys unless we're talking about laptop keyboards. The difference is the force required at each point of depression.

    I don't like that big 'hump' membrane keys have to get started moving (lower left). My keyboard is linear (lower right) and it just makes more sense to my fingers. I also like that I can actuate keys halfway to bottoming out. Rubber domes usually bottom out right after actuation.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    There are actually extremely silent mechanical keyboards now, much quieter than reds/blacks/browns. The silenced Realforce Topre keyboards (if you consider Topre "mechanical") are much quieter than typical dome keyboards.

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