I have joined the mechanical keyboard gang.
So far so good. I went with a logitech 10 keyless style since it was only $39.99 on sale. I don't know what kind of switches this thing uses but it has pbt keycaps, I think? Anyway here it is on amazon. Feels good to finally have a new kb where I don't have to struggle pushing down the p key.
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My Keychron K2 V1 died on me recently and I need to replace it. It was a good little keyboard while it lasted. They make ultrathin models now and in curious how those are. It would be ideal for my use case.
So far I like this and it seems good for the price. I was tempted to go buy a $20 no name brand from aliexpress but then I saw that this one by logitech was only $30
Yeah that's a good price. Keychron is a little pricy but they offer a lot of variety. I like having keeb that's portable.
i have gone in search of an mkb 3 times and every time i ended up with a keychron. they are the best price + selection. especially for a tkl. if i was OK with a smaller kb there would maybe be better choices. but how do you live without a nav pad???
i'm sure there are 10000 youtubes and reddit posts to answer this for you.
nav pad? you mean numb pad? I'm pretty good at touch typing numbers, but also I'd totally buy a stand-alone mech 10 key. I want this thing pretty bad: https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-18-mechanical-numpad/
no I mean the part to the left of the num pad:
maybe that's just my personal nomenclature? you use it to navigate up down left right top bottom.
what I can't stand is a 60% where you need to use some key combo for pg up, arrows or whatever. fts. but for some reason thye are more numerous and cheaper.
that's a pretty fancy number pad, and not toooo expensive actually. I got a $10 number pad on aliexpress and found I never use it. But if you have data entry or gaming or some other application then very possibly justifiable.
Oooohhhh! Yes OK that makes sense. I think the K2 is a 75% maybe? It has those keys but they are jammed in there. The home/end/pgup/down keys are on the right side positioned in a single column. The arrow keys are stuffed in the right corner.
So I have that but it's just in a different spot. The K2 also has a separate F key row too.
I do some spread sheet work at times in my day job and use a calculator at times. Plus it has built in game lol. I have the matching keyboard so u just want to complete the set too.
ya k2 is 75%. I'd rather just go up a tiny bit to 80% [tkl] and have an easy to use navpad. Also anything that abbreviates/relocates the shift key I don't like.
for me personally since I will always have to use computers I don't control, I try not to deviate too much from standard at home because I just get myself all muddled. In highschool I changed my kb to Dvorak over the march break. It was great and I immediately got up to my prior typing speed on qwerty. But then I couldn't type anymore back in the school lab. So I decided I had to go with qwerty. Sadly. Lesson learned.
(In the revolution, perhaps we may strike a committee to reform the keyboard. As it is, inherently, a location of collective struggle/complacency.)
At home I have caps lock mapped to control and even that is annoying when I use other kbs because I'm constantly engaging caps by accident. This is why I won't go so far as learning emacs or vim or other more intensive kb interfaces; would constantly be a problem for me.
Maybe when I am retired I will go back to Dvorak and make all kinds of mad macros on some custom QMK thingy. Or thingies, with a bunch of side kb macro pads hanging off the side for specific applications.
+1 calculator - people don't value this enough; just because you can use calc on your phone doesn't mean it's the best way. honestly a printing calculator is amazing if you can get it cheap (which you can at a big box thrift store) but either is better than a dang phone.