I have retired my MS keyboard, after a short life.
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It didn't last long - the keytops were wearing away really quickly, 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely, and many others were only readable if you knew what they started out as. And when Dij pushed my coffee into it ... it was time for a change. And last months discussion lead me to ... a DAS Keyboard 4 (MX Blue). And it's lovely. All clicky and feedbacky, the key legends look like they'll last and the think exudes quality - from the moment you pick it up and realise it's made of actual metal instead of cheap plastic. I find myself stroking the volume control, it just feels so good. My only criticism is the LED's: my word but they are bright! If you lean forward at the wrong angle you get a "blind spot" in your vision for a few minutes, and if you turn the lights out you get a blue circle on the ceiling bright enough to read the keyboard legends by ... :laugh: I'm back to cherry switches again: my first lasted me over 20 years, and it was a cheapy! This isn't, not even close - I've never spent this much on a keyboard before. Worth it though - so "Thank you" to everyone who recommended the company last month! :thumbsup:
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OriginalGriff wrote:
'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely
You've done well. My keyboard hasn't had W, E, R, T, I, O, A, S, D, F, G, K, L, C, V, N, M, < or > for years. Actually that was a useful exercise, hitting all the "blank" keys - I was wondering what some of them did. Really limits my choices for variable names though, especially since I've not seen a vowel (except U) since 2019. :laugh: And there's a long key at the bottom that I don't think ever was labelled in the first place...
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Last time I touched my typist I nearly got arrested. :)
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I did, in high school, it didn't take. Besides, typing code is nothing like typing prose. If you spend more time writing documentation than coding, then maybe that's a benefit, but you don't, do you?
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Had to marry her?
We got married in Georgia...or was it Tahoma? Not sure I was drugged and dragged and woke up just in time for the vows.
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It didn't last long - the keytops were wearing away really quickly, 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely, and many others were only readable if you knew what they started out as. And when Dij pushed my coffee into it ... it was time for a change. And last months discussion lead me to ... a DAS Keyboard 4 (MX Blue). And it's lovely. All clicky and feedbacky, the key legends look like they'll last and the think exudes quality - from the moment you pick it up and realise it's made of actual metal instead of cheap plastic. I find myself stroking the volume control, it just feels so good. My only criticism is the LED's: my word but they are bright! If you lean forward at the wrong angle you get a "blind spot" in your vision for a few minutes, and if you turn the lights out you get a blue circle on the ceiling bright enough to read the keyboard legends by ... :laugh: I'm back to cherry switches again: my first lasted me over 20 years, and it was a cheapy! This isn't, not even close - I've never spent this much on a keyboard before. Worth it though - so "Thank you" to everyone who recommended the company last month! :thumbsup:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OG Don't know if I am repeating, but any bright blue LED's will cause problems with human sleep over time. Scientific proof. So avoid them. Not so bright, not so much. I have very dim blue backlight on my temporary keyboard another reason for shopping around for new one.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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We got married in Georgia...or was it Tahoma? Not sure I was drugged and dragged and woke up just in time for the vows.
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I've had a Havik Mechanical Keyboard[^] for about 8 montths and the ERTCV cap lettering is almost gone.
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OG Don't know if I am repeating, but any bright blue LED's will cause problems with human sleep over time. Scientific proof. So avoid them. Not so bright, not so much. I have very dim blue backlight on my temporary keyboard another reason for shopping around for new one.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
My computer stays in my office, and I don't sleep there (except during Teams calls).
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It didn't last long - the keytops were wearing away really quickly, 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely, and many others were only readable if you knew what they started out as. And when Dij pushed my coffee into it ... it was time for a change. And last months discussion lead me to ... a DAS Keyboard 4 (MX Blue). And it's lovely. All clicky and feedbacky, the key legends look like they'll last and the think exudes quality - from the moment you pick it up and realise it's made of actual metal instead of cheap plastic. I find myself stroking the volume control, it just feels so good. My only criticism is the LED's: my word but they are bright! If you lean forward at the wrong angle you get a "blind spot" in your vision for a few minutes, and if you turn the lights out you get a blue circle on the ceiling bright enough to read the keyboard legends by ... :laugh: I'm back to cherry switches again: my first lasted me over 20 years, and it was a cheapy! This isn't, not even close - I've never spent this much on a keyboard before. Worth it though - so "Thank you" to everyone who recommended the company last month! :thumbsup:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I have had a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard for years and it gets heavy use every day. Only left, right and down cursor keys are missing their markings; all the others are completely intact. (No, I don't play games or anything like that - just coding and documentation.) Oh, and part of the Microsoft logo is worn away. It's not a brilliant keyboard (it makes lots of tryping mistakes) but it's good enough that I don't want to be looking for anything else.
Phil
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It was a military wedding. Well, ... there were guns there, let's put it that way! (Old Red Skelton/Clem Kididdlehopper bit) :laugh:
He was one of the great comics.
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"double mold injected" if your keycaps aren't advertised as the above, forget it. They'll wear out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Yeah I'm finding that out. They just don't make them like they they used too.
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It didn't last long - the keytops were wearing away really quickly, 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely, and many others were only readable if you knew what they started out as. And when Dij pushed my coffee into it ... it was time for a change. And last months discussion lead me to ... a DAS Keyboard 4 (MX Blue). And it's lovely. All clicky and feedbacky, the key legends look like they'll last and the think exudes quality - from the moment you pick it up and realise it's made of actual metal instead of cheap plastic. I find myself stroking the volume control, it just feels so good. My only criticism is the LED's: my word but they are bright! If you lean forward at the wrong angle you get a "blind spot" in your vision for a few minutes, and if you turn the lights out you get a blue circle on the ceiling bright enough to read the keyboard legends by ... :laugh: I'm back to cherry switches again: my first lasted me over 20 years, and it was a cheapy! This isn't, not even close - I've never spent this much on a keyboard before. Worth it though - so "Thank you" to everyone who recommended the company last month! :thumbsup:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've just sent my DAS back ( too noisy ) very well made though
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Get them to replace it with a Cherry Brown version instead of Cherry Blue - they lack the audible "click" that makes them noisy.
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I really don't understand the need to put LED's in everything these days - what possible use was there for LED's in my headphones?* :wtf: * The use of past tense was deliberate here, they were "persuaded" to no longer emit ... :-D
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OriginalGriff wrote:
what possible use was there for LED's in my headphones?
That's to help guide the sniper from across the street.
You've been playing way too much GTA ... :laugh:
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You've been playing way too much GTA ... :laugh:
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I've got to finish the final Last Dose mission - the truck got blown up on the way back to the city when I tried it pre-Covid - but I haven't got the enthusiasm. :-D
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I've got to finish the final Last Dose mission - the truck got blown up on the way back to the city when I tried it pre-Covid - but I haven't got the enthusiasm. :-D
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Should be an easy mission. Make sure you go get the reward car, otherwise once it disappears off the map, you won't get it again unless you re-do the mission.
I've played just the once, and I was concentrating on landing the transport plane at a silly airport like Sandy Shores - only to find that landing was a cut scene ... :sigh: The police weren't difficult, but the choppers blew the heck out of the lorry on the way to town. Generally I haven't been impressed by Drug Wars - there's just too much that's soooo familiar. Doubt I'll play them again once I'm done.
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I've played just the once, and I was concentrating on landing the transport plane at a silly airport like Sandy Shores - only to find that landing was a cut scene ... :sigh: The police weren't difficult, but the choppers blew the heck out of the lorry on the way to town. Generally I haven't been impressed by Drug Wars - there's just too much that's soooo familiar. Doubt I'll play them again once I'm done.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
The police weren't difficult, but the choppers blew the heck out of the lorry on the way to town.
And here I thought driving back home was the easy part - the police part at the airfield isn't too hard, just tedious. It just goes on for way too long.
OriginalGriff wrote:
Generally I haven't been impressed by Drug Wars - there's just too much that's soooo familiar. Doubt I'll play them again once I'm done.
I think the consensus is that Drug Wars turned out to be a dud. And total cringe.
