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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: SmallFry on Mon, 03 December 2012, 18:04:02
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Members with children, please read...
What do you tell your kid(s) about keyboards? Do you tell them the differences and what not, or do you keep it to yourself because it's dad/mom's hobby? I know Ripster has his kid on a Unicomp M and iMav I think has his family on Browns IIRC.
I don't have kids, so I was just wondering.
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Following CLiB's post:
I tell my parents, friends, family, etc about them and they look at me like a deer in headlights. They don't like typing on my boards because they think that they're going to break them or summat.
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I don't have kids, but what about visa-versa? I tell my mom all about mechanical keyboards, and my dad loved typing on my Poker. I spent a good 15-20 minutes last night explaining KRO to my mom and my brother. I don't think they fully understood, but my brother said he loves typing on my Model M.
I even told them about the R00TW0RM and how Ripster is a massive ego-maniac (and how he is the #1 keyboard expert on the planet).
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My kids have access to my Filco / browns, Rosewill w/ browns, and my wife's Dell RD. They've also watched me build a dozen Korean boards. They think my building them is neat but haven't said one word about keyboards being different. They primarily use the Dell RD.
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Are they afraid to break Dad's keyboards?
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I told my 6yo, but I don't think she really grasps the difference between membrane and mechanical.
She does like the custom keycaps, and helps me sort through them when new ones arrive :)
Her favourite one is the creeper keycap.
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No, as far as I can tell they don't fear breaking anything including their own bones/skin.
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...and how Ripster is a massive ego-maniac (and how he is the #6 keyboard expert on the planet).
FTFY.
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I told my 6yo, but I don't think she really grasps the difference between membrane and mechanical.
She does like the custom keycaps, and helps me sort through them when new ones arrive :)
Her favourite one is the creeper keycap.
Gave me a good chuckle. :) Don't show her TechKeys.us then!
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...and how Ripster is a massive ego-maniac (and how he is the #6 keyboard expert on the planet).
FTFY.
Sorry, my bad... at least I got the ego-maniacal part right...
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My kids use a G80-8113 at the family computer as the trackpad is easier for them than a mouse seeing as the oldest is just a 1st grader. They have it all decorated up with novelty caps of their choice. I don't think i've ever swapped a whole keycap set without at least one of them helping. The oldest ones favorite keycaps are the scary guy (CC skull) and the middle doesn't like scary guy and likes the awesome faces. Both are excited for the MLP set to come
The oldest had never used anything but MX browns or scissor switches on a laptop. I told this story on IRC before, but at conferences here a few weeks back I heard from her teacher that she keeps complaining about the "junk keyboards" in computer lab. Guess she has listened to me talk about the apple chicklet keyboards before and knows what is best =)
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I heard from her teacher that she keeps complaining about the "junk keyboards" in computer lab. Guess she has listened to me talk about the apple chicklet keyboards before and knows what is best =)
That is awesome.
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I tell my parents, friends, family, etc about them and they look at me like a deer in headlights.
Yeah I started out really excited when I found out about mechanical keyboards, and I started telling everyone about it. Then they gave me this "what's wrong with you look". Then I kind of tone down a bit.
But lately I don't care anymore so I just say what I want :D
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Kids? Can't afford 'em with this hobby...
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I let my 6 year old play with an old Leo. He likes to pull keycaps and put new ones on. If only I could train him to do a whole board! I love getting caps, but HATE changing out a whole board.
But, I tell both him and my 3 year old that I'll break their boney little fingers if they touch my main equipment. :)
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Not sure yet.. Once he's able to talk, then I'll let you know :)
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My little one just turned 5, but he has seen more keyboards than most will in their lives. I tell him nothing about them at all. Once in a while he'll be like, "Hey daddy, what's that new keyboard?" And I tell him. I say "Son, that's a keyboard." Then he gives me his "hot or not" style micro review and that's it. He's off the hook until he can use a keyboard for anything other than Minecraft.
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I gave this to my son when he was 12:
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I gave this to my son when he was 12:
That's pretty cool. Did he like it?
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Ah kids and their minecraft... it has become so popular haha.
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He uses it every day.
My wife hates it, she says it makes her dizzy.
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Heh. Just the colors or the sounds?
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Sorry, my bad... at least I got the ego-maniacal part right...
No problem. Let me put it this way...if GH wasn't the best keyboard community around, he would probably be able to stop talking about it on Reddit.
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The only child I have that lives with me is not quite a year old, yet, so he will learn.
My daughter will be 17 this month and lives with her mother, but she only has a laptop, so she uses scissor switches exclusively.
My wife cannot understand my obsession with keyboards. But that may be because she never touches one. She does all her computing tasks on either her phone or her Kindle Fire.
We truly live in a post-PC society now. Everyone has their phone or their tablet (or both), and only geeks and hackers use PCs. Well, aside from all those millions who use them at work every day, right. :P
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I find it real hard to live without the power of a laptop at least, but i do have and use a smartphone and a tablet daily. Its been that way for a while now, and i dont want it to change.
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I have a ridiculous full tower with almost as many drives as I can count on both hands, 2 monitors, 2 mice, and a huge 122-key terminal board, also hooked to an internal/external sound card/box, 1 scanner, 2 printers, and I plug in other stuff, too.
All that gear surely weighs more than I do, and I'm a big guy.
But yes, my teenagers are growing up in a world where my gear seems like a steam locomotive.
I have big fingers and dry skin, and keep my fingernails cut short, so I have a great deal of trouble with any touch screen, especially the tiny ones on phones.
They have some mild curiosity and amusement about dear old Dad, but I don't tell them much about what to use.