GeekHack is about (mostly mechanical) keyboards, but I can see that people tend to do very different things to their keyboards:
- Some love to dress them up, with key cap sets and with artisan caps.
- Some love to upgrade them in various ways, with springs, lubes, etc.
- Some love to built them from the ground up with some very original designs.
- Some love to take photos of them.
- Some love to show them to friends and colleagues.
- Some love to bang them in some speed-typing tests.
- Most of use love to talk about them with people who understand what they are saying.
There are those who are still experimenting, and those who have developed believes about what they like most or even what they'll only use.
But it seems that most of us here are still on our way in search of perfection, or a step closer to our imagined perfection.
When I have more than 2 unused keyboards at home, I can already tell that I'm starting to get obsessed about this hobby. Yet, I have no clear idea what pleasure I am getting directly from it -- it's not a good meal, and it's not a cute puppy that comes to hug you; it is mostly the ideas and the fascinations. After all, I realize there seem to be a huge similarity between one's love towards one's car(s) and one's love towards one's keyboard(s), although many people out there just use them as 'daily drivers'.
There are definitely something that I did though:
I pimp my keyboards and I sometimes visit 10fastfingers to see how fast and how comfortable and how accurate I can type on a certain board.
Is there a website that relates to how you enjoy it?
What is your preferred way to enjoy your keyboards? Do you find some atypical ways to enjoy it? How do you do it?
