A strange hobby...

[mchaput]

You slowly learn the websites to visit for keyboard stuff. At the same time, you learn that no website ever has anything for sale. All the cool-looking pictures are of things they briefly sold for two weeks once, and don't sell anymore.

You learn about group buys. This means if you happen to visit the websites at the right time, they will actually sell you something. That you receive four months later. Maybe.

A lot of keycap sets and "high end" keyboards don't support Mac keys, even though Mac users are traditionally more willing to spend money and value high quality. But then, the most expensive keyboards don't even support Windows keys.

Experimentation in custom keyboards is 10% concerning different/interesting layouts, 90% concerning brass plates (where to put them, how to attach them, what to emboss on them).

Seems like the only winning move is... not to pl OOH NEW INTEREST CHECK SO SHINY YES PLEASE!

[ArchDill]

[subcat]

delete this

[LightningXI]

Doesn't support Mac keys but doesn't support Windows keys - we're in 2019 and we don't know how to program a PCB.

[romevi]

"I deserve what I see."

[mchaput]

Welp, I don't seem to have nailed the tone here, this was meant to be gently poking fun at the quirks of this hobby, not actually complaining. Sorry y'all

[korrelate]

Welp, I don't seem to have nailed the tone here, this was meant to be gently poking fun at the quirks of this hobby, not actually complaining. Sorry y'all

I got it  and I like the post. I think you nailed it with some subtlety. There are many barriers to entry into this hobby and yet the ease with which we get (and remain) enamored of it is startling.

[fohat.digs]

gently poking fun at the quirks of this hobby, not actually complaining.

Quote from: Anonymous Coward circa 2011:

I feel ashamed when I see a grown up man say things like "…. a sharp drop at the actuation point at around 2/3 - 3/4 way down the ...."

Don't you have anything better to do with your life than yammering away on the minute details of a keyboard? I have both an M and an F that I picked up at goodwill for nothing 15 years ago and for the first time yesterday I googled about them and found 'enthusiast' (here an euphemism for retarded) websites where idiots bounce off the walls telling each other about the orgasms per second they have when using them.
And 'using' is an overstatement with 90% of those morons. Most are busy opening them, cleaning the last atom of dirt off them, 'restoring' what doesn't need any restoration, 'upgrading', thinking of names for them, 'modding', taking photos, showing them off, in general jerking off about the clicky sensations and the superb accuracy of their typing and other general uber-dorkiness. What I never found there was anything useful to do with them, ie. actually program a computer.

Go type 'messenger lectures' in youtube and see what smart people look like, then kill yourself disassembling your One True Keyboard (TM) for the nth time and swallowing all the buckling springs.

And then mail one of your remaining model Fs to me.

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[9999hp]

gently poking fun at the quirks of this hobby, not actually complaining.

Quote from: Anonymous Coward circa 2011:

I feel ashamed when I see a grown up man say things like "…. a sharp drop at the actuation point at around 2/3 - 3/4 way down the ...."

Don't you have anything better to do with your life than yammering away on the minute details of a keyboard? I have both an M and an F that I picked up at goodwill for nothing 15 years ago and for the first time yesterday I googled about them and found 'enthusiast' (here an euphemism for retarded) websites where idiots bounce off the walls telling each other about the orgasms per second they have when using them.
And 'using' is an overstatement with 90% of those morons. Most are busy opening them, cleaning the last atom of dirt off them, 'restoring' what doesn't need any restoration, 'upgrading', thinking of names for them, 'modding', taking photos, showing them off, in general jerking off about the clicky sensations and the superb accuracy of their typing and other general uber-dorkiness. What I never found there was anything useful to do with them, ie. actually program a computer.

Go type 'messenger lectures' in youtube and see what smart people look like, then kill yourself disassembling your One True Keyboard (TM) for the nth time and swallowing all the buckling springs.

And then mail one of your remaining model Fs to me.

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Man, that was a doozy

[rxc92]

gently poking fun at the quirks of this hobby, not actually complaining.

Quote from: Anonymous Coward circa 2011:

I feel ashamed when I see a grown up man say things like "…. a sharp drop at the actuation point at around 2/3 - 3/4 way down the ...."

Don't you have anything better to do with your life than yammering away on the minute details of a keyboard? I have both an M and an F that I picked up at goodwill for nothing 15 years ago and for the first time yesterday I googled about them and found 'enthusiast' (here an euphemism for retarded) websites where idiots bounce off the walls telling each other about the orgasms per second they have when using them.
And 'using' is an overstatement with 90% of those morons. Most are busy opening them, cleaning the last atom of dirt off them, 'restoring' what doesn't need any restoration, 'upgrading', thinking of names for them, 'modding', taking photos, showing them off, in general jerking off about the clicky sensations and the superb accuracy of their typing and other general uber-dorkiness. What I never found there was anything useful to do with them, ie. actually program a computer.

Go type 'messenger lectures' in youtube and see what smart people look like, then kill yourself disassembling your One True Keyboard (TM) for the nth time and swallowing all the buckling springs.

And then mail one of your remaining model Fs to me.

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Ahahaha, I'm better for having seen this.

[OnceS]

We live in a society.

[EMC Labs]

Woah! I agree with you for some statements, disagree with others. Interesting points you've created.

[chive_]

We live in a society.

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