It's really annoying how empty /r/mechmarket is for europeans. You americans get all the good stuff.
I would really like some artisans for my first mech but here in germany it's even more expensive and inconvenient..
Paying premium and handling customs isn't great.. especially as student with lower income.
Or maybe i just have to wait forever until a good EU offer appears there .. but the prices from EU sellers are usually higher, because they had to pay import taxes in the past as well. It sucks.
And it bothers me that i'm looking for that kind of stuff instead of learning for the university, as i should )
You shouldn't waste time on keyboards period..
Do it after you leave university..
You will never be around so many females willing to talk to and engage with you at Little to NO COST..
Once you leave University, 85% of the good looking females are snatched up.. and the rest are no longer in close proximity.
Then , you enter a bunch of tech job, with all 0x females.. and remember only ~15% of the good looking ones are left..
So if this tech com has 10% females, that's only 1 to 2 good looking ones.. and you have to fight off EVERYONE else who's better looking than you are..
Tp4's recommendation is waste no time on keyboards during your college years... Get female xperience..
It's ur only chance..
TP is a very wise man giving very good advice.
Also, keyboards are a trap. Abort while you still can!!
You both have very valid points
I don't plan on "wasting" (doing things you enjoy is never really a waste of time) too much time on keyboards tough.
I can't justify buying keyboards as a collectible of some sort for me, especially as student, so i will always just buy one if i need it for something. That limits the whole thing greatly, because there is rarely a need to really have many keyboards.
I also can't justify for me to spend 200 dollars on a set of keycaps. My 48 Dollar Tai-Hao Doubleshot PBT set feels and looks great to me, i can't imagine that something like a GMK set could be soo much better to be worth the quadruple price. Never tested it, so what do i know.. maybe it's for the best, because if it's with these ones like it is with mechs in general and you can't really go back after you tried it ... i don't want to get sucked in that money pit too
I think the moment you tried a mechanical keyboard it's to late to abort. It's just too superior to rubber domes. And me having a very precise mental image of how my room should look and feel like in order to maximize the good&productive feeling while staying in it it was immediately clear that i will customize that one as good as i can ^^ . The better the setup gets the more i get annoyed by the little things that are not to my liking.
However there really isn't much left to do apart from building a custom cable for it and looking into mechmarket once a day in order to find some "cheap" artisans, possibly in a lilac or slate/onyx-ish colorway to match my normal keys.
So there is plenty of time to enjoy life as a student