Sorry y’all, $20 soldering iron vs. $20 new keyboard? Maybe soldering iron wins
$75 soldering iron vs. ≤$75 keyboard? No way
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i am sort of just tagging in here regarding soldering irons, not making a coherent suggestion to jellicle, but all i heard is that anything cheaper than the one i linked is not worth getting! the iron is going to be of questionable value if you buy it to solder exactly one thing ever anyway
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we stan a soldering kit that looks like homebrew audiophile equipment
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hilariously I was just gonna reply and say I’ve seen a USB amp for proprietary snake oil lossless formats that looks exactly like this down to the OSD
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what now, pc master race?
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playing IIDX on Sound Voltex broke my brain
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hang out with our friend old matt as he drives some trains
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it’s important that he mentions that he’s not interested in trains, since he looks like such a stereotypical trains guy
This is the VKB Gladiator NXT and with the HOTAS shortage we’re in, you won’t find better value flight stick under 200
Gonna maybe pair it with a Thrustmaster TWCS throttle someday, or the VKB TECS if it ever comes out
in the past 48 hours, I’ve gone from “I want to buy a cheap wireless keyboard because I’m an idiot and put linux on a home theater PC” to “okay I’m going to either buy a PCB or a hot-swappable keyboard, get a mix of switches going and paint some keycaps up”
someone please talk me down
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whoa whoa whoa
paint some keycaps?
convert an inkjet printer for dye sublimation
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but really, even I, the weirdest keyboard weirdo, have a wireless logitech board with a built-in trackpad for HTPC uses
I have the Steam controller for mousing but I need a completely discreet keyboard doing actual dumb shit in the terminal and it’s slowly evolved into “no I have to do the dumbest thing short of dropping 3-500 bucks building an aluminum shitkicker”
also I figure dropping 20 bucks on spray paint and another 15-20 on a blank keycap set is worth it over hunting down all the colors I have ideas for
hotswap PCBs are great and you can get a 65%-in-60% kit with few compromises these days for relatively cheap
if you don’t care about firmware flexibility, I recently built a commission with a GK64x kit and was very impressed for the price (amazon, aliexpress)
KBDFans.cn is the best place for a one-stop more custom thing imo, they’ve got lots of cases and PCB options that support QMK. I built my partner a board with the aluminum Tofu case, aluminum plate, and a DZ60RGBv2 PCB. My brother built a board with the same PCB in their walnut case.
I wouldn’t paint keycaps because I like the grit of PBT but this blogpost covers painting keycaps in some detail:
While you’re at it, consider coming over to the true cyberpunk decker future with a split/ergo thing: https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/
I would also be remiss if I didn’t offer to loan my switch tester.
You could even put a PSP thumbstick and haptics on a board!
Buy my wireless filco majestouch minila air for $20 haha jk… unless?
switch type? I’m leaning towards browns or blues because I have Cherry reds on my main TKL and I like them but I need some feedback
I want 65% because I am a slave to arrow keys and PgUp/Dn and I’ve been eyeballing the Keychron K6 since it’s hot-swappable but otherwise I was probably going to hit up the RK68 as a “I don’t want to work for this” option and save customization obsession for later