deskthority

Cheers to all the winners, sponsors, and the DT club.

Cheers to our rampant and always-entertaining MC webwit!

Yeah, I reddit.

A warm welcome to all our new users!

What an ABSolute victory for GMK's doubleshots. Good for them for embracing the community as they have lately!

I appreciate the formal dress and bow tie in front of the computer.

Do mechanical typewriters count? My father's mechanical travel typewriter was definitely the first keyboard I used. And I mean mechanical, no power cord needed. You had to dive deep on these with your fingers... For computers, like Seebart, the first one I used was the Commodore 64, when I was maybe...

It's not a cap if it isn't spherical?

7bit will like that...

Can a forum troll be fed any more wholesomely than by giving him a Ping award? Personally, I don't think that's a good way to deal with him.

It would be sad if Sneaky Potato didn't make it because of a split vote!

Can we all just secretly agree to vote for the first option of the two, for the artist, instead of "The Orochi by Keyforge"?

I don't think Ei der Daus! is regional.

Nice one. I do use it from time to time...

Yes, the Chromecast integration is pretty good (I have Firesticks instead, so thats another one of the reasons I'm using Echos). And the Wemo switches should be no problem. Have fun!

I don't like the Google Home's German voice at all, and asking knowledge questions is something I very hardly do. The spoken answers are too short to be useful anyway. I prefer to google those in writing.

3 ... 2 ... 1 FIGHT!

I have an Echo or two. My tips: Have a look at the new IKEA Tradfri before you buy any expensive Philips Hue stuff like I did. (I'm not sure if Google supports it yet though, but I know Alexa does). And the Logitech Hub is a great device if you have devices with IR remotes.

Ja, das finde ich auch. auch die Geschichte der Informatik ist super abgedeckt. Deutsches Museum is amazing, I got to go there on my way through Europe. Attached my photo of the apple 1 sorry, i dont speak german :? I agree, it's amazing. It seems like they already had a replica in the exhibition wh...

"Aber es erzähle trotzdem davon, dass die beiden als erste Menschen überhaupt die Bedeutung eines Computer für einen Privathaushalt erkannt haben. "

Boah, was für ein Bullshit.

The Cherry MX developer kits do look like someone at Cherry is slooowly beginning to understand ...

And the holes are circular. The cylinder of the barrel goes through the keyboard case, then the switch cover goes on, and then a locking nut holds everything in place. The switch body is the inside of the case. And I used a Dremel to drill and widen the 15/32" -ish holes. Ah, now I see it, thanks! ...

I especially like the illumination. How does the XT layout work out for you? And can I ask how you get clean rounded-rectangular holes like that in a plastic case? I'd really like to be able to make holes in plastic that don't look like they were carved by a caveman, but with my Dremel, they always ...

Thanks! Yes, it was about two weeks after I had fixed the conference...

I'm quite hopeful that it will work out next time. Sounds like an awesome meetup, and I'm only 100 km away.

I would have loved to attend, too. Last year I was on a holiday trip, this year it won't work out because I'm on a conference in Leipzig that weekend.

Please please "save the date" early next time so I can keep it free. Given my sparse schedule, this was really bad luck.

Granite is the color, Bigfoot is the model, Alps is the switch manufacturer. There is no way to make naming easy and correct at the same time in the case of SG keyboards. There are SG Granite boards with a different case (and rubberdome switches), there are SG Bigfoots in beige with Alps switches, t...

To invent a switch and then give them the patent and sign their shit fine print contract, is signing up to be shot in the foot. I'm not sure I feel pity for such idiocy. Well maybe a little. ^^ This is what I thought, too. The licence in the contract seems to allow what IC is trying to do, but that...

For someone who lives in the US and mostly needs ANSI kits with a few modifications it's probably hard to even grasp what 7bit is doing and why it's organized that way. I haven't seen any alternatives.

A used T430 or T430s in good shape is a good deal for sure. I'm still using my T420 (right now with a docking station and 2 monitors) and I really like it. When I'm neither at home nor at work, I can hardly imagine any situation on a trip that can't be handled by 3x USB, HDMI (or DisplayPort), VGA, ...

The use case would be to hook it up much like a desktop machine, without requiring any dongles or docking station. I would not want to carry the docking station with me in addition to the laptop. That is not at all how a docking station is used... :D From what I understand, what you need is not a l...

I have to say that six options were too few for me though, I would have needed 8-10. Low numbers don't automatically mean that very few people care, it just means that people care about other things more. Things like introductory pages are read once per person, while people come back often for keybo...

@slom: That's an impressive number of pins on the PCB edge... Not to speak about those diodes that someone added...

I use my F-122 the most, because the almost-modern layout is just great.

I also love my FEXT but it is the loudest keyboard I have, because we had to take out the mat for it to work.

Two pebble and a light blue for me, too, thanks!

Why are Nixies still a $250 thing anyway? I understood it as long as they were the smoothest Cherry MX switches you could find, but nowadays, with Zealios and other great new MX clones around, I don't really think they still are, and I don't understand these prices. Or am I wrong and today's buyers ...

Deskthority: dark scheme of a few guys with a lot of keyboards. Goal: raise the value of their collection.