Is that Catbug?

Vault 35

Want.

It’s more fundamental than that. We all chose our OS based on our use case. When I see someone mocking people for their choice of OS I see someone with issues who lacks the maturity and life experience to understand there are more than one use cases, resorting to primitive tribalism in a vain and transparent attempt to mask their hollowness. It doesn’t make me angry, it makes me sad.

As far as I am concerned, I don’t give a rat’s butt which OS y’all are using. I have used Windows (since 3.11!), Linux (Mandriva Linux was my primary OS for more than a decade during the 00s) and eventually macOS. Use whichever OS works best for your use case. I’ll never make fun of you just because your use case is different than mine. I’ve been there, done that, have the literal t-shirts to show for it.

What I like to do for my small form keyboards is assign PgUP PgDN Home and End onto the arrow keys under a separate layer. You could do that here and free up two of those keys for modifiers. And leave insert where it is. Or you could do ins, home, and end on those 3 keys and move pgup and pgdn to the arrow keys. The beauty of designing your own is that you have the freedom to make these choices and pick what’s best for you!

No F row and an optional Knob + Optional step capslock

Also, we really shouldn't be assuming that people who don't have kilobuck level keyboards aren't "serious" or whatever. The hobby grew out of people trying to make stuff better without buying ancient unobtanium keyboards or spinning up a whole manufacturing facility. Someone who spends $40 on lovingly modding a cheap keyboard into something great is just as valid as someone who buys five keycults and pays someone else assemble them. Maybe more, if they're good.

I also lubed them but didn't remove the factory lube. I think I'll pick the extra scratchy ones and apply more lube. I also noticed filming doesn't really do much as these barely already have any wobble. Maybe filming it even makes it worse because of how tight it already is.

link to keycaps?

Didn’t the gb/preorder just end? 💀 That’s so fast

So it's not about custom keyboards per se, more about elitists trying to lord their bank accounts over the peasants. Shameful, really.

love it. very nice.

Never understood it myself, it just makes sense to have it on the left. Yet nobody really talks about them, crazy.

Yeah I'd love this for my job(data input/admin) so I can simultaneously use the mouse and numpad without lugging around my 65% and numpad separately. Always had the mindset that "welp, nobody's making them so I'll have to make one myself", I just haven't found the time to lately.

i prefer smaller form factors myself, 65% hits that sweet spot. but you do you

Found a couple of these on AliExpress and thought it’d be convenient for the same reasons!

Thanks!

Always have thought keypad on left side is more user friendly tbh. no need to remove your hand from mouse or keyboard hand all the way over to input numbers quickly in like excel without moving your hand off your mouse. This on top of the fingerprint scanner this is A1 in my book

I'm not you so I don't know if 45g will give you the feedback and bottom out you're seeking. See if you can go to a keyboard meetup in your area to try other boards/switch types so you can figure out what experience you'd prefer. Otherwise, picking up a 45g board on the aftermarket may be your move if budget allows. Sales do come up around the holidays so you might get lucky on a deal.

Nice

Id probably pay as much as $45

Cute item but i upvoted for the title

The factory lube is a bit inconsistent and they are so tight they can't work without lube. I had a few scratchy/sticky ones as well.

I took them apart, put them into an ultrasonic cleaner and applied some fresh 205g0. I found that aqua kings need much more lube than other switches.

Damn I don’t have instagram so it won’t let me see it. Its annoying how they force you to have an account to look at anything

Bro the three piggies make my one purple piggy pale in comparison!