Looking for a new keyboard?
You can leave a lot up to most other people. Just refer. There will be videos and reviews and experts available. If you think you have something to add, you had better be an awesome specialist. Chyrosran22, (real name: Thomas) a keyboard collector, springs to mind, tactilely, bien sûr!
Heavens above! Try buying a decent keyboard that will give you what you need: something finger friendly that doesn’t wear out after half a year of Steemit. I now know what I don’t want (thanks Thomas). But I am in no position to buy a box of switches, find an old case at a boot sale and switch on my soldering iron to attach everything to the mounting board, so I think that is where Thomas’s advice ends for me. What do typists use? Would an ergodynamic design help? Did the cord really annoy me as much as I think it did?
I don’t even know what I like when it comes to what I do on a daily basis!
I have had some same old lessons plonked my way again. Once again, it prooves, that my son tends to cut corners. Real casual like. Really pedantic. His brawn and techy speak nearly fooled me into almost buying a Razer keyboard off his girlfriend. (No! Not really! Yes, she's selling, but I'm never buying! Still waiting for her to drop off her hanging perch into the guano below.) I have been shopping round for weeks now, for what I believe I am going to settle on: a mechanical board, (albeit, apparently mechanical, when it comes down to identifying which key is and which isn’t, is largely a non-definition for keyboards if you ask the real scientific-mechanical engineer - sorry, Thomas, don't know what your specialisation is. But it's awesomely brainy.).
Initially, I was underwhelmed by the little information/test results out there for keyboards suited for TEXT TYPING (you know that stuff you do with those letters when you are not mowing down enemies); at the same time I was overwhelmed by the (loop of) promotional correspondences worldwide, clearly in some marketing conspiracy. My (semi-)in-house supposed-Whizz-Kid recommend Razer or Corsair (sorry, Thomas; I know this must hurt your ears!). It’s what happens when you don’t know enough about something yourself. You start trusting loud shouty people who puff themselves up with he-said,-she-said,-so-I-know advice.
Three hours later, on day 25 of my quest for a keyboard, I have had my fill of Chyrosan22’s splendidly detailed, calm and informative videos and feel like applying at a polytechnic for an engineering course. There is such peace to knowing your keys!
BUT I still don’t know what keyboard to get.
For although I share Thomas’s penchant for decent quality and durability and honest feedback (from the keys at least) all at a reasonable cost (it’s bits of plastic and scraps of metal, people!) I don’t have access to any of the (very clicky!) keyboards he likes/uses/stashes (meticulously neatly) in his studio.
So, if you suddenly won't be hearing from me anymore, it's because I have no means by which to reach out anymore! I will have gone shopping for a piece of plastic: my life line! And I think I might get lost in the soup while I am paddling my way through it all.
¡Que tristeza!
Goes to show.
Moral of this writing?
Hard to do a thing in this world without adding to the mess.... A small comfort to find men who sort through some of it, naming and labelling it for what it is.
What more can we hope to do for now?