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Earlier I was talking about getting a mechanical keyboard.
Must be full size. Must be backlit. Must be weighted. Must use replaceable keycaps (pref standard ones). Must have software for the backlighting or other features that doesn't absolutely lose. Must use something like Cherry MX Browns in terms of noise and behavior.
There are no stores within an hour of me where I can try mechanical keyboards with standard switches.
I've heard some negative things about the Das 5QS keyboard but nothing that overshadows the positive.
I'm willing to spend the money for it, and I can return it if it is awful.
Here's to hoping, because if this works out, it is the absolute pinnacle of keyboards.
This one is designed more for typers, not gamers.
Das keyboard 5QS Smart Keyboard[^]
Plus it's got a cool thing where you can sync the lights in your keyboard's individual keys with things like new mail messages, CPU usage, etc.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Mine is a corsair. Mechanical. Gift from a friend, since bloody expensive. And I dropped coffee on it twice. It don't care, there's a video on someone pouring an idiot amount of water over it and it just keeps working?
It has this ridges near j and f so you know where your hand is. Not just for gaming, it just a better keyboard.
The only thing better would be a force-feedback keyboard.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The corsair was one I considered, but i don't like their switches because they use a different size keys than everyone else IIRC. If it wasn't that, there was some other thing I didn't like. Not sure now.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I took all the keys off at one time, to clean the keyboard and the keys. Dunno if it is different from others.
Point is that it is spill resistant; and built to be taken apart easy. That makes it easy to clean. Before this one, I used the cheapest cherry I could get, since they don't last. Three, four each year. I smoke, so outside the occasional coffee, there's regular ashes dropping. This keyboard just doesn't break down.
While it may not be your brand or something else wrong, you may want to look for similar features. And as a gamer, yes, it helps to feel when you press a button. So, if you cleaner than me and unlikely to damage your keyboard, then yes; ask around and go for something good. It's the thing you'll be touching most coming years 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have an otherwise excellent membrane keyboard from Computer Upgrade King (best computer reseller I've ever found, TBH, and they sell on amazon ) - it came with my computer, it's rgb lit, weighted with steel backplate, and all the keys are mounted such that the bases are FLUSH WITH THE BOARD. There's no pit/well under each key. It means the keys sit a little higher, but it also makes it the easiest to clean board I've ever had. Also the bases are RGB lit which looks nice.
The name is silly. Don't let it fool you. I normally don't give glowing endorsements. They get one.
CUKUSA.com[^]
I bought a Mantis in january as a dev workstation and it screams, and the parts are all mid to top shelf - ASUS motherboard. I paid $1200 for it, with an AMD Ryzen 7 APU. The damned thing can play fallout 4 with onboard video @ 1080p. 32GB of RAM. Smallish NVMe (500 GB) but i replaced it with 2TB as soon as I bought the thing, and gave away the old stick, and a 3TB HDD it shipped with - WD black I think?
US support too (not sure where you're at). Some guy answered the phone when I called three times in one day. Same guy. No wait time. It was ridiculous.
I feel like I am in a Stephen King book when I order from them, like - it's too good to be true, and something terrible is going to happen to me as a result. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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I've been using a Code Keyboard for many years now.
I'm happy with it.
It'a plain simple black backlit keyboard.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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There's a lot more "gimmick" there than "keyboard" for my taste: I don't generally look at my keyboard much as I tend to look at what I'm typing instead of where the keys might be ... so all those lights would just be a distraction for me instead of an advantage.
And they would "flicker" in my peripheral vision as my fingers flash around the keyboard, and i hate flashing lights except for emergency signals.
I hope you get on with it, but I probably would hate it myself!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I didn't think I'd like the lights until I ended up buying a computer that came with a keyboard that had them.
I'm frequently up at night. The ambient light from the keyboard is valuable to me, because it creates a more evenly lit space, and makes it so I can see where I put my vape pen (pseudo ex smoker here) down on my desk.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have been looking for a backlit keyboard as a Christmas present for my wife. She does touch type (unlike me  ). She does, however, stay awake at night surfing the Web, etc., while I am snoring. 
I hope she likes it. If she doesn't, I'll replace the logitech I am currently using.
ed
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One from them "hey, hey, we're the monkees"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Aw poop.
But I will listen to the band.
modified 10-Dec-21 15:52pm.
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The Monkees- Hey Hey We're The Monkees. - YouTube[^]
If you can't remember, you're either young or suffering from dementia.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Uhh... yeah, I have a Monkees playlist on Amazon Music I listen to frequently.
I have several video albums Mike produced in the 80s.
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My mom read me that today. I thought she was lying. But then I saw her face... Pun intended.
Pun tribute to Michael Nesmith... Rest in Peace...
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After each class in Grade School Frank ...ski and I would argue as to which is the superior band I argued for The Monkees He for Paul Revere and the Raiders
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The Monkees had better publicity, better lyric writers, better music writers.
I'd never ever heard of (or remember hearing of) Paul Revere and the Raiders before, which kinda settles that question ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That book looks interesting. Have you watched the YouTube channel CuriousMarc? In the last year or two they restored an Apollo Guidance Computer. In the process of that they even got to talk to Don Eyles one of the programmers for the lunar module software. Right now they are checking out the command module S-band transceiver and have it working - didn't even need restoring, it just worked.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Thanks for the link, watching them now.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
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I resemble that.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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