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Assunto:  Re: Hardware keyboard upgrades
De:       poindexter FORTRAN
Data:     Tue, 5 May 2026 12:25:05 -0700
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-=> phigan wrote to Nightfox <=-

 ph>   Re: Hardware keyboard upgrades
 ph>   By: Nightfox to Mortar on Thu Apr 16 2026 02:29 pm

 > That said, I've always heard good things about mechanical keyboards.  I'm ju
 > not sure I feel like I can justify the extra expense right now.  Also I'd li
 > to find one that's quiet, as I don't really like loud keyboards.

 ph> I'm thinking the days of the cheap clones for $20 (or less) are long
 ph> gone, but I still see some come down to around $35 every once in a
 ph> while. I would highly recommend picking one up at that price.
 ph> Personally, I like the smooth red switches, but even a clicky blue
 ph> switch one is more pleasant than a membrane keyb.

 I played with a colleague's keyboard at work - the fact he had it in an
 open office was a good sign. He mentioned that he bought brown
 switches, which I'd heard were much quieter than the other switches.
 Can Confirm - it was unintrusive in an open office.

 The one thing holding me back, besides cost, is needing to connect two
 devices to one keyboard. I use one Logitech keyboard and mouse in my home
 office, and connect my monitor to my work laptop and home desktop. each
 system has a logitech unifying receiver.  To switch, I switch the
 monitor, keyboard and mouse between the systems.

 The logitech MX Master keyboard isn't mechanical, but it's quiet and
 has nice feedback for a laptop-like keyboard. It feels more like an old
 Thinkpad keyboard.

 Some of the cheap keyboards can do Bluetooth and use a
 single-PC dongle, which would work. And Logitech makes a mechanical
 keyboard. Considering that Logitech has discontinued the unifying
 receiver and now uses an incompatible receiver technlology (apparently,
 a new protocol encrypting the data between the keyboard and dongle was
 a DOD requirement) which means when I replace something I'd either need
 to have 2 dongles in each system or buy a keyboard, desk mouse and
 travel mouse.   :(



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