When you spend 16-20 hours a day in front of a computer you have to keep things fresh.

Got some of these
https://a.co/d/0u8FvIy

to go with this
https://a.co/d/6ludmps

after using this for 10 years
https://a.co/d/0PDxmxL

and the experience is night and day. Just having lit keys has improved my life drastically.

I also got one of these to mix up my day
https://a.co/d/icAfaET

and one of these to try to improve my 3d workflow
https://a.co/d/ebd9b5A
but I'm not convinced yet.

I bought mouse and keyboard with extra programmable buttons that I don't use. The fun part is the driver for the mouse (which butttons died and I am not using anymore) is it disables the track pad. So if my external mouse dies then I cannot use the mouse. Yay! Yeah, I probably need to address this before it happens. The keyboard is lit and is helpful in a darker room.

Never understood why some people are so into rgb/lit keyboards or mice.
I find it very annoying and always disable that crap.
Are you one of those devs who spend their whole day in a pitch black room so that you can’t see your keys?

@Lensflare you don't code like this?

@Lensflare After spending the entire day being exposed to fluorescent lights, it's nice to turn the lights off for a while.

@Demolishun nope. I admit, I’m not a 1337 10x hacker.

@Lensflare I don't get why people have mechanical noisy-as-fuck keyboards either. I have a backlit MX keys keyboard and it's a dream to type on. I just wish there was a hack to keep the lights on all the time, because the soft glow is good.

You look at your keys?

im on mac

@devdiddydog if it drowns out the toilet noises, the sniffling, the idle chatter, and that one beeping noise from the ac. Then I could see the appeal. If working from home it could drown out children, spouses, and that yappy yorkie the neighbor has.

@spongessuck yes, because I use like 3 different keyboards and I fucked up my finger on my right hand a few years ago. Cut a tendon and sometimes it don't work right. Kinda pissed because the surgeon only wanted to talk to me instead of fixing the fucking tendon. I don't know if it can be fixed. He went out of business too. That asshole.

Edit: most of the time no, but at times reregister where things are.

@Demolishun I code like that

I like RGB

I just want mood lighting

I'm also naturally nocturnal

@devdiddydog what does lighting have to do with mechanical and sound?!

You know that you can have silent and non-lit keys, right?

I made a big list back in 2020 of every mechanical keyboard I've ever owned:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

I updated it in 2023 with some ergo/wireless options:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

and recently I got another ergodox layout keyboard:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

@Lensflare We were on the topic where someone complained about certain keyboard features. Noisy mechanical keys is one I don't get.

@devdiddydog ah, sorry, I get it now.

@Lensflare 👍