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Well, the F122 aficionados kept quiet about that! I’ve never had one (only XT, AT and Kishsaver*) so I can’t speak from first hand experience of a Model F that size. Essentially, the Model F only supports its bottom plate at the front and rear edges, IIRC. So, the 122 has a lot more depth unsupport...

One thing I'll note about the 122s... they're really stretching the Model F mechanical design beyond what it was really meant to do, and key feel (especially near the center) is degraded unless you do a bolt mod (which IIRC is significantly more involved and riskier than it is on a Model M). Additio...

So, sounds like we've got moderation now, finally... but what does the ownership/funding status of the forum look like? Or the back-end maintenance?

...finally, a computer to go with the best regular keyboard of 2014: https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

So one update: battery life is dreadful. Like 3-4 days in my usage pattern dreadful. (I get like 2-3 weeks out of a charge on a ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard in the same usage pattern.) However, not a huge deal to just slam another couple Eneloops in, and throw the old ones on the charger. The...

And beam springs were a ruthless cost-cutting exercise on the Selectric I/O, inferior to both the Selectric I/O that preceded them, and the Model F that succeeded them.

Hmm, maybe I can somehow add material to a MX Low Profile Red's slider to make a sort of... jury-rigged MX Low Profile Ergo Clear?

I'm guessing the sliders themselves are ABS? Edit: Looks like some type of POM is what Cherry uses. Still a thermoplastic, but it'll need hotter. Hmm.

AFAICT, MX Low Profile only exists in Red and Silver, and has a proprietary pinout so you can't replace it with anything else.

To be fair, the gold standard is also something that people ascribe far too much value to.

Also, to answer your question as for why you like your ThinkPad's keyboard... for a short-travel rubber dome , IBM and Lenovo have historically done a good job at specifying rubber domes that have a comparatively crisp buckling response, so they've felt less mushy than some of their competition. (Th...

Yeah, whereas I skipped all of the various enhanced MX clones designs because... IIRC they were mostly trying to be smoother linears? Whereas I'd rather use rubber domes than linears. (As evidenced by my attempts to actually put a rubber dome of sorts around the linear mouse switches on this board.)

I would've experienced good keyboards for the first time in the early 1990s, I'd guess. The first computer I used was in 1991, and was an Apple //c, but it was the launch version with the Apple Hairpin Spring switches, the kind of switch that makes you run screaming for rubber domes. The first actua...

I think to get it from NovelKeys you'd have to get both the Standard and Custom sample packs, and you'd get a bunch of more straight MX clone stuff you don't need too, and you wouldn't get the Crystal (slightly heavier) switches either: https://novelkeys.xyz/collections/switches/products/kailh-sampl...

Is there anything like that? The ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard exists: https://www.lenovo.com/it/it/accessories-and-monitors/keyboards-and-mice/keyboards/KEYBOARD-Italy/p/0B47207 I just last night stopped daily driving the (now discontinued, in favor of the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II) Bluetoot...

Some of the older members here probably remember that I used to be extremely active, but haven't seen me post much for quite a long time. That's, ultimately, because I didn't think the features I wanted in a high-end keyboard - three-button TrackPoint, wireless, and either Alps or buckling spring sw...

The low-profile switch thing: I'm not sure if you can make an ALPS-based switch that preserves the attributes we like in a short throw format. I'm also a little skeptical as to whether the OEM wins are really forthcoming for that sort of design. There are a few novelty laptops with MX switches in t...

I wonder if the Google Search Console says anything useful...

Tenkeyless would actually require a major design change due to the controller... Also, $25 may not get you dye-sub PBT. IDK how much that'd cost in quantity. (And, with black keyboards being more popular, dye-sub wouldn't necessarily work anyway.) But let's face it, even pad printed ABS, it'd still ...

Of course... buckling spring or rubber dome M2? There is a difference, after all. And the buckling spring M2 is honestly a keyboard that impresses me a lot. It's not a Model M, but it's damn close, and it's incredibly well cost-optimized. I suspect a Chinese company could take the design as-is, repl...

I'd venture a guess that nothing with phpBB would be affecting the wiki, as that's a separate software package (MediaWiki).

Doesn't look like there's any robots.txt being served by the forum, either...

...I grew up with a 1.5 U Delete key where Backspace is located on modern keyboards (truncated ANSI layout), but it was an Apple //c. What this means is... early Apple IIs didn't have any dedicated destructive backspace key. Instead, they had left and right arrows, and everything before about 1983 (...

Part of what made old laptops so chunky, as well, was that a lot of thick components were underneath the keyboard. Note how those PowerBooks had a whole floppy drive underneath the keyboard. Modern designs tend to avoid putting anything thick underneath the keyboard - batteries and hard drives are t...

That's the thing, it's not an accessible switch. (And, I prefer capacitive buckling spring over it - beam spring is smoother, more refined, but I prefer more tactility in my switches.)

Except, I'd argue that a lot of people's second or third... or even sixth or seventh choices... are what's available in the second round poll to win.

Ranked choice voting would reduce the number of rounds required - you could just go straight from nominations to the poll.

I'd be cool with ranked choice, if there's a good way to do it.

Yeah, I'm not saying he shouldn't be eligible - if the community (and this has been opened up to the greater community) wants him to get the wingnut, he should get the wingnut.

I'm more explaining why that animosity exists.

I might've nominated the Surface Dial, but I'm going for the Planet 6.

Because, I mean, goddamn is that thing beautiful. And, it's also a pointing device.

To be fair, Lenovo's lost their way almost entirely.

ThinkPad engineering is in the toilet, they've shipped freaking malware, group buys are sometimes faster at shipping product...

Nobody's following Lenovo except for maybe the Yoga hinge.

In this case, the animosity's towards ripster (we're so informal we can't stay on a topic for five posts, being informal is not something that we can knock another community for), and the damage he did to the English language keyboard community when he wasn't banned from literally every place that w...

And I voted for the M2 (among other things like KFC products), because while I'm actually impressed by the level of cost engineering, the damn things are unreliable, and I've got one where the matrix is messing up badly...