Ironically enough, talking about cutting expenses, the keyboard in the photo could easily cost 10 times more than the typical 100% keyboard you’d find in a corporate office.
Especially when they have luxury of lubed switches, foam, dampeners/stabilizers, custom case material (that keeb def. Custom one).
Don’t forget keycaps! It’s where the real money is lost.
That set looks like GMK Blue Samurai, which sells new for $150.
Looks like a knockoff to me. Look at the “Backspace” lettering up close for example.
You’re right. No shame there, but definitely knocks a $100 or more off the price.
Keycaps is where I always avoid because that’s what makes keyboard standout other than the overall produced sound.
Still saving for my keycaps sets
I was even thinking just about the case - good CNCd aluminium has come down in price, but it’s still expensive. You also have a point, I agree.
Shift is A, Caps Lock is Z, Control & Backspace is spacebar.
Don’t ask me why, I just searched the image and found the reddit thread that this post is riffing from and got my answers
The complete lack of A is concerning.
Or a space key.
But you get two Fn keys next to each other, so it’s got that going for it.
You have a backspace.
To do a space you need to press CTRL + Backspace to do a space.
Duh…Is that true? the space bar is a keyboard shortcut?
My latest keyboard doesn’t have a ctrl on the right side and it took me 2 weeks to adjust.
This was a joke.
But what you program your keyboard to is your business. If you decide CTRL + Backspace is your space than that’s probably it /shrug.
Just as a reminder though: Your colleague will hate helping you at your workplace ;)
I imagine a single press of shift probably types A
Z on the other hand
Also why have a caps lock on a keyboard like this the only time I’ve ever touched it is for keybinds or by accident
Can still beat Mario64 on Wii VC version.
Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts about to spend 1500$ on a keyboard missing over half it’s keys
Itrieditandiamnothappythatthereisnospacebaronthatkeyboard.
You couldn’t have written this on that keyboard. That keyboard has no a (or z).
A real Geek only need this one
Oh hey! That’s mine :D https://github.com/duckythescientist/BinaryKeyboard
Oh, sorry, I had the image since a lot of years. The world is small
I’m just glad to see someone appreciating it 😁
you got way too many keys you can just type with one button and one button (hold)
It’s for more confort
At least you still can press Alt+F4
You can remap it to require less finger gymnastics… I prefer super+q, personally.
Two Alt keys and no space bar?
I want a keyboard that is just one main key with 100 or so modifier keys surrounding it.
Let’s embrace that stenotype life.
No Z key ?
You’ve got an ‘S’ key, so that’s enough.
Perfect for ordering some pissa
Alphabet didn’t turn enough profit this quarter, so they had to make some difficult choices and cut their less used options
It’s the one labelled ‘caps-lock’. Probably needs a key combo to actually toggle caps-lock.
Similarly the left ‘shift’ is also the ‘a’ key. I would guess tap for ‘a’, hold for ‘shift’.
literally 40 keys AND YOU STILL INCLUDE THE USELESS CAPS LOCK KEY
Mmmmmm delicious irony.
Suka blyat
FN key on quadruple duty
Managers will still expect you to do 60% of your work on 60% of your keyboard.
oh god help me…
