Comment by coldtea
2 years ago
I don't know, typing?
Else, something like Mai Tais on the beach sounds more fun, maybe it's just me...
2 years ago
I don't know, typing?
Else, something like Mai Tais on the beach sounds more fun, maybe it's just me...
but mai tais on beach don't get you money, and if you are going to type on something, its better to make sure its comfortable for you.
But inconfortable for others. Surely you all know it bothers a good amount at least some of your colleagues, right?
Well, not everybody works in an open plan, a shared office, or in an office building.
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> Surely you all know it bothers a good amount at least some of your colleagues
Quiet switches for the office, clicky switches for home. Not exactly a hard problem to solve :)
But isn't one of the reasons for using mechanical switches to be able to not bottom out, hence avoiding the repetitive shocks on the fingers? This is what I do with my tactile keyboards, and I'm actually quieter when I type quickly than my colleagues who bottom out on their cheap hollow HP keyboards like no tomorrow.
Is it? I've had a few mechanical keyboards, and follow some of those webpages devoted to different switches etc (not obsessively though, once in a blue moon), and I don't recall seeing "bottoming out" and "shocks" as any major benefit mentioned.
I also remember typewriters and old IBM style mechanical keyboards beeing quite heavy to activate, subjectively needing more pressure than some chiclet style "shock" (which I can barely feel).
Mai tais on the beach don't let you signal what a cool hacker you are. When the point of a thing is signaling, normal arguments don't apply.