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  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlinetoMechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•I regret getting a Keychron Q1English
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    2 months ago

    Cons: Shipping (unrelated to keyboard): it took 3 weeks to get here

    Most this stuff is shipping from China, so not only did they just have Lunar New Year where everyone goes on vacation, but they also had a major change in Tariff structure with lots of uncertainty. I have had packages from Keychron DHL’ed from China to rural US in 2-3 days before, and also had stuff take 2+ weeks via other methods.

    Keys / Spacebar - It’s quite a high profile position and I find myself double-hitting the spacebar often which appears to have a hare-trigger The spacebar is needlessly long, and my thumb can’t quite reach the Alt or Win key without contorting my hand. On my laptop, the spacebar begins at C and ends at M. Here it starts at X and ends at ,

    So laptop keyboards are often shortened and profiled to be as small as possible. The space bar on your Q1 is actually a normal size and profile, any other standard Cherry or OEM keyboard will be nearly identical. There are custom keyboards and builds that have shorter or even longer options, as well as convex or flat profiles like LAS or DAS. You are just not used to a real keyboard because you have been living with laptop chicklets which are their own hell.

    Customization Modifying it in Linux is proving to be painful. The qmk cli requires a full reflash, but no easy way to set macros VIA has easy macros, but has no cli just a shitty Electron app that requires you to set your keyboard permissions to World Accessible for chrome to detect it (which is creepy).

    https://config.qmk.fm/#/keychron/q1v2/ansi/LAYOUT_ansi_82 You can create keymaps and macros on the QMK website and then flash to the keyboard via the toolbox.

    https://github.com/the-via/releases/releases You can also download VIA as an application so you dont need to use Chrome.

    Gaming I knew that some keyboards are better for typing and others for gaming, but I did not think the difference would be so big. The arrow keys could be a lot more responsive I’ve never noticed this issue with a normal keyboard.

    What switches do you have installed, switch type can make a HUGE difference in responsiveness and error rate.

    I guess I love the look and feel of it, but it’s incredibly frustrating to modify as a linux user and I’m making tons of mistakes with it whilst typing. Is this all normal? Do I eventually get used to it? Or should I send it back and just use a normal $20 keyboard that I can just type and forget about.

    I daily Linux and got Keycron keybords specifically because they can be configured, have open firmware, can be customised, and are high quality at a reasonable price.

    I will say that if you have previously been a laptop only user or are used to mobile chicklet style keyboards moving to a “normal” keyboard can be hard. I grew up in the PS2 era with an IBM Model M and old Alps Mac keyboards so I struggle more with laptops than I do actual keyboards.

    I actually bought a compact low profile Keychron K17 Pro so I dont have to use my laptop keyboard when I travel for work!

    Almost all your issues are because its new, and unfamiliar to you, and with some setup and maybe some customization your Q1 will be your new home and you will miss it when you dont have it.

    https://imgur.com/a/3mdPcyI

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlinetoMechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•What macros do you have on our keyboard?English
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    2 months ago

    Not exactly Macro’s but I have several custom key codes because I need them to pass through my KVM HID port so I can still use my keyboard for KVM switching.

    Visio:

    CAP+ W - Center Window
CAP+ G - Group 
CAP+ F - Ungroup 
CAP+ R - Right Align
CAP+ L - Left Align
CAP+ C - Center Align
CAP+ B - Bottom Align
CAP+ T - Top Align
CAP+ M - Middle Align
CAP+ V - Vertical Space
CAP+ H - Horizontal Space

    Windows: CAP+ S - Snip tool

    Linux: CAP+ SLK - Rectangular Region in Spectacle

    I probably have some more but thats what I can think of off hand.

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlinetoGaming@beehaw.org•Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?English
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    2 months ago

    I dont think this is misinformation, just a difference of opinion and interpretation of what is known. I also openly admit that I have a tint on this release because I am really hoping that AMD does it right with reasonable pricing and performance.

    As for DLSS/FSR I prefer not to use either because where I actually want faster frames and benefit the added latancy is not worth it, and where I dont care about the extra frames I prefer higher quality details. I find both framegen tech to be a poor service to the end user and thats why I dislike Nvidia’s marketing of the 5070 as equivalent to a 4090 when turning on DLSS. I also dislike their texture compression as an excuse to keep vram artificially low to prevent people from using consumer GPUs for running LLMs.

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlinetoGaming@beehaw.org•Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?English
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    3 months ago

    I dont fanboy, I chase value. My house is a mix of AMD/Nvidia/Intel/ARM and I use the right architecture wherever I can.

    If im guilty of anything its Hopeium but honestly all the leaks I have been following show suggest that the 9070 and 9070 XT will offer same or better performance vs 5070 class cards at prices far below street cost. Nvidia’s MSRPs are a lie and the market shows that. NO AIB can produce these cards for the prices Nvidia has them selling at without rebates on the back end. Thats why you saw a very small number of MSRP models and no plans to restock. Everything else out there on the market is over MSRP.

    We know AMD has stock in back rooms and warehouses, we have the pictures and confirmation from rank and file staff at places like Microcenter. We also know that AMD’s Instinct MI series is not selling as well as Nvidia so they are not as incentivized to divert silicon to higher margin products.

    So, yeah it might be another round of shitty nvidia prices and stock, but we wont see the same scalping for AMD, and the value offered by AMD will embarrass nvidia once you turn off DLSS. Why else would they lie and say the 5070 matches 4090 performance other than to try to sell as much as they can before the 9070 forces them to drop prices.