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All this hot Twitter/Elon garbage is a real hmm moment for me.
Why are people using Twitter? Twitter has been a shithole for at least 5 years, and thatās cutting it some slack.
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Can confirm, thought one of my recent keebs was dead til I flipped the cable end.
Donāt quote me on any of this. But there are 2 components.
The keyboard/daughterboard. Needs to have cc1 & cc2 resistors to allow for usb c to c connection. That allows the usb c protocol to negotiate host vs device.
The second part is the cable. Many many different protocols more than just 1,2,3 and other things a bit beyond me. I know most cables are usb 2.0 and of those that are usb c many need specific host vs device ends.
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Yep, 2.x C connectors need to have a resistor in on different pins to designate host or device end since the āsenseā lines arenāt available in your 4-strand 2.x cable, and most of the time itās only the host/PC that actually needs to be told this as most C2.x devices donāt have the logic to care. This doesnāt account for the weird orientation issues, thatās almost certainly just a cheapo/misused daughterboard being used as the normal method is literally just connect the sets of pins for each direction together.
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I wonder this as someone who doesnāt use twitter at all.
But when I ask twitter users, they respond,
"Well what else would I use?"
ĀÆ\(ć)/ĀÆ
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I sometimes have conversations with friends or family members where their idea of conversation is a recounting of things they learned about that week on Twitter. I just canātā¦
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The diehard users donāt use Twitter because the platform is any good; they use it because they have a community there that would be hard to replicate elsewhere, so they put up with the garbage.
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This guy. Iām sure I heard stab tick in every single sound test.
Look at the dudeās lineup. $#@!ing hell.
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Great YouTuber. Been following him for awhile for his room tour setups and I saw a couple of months ago he got into customs when he picked up a Mode65. He seems pretty well off so itās not surprise he has all these boards now, but damnā¦ some of these boards he has picked up sinceā¦ 
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Oh yeah, those room tours are nuts. His creativity level is upper dimensional to me for sure.
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Iāve gotten a few recommendations for his videos recently and the ones Iāve watched kind of fell flat imo. The last one I saw was him going through what he has on his desk but it seemed like he didnāt actually put much thought into his choices past āDoes Grovemade make X?ā
Donāt get me wrong, I think he has a good eye for design (or, yāknow, Grovemade does) but I donāt really want to see product suggestions from a guy who clearly doesnāt do a whole lot of research into anything he uses. Even for the things he does have, he didnāt seem to know what is good about them. He called his pen a ballpoint when Grovemade specifically calls out the fact they they use rollerball refills! I know itās a dumb distinction that most people might not pick up on but his brand seems to be about making those kinds of subtle distinctions except he doesnāt.
Anyway. Sorry for the rant I just needed to blow some steam off (in general) and this is the only place I could possibly complain about a guy who only gets ankle-deep into niche hobbies.
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Dude, I totally get it. I guess any admiration I have for the guy stems from the fact that he lives in this absolute Wonka factory of DIY and abundant material luxury. The effort he puts into his ālifestyleā is well beyond my means, both mentally and monetarily. Those stabs sounded absolutely gross. Full stop.
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I try to limit watching his videos because I already spend enough money on keyboards, and his setup tours make me want to spend more money. The scissors you see in the keyboard video are firmly in my āstupid expensive scissors but I still want themā category, and there is a 3D printed lamp in one of his videos that looks amazing.
Which of his keyboard typing tests in that video do you think gives the best example of stab tick? I have never been to a meetup or anything so have only ever heard my own boards, so I am not sure if I even know what it sounds like to identify it in my own boards.
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As stab tick goes, this is top-shelf stuff.
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Thanks. I will have to listen to some of mine and see how they compare.
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This may have been posted already, but I just discovered āFishing Cactusā on Steam, a developer that makes typing video games. I just downloaded their demo āNanotale - Typing Chroniclesā. It is an isometric RPG/adventure game that you play completely with your keyboard. You discover things, and fight creatures by typing words.
I havenāt played a bunch yet, but so far it is interesting, and free for the demo. It has been a great way to test out the new keyboard build.
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waaait a minuteā¦
Wellā¦ I can confirm the non-specified CAP switches on NovelKeys are V1s. I considered the possibility going in, now I get to pick them back out of the jar. 
Yes, because Iām obsessive like that, but more because theyāre noticeably different. The V1s have more wobble and rattle feel, and a more sharp sound - and a more pale yellow stemā¦ they also fit more loosely in the egg-crate thing they come in.
Well. Hereās a picture of the jar anyway because it has another one of those neat zsa stickers:
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Gad-dam, even I can do better than that, and thatās saying something.
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