Switches with a fragrance, the next big thing in frankenswitching? 
Not only have you to consider if stem and housing fit together, no!
You have to make sure that the fragrances give a harmonic combination.
Like âgarlic-vanillaâ, âbacon-lavenderâ or as @kb123 kind of suggested, âcarcass in spring meadowâ 
Do you know where this is from btw?
Wondered if anyone else does this and it made me go âhmmmâ
Just a USB-C cable on a front port. Use it for charging random stuff. But more useful for discharging static electricity every time I go to sit down. I figure my motherboard is more adept at taking that charge than the majority of my keyboards. It would make more sense to run it from the back and have the end just barely poking out by my chair, I suppose.
But Iâd add this into that category for things everyone in the hobby should own. A nice set of precision screwdrivers, some quality tweezers, keycap puller, switch puller, switch opener, and a handy dandy desk zapper.
Maybe I should start an IC for a customizable end that will zap you good. Artisan desk zappers. hmmmm
zFrontier is releasing KAM Soaring Skies extras on the 21st, before anyone in the group buy received theirs. Including me. Very frustrating 
For better or worse, itâs true for many things at this moment. Eastern hemisphere receives things first usually (outside of SA/GMK, I suppose), and shipping/customs is taking a hot second these days.
In a similar vein, excellent pricing or sales for extras of GB keycaps also is bittersweet, but probably necessary. Times have changed drastically since we entered GBs many moons ago 
But, yea, I get it, it does suck a little.
Someone posted an IC for this abomination called the âFunky60â yesterday.
Thanks, I hate it.
My first thought was âwell at least itâs ISOâ - then I saw where theyâd put the backslash⊠
Would prefer Tsangan top row.
The Verge had a review of the Angry Miao Compact Touch with this amusing subhed:
âThe AM Compact Touch is a weird half measure between a 65 percent layout and a HHKB. Itâs a joy to use when I donât want to throw it into a river.â
Also, I feel seen in this paragraph, as it completely nails my feelings for my Planck and other heavily layer-dependent, unusual layout boards:
âThere can be a small sense of satisfaction when you nail the correct arrow movements like youâre landing a well-timed combo in a fighting game, though itâs hard to deny the feeling that all youâve managed to do is overcome an obstacle you laid out for yourself.â
Oh my goodness, yes. 100% yes.
âWhy am I doing this to myself. Stahp.â
Typing out the strong password to my password manager is the worst. Always takes me a couple tries the first time each day on those boards.
If Angry Miao had some kind of software solution to allow the touch panel to control the cursor like iPhones allow when you long-press the virtual spacebar, that might be a game-changer.
I was thinking that it would need something like this to be viable. Sounds like it is missing. At the end of the day, itâs like they are selling the hhkb layout to people that probably canât deal with missing arrow keys.
Having to wake my keyboard once in awhile. Started happening recently although Iâmj not certain it was the Ventura upgrade. Recent update havenât fixed it but reconnecting the physical wire does.
UPDATE: This is not limited to a specific keyboard. And it happens fairly consistently after a period of inactivity, like keyboard is going to sleep.
A touchpad does seem like the better option, particularly when you could use it without leaving the home row. It does seem like HHKB + âarrowsâ is the goal here: arrows without arrows.
Cablemod has a new cable that has a pretend quick disconnect, you canât actually split the cable into two pieces but you can move the âcharmâ on the cable with a screwdriver!
Hereâs how they describe it on the product page:
CableMod Cable Charm
Our Artisan Keyboard cable removes the traditional QDC, and replaces it with a CableMod Cable Charm. Forged out of zinc oxide and featuring a luxurious powder coat, this cable accessory enables an entirely new design space for keyboard cables. This innovative accessory not only looks great, but the added weight helps keep your keyboard cable in place. Best of all, the position on the cable can be changed with a simple screwdriver, allowing you to customize the position quickly and easily.
I donât really have a problem with this but itâs very silly, like glasses that have no prescription or coating.
Iâm with you on that take.
Tho you could claim that itâs a weight to keep the cable in place⊠
Do people actually use that quick connection?
Wouldnât it leave just a dangling piece hanging off your keyboard? also do people have several of those ends attached to every keyboard?
I canât see how itâs useful, this new mock actually makes sense.
Definitely silly, but I can see the logic. Itâs another decorative piece that can be customized to match a setup. Goofy, but I get it.
Thanks to SwitchOddities, I tried a sample of one of these a while back and was really impressed with the clean, skate-y smoothness and crisp impact sounds. Iâve poked around looking for them from time to time - and now I remember why I havenât bought any yet:
That $16.99 price tag is for ten switches. Yep. These albeit totally decent nothing-like-NK-Creams Cream knock-off switches cost
But they do cost that much from Epomakerâs site and their Amazon store, for some unknowable reason. As far as I can tell, thatâs the only US-facing vendor that carries them.
Stray from the enclave of professionally-translated and branded storefronts, however, and this switch can be had for much more down-to-Earth prices - as long as youâre okay with shipping from China:
Aniy on AliExpress has them for just over 29 cents each (you can still get samples from SwitchOddities)
MMD Ainy (not Aniy) also on Ali has the updated V3 version for just over 34 cents each
They also have the slightly lighter, walled-stem version of the V3 called the âMatcha Ice Creamâ for just over 33 cents each (SwitchOddities also has samples of these)
Thereâs also a listing on MMD Ainyâs Ali store for âMmd Cream V2â switches priced at just under 24 cents each - howeverâŠ
Further ambiguity about that last one: while the customer photos show the expected wing-latch switch with MMD badging, the product photos depict a 4-clip design with no badge.
Whatâs also just a little confusing is that those customer photos show the badge as simply the letters âMMDâ - whereas the V2 Iâm familiar with has an emblem next to the letters, something like this: â-|||| MMDâ. A customer referred to this as an âOriginal MMD Creamâ - presumably to point out youâd be getting the wing-latched switch of that name instead of the 4-clip one shown in the listing.
To make things even less intuitive, there is no âV1â - MMD called the first ones âV2â in relation to the original NK_ Cream; I guess they considered their switch a follow-up. 
