What are some unusual/small keyboard pet peeves you guys have that others probably wouldn’t have?
I’ll begin:
People clicking their finger(s) before a sound test
I know this is sometimes to synchronise audio, but it ruins the sound test as I’m there for the switch, not for your fingers! Edit it out and I’m good.
Tray-mount screws not being magnetic
Kind of explains itself but good Lord is it annoying when I’m mounting a tray-mounted case and the included screws are not magnetic and so it just falls and gets stuck in-between the PCB and the plate
As you can tell, my peeves are kind of pathetic but they would make all the difference if they were solved!
Yes! That drives me nuts… it also reminds me of this short video.
Let’s see…
The very slight imperfection on my Ducky One’s case (front bezel bows-out by maybe a milimeter and squeaks when pressed - the bow happens to be right where I rest my thumb). This is really what instigated my falling down the rabbit-hole of metal enclosures and I’m still tumbling three years later.
Lock-light indicators whose brightness rivals the Sun, especially if they are blue. Looking at you, Filco.
Weirdly prioritized layers that can’t be changed like those on the RK61; where the arrow keys are the default, and things like the question mark have to be accessed via the FN and the shift key.
Here’s one. Was desoldering a Ducky Shine 7 yesterday. The edges of the plate bend upwards instead of downwards making it infuriatingly tricky to pull the switches in the bottom and top rows. Couldn’t fit a switch puller between the metal and the switch. I’m sure they didn’t have desoldering (or wookiess) in mind when they designed it.
as someone who has sold tray mount kits. yes I agree 1000%. Now for the even more annoying part. I source screws and they are awesome and magnetic. I purchase said screws again. same company, same everything as far as I can tell, and I end up with 2000 screws that aren’t magnetic, yay.
Shit like this (and inconsistencies of plastic mixes purchased from the same supplier) is a major part of why I’m so reticent to start trying to scope out stuff to do a (very low-volume, at least initially) run of a personal design I’ve been starting to play around with. I kinda get why so many larger manufacturers try to have full supply-chain ownership.
Hell yes. I’ve sold keyboards rather than install software like that.
No thank you. Bluetooth never has worked well for me and I would lose a dongle right away. Wireless is going to work like crap in a metal case with a metal plate anyway unless you have a real RF engineer spend a lot of time on it and design specially for it.
Sharp edges on metal cases. I love my Tina, but… So. Many. Sharp. Edges. Every time I use my Tina regularly, I can see small cuts on my thumbs where they contact the case. I think I’m going to completely replace my remaining MX boards with the Rama Kara and other plastic boards in the future.
Couldn’t fit a switch puller between the metal and the switch. I’m sure they didn’t have desoldering (or wookiess) in mind when they designed it.
