Wireless Das Keyboard Modification
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There are two reasons for this. First, mechanical keyboards are generally larger than other keyboards, which makes them less portable.
Secondly, mechanical keyboards are oftentimes used by professional gamers, and for their use case, wireless just doesn't cut it. Higher latency (and more importantly - higher variance latency), as well as multi-key rollover[0]
That said, as someone who owns two Das keyboards and hates typing on laptop keyboards (or, worse, on tablet screens), I'm very happy to see this!
[0] Even the Das keyboards don't support n-key rollover over USB; you need to use PS/2 cables, IIRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29
Just press shift + mute to toggle NKRO.
I understand why you would want this enabled. I'm not sure I understand the negative implications, so - what are potential reasons to _disable_ that?
Also lets me switch sides easily, to play games that assume a right-handed keyboard/mouse layout (I normally mouse left-handed).
I've never had connection issues with my wireless mouse since I velcroed a USB hub to the bottom of my monitor stand and plugged the dongle into that. (And I only had occasional issues before that because of my metal desk pad. Most users shouldn't have any troubles at all.)
So I just have to swap the batteries in the mouse for a set in the charger every few months. No big deal.
They're targeted at the gaming crowd and most "pro gamers" use those. I'm sure you could rig up a cheaper solution with sticky tape or something if you don't want to buy one.
[1]: http://i.imgur.com/l8Ynobn.jpg
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Bungee-Management-Fixer-Holder/d... (~$9)
[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Tt-eSPORTS-Galeru-EAC-MSB0... (~$20)
I don't understand the allure of wireless keyboards.
I don't think professionals are playing SMB. CS though, probably.
I didn't write serious or hardcore because I was responding to the language in the parent post. And I mentioned SMB because it's a game that really tests your reflexes.
For regular use that's not too much of a problem, as it happens rarely, but even for somewhat serious gaming that's not acceptable, as it can cost you hours of progression, a lost match or whatever.
The default on a USB keyboard is polling every several milliseconds anyway.
Or because they're hooked up to USB, or using 5ms of debouncing anyway, so the extra bit of latency isn't enough for them to care.
Key signal > USB > Wireless
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Key signal > WirelessI'm surprised they're not more common, because many of my programmer friends also prefer mechanical keyboards. At that point latency seems irrelevant? It doesn't appear mechanical keyboards are intrinsically less suited to being wireless...
I did look at the source of the page and .. whoa. Can someone explain to me what
meta og:description (more or less the whole text, I guess)
meta itemprop="description" (as above, a full copy)
meta twitter:descrption (a third one..)
are? Is that normal? Sane? I've never seen that before.
Plus, meta description is .. present but empty. The body starts roughly 600 lines into the document.
twitter:description one is metadata for Twitter Cards. [2]
itemprop="description" is metadata in the microdata format [3]
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[1] http://ogp.me/
Again, apologies. I just got curious and was hoping the author might share why this is the case.
Even after following your links I'm confused, but - I got the gentle nudge and understand that this isn't the right place to continue this.
og:description - "A one to two sentence description of your object."
twitter:description - "Description text will be truncated at the word to 200 characters."
itemprop="description" - "A short description of the item."
It's also forced me to be a better touch-typist; I'd never really bothered learning the numbers up until now. I didn't even realise it but I was looking down at them each time I needed them. No more!
Aaaaand it does look cool.
But yeah, the stated purpose of the blank keycaps is to force you to become a better typist (citation needed as to whether it actually works).