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Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

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[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also have a Shanling DAP (many files in FLAC, Opus, Ogg, AAC, not just MP3s). Just 9 more comments to a dozen.

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice. I almost got a Shanling a while ago, but went with the Fiio M5 instead (the tiny one that they stopped making). The one in the photo is a Hidizs AP80.

Do you like Shanling's interface? I find it's kind of hard to get to a specific album on the Hidizs. All it gives you is one long, scrolling list.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The UI gets finicky at the edges of the screen where I think they want gestures. Trips makes scrolling a bit of a pain since you may accidentally switch views. I’ve gotten used to it. The price to performance/features is nice tho.

If I could change two things it would be: a) properly release their source modifications to the Linux kernel for GPL compliance, b) support some of the native Linux kernel file systems like ext4, f2fs as they would allow better performance & I wouldn’t need to install exFAT drivers.

[–] celebrion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Short question about the Q8, if you don’t mind: Is it possible to map the two halves of the space bar to different functions/key presses (using VIA)? I’d like to use one half for space and the other as a return key, if possible. Thanks!

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would assume so. They can be mapped to separate functions in the QMK configurator (https://config.qmk.fm/#/keychron/q8/ansi_encoder/LAYOUT_ansi_69), so I'm guessing VIA allows the same.

I haven't tried VIA before. Looks like it allows you to do macros, which the QMK configurator can't. I'll check it out tomorrow and find out for sure if it works.

[–] celebrion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot! Looks promising!

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 2 points 1 year ago

I just tried it, and yes, it works. I now have the left spacebar as tab and the right spacebar as space. I'm using a Mac, although I'm sure that doesn't make a difference.

[–] trash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 1 points 1 year ago

A soundtrack that will be stuck in people's heads forever, haha.