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BernardIE531713-Jul-20 5:41

BernardIE5317

13-Jul-20 5:41

I use a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard It saved my life I consider the typical rectangular keyboard as torture devices Cheerios

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-20 7:26

13-Jul-20 7:26

PaltryProgrammer wrote:
I consider the typical rectangular keyboard as torture devices

"Torture device"?

I like the rectangular ones, because it is predictable for my fingers where the keys will be. It's not like someone pulling your finger-nails. It's not even as annoying as wearing a bra in summer.

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Choroid13-Jul-20 6:02

Choroid

13-Jul-20 6:02

Typing is typing muscle memory corrects for all the how hard is the key to push down and the noise keeps me awake HA HA BackLit would be nice but my biggest feature that is a deal maker is the little cushion pad at the bottom of the keyboard MINE IS a Kensington Pro Fit Wireless Comfort Desktop Set
The word SET means I get a wireless Mouse with more buttons than I know what to do with box says it is Spill Proof (I am not testing it is a 3.5 hour drive to buy a new one) I suffer from IWSWIB syndrome
I want to see what I Buy = IWSWIB Coffee Cup has always practiced NO SPILL Distancing 24 in to the left of the Keyboard $49.00 at UGH Frys Electronics

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-20 7:20

13-Jul-20 7:20

Choroid wrote:
Coffee Cup has always practiced NO SPILL Distancing

I'm were the coffee is, and don't want to be distanced from the keyboard.

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sasadler13-Jul-20 6:22

sasadler

13-Jul-20 6:22

CM Storm QuickFire Rapid 10 keyless with brown keys to keep it fairly quiet. I've got 4 of them for some of the computers around the house. No RGB lighting for me!

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-20 9:46

13-Jul-20 9:46

sasadler wrote:
with brown keys to keep it fairly quiet.

Makes me wonder whom you afraid to wake up. Never considered my typing a noise; the first neighbor to complain may be surprised.

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sasadler13-Jul-20 11:58

sasadler

13-Jul-20 11:58

Heh, not the neighbors. It's the guys I game with over the internet. They didn't complain but they could hear the clickity-clack when I was key mashing.

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-20 14:48

13-Jul-20 14:48

Aight, good point; I'm on "push to talk", with the button to activate it on the mouse for that reason. That and the humming, singing and whining Big Grin | :-D

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jaf213-Jul-20 7:10

jaf2

13-Jul-20 7:10

Really expected a mention of the old Northgate keyboards.

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-20 7:18

13-Jul-20 7:18

Looks like an Amiga-keyboard?

review wrote:
The Avant Stellar costs US$189 and the Avant Prime is US$149.

Is it worth the price of admission?

One thing you should keep in mind is that the Avant Prime and Stellar are PC keyboards that use a PS/2 connection.

That IS stellar; especially if the most important feature is just a PS/2 connection.

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Stuart Dootson14-Jul-20 1:19

Stuart Dootson

14-Jul-20 1:19

Unicomp buckling spring keyboard (IBM Model M clone, basically) on one computer, Filco Majestouch II (with Cherry MX Browns) on the other.

I don't know how well either of them deals with liquids, but I'm pretty sure I could use the Unicomp for self defense, given the weight of it!

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Sandeep Mewara14-Jul-20 10:23

Sandeep Mewara

14-Jul-20 10:23

Plain simple DELL based. One that makes me feel key was pressed. Big Grin | :-D

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ormonds15-Jul-20 17:05

ormonds

15-Jul-20 17:05

For me a keyboard must have an LED on the Caps Lock key. Using a Logitech K520r.

Yo momma's so fat...

Sander Rossel11-Jul-20 4:16

Sander Rossel

11-Jul-20 4:16

She can't save files bigger than 4GB.

Seriously though, treat your mother right[^].

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Re: Yo momma's so fat...

dandy7211-Jul-20 5:08

11-Jul-20 5:08

Sander Rossel wrote:
Seriously though, treat your mother right[^].

I knew what that was even without following the link.

Some things just get burned forever into your memory.

Re: Yo momma's so fat...

kalberts11-Jul-20 8:19

kalberts

11-Jul-20 8:19

If she goes exFAT, there will be no problem.

Re: Yo momma's so fat...

Eddy Vluggen11-Jul-20 11:47

Double post after years because it is so silent here

11-Jul-20 11:47

Yo momma so fat, she became the codename for the FAT256 filesystem. She so FAT, Google File System refused to replicate her.

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User 1106097911-Jul-20 3:19

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11-Jul-20 3:19

Cool teacher explaining imaginary numbers: YouTube[^] Big Grin | :-D

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Re: Double post after years because it is so silent here

Ron Anders11-Jul-20 11:30

Ron Anders

11-Jul-20 11:30

I didn't get it until someone explained that they are just the numbers that are negative on an x/y plane.
- Well why didn't cha say so.

Lets call em imaginary......

Swollen phone battery...twice?

dandy7211-Jul-20 1:57

11-Jul-20 1:57

Long story short:

August 2016 - Purchase Lumia 640
August 2018 - Purchase replacement battery as the original spontaneously got swollen
Today - Woke up to a swollen battery again

If I'm doing it wrong, I'd love to know what it is.

When the phone isn't in my pockets, it's sitting in a dock (and recharging) - that's what happened last time...but right now - it was fine last evening, it spent the night in my pockets and I found it in this state just a few minutes ago.

I'm more than willing to give the phone manufacturer a pass, just like no car manufacturer makes its own batteries...but I'm still less than impressed.

Honestly, do I have unrealistic expectations?

OriginalGriff11-Jul-20 2:05

OriginalGriff

11-Jul-20 2:05

dandy72 wrote:
If I'm doing it wrong, I'd love to know what it is.

Running Windows mobile?

There can't be many of you left ... Laugh | :laugh:

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dandy7211-Jul-20 5:02

11-Jul-20 5:02

Lumia 640, so...yeah.

Don't get me started on the alternatives. It was fully supported and got updates for far longer than any of the Android tablets I have (which are all freeze and crash-prone even shortly after factory resets). My dad's phone is running Android 9, and it frequently has to be rebooted (or else things stop working randomly). This is the still best they can do?

And I refuse to give Apple any money.

The remaining options are...underwhelming.

OriginalGriff11-Jul-20 5:42

OriginalGriff

11-Jul-20 5:42

I have a Huawei P30 Lite (Android) which replaced my Moto-G (Android) and they've both been fine.
The P30 in particular updates itself - politely - by asking if you want to do it now, or leave it, in which case is "between 2AM and 4AM Ok with you?"
I don't think I've had to turn it off or reboot it yet, and I've had it a while. The Moto-G was the same in that respect.
But ... My Nexus 7 had to be forced back to a previous OS version because it slugged it to death.

Android is a pretty good phone OS - better than iOS, certainly, and probably better than Win 8 / 8.1 / 10. I wouldn't want to run Win10 on anything with a 16cm screen - I get enough finger trouble on my Surface! Laugh | :laugh:

dandy7211-Jul-20 6:49

11-Jul-20 6:49

OriginalGriff wrote:
Android is a pretty good phone OS - better than iOS, certainly, and probably better than Win 8 / 8.1 / 10.

I have 4 Android tablets. I feel like I'd be a fool to get "one more, in case that one works better". They all remind me of Windows 3.1 in terms of how unstable it is - completely freezing, random reboots, having to reboot because things become unresponsive, etc. Android has always left me thinking we went back 25 years in terms of reliability. And like I said, my dad's phone, running Android 9 (the phone with the most recent version of the OS I've tinkered with) still needs to be rebooted regularly, or else you the screen becomes unresponsive when people call and you're trying to answer...