Came up with this late at night. Not while being anywhere near a laptop though.

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    I used to think this way as I’ve been able to touch type for a very long time but in total darkness it’s very nice to be able to find a key/orient things.

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        Your keyboard should have two nubbins on it so you can easily find the F key without looking (it puts your hands in the home row). If your keyboard doesn’t have these, then either it’s 100 years old and someone is typing with the force of a gorilla, or you have an extremely strange keyboard.

        The real tricky part are the less used symbol keys.

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          Yeah I dunno. They’re split in groups of four, but even when I think I’ve got it under control somehow F4 and F8 are the same. And yes. Gotta be careful not to hit enter when you mean to hit backslash.

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      It is nice for the less used keys. For orientation there is this thing in the middle of some keyboards.

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        My eyes hurt just thinking about it.

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    I don’t care for the RGB in itself I like the backlight so it’s easier to see the keys in the dark

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      I’ve tilted my screen down to try to illuminate the keyboard too many times

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      DJs, Astronomers, lightning technicians at venues, dark scientists etc, so many people require a backlit keyboard for hobby or work

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    Desktop: don’t care, keyboard is standardised

    Laptop: less-used keys can be different sized or in different positions. I want that shit backlit so I can find where they’ve shifted those keys to

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      Many laptops are made with the US ANSI layout and other layouts like UK ISO are either shoehorned in at the final design stage or relegated to shuffling symbols around and requiring both Fn+Shift to type a character that used to have its own damn key. I’m not salty.

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    I would genuinely pay more if I could get high quality hardware that wasn’t infected with rainbow RGB nonsense.

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      Most RGB peripherals I’ve owned I was able to toggle completely off.

      I’m also not an RGB enjoyer, I usually just set it all to the same static color, on the lowest dimness.

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        Yes, you can turn them all off…

        …if you install 3 different resource-hogging, data-harvesting RGB lighting control programs on your PC and have them run at startup.

        I’m not that pissed off about RGB. But it should be off by default.

        White by default would be ok in theory, but in reality they all vary in brightness and colour temperature, so that looks jarring too.

        E: lmao ok people, simp for the corporations

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      I don’t need rainbow rgb, but a nice, dim, through key white backlight is very valuable on a laptop that’s used regularly

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      Thats silly too. Just turn off the rgb feature. I built a new pc last year, it has plenty of parts that could do the disco lighting but I turned it off on most of them, and opted for a static white glow on the keyboard. Completely fine this way

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        The problem is that each part manufacturer wants you to install their shitty RGB control software that is often bizarrely resource-hogging, and sometimes even used for data gathering.

        On laptops, some RGB control software can eat your battery away by a fair bit because the CPU never goes into a lower power state.

        RBG should A) all conform to a standardised open API, and B) be off by default.

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      Ditto. Unfortunately the grown up stuff is either worse quality business class hardware or ridiculously expensive boutique stuff. If you’re just looking for a case though, Phanteks makes great, mature builds

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        Is “business class” just a simile here? Because normally, the hardware sold to businesses is of a better quality (albeit also expensive).

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          Maybe I’m just making a wrong differentiation between what I’d call business class and what I’d call enterprise class. In my comment, I was specifically picturing those garbage soft click keyboards that ship with Dell, HP, etc. Desktops

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            Ah right, yeah, those are crap. I really don’t get why companies are willing to cheap out specifically with keyboards.
            Like, it’s the tool your workers use all day. Even if they just type 5% faster on a proper keyboard, that pays for itself in no time.

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    OP is the guy on the left but thinks they’re the guy on the right.

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      I don’t know that the high prevalence of RGB items on the market necessarily reflects a love for it. I think it just means it’s cheap to produce and can be marketed as an extra feature.

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        GN recently mentioned that apparently there’s a demand for water coolers with screens on them (even tho they cost more) so manufacturers are making more such models. Extrapolate to rgb

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    I browse the web at night, I want to see what I type. It’s as simple as that!

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      This is some Gameboy brick edition attachment level. Just needs the magnifier screen to slide over it.

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    If i need backlit keys to see what I’m typing then the room is also too dark to be looking at a screen. Look after your eyes guys.

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        YES. I would order ~3 more just for redundancy. If this one breaks, I dont know what I’m going to do.

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          I’d almost have to one-off a few custom pcbs and laser cut everything myself.

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    I don’t need LED keyboards, but with open source software I can get that shit synced up with so many other pretty things like my computer LEDs, headset, speakers, aquarium, toaster oven, zen garden, and maybe even my mouse.

    A little bit of an exaggeration, but younger me would totally rock a neon punk look if I had the budget for fashion, which I still don’t have.

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    My keyboard does not require backlit keys because I am a power user.