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Ironically named. DieFarbe = "The Paint"
I read it as colour.
Both are correct. You'd use a tin of paint/"Farbe" to paint a wall, but saying the your favorite colour/"Farbe" is red is also correct.
User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
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Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
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I've bought three DasKeyboard Model S's, and so far I've had one starting to fail on me (one block of keys not getting their key presses registered) in five years (I have one at home and one at the office in use). That's not a bad track record, but I did notice a decline in their offering. The newer Model S introduced the 'fn' key left of the left super-button, resizing that one in the process. Now the old key-caps d…
My IBM model M I got in the mid-late 90s has a "Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2" sticker in the area over the function keys. That should make it about 28 years old and not a single key ever failed. Missing Windows keys are a nice feature also :)
It should have the manufacture date on the bottom. Mine's got a month until its 29th birthday.
Re: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
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My IBM model M I got in the mid-late 90s has a "Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2" sticker in the area over the function keys. That should make it about 28 years old and not a single key ever failed. Missing Windows keys are a nice feature also :)
It should have the manufacture date on the bottom. Mine's got a month until its 29th birthday.
The sticker underneath mine is damaged but readable: made in UK and the date is "1990-09-05", then other numbers one of which a lot bigger which could be a serial number (1391404). I have another model M somewhere, probably a bit younger than this one; they were throwing it away from a govt server room I worked in many moons ago because it didn't fit in a rack drawer. The crap they put there probably broke in less than 2 years.
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I'll throw my support for Filco here. I've been using the same Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless with Cherry Browns as my only home keyboard for 10 years, and it's as good as it was on the day I bought it. Absolutely fantastic build quality.
There are other, possibly better options if you want Topre switches - the Leopold FC660M, the HHKB Professional and the Cooler Master Novatouch. The latter has the advantage of using Cherry MX compatible stems, if you ever want to change the keycaps. Personally, I'm of the opinion that even tenkeyless keyboards are too wide for most right-handed users - unless you're very broad-shouldered, you'll either have to skew…
FC660M is Cherry switches. M suffix stands for Mechanical. You get Topre switches in the C version, which means Capacitive.
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I also use a Kinesis (Advantage) which… glitches out sometimes, but once you get past the first month of being totally incapable of typing it's a pretty excellent coding keyboard comfort wise (gaming - particularly RTS - can be some work though, given its odd layout) It surprises me that most of the nice key switch keyboards are all standard layout though, rather than more ergonomic options like the Advantage.
Yeah gaming is a challenge. I'm a SC:BW guy so I have to pull out my old faithful DT35 for that :). Curious what glitches you get? I made the Kinesis and Dvorak switch at the same time and it was pretty debilitating! Twitter is surprisingly good for a practice medium because your thoughts have to be so short that you don't get the "my mind is 4 sentences ahead of my hands" problem you get with prose.
I just have my keyboard totally glitch out at times, my wireless mouse is using the USB in the keyboard and that sometimes just dies, and it seems like it gets into weird modes at times that I had no intention of going into requiring me to simply unplug the damn thing and plug it back in.
It's rare enough to not be annoyed as I otherwise like the keyboard, but it happens at both home and at work where I have the same thing.
Haha, I have not even tried SC:BW with this yet, but maybe I will now that the HD version is out and I already bought it ages ago.