A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
@Massdrop still needs to acknowledge it is not a fully functional keyboard. They either need to provide a way to fix it or provide a disclaimer. As it stands I can use this keyboard with my mac, where I do not use Ctrl-Fn, Ctrl-Home, and Ctrl-End key combinations, but it is annoyingly useless with PC, where I use Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End to move to the start/end of the large documents.
It's not a terrible board for the price, but it is worth mentioning that it doesn't function exactly like you'd expect.