Fink Different: Keyboards as counter-culture.
If you watched Star Wars for the first time, without seeing images of the Empire’s perfectly spaced thousands of goose-stepping minions in spotless white-lacquered armor. If you didn’t see the fleets of black and grey tie-fighters, the immaculately designed star cruisers, the evil moon-shaped flagship… you wouldn’t know that the rebels were rebels. After all, rebels don’t look like rebels if they don’t have something to contrast them against. They just look like normal people. That’s probably why when you see Luke Skywalker, Han Solo or Finn (all rebels) dressed in stormtrooper garb, they somehow seem even more rebellious then they were before. It’s not what they’re wearing, it’s how they wear it. Dirty, scuffed, broken. Helmet missing or askew. An out of place, beat up weapon slung diagonally across their body. It’s the simple act of defacing the uniform that identifies them in our mind as counter-cultural. Funnily enough, it works in reverse. To the dismay of...
Oct 6, 2024
Both my gripes are mentioned in other reviews. 1. I was unpleasantly surprised that there are no compatible spacebars in keycap sets or even available singly. It's annoying as frig that the keyboard has two black, round profile space bars when the rest of the board has a beautiful Yuri setup. 2. I knew going in that there weren't direction keys. I get by just fine using the FN button, but I'd prefer a 60% board with direction keys. It's frigging obnoxious to hit two keys instead of one when I need to navigate a document. I bought the board to type on, and it's become more serious over time... because the keyboard is so great in other ways, it's a huge flaw.