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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m going to against the grain a bit. If you liked and want the oldschool Thinkpad feel, look into getting a Topre board. Check out Leopold or Niz, both are decent topre clone brands.

    Also, if you live in a metro area check and see if there’s a mechanical board gathering, possibly giving you a broader flavor of what’s out there that might fit your taste.










  • Are you in the US? I see a few XDA sets in darker schemes like this one: amazon link for dark theme set $25

    Double check and make sure it has the coverage for your specific keyboard, I don’t recall which brand(s) but something like Razor or the like have non-standard spacebar size 5.5u , etc.

    Am with kilted_ on this one, possibly look at one of the other uniform profile like KAM as he mentioned, or DSA. XDA is not very comfortable to type on extensively, and tends to wobble on lighter switches.







  • Your photo of cyberspace doesn’t look too bad, is it supposed to glow in the dark as it seems to imply in the render? I’ve learned to be extra skeptical of designers who post renders that are dark or artsy, I need to see some real world lighting for true consideration of your set.

    One big letdown was the first run of XDA Canvas. Was the hotness when it was announced: new profile, custom colors and fonts with super beautiful renders(for back in the day). Turned out to be a hot mess with font alignment, bleeding, warping etc., not sure if Drop fixed it since then. It was my second big lesson in the mk world after the bunnylake gmk hyperfuse debacle



  • I know pour over is seemingly the norm at the moment but I’m still chugging along with my 10 years old Bodum stainless steel french press. Tastes fine to me and keeps the coffee hot decently long. Though I’ve been pondering to do the additional step of pouring it through a Hario filter and see if it refines the taste any further.



  • Nothing fancy at the moment as I haven’t had time to play around with it, but VIA/VIAL config software allows for complex macros and customizations. I currently just have the bottom row for basic audio functions: back–play/stop–forward and the knob for volume. Top left button is to put my Mac to sleep if held for 1 sec, and shutdown/restart menu if held longer.