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My holy trinity (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BlovedMadman to c/[email protected]

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Monsgeek M1 - Boba U4T switches with 67g springs - Gentleman XDA V2 Keycaps = This is the Daily
TM680 - MMD Holy Panda switches - Pudding Keycaps = This is for work
Tester68 - Gateron Milky Yellow Switches - Honey Milk keycaps = This is now my partners keyboard (Although its just been placed on her desk, we will have to see if its gets used)

All of these have been lubed, tape modded, the TM680 and Tester68 have wheel weights and case foam to make the keyboard heavier and feel less hollow.----

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[–] SuperLogica 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you noticed your left and right arrow keys are the wrong way round on the Monsgeek? Flagging just in case you haven’t spotted it!

[–] BlovedMadman 2 points 1 year ago

The only way is up.

[–] SuperLogica 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t have any black keyboards, and it wouldn’t really suit my desk (white IKEA!), but I am majorly eyeing up your pure black keyboard. Nice!

(Also, I have a thing about keycaps that offset their characters. Can’t stand it. So black on black keycaps AND the characters are printed center and large? That’s my jam.)

[–] BlovedMadman 1 points 1 year ago

I have a white idea desk (this photo was taken in the kitchen) and the white and black contrast goes well, but I also have a super large black desk mat which makes the contrast between the white table and black keeb less aggressive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never done the tape mod before. Do you enjoy it enough that it is something you wouldn't go without anymore when it comes to your own keyboards? Might go and open up my keyboard to try it out.

And those honey milk keycaps look nice.

[–] BlovedMadman 2 points 1 year ago

Tbh, If I hadn't done it and it meant that I had to open up the keyboard just to do that mod, I wouldn't bother. If I was opening it up to add foam, or something else, or it was on first assembally of the board, then whilst its open, I would just do it, its a quick job (I cant quantify the difference it makes) and once its done, its done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Honey Milk keycaps are pretty neat

Speaking from experience

[–] BlovedMadman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are nice, I have a soft spot for XDA keycaps. I also have some honey milks on my Feker JJK21.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You, Sir/Madam/Distinguished Person, have great taste

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice collection! How do the Boba’s and Holy Panda’s compare?

[–] BlovedMadman 1 points 1 year ago

They are different, however, only subtlety, down to the plastics they are made from, both hyper tactile with no pre travel. The MMD HPs were like 17GBP for 110 switches. so they are well worth picking up even just to try them out) I had to get 30 more bobas as i went from a 65% to a 75% and the 30 cost me 25GBP... and then I needed to get new springs as the new Bobas come in 65g and then I needed to replace all the springs as the old 68g springs are slightly different to the new 68g springs you can buy) in total I have spent about 80GBP on boba switches (around 90 switches)

Cost wise, get the MMD HPs, but for quality, get the bobas.

[–] quindraco -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No numpad, no use for it on my desk. Horizontal number rows are for chumps.

[–] BlovedMadman 1 points 1 year ago

I have a Feker JJK21 which has Holy Tom v2 switches, I forgot to include it in the pic

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