i bought a new hand held blower which i use for light cleaning my keyboard now. but after a long while i will dissasemble then do a full clean up. but this makes keeping the mkb clean much simpler for any sort of debris that falls through the keyboard most part 

i just remove the caps and dump it into a bucket of water with some cleaning fluid and let it soak. then come back and dry it all up using a fan and dry cloth.

if you go to shopee, seems they also have mini usb handheld vacuums (with examples for using on keyboard). but i went for a blower instead, because i also use this to clean out dust from my pc. a blower works better than a vacuum when trying to remove dust from your pc case i find 

i too have customized my mkb but not to that extent. at most i just customize my keycaps for better ones like signatureplastics doubleshot group buy, a mooglekit (this is a kit i helped give the initial idea. it's purpose is to have the custom keycaps for the missing ones that have a matching color as another set of keycaps from a donor OLD mkb that did not have keycaps that would fit a modern mkb for some of the keycaps. hence why you needed this kit made as a supplement), and some dye sublimated keycaps (these use dyse that are very impervious to wearing out, and gives a different look compared to doubleshots). i also got some led windowed keycaps, because some of the switches had lighting components so the normal keycap wouldn't be nice for those, hence i needed ones that had windows on them which i had to source from classic donor keyboards.



also it's nice if your mkb supports NKRO, although most people would be ok even if it's just 6KRO. But if you have a NKRO option available, why not.

Then some people have preferences for the led lighting bling, which is fine. But then you usually have to choose between that and doubleshot keycaps. Personally i prefer just quality doubleshot and/or dye sublimated keycaps with good contrast that is durable to usage over long periods of time :}

I've used my mkb for many years already now, and i haven't feel the need to replace any of the switches just yet :} this is also why you get a mkb. Not only is it comfortable to use, but it can last for quite a long time. So the costs justify it in the end. But thats not to say you can't haggle for a good deal. Heck this girl spent RM500 and got a custom mkb, which seems pretty good. although i personally can't live without the numpad. If you do plenty of data entry kind of jobs involving numbers, that numpad is pretty important for speed typing.

one development for the keyboard i'm most interested is the optical light sensors for helping register key actuations. things got even more responsive and accurate with that sort of addition. but that said i don't feel the need to make any new purchase. so hopefully by the time i do need a change, prices will come down 

Finally received my Q1 Knob version today. Bought along a set of Christmas keycap but I guess it's too late to celebrate Christmas with that keycap.

Overall as a novice user, I'm surprised by the Q1 quality and oh my, this keyboard is really heavy compared to my very first Mech Keyboard One2SF.

From a full size keyboard to 65% keyboard, I'm definitely missing some dedicated keys such as F ~ and Insert... So maybe 75% is a balance between full size and 65%.

Switching from Brown -> Red switch and will see how it goes.

I wish Keychron include dust cover to protect the keyboard from dusty environment...

When you have neither, you have to go full size.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboard...ce_on_this_sub/

I bought one biji tecsee diamond which has uhmwpe stem and top housing. Its super smooth stock, really dun need to lube, or maybe just lube the spring. Too bad it doesnt have long stem thock though.
That hpe one should be better.

I dunno if this is the same thing but I loaded a china pcb (ncr80) json file into via and it worked on via np. Except everytime you wanna use via you need to load the json file.

Wow i didnt know that qmk had those hidden features. No wonder I couldnt find winlock in via.
Thats some deep coding there for me to get into.

Any good budget mkb? my niece is looking.

i don't think she will mind a tenkeyless. any recommendations?

i also haven't kept up with the latest news. whats the best switches to recommend. cherry mx brown?

asus getting in on the mkb action with their rog brand heh

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/fla...imate-keyboard/
looks nice, but in terms of bang for buck, you can get a decent enuff mkb for half the price and spend that money else where on your pc components, maybe like increased budget for a better monitor, graphics card or cpu.

but if you can afford it, and you want something nice, this looks good, but maybe you can get something for the same price or less perhaps 

Yes, my keyboard will always be bigger than yours!

Still looking for full size modular keyboard. Don't have enough knowledge. Reading here and there. Wireless option is a plus.

I am also lookin for a wireless keyboard, so far based on recommendation here already check out keychron k8 or k4, only thing is some review saying might need a wrist rest to type comfortably. Any other brand can recommend?

Trying to find a filco  wireless but seems like nobody is selling

I've tried a friend's Keychron K2. I don't feel it to be higher than other MKB. I think this might be a case of people keep repeating one reviewer's opinion until it became a "fact".