… get this one instead:
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Well, it is primarily designed as a home defense tool, obviously, with the side benefit that you could also type on it. I don’t think anything would even enter your house if you order it with the Solenoid option, though. Including the other people who live there.
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I feel oddly drawn to it. 
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I’m fascinated (or concerned) that there’s a “keyboard community.” There’s a hobby for everyone!
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And it’s a huge community. But unlike the visible results of the car modding or exotic dog breeding scene, members of this cult usually don’t walk around with their custom keyboards.
Interestingly, there seems to be no “mouse community”.
I like making model trains in glass bottles out of keyboard parts.
Check the dark web.
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I tried, but I couldn’t see anything.
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You wish:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MouseModding/
(^ see the Discord link in the footer)
I’m sure there are many more around.
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Crazy, I had no idea! Really a niche, though, compare those 2,498 members to e.g. r/CustomKeyboards’ 1.3 million.
I thought I was weird for belonging to a typewriter community (I rarely participate. 
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Even that’s 20 times bigger on Reddit. So you’re not as weird as the mouse people. 
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I’ll have to try harder.
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Join @Vincent_Vincent’s hobby.
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And let’s not forget the art of building one’s own PC. After finishing my most recent build, I kept the old case to cannibalize to build my dream machine: a steampunk-inspired monster with components exposed, a hand-built water-cooling system of copper piping, analog gauges and dials, and bleeding-edge components. The whole thing would be mounted on my wall as a work of art, connected by cables to my peripherals.
Or I could keep writing my novel…
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Wait. What? Never heard of this. Zow!
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My preference has always been (since its introduction) the Das Keyboard 4C. Tenkeyless, to give more room to the touchpad without having to wrench your right arm. Solid metal everywhere. Long cable. Loudly clicky. With a strong tactile feedback (decent imitations of Cherry MX Blue switches inside).
Unfortunately, they have stopped to make the loud version, and make sometimes some runs with the MX Browns, tactile but more silent. I don’t know, maybe it’s better for the neighbors, without sacrificing too much of the personal pleasure.
(They also no longer make the version with no key labels, but it’s easy to replace them with the ones from an older model).
Paolo
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Recently they introduced a hot-swappable 65% keyboard, Gaterons pre-installed. It’s a great switch choice, like most Cherry clones they’re IMHO better (much smoother) than the original. You can easily replace them with even louder ones, e.g. Gateron blues.* And the “Jungle Basecamp” and “Desert” versions drown the keycaps in so much camo that they probably count as “blank”. Especially in a jungle or desert. (But it doesn’t sound like $199, to be honest.)
* I suspect they’ll do this with newer versions of their other keyboards, too, since that’s where the market is heading in general.
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The loudly clickier, the better. CLICK CLICK CLICK, I say.
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It’s just such a weird combination (the tiny full metal camo one)… What are the odds that you end up in a dry and clean jungle, surrounded by hostile deaf dwarfs.
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