Notices by minna (minna@federatedfandom.net)

@lookitmychicken Google's fake VR thing 😁 there's a list of devices as a starting point here
https://developers.google.com/ar/devices

I love my phone bc im a fucking sucker for a flip phone but I will say Samsung's VERYYYY guilty of bloatware lol

@lookitmychicken it's an option for all the samsung phones I've had inc my current which is a galaxy z 5 flip. Should be on any phone with arcore

@lookitmychicken i'd rec the aluminium frame Keychron K4 or K10. they're USB-C and you can use them wired or wireless, which also means you can switch between two different machines pretty quick. I've got a K4 as my work keyboard, it's got a great feel without weighing a ton.

re: the feeling of typing on them, a lot of that's about the switch - the 3 most common ones are blue (clicky) brown (tactile) and red (linear). there's some other colours, but they're less common and are variations on those three, being all clicky, tactile or linear theme.

'clicky' is a loud tactile switch, they're the closest to the old school keyboards from the 80s/90s. 'tactile' are similar but less loud, and you don't have to push the keys quite as hard. they both have a sort of 'bump' as you press down the key that tells you it's registered. linear are the quietest, lightest touch & don't have that bump feedback.

@lookitmychicken oh something to consider if you haven't had one before as well, they're quite a bit taller than non mechanical keyboards. i had a couple of cheap squishy wrist rests that i used on heavy typing days until i got into the habit of holding my arm up instead of resting the point of my palm on the desk because i kept goofing myself ^^;

@lookitmychicken

if any of the ones you got to try in person advertised themselves as a "gamer" keyboard they were almost certainly linear. the ones that heavily bill themselves as 'retro' are usually clicky, like if you got to try the 8BitDo Retro one that's a clicky switch, and those round-key logitech Pop mechanical keyboards are tactile / brown switches

@lookitmychicken oh yeah they're SO boring haha. for appearance, to have something genuinely attractive or cute ones you generally have to buy a set of keycaps and swap out what it came with. that said, i'd really recommend getting a hot swappable one so that you can try different switches if you want to and still keychron > anything at jb etc. keychron ship from aus and it arrives pretty quick in my experience. do you care about numpad or not, or have a preference for wireless vs wired?

@lookitmychicken keychron are always a solid option, I've got two. Is the part thats not appealing about brick and mortar options the appearance or the feel?

@lookitmychicken they should just stop being dicks BUT my hack is offer to bring cold / prepared foods, buy and decant them into tupperware, theyll never know <_<