i don't understand how people can get into mechanical keyboards as a hobby
most of them seem to be buying entire keycap sets and new keyboards every month or so, but then i look at how much they would have to spend for that and just

how

@MochiWaifu (but no i don't get how that's a hobby either I mean I get it, mechanical keyboards feel real nice, but... dang, y'know? That's a LOT of disposable income that's just being disposed of.)

@Nine i can understand like, getting one good one that you can use for many years to come, but having like 10, each with its own 200+ usd keycap set is just

wowzers... that is a lot of money for something you probably don't even use apart from looking at it once

@MochiWaifu for real. ...which reminds me I really ought to get a new keyboard, this one is... nice??... but...

the fact that the numpad 7 key is... twitchy and just... decides to enter itself at random when I'm typing (especially annoying if numlock gets turned off for any reason) is aggravating.

@Nine have you tried cleaning the switch on that key, if you can?

@MochiWaifu Turns out they're membrane keys ;w; The caps do come off, but there's... not really anything to clean underneat. ;;

@MochiWaifu Eh it's what I get for being foolish enough to think that a mechanical keyboard for £20 was actually mechanical

@Nine *pet pet*
some of them have gotten fairly "cheap" online, i've seen some reviews on youtube so it's not that foolish,

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