{"id":16489,"date":"2022-11-26T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16489"},"modified":"2022-11-30T22:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:34:29","slug":"daily_2852_-_keyboard_all_lit_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/11\/26\/daily_2852_-_keyboard_all_lit_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2852 &#8211; keyboard, all lit up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2852_keyboard_fire.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI seem to have inherited a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that Ingrid and Adrian inherited Eric&#8217;s and my old electronics &#8211; laptops, phones, cameras, etc. That was when it was exciting to have any kind of laptop that was <i>their own<\/i>. That they were trusted to use, that wasn&#8217;t borrowed, that they could use without having to wait for when I didn&#8217;t need it. Performance didn&#8217;t matter, and neither did OS versions.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ve come full circle and I may end up inheriting Ingrid&#8217;s hardware. She upgraded her gaming keyboard, utilising the Black Week sales to get a great deal on a really good model, and asked me if I wanted her old one.<\/p>\n<p>I have actually been thinking of replacing my keyboard, because the keys on the one I have feel a bit &#8220;mushy&#8221; and indistinct when I type. Plus it&#8217;s noisy enough that I have to turn off my conference microphone if I want to type during an online meeting, or my colleagues will complain about the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid&#8217;s old keyboard turned out to be as noisy as mine, so that&#8217;s not going to be any improvement, but it does have a nicer feel.<\/p>\n<p>It also has LED backlighting.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can understand the appeal of colourful backlighting if you&#8217;re trying to set the mood for gaming, but I&#8217;ve literally never felt any desire to have the keys on my keyboard light up when I type, or to have all the colours of the rainbow constantly rotate across the keyboard. But I had to try out all the effects after I had plugged it in &#8211; if not for anything else, then to see just how crazy they were. The <i>Wheel<\/i> was truly almost nauseating to my old brain.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Breathing<\/i> effect was actually kind of nice, though. A pleasantly slow swell of a single colour colour, that softly ebbs away again. I liked it well enough that I didn&#8217;t immediately turn it off.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m doing my work on an RGB keyboard. With colour effects. For real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have inherited a keyboard. It used to be that Ingrid and Adrian inherited Eric&#8217;s and my old electronics &#8211; laptops, phones, cameras, etc. That was when it was exciting to have any kind of laptop that was their own. That they were trusted to use, that wasn&#8217;t borrowed, that they could use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,759,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-geeky_things","category-life_with_kids","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16496,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions\/16496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}