New Keyboard.

It's a mechanical one and this time one that actually works. Oted for the simplest cheapest one I could - costed me less than a set of switches would on their own tbh, but this time this one works. No RGB on it, no hotswaps this time, since I'm not buying new switches for it, if I swap any it'll be with the ones I already have and most of those have been soldered somewhere before or well, at least attempted to get soldered somewhere, so yea, I'll be using an iron again - same for LED color, but tbh cyan works for me for most keys. I am considering going green since, I mean look at my profile, but the keyboard is white, not black and I got myself a set of keycaps that put the letters in top left where they belong long enough ago that they actually yellowed a bit, adding to the efect if not for those keys I didn't buy back then, before I started using spreadsheets enough to feel the need for a numpad. It looks like this rn:

But again - the keyboard was cheap as hell, so I expect the rest, of the keys to follow suit and yellow in due time, for a proper match with the 90s aesthetic. If anything I'd be switching to green LEDs, because blue ones used to be INSANELY expensive for what they are recently enough that I still remember it very vividly - blue LED used to be a sign of quality product and once the prices dropped enough to be more viable to use them as superfecial pretense instead of investing in merit of the device itself, peple did. and then RGB took over from straight blue quite quickly. Sop yea, it was just red and green for a while but also like... it has a matrix animation, because of course it does, so that would also play into the themes I stick to with my profile. Also something that looks like KITT's scanner so red would work too.

All that is to be done at some other time tho. For now I'm just happy to not have to type on the shitiest microsoft special I've ever experienced, but... the one I tried getting previously did in theory let you program a solid light profile just by clicking the keys you wanted and had caps, num ands scroll lock lights(this one just desables the diodes underneath when engaged). but it'd also twist like hell and be very squeeky while at it, despite it's great switches, so it's not that much of a problem.

Also. Note the missing Ctrl on the right. What you see on the pictures is a quick "show desktop" button that only works on windows, which I reprogrammed to Ctrl again and put the C key cap from the keebs original set. Concerning fact about that, it did not remember that I reprogrammed it when I disconnected it without closing the program, so idk how that works. I also replaced the screenshot button next to Del with a proper print screen in gray, since the one on the pics was not double shot and thus not subject to LED ilumination and the space bar - reminder about FN key lock was nice but tacky on the biggest key in the set and also not yellowed. Also the Ins (insert) key? that was a ruse, it's actually an End key, which is even better, but like PgDn and Del - vertically shorter on standard key cap sets. So now it's an up/down/up/down/up/down patter and one starting on a grey key. works quite well tbh.

Lastly. Here it is in it's new natural habitat, though prior to those visual changes I just described. I took all of those photos with my new phone btw. I used Fossify Camera app downloaded on F-droid, and it works way better than the one it came out of the factory with.