Mechanical Keyboards

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Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
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Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

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You should care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard—here’s why - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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While most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about the keys they tap all day, mechanical keyboard enthusiasts certainly do. As interest in DIY keyboards expands, there are plenty of things to obsess over, such as keycap sets, layout, knobs, and switches. But you have to get deep into the hobby before you realize there's something more important than all that: the stabilizers.

Even if you have the fanciest switches and a monolithic aluminum case, bad stabilizers can make a keyboard feel and sound like garbage. Luckily, there's a growing ecosystem of weirdly fancy stabilizers that can upgrade your typing experience, packing an impressive amount of innovation into a few tiny bits of plastic and metal.

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Still, a good-quality set of stabilizers, properly installed and lubricated, is probably the best upgrade you can make to a mechanical keyboard in spite of tariffs. The duty paid on a $20–30 item won't break the bank, and it really will make your keyboard better.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

I don’t care for how this article assumes I know nothing about stabilizers; something I know a great deal about. And there was only one brand it mentioned that I haven’t heard of, but it was worth reading the article just for that, since they look promising.