Keyboard recommendation, please

[scottro]

Actually, this thread got me sort of half looking for a new keyboard with what I thought were simple specs. 75%, Cherry brown switch, black, no knob on the upper right, like so many glorious gamer ones have. It's not so easy to find. A lot of them were in other colors. I even asked (free tier) claude.ai who came back with a few close but not exact matches. I was surprised, I would have thought it's a common configuration. Not asking for help, just whining like the whiny little whiner that I am.

 

[Maturin]

and don't have the unnecessary options you mentioned.

There are play/pause and volume buttons at the top

Yupp. Those exactly are the unneccessray buttons I mean, besides hibernation, 'start Outlook', 'start Internet Explorer', 'short button to crap'... But of course, that's the point of view of my very personal, individual way of doing things, like not having any file explorer installed anymore (I do have a shell - way quicker and way more powerful on 95% on all jobs on files), no GUI media player (mpv [or other CLI player do it all {better}])... Well, that's not quite true. I'm still using VLC. I'm too lazy to learn how to get my jazzradio.com playlist running with mpv. But 1st: That's a process. I didn't start that way. It came to me. 2nd: That's everybody's own individual personal taste/way/decision how to do things.
We are on FreeBSD: The system that provides individuality.
All you shall get here in the forums are three things:
1. Technical help, if there is any trouble.
2. Ideas, how others do things - which does not mean you have to do it the same way. You may try, if you like the idea. But if you don't, just fw#4 it! It's just ideas, only. At the the end you have to decide for youself anyway. You are responsible for your machine and system yourself. You have to find your own way - that's what FreeBSD is for.
3. Some guys and fun related to the topic.

 

[shepper]

Today my longtime companion Cherry keyboard is gone. It is in trashcan.
I am looking tor buy something cheap and I found
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F4D15VZK?i=electronics&aref=ViR3ee1BGk
I like to use Bluetooth but I think it is still gambling on FreeBSD.

Thank you.

If it's a membrane style keyboard, often a cleaning will restore function. I knew someone who would just run them under the water tap.

Our water has silicates and other minerals and I was concerned about load up the contacts and uses a jeweler's screw driver to open the case. The membrane and circuit board lifts out. See Video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8REguZE4PQ&pp=ygUjY2xlYW5pbmcgYSBjaGVycnkgbWVtYnJhbmUga2V5Ym9hcmQ%3D