I’m partial to Glorious (formerly Glorious PC Gaming) devices. Even if the name was silly, their products are solid and can be as annoying or unobtrusive as you want.
Here’s my current setup: a custom-ordered GMMK3, and a Model D2 mouse.
I like that when you custom order the keyboard, they sent it to you in an autographed case by the assembler 
Keychron, BTW, is a very good keyboard brand and thinking of buying one for my sister 
It looks glorious.
it feels glorious. Though I miss my Model M 
Wrote a longish post explaining why Bluesky is enshittification-resistant (not enshittification-proof, mind you, but resistant). I expect some people to get mad about this, but for folks who are concerned/trying to understand…
The key: it has a tech poison pill.
They make you pay to watch ads?
This is a thing more and more streaming services are doing. They decided to try seeing how greedy they could get away with being, and consumers just… let them. And now streaming services are worse, permanently, and it’s become standard practice.
Related:
Max has just ditched most of its Looney Tunes. Again.
Price-fixing? Or am I too paranoid.
Talking about several large companies? You’re probably not paranoid enough to match what’s really happening.
Yep. Just woke up to that email. I hate this timeline.
I also recommend Keychron. The make good quality keyboards that are not too expensive and are beginner friendly. If you’re wondering how one can be a keyboard beginner, you are probably better off with that lack of knowledge. That rabbit hole extends beyond the event horizon.
Should someone start a (keyboard) thead?
I have not used their wireless products, but their wired boards have been good to me so far.
I have a Q5 (96%) for my work PC, and I bought a C1 (80%) for my wife that she does not use (which is a story all of its own).
For those interested in picking one up, there are discounts available from time to time (including now).
I’m unfortunately too enamored with their MX Master series to give that up without a good replacement. I also use their MMO style mouse for gaming, but there are at least some other brands that make those.
I’d love a QMK style mouse firmware in a MX Master style mouse. Also, a proper and not future enshittified alternative to Harmony. Also, a pony.
Depending upon how you’re using their software, you may be able to use one of these alternatives:
https://alternativeto.net/software/logitech-options/
I’m using solaar on Linux, but that’s obviously not an option for most.
I had a GMMK for several years before I got the Q5. One of the advantages at the time was that their products were cheaper than other brands, but last time I checked they were as much or more. I ultimately went with the discounted Keychron(s) because of price and QMK/VIA compatibility.
I’ve been watching this one from the sidelines, as I do not own a Bambu Lab printer. I’ve watched Jeff Geerling and Louis Rossman’s videos about it. There are communities/user bases that are more tolerant of these types of shennanigans (see the Netflix comments above), but 3D printing is not one of them. Once you own a device capable of making things out of thin air (and plastic), you tend to be pretty resistant to being told how to use said device.
Luckily there are many alternatives, although they each have their positives and negatives.
Should someone start a (3D printing) thread?
I’m kind of in the same boat for the G502. If i were to replace it i would want to replace it with something with pretty much the same button layout. There are ones that are fairly close but not quite what i’m looking for. I’m sure i could get used to something else if i really need to switch though.
Whoops posted the reply on the wrong thread:
Yeah, but there’s also an increasing community of people who just want to print things. And bambu printers where the closest thing to “unpack and go”. These people may be willing to subject themselves to digital serfdom.
I was quite fan of anycubic until they basically pulled the same move… and here’s the result:
(I need to update the page to link to a successful motherboard replacement somebody told me this monday)
My hunch is that the easier and more reliable 3D printers become the less and less open they will be. Once it just becomes something closer to a regular consumer product instead of a pro/hobbyist thing it’ll get real enshittified.
I don’t trust my gut, but it’s telling me that such a thread would be a ‘super nova’… a sudden burst of intense energy…then doomed to be visited here and there with intermittent impacts from whatever happens to wander near its gravitational field. Anyway, I’ll get my keyboard story (non-technical… sorry) in now in anticipation of at least a spectacular ‘super nova’.
My first year at Rocketdyne, and in our department was a middle-aged mechanical engineer, Leonard, born and raised in Malta, and trained by the British way back when. He was a fine, no nonsense, back-of-the-envelope engineer, but a problem for our manager, Gerry, who considered him to be candid to a fault, that is, a concern for any manager who wants his department to look good whatever the realities. We all had IBM PCs, but Leonard didn’t seem to use his much. He loved paper and pencil, and his penmanship and freehand technical drawings were always exquisite. Now, from what the rest of us could ascertain, Gerry’s decision to locate Leonard’s cubicle as close as possible to his office was intended to intimidate him, to audibly monitor and rein Leonard in (as if that was ever going to work). One day, Leonard had enough of the noise of Gerry’s seemingly constant typing, and yelled out, “Chicky shlick! Chicky shlick! All day long!” Leonard’s onomatopoeic outburst was characteristic. (Example. “Clemmmmm!” was his sound for something being chopped off.) His description of the keyboard’s produced sound perfectly fit that of IBM’s model M (a wonderful keyboard), and from then on one would occasionally hear someone in our group mutter “Chicky shlick” while at their PC, probably smiling as they said it.
