tetris11

A66 is a cracking track and a disappointing motorway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cslT4fQPt9Q

• Easy Mode: Weird Al tracks are allowed.
• Hard Mode: No Weird Al.

Their lyrics aren't particularly deep, the vocals aren't exactly showing a wide range of pitch or even emotion, originality between songs is mostly lacking, and though the backing is pretty boss, the main melodies are on the verge of being nursery rhymes....

... and yet I adore this band, with their smooth and entrancing synth, simple lyrics sung with Helen Marnie's silky enticing northern/scottish accent.

I can't shake the idea that I'm listening to low quality barely thought out music, but I also can't shake the idea that anyone's trying to sell me on them either.

They just put out these WYHIWYG songs, and there's this sense of raw honesty to their bleak and bland style that really jams with me.

Music without pretense, subtext, or reference. Just music. I love it.

Pros:

• The clickety clack is creamy as hell
• The dial/knob is very useful already
• I really like the LED effects when I'm typing.
• The packaging was superb and it just generally looks amazing

Cons:

• Shipping (unrelated to keyboard):
  • it took 3 weeks to get here
• Keys / Spacebar
  • It's quite a high profile position and I find myself double-hitting the spacebar often which appears to have a hare-trigger
  • The spacebar is needlessly long, and my thumb can't quite reach the Alt or Win key without contorting my hand.
  • On my laptop, the spacebar begins at C and ends at M. Here it starts at X and ends at ,
• Customization
  • Modifying it in Linux is proving to be painful.
    • The qmk cli requires a full reflash, but no easy way to set macros
    • VIA has easy macros, but has no cli just a shitty Electron app that requires you to set your keyboard permissions to World Accessible for chrome to detect it (which is creepy).
• Gaming
  • I knew that some keyboards are better for typing and others for gaming, but I did not think the difference would be so big.
  • The arrow keys could be a lot more responsive
  • I've never noticed this issue with a normal keyboard.

I guess I love the look and feel of it, but it's incredibly frustrating to modify as a linux user and I'm making tons of mistakes with it whilst typing.

Is this all normal? Do I eventually get used to it? Or should I send it back and just use a normal $20 keyboard that I can just type and forget about.