Would you say enthusiast grade or business grade products are better quality? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Poe@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Just a shower thought. Obviously depends on the industry, but in terms of electronics I fee enthusiast grade (think gaming motherboards, for example) are better built than professional grade. Thoughts?

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The keyboards you get with business-grade desktop computers are ridiculous crap compared to hobbyist keyboards; not only in hardware build quality, but in features too.

These days, a high-end hobbyist keyboard is probably running VIA and you can remap the keys from a user-friendly web interface. (No, you don't need a C compiler and to figure out how to flash firmware anymore. That was a few years ago.)

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

ZMK is the new shit!

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

ZMK doesn't support real-time keymap changes yet, which is a really nice feature.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 11 months ago

Nice!

Can I flash my CTRL tkl board to use this?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Probably! I see "Drop CTRL" on the compatibility list:

https://www.caniusevia.com/docs/supported_keyboards

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I looked for "CTRL" and didn't find it :-)

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