Librarianon

Librarianon

@Librarianon

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Writer, TF Finatic, Recohoster, and Game dev. Wasnt able to post here as much as I liked, but I'll miss it and all of yall. Till we meet again, friends!

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mrhands
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GFD
@GFD

wow i found like. my arch‐nemesis of input hardware. i’m amazed that something this terrible actually exists lmfao hold on i have to make fun of it for a minute

Photograph of a Cyberboard. It’s a mechanical keyboard with a 75% layout angled 10 degrees towards the user. The huge metal base is stylized with flat edges and sharp corners, and raises the keys high off the desk surface. Rather than a flat vertical face at the top of the keyboard, there is instead a 45° slope with a 5×40 grid of square RGB LEDs. Despite the LED grid being square, this face is an isosceles trapezoid, so each end has a triangular dead space. In the centre of the vertical face below this is a USB‐C port.

it’s called the “cyberboard” and

  • yes it’s literally called that and shaped like this because they’re Elon Musk fanatics
  • uses “the blockchain” for “anti‐counterfeiting”
  • also they have their own DAO or something??
  • hundreds of pointless RGB lights (which they call “groundbreaking”?? you can’t even see them when you’re using the keyboard because they’re tilted away from you what the hell)
  • anti‐ergonomic: the board is so bloody tall and it’s inclined 10° towards the user (bad unless you’re always using it from your lap or something, and like these aren’t even industry‐standard things like staggered keyboard layouts are, it’s just worse for no reason)
  • how is it so tall and yet it doesn’t have a palm/wrist rest
  • they’re clearly just selling these things on aesthetics but they’re all ugly as sin??
  • why the fuck does it need wireless charging. you are Never moving this thing it’s so huge
  • closed‐source firmware
  • one of the top 10 “hottest” LED animation presets on their website is pepe the frog
  • their website is a nightmare of modern web design, like it’s full of links that you can’t middle‐click to open in a new tab because there’s some fucking javascript that forces you to left‐click to open product pages in the current tab and you get zero feedback that your click actually did something until however many seconds later the page finishes loading in the background and suddenly replaces the one you’re on
  • these clowns have also made the most uncomfortable‐to‐hold phone case imaginable like what the fuck even is this
  • every single product page has a full‐screen footer that just says “COME JOIN US” in huge letters. it’s not a hyperlink or anything it’s just there.
  • one of the first web search results i get for this company is a Reddit post about their astroturfing campaign

i’m sure i could go on but i’m good for now thanks

mrhands
@mrhands

It's very much like a Cybertruck in that you could kill a pedestrian with these edges

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ireneista
@ireneista

honestly if all we knew about it was the photo, it has a certain style that we do kinda like. it's not our style, but it's sorta original-Star-Trek-y, and not everything has to be practical, some things are allowed to just look cool.

it upsets us to hear about it being pyramid-scheme-adjacent and all that. that stuff sucks. we know the destructive forces of capital find their way into everything but... oh well.

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