the thing that finally tipped me over the edge wrt getting into mechanical keyboard was going, for the nteenth time, "wow I wish I could switch capslock* out for some other, actually useful key." I'm aware that there are ways to do that even with a shitty membrane keyboard (like the one I am currently using) but they all feel like hacks next to reassigning the key at a firmware level
*when I need to type in ALLCAPS I just hold down shift like god intended
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