Subj : More Upgrades!
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Feb 11 2022 09:15:00

I posted earlier about my 34" ultraside monitor upgrade. I'm splurging 
again.

I bought a monitor arm to clear out desk space under the monitor and give me 
a little more flexibility. The monitor now "floats" above the desk and the 
arm has nice cable management to neaten up the desktop. A Viva single- 
monitor arm was $39, and despite being one of the cheapest options feels 
sturdy and well-built.

I wanted a mechanical keyboard; while I still have my first mechanical 
keyboard from 1991 (a trusty IBM-branded Model M), I was looking at 
tenkeyless mechanical keyboards. My home office is open to the rest of my 
house, and my living room is adjacent to my offices. A clicky keyboard would 
be too loud and distracting.

I did some YouTubing and found the Logitech MX Keys keyboard. While it came 
in a tenkey-less model and a model with a tenkey, I bought the latter, and 
picked up a Logitech MX Anywhere mouse.

The keyboard is solid, and has a mechanical feel to it, even though the 
travel is more like a laptop keyboard. The keys have round indentations 
which are meant to guide your fingertip to the center of the key, and it 
feels like it's helping.

The keyboard uses a USB Unifying Receiver, and it's easy to add peripherals 
using their Logitech Options software.

The killer feature for me is Logitech Flow. I put the keyboard receiver in 
my home desktop, and the mouse receiver in my work laptop. Paired the 
peripherals to both systems, turn on Flow, and now when I move my mouse off 
of the desktop screen, it appears on the laptop screen and the keyboard 
switches to the laptop as well.

Each peripheral can communicate with 3 devices, so I can pair my phone to 
the keyboard, too.

Given that I'm working from home for the conceivable future in some respect, 
I thought it might be time to upgrade from the cheapest possible wireless 
keyboards I'd been using for the past several years.




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