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(DIR) Post #AiTFKvaW9yLGng0t8q by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-01T03:12:49Z
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As someone who spends a surprising amount of time at ewaste/junk shops:non-bluetooth wireless keyboards should be banned for environmental reasons.
(DIR) Post #AiTFQi0RZNnWPkteFs by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-01T03:13:54Z
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a USB/BT keyboard can be reused! Clean it up and even keyboards that are 25 years old will work fine.an RF wireless keyboard has inevitably lost the dongle and is now just taking up space in a landfill as they're no use to anyone.
(DIR) Post #AiTFWqTJ0YfqPJK400 by SnoopJ@hachyderm.io
2024-06-01T03:13:57Z
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@foone receiver dongles?
(DIR) Post #AiTFe8zAZWjTr1htQ0 by grissallia@aus.social
2024-06-01T03:15:27Z
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@foone I’ve save three wireless keyboards from landfill at work, and the most enraging thing is that Logitech won’t sell new dongles and EXPECT you to throw away the keyboard. They literally told me that.
(DIR) Post #AiTFiuJaXpLjnmWrhY by SnepperStepper@mastodon.social
2024-06-01T03:17:17Z
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@foone is there not a universal RF keyboard dongle yet?
(DIR) Post #AiTFqR21IrmPIWtvea by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-01T03:18:15Z
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@SnepperStepper Logitech has one. It's "universal" across all their keyboards.
(DIR) Post #AiTFxm9XAp8wpaur2G by khionu@hachyderm.io
2024-06-01T03:18:16Z
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@foone the sad part (as I have been told) a lot of those "RF" devices are actually just BT with preconfigured pairing settings
(DIR) Post #AiTG4rmidGKkKFcqYq by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-01T03:18:26Z
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@SnoopJ bingo!
(DIR) Post #AiTHP0bTecVrQEXHcm by raven667@hachyderm.io
2024-06-01T03:35:53Z
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@foone at least the RF keyboard probably worked, I have/had a wireless PS/2 keyboard and mouse with an IR dongle, that shit never worked right and was a total waste of money 😕
(DIR) Post #AiTLRPKb5Uh4Vf2WDw by SnepperStepper@mastodon.social
2024-06-01T04:21:18Z
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@foone eh i guess computers had to be proprietary- too bad it couldn't work like the Videonics DirectED's RF control wands. At least logitech was thinking ahead.
(DIR) Post #AiTMbFsdBIPG31Dads by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-01T04:34:02Z
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@SnepperStepper they don't have to be proprietary: USB is a standard!Bluetooth is a standard! Just because they don't feel like using either of thus DOESN'T MEAN THEY SHOULD MAKE DIRECT-TO-LANDFILL ELECTRONICS
(DIR) Post #AiTNndnSBadPeWGZsW by SnepperStepper@mastodon.social
2024-06-01T04:47:38Z
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@foone that's what i'm saying lol, just RF signal can be too...tbh i thought it already was so this is all kinds of confusing.
(DIR) Post #AiTWb4CraBprNsEMK0 by Hipska@mastodon-belgium.be
2024-06-01T06:26:08Z
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@foone yeah. Never bought one of these utterly stupid keyboards. I don’t see why anyone would want the extra dongle hassle.
(DIR) Post #AiTZn7rW7HK03kghwO by TerrorBite@furry.engineer
2024-06-01T07:01:41Z
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@foone @SnepperStepper Logitech, deprecating the Unifying Receiver for the new Bolt dongle: whoops
(DIR) Post #AiTckXaMJydkpg7a1g by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-06-01T07:34:44Z
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@foone we have a big crate of them in the back room at work. Totally useless because the dongles are all gone. Infuriating!
(DIR) Post #AiTiwMO6NZb3IsPJGy by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-06-01T08:44:28Z
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@foone I feel this toot in my bones. Good obversation
(DIR) Post #AiTkYRMYQkGFgwPBpY by th@social.v.st
2024-06-01T09:02:20Z
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@foone twenty five is still young! my desktop keyboard is nearly forty years old.
(DIR) Post #AiUBOUeY2Y3blLIr6O by rasteri@mastodon.scot
2024-06-01T14:02:35Z
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@foone can't run a Bluetooth keyboard in HID/boot mode though...
(DIR) Post #AiUC3jnqcLowceJt68 by Gazoche@mastodon.au
2024-06-01T14:08:49Z
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@foone I would agree with you if Bluetooth in general wasn't such an unreliable mess
(DIR) Post #AiV87fFNIFP2zYlvjk by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-02T00:59:35Z
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@sleepybisexual yeah
(DIR) Post #AiVDcNzryi6cEuzKxE by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-02T02:02:05Z
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@rasteri that's why the good lord invented the humble USB cable
(DIR) Post #AiYVGMIN1Te9ISX7Xk by griibor@mas.to
2024-06-03T16:04:26Z
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@foone Nobody's revengineered something out of arduinos good enough to get clones sold on aliexpress yet?I have to assume all of the missing-dongle RF boards have crappy breakable encryption.