[HN Gopher] Care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical k...
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       Care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard-here's
       why
        
       Author : LorenDB
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-09-26 23:00 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | slowmovintarget wrote:
       | Relevant to my interests, but this seems an awful lot like
       | submarine marketing. (The article, not the submission here.)
        
         | pstadler wrote:
         | What is submarine marketing? Asking as a non-native English
         | speaker.
        
           | gs17 wrote:
           | It means it's an article paid for by a PR firm and subtly
           | benefits one of their clients (while the topic of the article
           | is true, or at least not an outright lie, and not obviously
           | an ad).
           | 
           | https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
        
       | ChuckMcM wrote:
       | I ended up switching to Keychron keyboards and found that the
       | stabilizers do make a big difference in feel and in my own
       | accuracy. I'm still looking for a good design that lets me put a
       | drop-cap key where the Capslock (I've got Control there) key
       | goes.
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | "Mechanical keyboards" like these are not very mechanical. I've
       | overhauled Teletype machines with _real_ mechanical keyboards.
       | You can only press one key at a time, because the encoding
       | mechanism pushes back if you push two keys at once. When you
       | press a key, it briefly locks down during the scan cycle, then
       | releases. Typing is speed limited, and it 's like playing a piano
       | at a constant rate.
       | 
       | An original IBM Selectric keyboard has the same lock-down
       | properties, but allows one-key rollover. Nobody replicates that,
       | although the Selectric was once held up as the gold standard of
       | keyboards.
        
       | inopinatus wrote:
       | Rattles off a bunch of products, says "these are better", doesn't
       | go into any electromechanical, acoustic, or ergonomic discussion
       | of why this may be so. Then blames the reader for installing them
       | incorrectly if there's no obvious improvement. Never actually
       | delivers on the premise on the headline.
       | 
       | Seems like snake oil
        
         | GuinansEyebrows wrote:
         | > Seems like snake oil
         | 
         | snake oil? in the mechanical keyboards fandom? couldn't be
         | true!
        
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