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I recently vowed I'd never purchase an M5 product again after more than $100 USD worth of kit just up and died on me. Not one unit. 3 of them.
Enter Makerfabs. Good build quality. Nice kits. Little bit on the expensive side but see build quality.
They've been my go to lately. However, recently Arduino got updated, and so did PlatformIO, and it broke every single RGB interface makerfabs board because of an interconnected series of issues.
Arduino on the ESP32 runs along side of and sort of on top of the ESP-IDF. The ESP-IDF is necessary to control RGB interface screens. Since Arduino was updated, what was also updated was a major version change of the ESP-IDF it runs along side, breaking code.
Authors that have developed graphics libraries that can interface with these screens have yet to update their libraries to support the latest bits.
As such, you need reference an old version of Arduino to get it to work.
Well, one of the old permalinks to that older arduino package dried up and is no longer available.
So you can't even build for these devices anymore.
After some digging and some help from a friend we finally found a workaround. I'm so relieved.
I have a $50 piece of kit from them in the mail to me right now (i ordered it before i found out about the above)
I just want some hobby kits, not anxiety.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
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And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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So I am looking for a mechanical keyboard that is quiet enough for an office setting. The one I have now is way too loud, even though it was advertised as being quiet. 
Anyone have any recommendations for one that is really quiet?
The difficult we do right away...
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Wahdyasay? I can't hear you over my own keyboard. I get complaints about it from down the block.
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Yeah, my keyboard caused someone to emerge from his office to see what was making all that racket.
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My Das 5QS isn't particularly loud. It's mechanical though, so there's that. It's certainly noisier than the more common membrane keyboards.
Can you upgrade or replace your coworkers with a more noise tolerant variety?
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Look for linear switches
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Can you upgrade or replace your coworkers with a more noise tolerant variety?
 Wish I could!
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Most of the newer ones have options to get a quieter switch type. Back in the day you only had one, but now you have several different switch types.
The one I use is a wired Logitech G513. It's technically a gaming keyboard but doesn't have all that gaming nonsense on it that some gaming keyboards do. It's sturdy. And it uses brown switches, which don't really click loud. I never had any complaints about switch noise in meetings either. Maybe they were being nice though. But, no complaints so far.
Site Note: They say some of the really super duper keyboards that are wireless don't have any lag, but I still go wired because from a lag standpoint nothing beats it. I would suspect that most professionals are fast typers still go with a wire.
Oh, I should say, I work from home. So when I'm typing in meetings it's usually over Zoom, Teams, etc. It may be too loud for an office, but out of the switch types, the brown ones are quieter at least when compared to some.
Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks for the comments, Jeremy. Do you game? It's the only reason I could imagine for being concerned about latency.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Do you game? It's the only reason I could imagine for being concerned about latency.
Sometimes, but it's usually on the Switch or PS5. Unless I'm sick I generally only use my computers for coding and/or work.
For me, just when typing in a text editor I could feel the latency with your typical wireless keyboard. Was enough to drive me crazy.
Jeremy Falcon
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I am a glorified hunt and peck typer. Even the slowest keyboard reacts faster than I can type.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I use a Corsair. It is lit up which I didn't care for originally but I have gotten use to it.
Not sure I would like it if it was too quiet. But doesn't seem loud to me. I think I use the noise at the subconscious level to affirm my typing.
But maybe if your keyboard is too loud then they will give you an office.
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I ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) my Logitech K120[^]. It's a reliable, no-nonsense, quiet soft travel mechanical keyboard. Before that I used a Dell QuietKey SK-8000[^] for over a decade. It was amazingly reliable but died after I spilled an entire cup of coffee on it. 
/ravi
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I think all mechanical KBs are louder than the equivalent, but ... they are robust and feel really good to type on.
My DAS 4 doesn't seem too loud to me (now I'm used to it) but it does use the Cherry Blue which are designed to be "clicky" - they do a Cherry brown version which is quieter.
The model numbers are DASK4MKPROCLI-UK for the Blue, and DASK4MKPROSIL-UK for the Brown.
Both are rated for 50M keystrokes per switch, which is at least a weeks typing for the Codewitch! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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so quiet you could hear a bit drop.
I'll get my coat
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There's a hole in my bucket.
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When I read your post I thought of this, not sure why! There's a hole in daddies arm...
John Prine - Sam Stone - YouTube[^]
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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