#qmk-via

#qmk-via

KDE Linux was created and is maintained by the KDE team. According to the KDE Linux website, this distribution is 'Designed to be safe, maintainable, functional, and modern, KDE Linux will be the best choice for home use, enterprise workstations, public institutions, pre-installation on computers you can buy, and more.'

What separates this from a standard Raspberry Pi build is the pair of breadboards soldered directly to the GPIO pins, seated inside the case, and accessible through a removable back panel. Connecting a sensor no longer means hunting for a separate breadboard and a tangle of jumper wires. PickentCode plugged in a temperature and humidity sensor and had it reading live data within minutes.

KDE Plasma is a remarkably customizable desktop environment. On top of being highly flexible, it's also fast and stable, so it would make perfect sense why you might want to migrate from Windows to a KDE Plasma-powered desktop distribution. But if you want to carry over the look and feel of Windows 11, how do you do that? With a bit of tweaking.

With a cultlike following and a fairly simple construction, it can be easy to assume that these keyboards aren't worth the high price-and they aren't for most people. However, the HHKB brings something unique to the table: A design that has been refined over the years, creating an out-of-the-box experience that can't be improved. In an age of planned obsolescence and enshittification, a mechanical keyboard like this is hard to find.

A keyboard is more than the sum of its parts. To have a truly great typing experience, a lot has to come together-each aspect of a keyboard needs to be designed (or selected) with the rest of it in mind. But not every keyboard needs to strive for a great typing experience. Sometimes, they just need to get the job done. Take, for example, the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro.

The Corsair Galleon 100 SD didn't just come out of the ether. The new full-size mechanical keyboard with a Stream Deck fused to its side is the result of a lot of things coming together over the years. Corsair's gaming business is more refined than ever, and Stream Deck's wide ecosystem of plug-ins makes the dedicated hardware useful to just about anyone, even if they have little interest in streaming. The fusion makes sense.

Naya, the brand that makes split keyboards and out-of-the-box computing accessories, just announced the latest product in its lineup: a low-profile modular keyboard it's calling the Naya Connect. After launching on Kickstarter, Naya told me the plan is to list the device on the brand's official website once the crowdfunding had met its numbers. Naya's previous Create product -- its modular split keyboard -- was funded this same way and became available on the site after being crowdfunded.

Tech moves fast, breaks things, ships updates, iterates. The entire industry is built on the assumption that this year's product will be obsolete by next year, and that's fine because next year's version will be better anyway. Then you see someone in Fukui Prefecture spending twenty minutes hand-sanding a single wooden keyboard key, checking it by touch, and the whole paradigm feels suddenly optional.