Looking forward to the darksouls level 1 no hits run on this controller.

Agree with all of this, however there isn’t any need to tone down release schedules. There being a new product doesn’t force you to buy it, however it does mean that when you do come to buy it there is a fresh model available. For example imagine if they adopt a 3 year release cycle and you break your phone on year 2.9, now you’re forced to buy a model with a 3 year out of date feature that will itself be obsolete faster, especially since a new model is round the corner. This isn’t the best system. Better the phone companies keep making the latest tech available, so when you do need to buy you can get the phone with the longest life ahead of it.

Yeah the prospect of throwing down a couple of months rent… for precisely what value add (?) is going to be a hard sell for Apple.

Yeah you can watch a film, on your own, on a big virtual screen for $3500 rather than watch the tv that you already own in the company of your friends and family for free.

Or you can use your computer, but with a big floating virtual screen, which is a good thing I guess for $3500, or buy a large real monitor for $100+ dependant on demands, and not wear a heavy dorky headset with limited battery life.

There is nothing that other tech doesn’t do for cheaper (and often better) even when you combine the price of the multiple products you would have to buy to cover all use cases. Except maybe viewing weird 3D photos… great.

This product is isolating and antisocial with limited battery and it’s hugely expensive with no good usp. Looks to me like a rare Apple L.

Hardly. Not bothering to evidence your claim then?

Go on then…

That’s not apples to apples. If you spec a windows laptop, good luck getting the same performance and the same battery life and portability at the same price. Also build quality, screen, speaker and trackpad quality will likely not be at apples level from the windows machine. If that’s what you’re in the market for Apple machines are not bad. For instance a photographer/videographer working on location, truly amazing for them. Should everyone buy one? No. Are there a 100 better ways to spend the money if you don’t have that specific Apple favoured use case. Sure, e.g. your mum doesn’t need a MacBook Pro for Facebook / Amazon browsing and your cousin shouldn’t buy a Mac Studio for gaming. But use cases do exist, and for those people Macs are genuinely a good proposition.

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I’ve invented new mic tech!

You’re going to use that to make audio more intelligible right?

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Right?!

I’ve only ever used one keyboard off Amazon, and it was a Durgod TKL board with cherry mx browns which was very nice. Still use it from time to time. They do have some full boards (with num pad) if that’s your thing.

But to be honest the keyboard landscape has changed a lot since I bought that durgod board though and I think it’s now overpriced compared to the competition.

My advice would be if you know what kind of switches you like (linear, tactile clicky etc) find a cheap ish keyboard you like the look of with those switches. As a beginner cherry switches are a good bet, they’re not the best, but they’re far from the worst and a good starting point and a lot of other switches and keycaps are compatible with them. It would be good idea if the keyboard is hot swap enabled so you can swap the switches out to try other types of switches or even convert the whole board in the future if you like without soldering. But most importantly start cheap, don’t buy something expensive when you’ve never tried mechanical keyboards before and don’t know what you do and don’t like.

I’d like to second this. Apollo had a nice feature where you could flip an option in setting to change the <username> text to just say “account”. Also while you’re reading, long pressing the account button to switch users was pretty nice too… Loving the app!

The boring answer is that you should always be cautious about any device that you use with your computer.

Any device you plug into your computer, if malicious, can cause all manner of issues. From outright bricking your mobo to injecting malware. This is why you should never plug an unknown usb drive you find into your computer. Any keyboard is vulnerable to keyloggers and other snooping techniques.

With that said, is it likely? No, not really. It’s quite difficult for a keyboard to phone home unless it’s quite sophisticated, also you’re on Linux, most malware is for windows anyway. I’ve not really heard of this type of attack being used against individuals.

To be honest you’re probably not a target! If you work somewhere that a bad actor may want to target (the government, the power grid, military, a bank etc) and you want to use the keyboard with a work device or on the same network, then yes you should only use devices your IT team have approved to be safe. Otherwise for you at home, who isn’t being targeted by state level adversaries, a keyboard off the internet is probably fine.

For what it’s worth I have a Sofle keyboard, that’s a diy ergo split. And it’s a lot cheaper than a moonlander (especially if you already have keycaps and switches). Also it’s QMK so you can customise the layout to your hearts content. I really enjoy it. Very nice to use. The Sofle v2 looks to have a slightly more convenient thumb/mod key row, but I couldn’t get it with choc switches at the time, which I wanted.

Main takeaway: I like it a lot, greatly prefer it over the current one.

Minor suggestions:

Perhaps scale down the tongue. It’s a bit overwhelming.

I think the eyes should be a different colour, they’re a bit close to the background which with them them so big makes the eyes blend in. Typically you want eyes to be …well… eyecatching! Though I’m not sure what to suggest as you don’t want too many colours on the icon.

Personally I prefer flatter designs, but I don’t really mind a more skeuomorphic design.

Also I am not a designer, so ignore me with my blessing haha