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welcome to lonus Tech tips make sure you guys subscribe for our I think awesome

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maybe you think it's awesome too Daily Tech videos today we're going to be

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checking out the ducky shine mini a 60%

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size keyboard with a whole lot more under the hood that initially meets the

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eye Cooler Master neptun Series CPU

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coolers are available in a variety of radiator sizes to perfectly suit your

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next build click now to learn more despite the as expected excellent

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build quality with you know it's aluminum housing and stuff right off the

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bat there was some stuff I really didn't like about the shine mini some things

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are good you can use the function modifier to access your F Keys volume

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control arrow keys print screen Etc but its tiny layout means that it has to

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make the best possible use of the keys

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that it has and I really felt like not having a function key on the left hand

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side requiring a function modifier to access escape and having TIY as the main

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layer over there and the placement of the arrow keys in the second layer on

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the right directly above the lone function key so you can barely get both

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hands in there we're pretty serious sins then I uh I put on my actually

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doing reviews instead of just hating on things based on initial Impressions hat

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and checked out the stuff that came in the Box turns out you get a plastic dust

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cover you get a key cap remover you get

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a warranty card you get some replacement Laser eted Key caps and ah yes the

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manual turns out ducky thought of everything that I just bitched about you

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can use those replacement key caps and some really neat reconfigurability of

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the keyboard to change the Escape key functionality add a contextual menu

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button swap the priority of delete and backspace add another function key

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wherever you want on the bottom row as long as you don't override both both of

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your controls both of your alts Etc and

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change the wi at the internet lock key to something a little more useful like

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function or control freaking awesome we're off to a good start here now the

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setup process for this is not as intuitive as I think ducky would like to

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think it is it definitely require some trial and error the manual or the kind

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of intimacy with the functionality of your keyboard that only certain people

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will ever have but if you've got a reference in front of you it's pretty

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quick to set up and even then it's not the kind of thing that you'll need to do

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often anyway just hold function alt H to

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enter the ducky advisor setup mode and

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the appropriate keys will be eliminated Q quits the mode and if you press

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anything else it'll guide you through the reconfig process using illuminated

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numeric keys to change modes freaking awesome again and I haven't even touched

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on lighting yet it's a ducky shine so of course there are lights and this time

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it's not just single color lights we get dual LEDs in each key ke switch that can

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operate alone or Blended together for a pretty satisfying variety of colors you

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can change modes with function alt G from 100% back lit with any Blended

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color you'd like just adjust each led by holding Z or X to reactive typing with

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the same independent LED brightness controls to reactive mode with

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randomized colors I actually really like this one to tripping balls mode also

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known as completely random effects on every key all the time to wave mode

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which is pretty self-explanatory to color cycling mode which just Cycles

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through every available color to finally off mode which if you're using on a

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ducky shine is is basically bad and you should feel bad one last lighting mode

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is the custom mode which allows you to use the LED in the caps lock key to

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determine what color you're setting then assign individual colors per key you can

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save two userdefined schemes here that you can recall using functional V or B

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which leaves us with the final feature one that I intentionally glossed over at

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the beginning of this video and expected to give exactly zero cares about because

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when Nick told me about it I was like but actually it ended up being one of

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the my favorite features on this keyboard the mouse emulation key block

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hold function and use WD to move the mouse cursor around you can also with

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nearby Keys press left and right click and you can actually swap those around

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with ducky advisor if you prefer and you can even move the scroll wheel up and

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down the only unfortunate thing that's missing is that you can't middle click

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the scroll wheel but the acceler ation curves are well tuned and overall it

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works surprisingly well this whole review was done on my laptop without

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touching the trackpad or a mouse and without getting frustrated I used my

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keyboard for all my mouse movement now we just need a wireless one for media PC

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users so conclusion time then it's a ducky so that means you get all the

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things that go along with that there's Stellar reputation for build quality

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genuine cherrymx key switches no software required for configuration of

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any of its functionality which means everything it does works on any OS

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anytime but that you can't really find tune things like if I wanted uh trip

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balls mode to leave off out of the randomized pattern for

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example but all that ducky goodness

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comes with one big caveat here you need to decide if a 60% is right for you you

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get the extra desk space especially on the right side where you move your mouse

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with the ergonomic benefits that are associated with having your arms closer

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together but you lose convenient access to a lot of keys on your keyboard that

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you might find yourself missing at least for a while while you're still getting

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used to it speaking of getting used to things deals aren't hard to get used to

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and boy howdy have we got one for you today today's video is sponsored by mass

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right now on the ducky shine mini in this video you can get it with cherrymx

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thing though because this review of a ducky product features a deal on a for

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mention product and apparent conflict of interest I feel like I should clarify

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the arrangement Mass drop not ducky sponsored this video and they did so at

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I hope that helps thanks for watching guys like this video if you liked it

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