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if you're the kind of person who works and plays in front of a keyboard it's

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really worth considering getting something that's at least a little bit ergonomic so that you have hands when

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you're old I've never had an RSI and that's partly because I use an ergonomic

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keyboard at my desk at work this is a pretty ergonomic keyboard it's also kind

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of not in some way so let's check it out this is the the uhk that stands for

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ultimate hacking keyboard 60. it's a small keyboard it's a split keyboard and

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it comes with a bunch of modules and stuff because guys just because you're

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going ergonomic doesn't mean it isn't a fun mechanical keyboard lots of

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customization you know it's a fun mechanical keyboard when you get the

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telephone cable that's the one that's called Curly little pigtail guy I don't

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know in the Box you get the split keyboard which does combine but look at

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that in a second you get these little guys which appear to be click in feet

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like oh God look at the other one these are like the uh like the stands I think

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that you can flip out to increase the Tilt which you shouldn't do from Arizona

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perspective more on that later also have a combined key switch puller and key cap

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puller branded uhk you also have a branded cable tie properly fixed to this

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table which looks like it's like five feet long oh it's actually USBC to see

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with an adapter to a and that's it for

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the box so where does this plug in I guess it goes into one side of this and

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then the sides are connected by what they call the bridge yeah this actually

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stretches pretty far oh where does this go oh there it is on the right module

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there is a USBC Port hidden in there so

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you can plug into that and then run through this little channel oh she's

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tight and it's in and then it runs off that way away from you like that guy in

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and there you have the keyboard so that's the setup but actually I want to

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unplug that if I can because I want to take a bit of an exterior tour of this

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thing there's a lot of info on the back here start with uhk.io start it looks

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like their website is actually fairly robust there's an arrow over here

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pointing to a reset button that tells me that you can reprogram this keyboard and

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if you want to reset the factory settings you just actually do it that

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way which is kind of cool you've got these little pegs with rubber domes on

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them or feet and over here there's kind of a list of the features I don't know

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what agent means adaptive mode Mouse control macro programming copy left

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repair friendly durable and key rollover agent it's the hacker keyboard in terms

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of the ergonomics of this thing the first thing you notice that's weird about it is it's a split keyboard and

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that's good for your shoulders actually so you can actually spread it apart like

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this because it's kind of awkward for us to sit like this

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you naturally want to spread out broaden the chest you know don't collapse your

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shoulders forward so much in like a hunching way a second benefit to having

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the split is something called ulnar deviation if your hands are together on

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a regular keyboard and they go like that that hurts that pinches that can cause

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RSI but as soon as you spread it you're not anymore there's no reason to

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go like this if you have this space if it's nicer to actually you can even go

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like this just come in totally naturally like that now there's two other elements

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to keyboard ergonomics that this as configure is not serving at all one

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being extension and pronation so extension let's put these little guys on

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it looks like it just goes right around this foot

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I'll make sure I put this on the right way oh my God those things just really

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want to fall apart so you have some options of where you put these things I'm going to show you where to put them

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to be ergonomic right there in the middle now usually

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geez they're delicate okay

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when you see little feet like this they're on your keyboard and they're

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making your keyboard go like this you know they're they're bringing they're

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raising up the edge of the keyboard that's farthest away from you but then I learned about extension so with any

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joint uh well for this joint specifically this is extension this is

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flexion it's bad for you and you'll get an RSI if you're in extension too much

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and so if you actually tilt your keyboard so it's like that you're

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getting more extension you want this joint to actually just be straight across that's ideal or even a little bit

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like that there they are the reason I put them there is for the the final

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dimension of ergonomics on a keyboard which is pronation and I think this one

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affects me the most I even feel this when I'm driving in the car sometimes

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I'll hold the steering wheel wrong when your forearm is this way the two bones

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in your forearm which are the ulna and the radius they actually scissor

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like that and they pinch there's tissue in between them that will be pinched and

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they'll get like less blood flow to that tissue and that'll cause you pain so

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you'd actually don't want to use your keyboard like that you want to be like that see that it's very it's pretty

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subtle it's just like my hand is just maybe 30 degrees turn and that's huge

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but now if I just bought this keyboard and I put those on to eliminate

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pronation and I'm sitting there like this you can see I do have some extension there what's the remedy to

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that why it's this accessory sold separately 75 advertised as giving you

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tenting negative tilting look at that see that's that's for you'll actually be

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in flexion and positive tilting which if

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you're raising I don't know I'll try it 75 seems kind of like a lot but let's

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see what you get are those even the same size one seems

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longer than the other this on the website they call it's like Beachwood that's been like stained and sanded and

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freaking pickled and brined it's crazy they really want your money they fit

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onto here as you can see from this little GIF so simply oh this module is

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actually wider than the other one because I guess because it has these

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keys oh my God you guys got to work on that

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part okay let's say I fit that together this is meant to just slide on here

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this it looks so easy in the animation I

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guess I'm supposed to use the hardware that comes with it a little handle on

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here it's kind of like a little purse there it is that looks cool looks more

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complete and still separates

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very soft very soft on the pumps feels

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good man now how does it work with these though and how does it add negative and

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positive tenting it just seems to extend it

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okay two feet start simple

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that's not right don't do it this way here's the configuration with the

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negative tilting that's pretty cool

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now can I config it so I also get tenting take these off

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okay oh no oh my God they say that on

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there open and lock there's like some arrow action on here

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okay that solves one problem

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probably says that the manual or something I don't know if you can see this but I have different orientations

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of these feet one's going down one's going sideways but that's just to show

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you the options this is pretty much the config I would use because I think the

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the tending is more important than the extension it looks pretty smart it looks

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cool there are other colors I probably would have gotten a different color the

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black looks sharp your executive Sleek gamery but I gotta say I'm partial to

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the mustard real quick mention about the switches that come with this thing as

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mentioned it comes with this right so that means that you can actually pull the switch right out of here hot

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swappable switches that's awesome put whatever switches you want in here as

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long as they're compatible with this standard configuration what they offer

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on the website is kale switches either

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red brown or blue and either these kind

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of cross stem the Box stem or the circular silent stem right now there's

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no extra cost for the different switches they're all the same price but there is

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a footnote that says that the particularly Island switches May cost

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more in the future just be aware of that they are double shot PBT keycaps so the

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light on the RGB which this does have per key RGB I should plug this puppy in

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it'll shine right through the switch there is screen printing for the

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secondary layers down there on the legend that's not gonna be as durable

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but you shouldn't be touching it as much I'm going to plug it in to see the lights but more importantly I want to

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mess with these modules which seem super cool how do they interact with these

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little clicks that are on here there's so many questions still right after this message from our sponsor thanks to

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cool default lighting configuration it's like a banana lavender you can see it

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says qwr up here by default what that is is an indication of what layout you're

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using on your keyboard you can actually go switch if you hold down function two

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dvo is Dvorak good luck everyone always

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wanted to try it the new cool Mac which is amalgam between QWERTY and dwarx is

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supposed to be a little more accessible and then you switch over to going

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between the Mac version of that now

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let's check out these cool things this one says ultimate hacking keyboard

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module trackball the least sold module

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65 bucks it goes on this side only

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looks like it only fits in this one spot those pipes which are cut male go into

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this female and you don't have them in the same spot on this side cool there's

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a little trackball on there now that's funky it doesn't click itself but it

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does have two little clicky buttons here I would say it feels a little cheaper

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than the rest of the keyboard it's pretty light

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kind of Radley there's no satisfying click at the end kind of just slides

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linearly on the rails one thing I look for in my ergonomic keyboards is thumb

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clusters your thumbs are your strongest digit makes no sense that on a regular

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qwerty keyboard you only use it for space bar and you pretty much only have

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you know one key shared by both of them on the keyboard that I use I use these

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for like four or five buttons each putting mod here is a is probably a

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waste personally I don't really like having to go to a second layer which is

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another reason I don't I hate that I hate the fact that a lot of Ergo

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keyboards are small keyboards dumb because that's not ergonomic ergonomic

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is a 10 key list but they never make them like that they always make them

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these cool little funky guys which is great too but I would rather not have to

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go into any function layers like the reason I use the keyboard I have at my

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desk is because it has F Keys you can't

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get that on so many Ergo keyboards okay let's check out this touchpad that's

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cool too the more you can put onto the keyboard so that you don't have to reach

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over here for the Mouse which is pretty not ergonomic the better so is this

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compatible with this no it kind of looks like it goes in the same spot as the

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trackpad that makes sense they have the same roll

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um as long as I can actually oh look at that I'm flipping around over there I'm

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trying to click and it doesn't appear to actually click all right we're set up

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properly now with the software which is called Agent that's why the picture and

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it's actually kind of cool you can unplug these modules and just see it

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disappear plug it back in and there it is and it

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says left click but unfortunately I have found no ability to click on anything

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with it so I don't know what the deal is with that let's see if I put the

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trackpad in if those clicks will work

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The mousing Works no problem this little bastard stay there uh hello why is my

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whole left side's gone let me plug that bridge in better let me redo it

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come on side and my module is not showing up here

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either oh there it is

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maybe that was the problem weird Okay so funky behavior and let's see if I can

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click on stuff nope even though it's mapped to left

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click right there this click that does nothing either so weird though because

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if I go back to paint I was able to use this clip see I can

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draw but I couldn't click on anything in their software and what if I use

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I can't click on that so what the heck what's the logic here firmware

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okay now what because it does have to restart things nope here we go set up

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ready to go trackball Mouse isn't working just Well it's worse now I'm

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just gonna you're gonna unplug it firmware update failed nice yeah so it

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wasn't done cannot find connected device if a USB

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port launch agent again cannot find your USA please plug it in well it appears we

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have a brick of the keyboard it no longer turns on but this is a thing that

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happens apparently so they actually have a page on their website about how to

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unbrick it so all we need to do is open up the back and short a couple of little

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pads here so I'm going to unplug it

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there it is frame come off there's the little things

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we gotta jump oh God stuff's already happening so now

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I fix uh we're back to where we started all

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right at this point I'm just gonna continue evaluating the other modules

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that I wanted to show you your mileage may vary as to whether or not the clicks

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work out of the box install the newest firmware from the GitHub page I don't

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think it's on their website you actually have to go to GitHub which is stupid make sure it's done before you unplug it

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I'm not sure that's what happened uh if it does get brick try doing the reset

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the unbricking page it was actually pretty easy

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um and if it gets super bricked like ours then good luck on having a keyboard

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for a couple of weeks while they do all the shipping and everything but here's

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the rest okay this one is the track point is very much like the like the

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track Ball but it's you know that Lenovo nipple guy the health I think I did that

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too rough here it is the nipple came

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right off let's go on here it's kind of weird for

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all of these especially the trackpad to use your thumb this one without seeing

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the feedback on the screen it feels like I'm not actually doing anything like it

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I can't feel the joystick rocking over uh it also has clicks it's pretty

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similar the other one and then finally the thing I'm most likely to get a

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couple keys this actually goes on the other side so this is the one module

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we've seen where you can have it in combination with another that's great

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and as I said before I love thumb action so that's kind of a reach to get way

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over there I probably wouldn't use these for much I might use this for like

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home and end like a seldom used kind of like destination key you might say

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whereas this mod key is where I'd like to have like backspace and this one

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that's right there is like something decisive like enter

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um speaking of enter they don't have an ISO layout like European style with you

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know the tall ass enter button that thing's cursed I don't blame them for

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not having that use this instead it's so annoying and hard to get used to when

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your pinky reaches over to hit enter and it just doesn't I think going the other

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direction is easier to learn so you know adapt or die there's another little

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thing on here it's like there's its own little trackball right here and does

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that click it does and that's a click too this dude

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this has like a full three click Mouse built into it this is the best value if

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they're all 65 bucks this is like two modules in one that's the one to get if

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you're on a budge update all is well with the world we got

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it fixed all we did was hold the wires

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across those two little jumpers for longer hold them for longer and actually

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throughout the duration of the firmer flashing I'm not sure if that was required but that's what we did and it

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works now uh the other thing was about the clicks not working even though they

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seem to be mapped in the software we got that working too all we did was map them

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to something else and then back to the clicks and then they worked as as

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intended so it's all good user error

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Don't Unplug it before it's done flashing the firmware my bad with all

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that considered what are my final thoughts on this keyboard I think it's

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definitely a contender for your roster of Ergo gaming type keyboards although

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you don't have to be a gamer it has a very clean look if it could fit in your

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minimalist setup as well especially if you go for the white chassis it's a

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little bit expensive yes but honestly you always pay premium for Ergo I don't

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really know why because they're wacky I guess but it's pretty cool the modules

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aren't really selling me they're kind of awkward to use with with your right thumb especially the trackpad one but

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it's cool that they exist I will probably go for the key cluster the

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thing with Ergo keyboards is you have particular needs keyboards have lots of

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different dimensions of quality so just look at five or six consider the price

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pick the one you think fits you the best so it's worth looking at