What is SpaceFN and why you should give it a try
The SpaceFN concept - setting up your space key as a layer switch when held - is probably one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby. Let me explain how it works. My SpaceFN article on kbd.news made some rounds recently - quite surprisingly given the age of this concept. This piece you're reading is a condensed version of the full post. If you're left with unanswered questions, you'll most likely find the info you're looking for in the original write-up. On my imaginary top list of the most useful keyboard features, tweaks and hacks, SpaceFN would deserve a podium finish for sure. But what makes it so special? In short: SpaceFN is easy to implement, easy to learn, costs nothing, can be used with any keyboard, and can improve your productivity instantly. I will list its benefits below, but can state right at this point that the SpaceFN concept, setting up your space key as a layer switch when held, is clearly one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby....
Apr 30, 2024
I have to ask, because maybe you just think a mechanical keyboard is supposed to make a gong noise for every key press. It's a common misconception most of the population still makes, so I have to assume you simply think yours is "normal" and who knows, maybe even praising it to friends to justify spending $200 on this UNUSABLE thing worse than any keyboard, not to mention a $60 "gaming" mechanical kbs (most are cool, just weird looking, all are better quality), not to mention actual good ones.
Look, here you don't need to pretend - you're not reasoning this waste of money with your friends, we're in the mechanical keyboard category - here you're supposed to be elitist mechanical keyboard connessoir, or at the very least, speak the truth :)
On my unit, I have no complaints, aside from a slight tear in the box when I first received it. The keys do not make 'springy' noises, nor is the build quality shady. As a matter of fact, I'd probably say this is more solid feeling than my Ducky Mini, with it's aluminum body. So if your keyboard has an issue, definitely take it up with support. But from my personal experience, this keyboard is quite the solid piece.
I lack the hardware to properly record the difference between anything else and this crap, but I will try...
In the meantime, let me just say that was confrontational only because you're defending something that to me looks like a really cheap product from mainland Asia that I can get for pennies (maybe not in this category, but easily 1/4th the price for a BETTER product!) And I really doubt they made only one bad piece and sent that single bad piece to me...
And for the huge count of mechanical keyboards I've used (I owned the "smaller half" of those, but I'm sure at my former employers', my successors were happy to inherit those), this is the absolute worst, below all of those "acceptable-bad" pieces...
So to summarize: I will try to show you what's the difference between a (cheaper) proper keyboard and this crap, but if I fail, that's only because i can't afford good recording equipment because.... I'm spending twice the average wage on every keyboard...
Also, I'd challenge you to find a Cherry Clear keyboard for 1/4 * 150, which, for reference sakes, is $37.50.
(By the way, the CODE is labelled as "Designed in USA, Made in Taiwan". And Taiwan isn't part of the PRC, despite speaking the same language. Just an FYI.)
And even if it costed $150 which it doesn't - would that excuse the cheapest build quality you will ever see in a mechanical keyboard? If you get a piece like mine (which I repeat: is unusable, I don't and won't use it and still haven't thrown it away only because maybe one day I'll borrow a camera and document this failure to save others), you can end up with the biggest buyer's remorse in your life. Happened to me, as you can tell :/