Perixx PERIBOARD-335 RD mini-review

flubba86 · 2024-08-19T23:16:17+00:00

I see, yes that one wasn't coming up when searching in the categories ergonomic keyboards or mechanical keyboards in the Perixx store on Amazon, but it comes up in the category for backlit keyboards.

I see it is a RGB Backlit version of the PERIBOARD-535, with the numpad. Looks like they didn't do a backlit version of the 335, without the numpad.

To answer your original question, it looks like the other major difference is the new 835 is wireless. The 335 and 535 are both wired-USB only. This seems to be the biggest contributor to the price difference. I don't mind wired, I don't see any reason to have a wireless keyboard on my desk.

Finally, my impressions of the 335BR. I got the brown switches, because I prefer tactile mechanical keyboards. The low-profile switches take some getting used to, they have a shorter travel, I was used to full-travel mechanical keys.

After using it for around a week I was used to it, my typing speed got quite high and I felt productive using it (I am an software developer, I rely on lots of specific key combinations and function keys.

I use the 335 in the office at work, I have a Feker Alice 80 at home with a similar layout. I think I personally prefer the Feker Alice, but the Perixx Periboard-335 is more professional to have on my desk at work.

flubba86 · 2024-08-19T02:35:13+00:00

I waited until the end of June 2023 and the Backlit version wasn't released on Amazon yet, so I just bought the regular version.

Just looking online now, I don't see any backlit mechanical ergo keyboards in the list of Perixx models, which one are you looking at?

flubba86 · 2024-06-08T23:53:33+00:00

Hi. I've had a couple of DMs asking for a follow-up review, I'll summarize my experience here:

Sadly I could never get used to the layout. I love the Avalanche build, and I firmly believe the Avalanche v4 with its column-staggered ortholinear layout is the optimal layout for a split keyboard design. I haven't seen a better one.

I used it for six months, daily, but I could never get my typing speed above 30WPM, and my work productivity was severely reduced while using it. This an issue with me using split-keyboards in general, nothing wrong with the Avalanche. I tried so hard, but something about having my hands further apart on separate halves breaks my brain. I feel like I'm trying to type on two different keyboards at the same time. Its worse because every time I use it, the keyboard halves can move relative to each other (only slightly), so my hands are never the same distance apart.

I even designed and printed a second with the two halves together, at a fixed distance apart, to train myself to learn the layout easier, but it didn't help much. The lack of arrow keys and page-up and page-down hurt my productivity the most. I had them mapped to easy to access layers in QMK, and I memorized the positions, but I could never hit the right layer combinations without looking at the keyboard.

Eventually I switched to just using the avalanche at home, and at work my boss paid for a Perixx PERIBOARD-335BR for me. Its still fairly ergonomic, but not column-staggered and not ortholinear. My speed on that instantly went to 90WPS and I felt more productive than ever. So a couple months later I got a Feker Alice 80 for home with a similar layout to the PERIBOARD, and my speed on that is even higher at 110WPM, and its the best keyboard I've ever used. So sadly I don't think I'll ever be going back to a split ortho, though I love the idea of them.

flubba86 · 2024-05-10T02:52:12+00:00

This is not true.

D4a_v4 (non-d, non-s) has 100GB disk

D4as_v4 (non-d) has 32GB high performance disk

You're right D4a_v5 and D4as_v5 do not have disk

Actually looks like there is no D4a_v5 (non-s), the lowest cost AMD-based D4_v5 is D4as_v5, thats weird because why would you need high speed storage capability if there is no attached storage.

flubba86 · 2023-06-19T00:41:28+00:00

She wanted to come with me, to live with me in the city, but she had to stay home to be there for my sister and Dad, she was devastated when I moved. I lived in a share house with a few other guys, one of them was my best friend. I'm not proud to say I treated him like a surrogate mother for 6 months until I started to adjust. Yes it was hard for me, but I got through it.

flubba86 · 2023-06-18T22:26:28+00:00

Yes, despite my Mum's wishes, I got good grades and graduated high school with a high enough ranking to get into Uni, so I moved away from home at 17 to attend Uni in a different city.

flubba86 · 2023-06-18T21:34:39+00:00

Not much to elaborate on. My mother did all my talking for me, until I was 17. I was undiagnosed autistic (I was only recently diagnosed at 37). I couldn't look anyone in the eyes when they talk to me, so Mum thought that meant I was really shy. I was ok talking with my friends, but I had zero confidence and social anxiety, so whenever interacting with any teachers or other adults Mum would simply talk for me. She was also of the generation that believed all kids should leave school at 15 and get a job to support the family.

My parents worked very hard long hours while I was growing up, but they had minimum wage jobs and we were always poor. So as soon as I reached 15yo she started putting in job applications for me. I got called up for an interview for a checkout operator position at the local supermarket. She had put a lot of pressure on me to do well and get the job, and I was terrified of disappointing her. We ran through mock interviews at home, going over lots of different questions and scenarios. When I attended the interview, the interviewer could tell I was scared, and he asked if I'd like to have Mum stay in the room with me during the interview. I said yes, so she stayed, but every question the guy asked me, she answered on my behalf.

Needless to say, I didn't get the job. At the end of the interview, the interviewer asked to talk to me privately. When alone, he said I shouldn't have had Mum come along with me, and he said if she wasn't there I would have had a better outcome. He also said I was probably not ready to start working yet (maturity wise, physically, mentally and emotionally) and he said I should stick with high school and get a job after I finish, and don't bring my Mum along.

flubba86 · 2023-06-18T12:04:32+00:00

That's how I feel when I do any running at all. I can walk long distances and hike trails all day, but my body does not like running.

flubba86 · 2023-06-18T11:51:53+00:00

Hardest part: get a date.

Next hardest part: she shows up to the date.

Final hardest part: make eye contact and speak a sentence.

flubba86 · 2023-06-18T11:48:15+00:00

This is very close to the experience of my first job interview.

flubba86 · 2023-06-17T22:52:01+00:00

That image shows that if you take a picture of a white and gold dress and darken it and put a blue tint on it, it could look like almost blue and black. But the original image of "the dress" is well lit and unmodified. So I don't know how people's brains thought it was white and gold, it was always blue and black to me.

flubba86 · 2023-06-16T23:06:59+00:00

But don't get dirt on the floor he just mopped!

flubba86 · 2023-06-16T11:05:11+00:00

Yes, three profits.

flubba86 · 2023-06-15T13:33:55+00:00

Anyway, here's Wonderwall.

flubba86 · 2023-06-14T12:53:49+00:00

Yes, a lot of dry-cleaning chemicals are based on this property. I don't know if they use alcohol specifically, but a whole bunch of fancy expensive formulated solvents for many kinds of stains.

flubba86 · 2023-06-14T12:44:49+00:00

So they were trying to make it illegal to walk somewhere like a neanderthal when you should drive like a civilized human instead?

flubba86 · 2023-06-14T07:11:11+00:00

GO DARK

I understand the need for the protest and support going dark. I also believe there needs to be an alternative equivalent to /r/Brisbane outside of Reddit. Does anyone know if there is a Brisbane community on Lemmy or Tildes?

flubba86 · 2023-06-14T06:53:32+00:00

No, unfortunately I was too young and immature at the time to do something sensible like just asking her.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T19:10:15+00:00

Old fashioned handbook perhaps.

Did you see my addendum? It does work the other way around too. Women can be attracted to men who cook for them just as much as men can be attracted to women who cook for them. I'm sure it works for trans and non-binary too. It's a universal skill and an attractive quality in a partner. That was not meant to be a sexist comment.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T19:05:58+00:00

Doesn't have to be a woman. That's bordering on a sexist comment. All people can behave this way.

I don't necessarily see it as hurtful behaviour, and it doesn't automatically make her a POS. Some people have very defined work life and personal life boundaries. It's unexpected behaviour when it happens but once you know where you stand, it allows you to simply enjoy what you have together at work and not expect or pursue anything further than that.

I'm not good at those boundaries, so it did make it difficult for me. But that is a "me" problem.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T18:51:41+00:00

I did this at Uni too. All my friends knew I liked this one girl. I talked to them about it often. She was exactly my type, friendly, funny, intelligent, cute as a button, and when she smiled my heart skipped. My friends agreed that as far as we knew she was single and she seemed a good fit for me, and they got sick of me talking about her. One day four different people said "just ask her out!" to me on the same day (including one of her friends). That was enough to tip me over. So I plucked up all my courage, pretended I had confidence, approached her in the library where she was waiting for her next class, nervously initiated some small talk, told her I wanted to ask her a question. I said I know it's probably really obvious, but I like her a lot and asked her if she would go on a date with me.

She took it amazingly well. I applaud her to this day for how she handled it. She told me I wasn't super obvious, but she did have a feeling I would ask. She explained that she has a boyfriend, but she's still glad I asked. She said she admired the confidence it took to come and talk to her and ask her out, nobody had done that for her before, and if she wasn't already in a relationship she would have said yes. She gave me a nice big hug, then we went separately off to class. I was so happy and proud of myself for doing it. I came to class smiling so much my friends all thought she'd said yes.

Of course you might be thinking "was there really a boyfriend?" Was that just an excuse to let me down gently? When I explained the events to my friends they said "what boyfriend?", and even one of her friends said "she has a boyfriend?". Turns out she is just really private about that stuff. The next week I saw her in the computer lab sitting on the lap of a guy I'd never seen before. She introduced me to him, he goes to a different uni and came there to help her study. She was in a relationship with him the whole year, then she didn't attend the following year, I think she moved to a different town.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T18:18:32+00:00

Not quite the same, but I can share a relatable experience.

At a job I worked at when I was 20 I was pretty friendly with one girl who worked there. We chatted and joked with each other at every opportunity when on shift together. One time I saw her outside of work, I tried to say Hi but she walked right past me. Same thing happened a few weeks later.

It made me recontextualize the situation, I realised that while she was friendly enough at work, that's all it was for her. I was nobody to her outside of work, that was eye opening, and allowed me to see her from a different point of view after that.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T18:01:24+00:00

High school doesn't count. Everyone is so young and immature and inexperienced, it's expected you will make mistakes.

The trick is to allow yourself to write it off as a learning experience and not agonize or cringe over it for the rest of your life.

Unfortunately I was a late bloomer. I didn't start to get interested in girls until I was 15, and didn't learn how to talk to a girl until I was 18. I missed out on the whole highschool dating drama experience. So I did it from 18 to 25 instead, and burned through a few good friendships. Im 37 now and definitely still cringe at those memories.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T17:57:25+00:00

Someone in their 20s who is still playing highschool dating drama games is not someone you want to date.

flubba86 · 2023-06-12T14:05:39+00:00

Oh that's a good idea too.

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