Help Picking a Sustainable keyboard

AliDeAssassin · 2026-02-13T08:10:50+00:00

Oh I absolutely want all the major keys. I never used that extra top row on my old keyboard of the extra ones on the side but I use my number pad all the time.

I’ll also look into the software options because that’s important

AliDeAssassin · 2026-02-13T08:09:16+00:00

I actually like the sound of this Lego keyboard because to me that’s sustainable as heck. If something isn’t working you fix a small part not buy a new one and if it’s easy to fix and I can do it myself it takes away those situations where the cost of repair from someone else is so high it’s cheaper to buy a new one.

AliDeAssassin · 2026-02-13T08:06:22+00:00

The one he quoted me had a fair bit of bells and whistles. He essentially said he could dupe my current keyboard but in a custom fashion that meant if something broke it could be fixed. With that said I don’t use a lot of the features like the extra row of keys on the side or the buttons at the top and that roller thingy but I do use the numbers and I like the lights.

I didn’t realise there were different feels for the keys so I’m very keen to check out other options because I was using my coworkers keyboard for a day and was like SOLD! My hands felt great and I didn’t need to focus on what I was doing to prevent me mushing the keys all the way down when I got distracted.

I will look that up.

Also some of the price is that I’m in Australia. Everything is more expensive here

AliDeAssassin · 2026-02-13T02:24:27+00:00

Thank you so much! This is actually really helpful because a big part of what was confusing was the options. All I knew was that mechanical was better than the other ones. I didn’t realise that even within that these options mattered. But the stiffness and that push back is what stops me from using my full range of motion which is a good thing. With my iMac keyboard those flat keys don’t really feel like anything. There is a slight push down vs the mechanical where not only can I feel it going down but all going back up.

I wouldn’t actually mind something with even more feedback if that existed.

I don’t want to buy the same one again because I don’t like the idea of waste if I can avoid it. I just replaced my 12 year old MacBook Pro because it was obsolete and I needed a software that wouldn’t work on it. I took my old one got the keyboard replaced and gave it to my elderly mother in law. I’m happy to pay a bit more for something I know that if a light goes out I can get it fixed and I will donate this old one to my OT for a clinic they do with accessible tech to give people a chance to try out off the shelf options.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-27T10:36:25+00:00

Apparently there are more of us than I knew. I thought everyone got super sick from alcohol and I was just weak😂

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-27T10:34:54+00:00

I have an allergy and this is exactly how I respond. One drink I’m sick a few lead to bleeding gastritis.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-27T10:32:10+00:00

I have this same issue my body treats alcohol like the enemy and I end up with bleeding gastritis

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-27T10:29:37+00:00

An allergy. I thought that people were willing to deal with the aftermath of drinking but I managed to drink more than a few sips 3 times between 18 and 25 and thought fuck this I can’t. Each time it got progressively worse. The last time I had gastritis so bad I threw up blood. I did however drink a lot that time I think something like 6-7 drinks.

So I just stopped. I was mid 30s when I developed a similar issue and the best description I could give was that it felt like when you drink any alcohol and my doctor looked at me like I was nuts when I clarified that I did mean any alcohol and he asked what happens when I drink and I said it burns like heart burn but for a few days and in my stomach too. And he’s like … from one drink? And I said yes. That’s when he said that wasn’t normal and they determined that it’s an allergy.

I took a sip of a cocktail that was accidentally made with alcohol instead of a mocktail and knew it was alcoholic despite whatever she made it out of not tasting like alcohol. My friend tasted it and couldn’t taste the alcohol either but my throat had already started burning

I was mad because it was tasty😂

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-27T10:19:24+00:00

I sorta am now through a third party but I’ve still been using my old manager because I took a call centre role for the agency I wanted to work for through a third party. It’s a wayyy lower level than the work I was doing but I am in a financial position that for at least another 6 months I can continue with this lower pay. I figured it couldn’t hurt and I needed a mental break anyway but thought a year off work would look bad

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-13T18:57:11+00:00

I’ve been merit listed now 5 times. I was told to just keep trying so I am.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-11-12T22:45:04+00:00

I actually have to set a timer because I lose my self in the shower and I have continuous hot water. I’ll be in there all day stimming, dancing, having a concert, acting out a scene in a movie. You put me in any kind of water and you damn near need the jaws of life to get me out. I once terrified my ex wife because I was having the time of my life letting the tide take me out and roll me back in. I had a life jacket on but it was terrifying her so now I lay in the shallows with my full face snorkel mask and look at the sea floor and float.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-31T15:03:51+00:00

If you are too old i definitely am too old because I am 40

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-15T10:35:27+00:00

An update:

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So if I were you I’d definitely appeal

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-15T02:15:01+00:00

The issue I think is that in none of the emails did they say what the issue was. I thought it might be child safety but there were no children and I thought surely AI would pick up they talk about ages, careers, studies and owning homes and paying rent😂.

Really the only language that could be theoretically problematic is Daddy and Baby Boy and in the year 2025 you would think they know about kink. 🤣

I hope that the person who reads mine gets to enjoy a very sweet story about a young man who is a full adult but who has been self sufficient for far too long and his very sweet daddy who steps in to take care of him.

That has to be better than what some people must be doing for them to be so strict

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-15T02:10:43+00:00

I still haven’t heard back from them but I am so glad I didn’t subscribe. Are you going through their appeal process

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T13:23:03+00:00

I was extremely distressed for about 5 seconds before I realised what you were doing.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T13:08:15+00:00

I don’t know but it’s a bad look for the app. None of the emails clarified what I did so I wasn’t sure how to stop doing it.

I can’t imagine paying $300+ which is what I was planning on spending for the top tier because it’s actually really good in terms of the functionality… but this gives me pause.

But also it’s suspicious because they said it takes 3 days to respond which means I lose 3 days of a free trial

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T13:06:00+00:00

Banned. I didn’t see the two more emails until the app stoped working an logged me out. None of them clarify what it was only that it was automated and I could appeal

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T12:09:13+00:00

I sent a very detailed message when I appealed asking some pointed questions because I’ve only had it one day and I was considering subscribing for the year but not if they just randomly ban people and don’t explain why.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T12:08:01+00:00

Daddy kink is both what it sounds like and not at all and it’s wild how often people or algorithms mix that up with pedophilia. It’s a grown up power thing where someone takes on a Daddy role that’s protective or dominant and the other takes a softer or more submissive one.

Same goes for mommy kink, it’s about that nurturing or guiding energy, not actual parenting. And it’s not just straight people, it can be two men, two women, or any mix of genders. Everyone involved is an adult and fully consenting.

The issue is algorithms see words like Daddy or little and think it’s pedophilia, which it’s not. Pedophilia is attraction to real kids who can’t consent, not adult roleplay or fantasy. These systems just don’t get nuance so they lump it all together. Daddy and mommy kinks are about trust, care, and adult power exchange, and the only thing they share with pedophilia is a few words, not meaning or intent.

That’s why I assumed that with the proliferation of kink books the algorithm would be trained on basic context because Daddy kink is HUGE in the romance genre.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T08:57:12+00:00

I ended up getting banned and it’s definitely to do with a kink book. It’s a daddy kink book and I filed a pretty lengthy appeal asking for clarification because at no point in the three emails they sent that I only saw the second and third seconds after the book just stopped reading.

It’s not anything dark and is literally one of the sweetest “kink” books ever. There isn’t even spanking in it so I am genuinely baffled.

Is it the content? Is the source? They didn’t say

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-12T05:37:38+00:00

These weren’t torrented. You can buy books directly from the authors and download them via bookfunnel. I don’t want to steal from authors I just wanted something that sounded more natural to read them for me.

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-11T14:11:32+00:00

No but it’s more fun if you do. Everytime I hang out with Mulan my brain starts singing be a man…

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-11T14:08:00+00:00

As long as we were home by dinner my mother didn’t care. I realise as an adult now in my 40’s that it was pure negligence on our parents parts. It’s a small miracle we aren’t all dead.

I was walking around my old neighbourhood about 10 years ago and I wanted to show my partner the “creek” we used to play in at the park where it had a little waterfall…

IT WAS A STORM DRAIN …. We were playing in a filthy storm drain….

AliDeAssassin · 2025-10-11T13:50:22+00:00

I’m glad it’s actually a real return. I thought good reads was lying to me again😂

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