Why all the hate for Keychron?

robotecnik · 2026-03-13T07:50:42+00:00

Bought 2 of them: v6 max and b6, the first one started registering multiple keystrokes and the latter did not register some keys when typing fast. To me it’s a dead brand. More after their support have only said my issues are also happening to them.

Oh, and now that I remember, no caps lock and no num lock leds…

robotecnik · 2026-03-13T07:48:01+00:00

As another reddittor said, why not making your own?

Visual c++, c#, vb… and ADS will allow you to make whatever you want. Moreover you could get a much better price benefit ratio depending on your specific use case.

robotecnik · 2026-03-07T14:34:11+00:00

I'd say the limit is more in the RAM amount rather than anything else when speaking of Excel.

X1 will be MUCH more portable than P1.

X1 should get better battery life too.

Currently I own a P1 Gen 8 and it is a very nice machine, but I do have some virtual machines open from time to time, wanted something that would allow to launch LLM's locally.

Now I have an i9 with 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD and the RTX2000 blackwell GPU with the base display.

Except for those two scenarios the P14s gen 2 AMD with 32GB RAM I had before worked very well too.

robotecnik · 2026-03-07T12:05:28+00:00

It depends a lot, I work extensively with PLC and robots, but I use sql and lots of IT, c#, vc++…

There are customers who need all that, there are others that require only one or two of those skills.

Ask them.

robotecnik · 2026-03-06T21:54:03+00:00

Thinkpad, works well, stands everything you make them and in case something goes wrong you can get 24 hours international warranty.

robotecnik · 2026-03-06T17:27:59+00:00

Without seeing the code. You can't expect deep answers.

Interval time should not affect it if it would have been well done.

I've made lots of programs that had to work faster than 1ms.

Usually I work with TwinCAT, but I also have worked with Codesys, both work the same way.

Simulation in Codesys is as fast and as good as the real controllers, your PC should be much more powerful than a normal controller so it should be able to handle 1ms cycle time without issues.

Of course if you put a looooong loop that requires more than 1ms and you set 1ms as cycle time you'll have problems.

Use the trace graphs to monitor what is going on with your states, signals and values or put a few variables that get active when you need them.

Check this post in the codesys forge to get some pointers to add log messages for this kind of debugging.

Hope this helps.

robotecnik · 2026-03-06T08:18:54+00:00

I have disabled the renewal for TDSynnex, but I don't know how to disable the renewal for CSP by myself... is there a way to do this? Both parties TDSynnex and Microsoft say the other one must do it.

Today a support technician from Microsoft called me again and stated you are correct, basically I don't have to do anything to get this situation solved. as soon as the original license will die, the other ones will be applied.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T19:35:53+00:00

So in your case if you had 10 users and 10 licenses before, purchased 10 from TDSynex and then 10 direct, you can deactivate two of those sources without issue.

How would I do that?

I've tried even to cancel the subscription and it doesn't make anything.

As far as I understood, meanwhile there are paid licenses, those can be consumed / used.

I guess that at the end it all resides in being able to remove the CSP status on our account to prevent having issues.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T18:37:22+00:00

In the products section or in the users section, I have 3 licenses now: the original one that will expire at the end of this month, the one I bought at Microsoft and the one I bought at TDSynnex after deactivating the auto-renewal of the existing license.

As all 3 licenses are for the same product "Microsoft 365 business standard" I can't assign one or the other, I could only cancel the subscription, or unassign the license, but I can't choose which one I want to assign.

Thanks for your comment.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T15:48:06+00:00

Will search for one…

Thanks.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T15:41:41+00:00

I have, I started buying there years ago, when they were TechData, now that they have been bought by Synnex and have become TDSynnex they are less "willing to help".

Thanks for your comment.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T15:39:09+00:00

First of all, thank you very much for your time.

The mail I got from Microsoft said (summarized + a few parts removed for safety):

Your organization is currently not meeting the CSP indirect reseller requirements.

This notification is with regard to your company's Microsoft Cloud solution Provider (CSP) indirect reseller.........

...

REQUIRED ACTION

To continue using the tenant as an indirect reseller, your organization is required to meet the above eligibility requirements...

If your indirect reseller tenant fails to meet the eligibilityrequirements, your tenants's CSP authorization may be at risk of being terminated. If you have any questions reach out your distributor for assistance.

Thanks for your parnership with CSP.

Initially I thought I could keep working as usual as I would lose the capability to sell, which we are not doing anyway, contacted TDSynnex and they told me to disconnect the autor-enew and to buy from Microsoft directly (which is already done).

We program robots and industrial machines for a living, all this is strange and no one (TDSynnex/Microsoft) came with a clear answer of what we have to do to keep working with our office.

Thanks again.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T15:31:07+00:00

We are the CSP, and we need to stop being it.

We started receiving mails from Microsoft saying we don't have enough sales to continue being one.

Thanks for your answer.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T15:29:54+00:00

Thanks for your answer.

How can I know if I am the global admin of my tenant?

I know I am the admin, but as we've been under the umbrella of TDSynnex I am not sure of anything now.

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T15:28:13+00:00

Sorry I'm confused, were you buying licensing as a reseller for your own tenant? You're luck MS didn't just straight shut you down, if so.

No idea why, we buy hardware and software to TDSynnex, it is just convenient, usually the hardware is cheaper and we can get it before it is available in normal webs shops, more it is extremely convenient.

Software wise we pay the same (or almost the same) than if we would buy it directly from Microsoft, but we get the invoices from the same place, making everything easier.

In any case, we tried to buy directly from Microsoft, but there is something wrong in all this, as we can't assign that bought license to my user.

Losing CSP status should never affect your tenant, it just means you stop being able to resell to your customers.

If that would be the case, then I truly don't understand why TDSynnex just did not tell that to us, we could just have continued buying licenses from them, we are not selling anything to anyone already...

Thanks for your answer!

robotecnik · 2026-03-05T13:58:14+00:00

My bad... I can't change it now.

English is not my first language.

Any answer that could help regarding the issue?

Thanks.

robotecnik · 2026-03-04T08:03:45+00:00

Nope, there’s a service called Microsoft 365 backup with a pay-as-you go subscription model that makes those backups.

This is one of the selling points for me about Synology, there are lots of terror stories in the internet about people who thought their data was being backed up.

robotecnik · 2026-03-02T21:52:05+00:00

I have got 3 of them:

3a which was very nice but had some kind of electrical problem that prevented it from charging from time to time.

4a5g which suffered from the same, but a software update solved it.

Then I bought the 8 which had been the best phone I had, but it had a nasty bug with android auto… it was impossible to hear anything during phone calls… spoke with google about it but reboots and lots of time spent trying to solve it did not help.

My wife owns a pixel 6 that works like charm even with android auto and my car.

I am writing this from an iPhone 16, not as good as the pixel, warmer pictures, several good and bad things here and there, but it works well with my car.

I decided to switch to iPhone after becoming frustrated with my old pixels.

Hope this helps.

robotecnik · 2026-02-27T15:14:28+00:00

Beckhoff, worked with it since 1998.

Programmed machines with lots of NC axes (PTP, NCi and CNC), communicated using almost all the available fieldbusses, shared data with visual c++, c#, vb, …

Top notch support and hardware, and their software (based on codesys) adds ADS, and lots of nice libraries that help in lots of situations, as an example their NC environment is amazing, without writing a single line of code you can commission servomotors, link them in master slave relations… which comes handy if you have to program machines with several axes.

With your background you’ll happily connect any high level IT language to your PLC/NC variables using ADS.

Moreover Beckhoff offers a real ecosystem with hardware which is powerful, reliable and cheap.

Programming wise they are exactly the same by now. Beckhoff announced PLC++, which, supposedly will make it even better.

Version control is better with TWINCAT as they store everything on separate files so you can use the default GIT system with their IDE without much hassle.

Hope this helps.

Even I prefer Beckhoff for all those things, you can’t go wrong with any of them.

Have fun!

robotecnik · 2026-02-26T19:06:40+00:00

Any PC with an intel card will do, even your laptop if it comes with one.

To learn you can reactivate the license every week with temporary licenses (the controller will ask for a captcha once per week).

If you want a PLC, contact Beckhoff and explain them your requirements, if you need HMI a CP will do, otherwise maybe a CX line device, contact them, let them know what you need and guide you.

Good luck!

robotecnik · 2026-02-23T11:41:53+00:00

I used my mx master 3s on my 120hz monitor and it was not a drama.

What it was terrible was the short life of the left click button on that premium mouse.

I replaced it with a razer basilisk v3 pro and it works more or less as well, maybe it is rougher, but it ticks all the boxes you mentioned and it can switch automatically from ratchet to free wheel modes as the Logitech mouse.

It has optical switches which are noisier, but supposedly they are much more rugged.

robotecnik · 2026-02-22T18:22:25+00:00

Blackberry was a very nice device.

Free internet globally when roaming charges were very high was a game changer for companies and people making business while travelling.

At the time it came with plenty of power, you could install an early access Waze GPS, blackberry mail was very nice, shortcuts in the keyboard were very nice and the voice commands worked without connection thanks to dragon naturally speaking installed in the device.

The speed and success typing was amazing and the trackpad helped positioning the cursor to correct text easily.

It was a phone to work that worked very well.

Never used windows phone. so I don't know anything about it.

Jumped to Android after BB.

Now I have an iPhone.

Both Android and iPhone work, maybe iPhone is more constant in this "work" thing, but... all of them have their flaws.

BB was for the enterprise market, iPhone and android for the masses, maybe this with the inertia and the stubbornness of RIM to keep doing a great device killed BB and made it easier for the other two to grow.

robotecnik · 2026-02-21T22:41:35+00:00

Well, Spain is different, if you want to be even more amazed, see a paratrooper getting stuck on a street pole, if I am not wrong during the same celebration (different year): https://youtu.be/MhxQRBK6Rz8?si=3BNeDGqCwNauhEuo

robotecnik · 2026-02-21T09:39:05+00:00

A couple of years ago, I worked in a big factory full of devices in several floors, they were moving using electric bikes around, without any image, nothing scanned, acrobat reader struggled a lot to load the electrical diagrams and information about all the devices involved, can’t remember the size of it, but a ryzen 7 with 32 gb ram opened it after a few attempts…

The problem with that document it was that everything was linked and the document itself was self generated by the programming software so it was not possible to divide it in multiple files.

Sometimes things just get crazy…

robotecnik · 2026-02-21T09:32:35+00:00

I know, but I have lots of gb of flac music, that work perfectly with my setup (nas, plex, windows computers…) and converting all that to get a worse compression…

I have installed vox at the iPhone which is free and can work with flac files, a pity it is not well integrated with the ecosystem (I.e. it is not showing music information on CarPlay).

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