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Absolutely the most comfortable keyboard I've ever put my hands on. The few times I was actually able to type "properly" with it felt absolutely amazing. But having to learn both touch-typing and a dished ortholinear layout all at the same time was just too much...

I'd still love a split mech keyboard, but it'd have to be a staggered layout rather than ortho.

 

Hey Gareth, is that a Logitech MX Vertical mouse? How are you finding it (other than it not being as good as a trackball)? I thought about getting one a while back when I moved to a vertical mouse from my (non-vertical) MX Master but at the thick end of £100 I wasn't convinced. Ended up going for a £12 Anker-branded vertical mouse which is surprisingly decent, if not anywhere near the build quality of MX Master. The one thing I do really miss from the MX Master is the free-scrolling clutch action wheel, but I think I'm right in saying the the MX Vertical doesn't have that either?

 

Sounds like my Anker was the right choice then - I've had it a couple of years, the finish is still fine, it has forward/back buttons but not free-scroll wheel, and it has a recess to store the dongle

If Logitech just made a vertical version of the MX Master then I'd be all over it. But my body just won't tolerate it (or any other "flat" mouse).

To be honest though, what I really need here is another Anker vertical mouse, but a left-handed one. I quite like to swap the mouse from right to left when I'm working - I find it much easier to mouse with the left hand and write with the right than vice-versa!

 

Whilst they are not cheap, you might find Evoluent vertical mice worth a look. I have this one:
Evoluent Vertical Mouse D large, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Evoluent-VerticalMouse-handed-wireless-Medium/dp/B08578T74J/ref=sr_1_4?crid=15DD2DRR8IOS7&keywords=evoluent&qid=1699912260&sprefix=evoluent,aps,73&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do:amzn1.fos.cc223b57-2b86-485c-a85e-6431c1f06c86&th=1 You may find them cheaper elsewhere, I don't remember where I bought mine. They come in three sizes and, right or left handed.

 

Just to add mine broke after about 1.5 years of use as well. wasn’t a fan of these ones and went to their non mx vertical which has the wheel scroll features etc.

It feels like they just forgot this mx vertical exists tbh

 

Cheers - I did look at those a couple of years back when I was thinking about making the switch to a vertical mouse, but didn't fancy dropping £100+ on a vertical mouse and then not liking it! That said, I am now convinced that vertical mice are the future so when this Anker expires I may well trade up to an Evoluent.

 

ModzeroJuice in the background

 

Thread revival!

I am about half-way through moving my desk and gaming PC into the “small bedroom”.

I’ve been at it for about three hours.

I hate my life and I want to die.





Not pictured: the utter mountain of stuff currently blocking any kind of access to my bedroom.

This self-inflicted torture does have a purpose. We're still planning to move this year, and (because reasons) we’re almost certainly going to end up in a flat. The bedroom I was using as my office will serve us far better as a storage room as we sort through and separate “things we want but use infrequently and can therefore be packed away now”, “stuff we do actually use that needs to be accessible”, and “no you really don’t need a dozen SCART cables any more, so throw them away”. (Admittedly the latter is mostly me, and I’m not even being entirely facetious - I genuinely did throw away a pile of SCART cables not long ago.)

EDIT: Well it fits… (that’s what she said)

Gonna be a lot more… “bijou”… than I’m used to…



And I still have to deal with “the thing”



But that’s a job for later, I’ve been at this all afternoon and I’m sick of it. I need food.

 

Currently going through and re-aligning our setups and currently hating myself and my incessant need to cable manage everything. Looks Great once done but my god it's annoying when you just want to move something quickly to test a new location.

Will need to throw up some revised pictures once I have sorted everything out.

 

Is there a scart cable in the midst of the thing?

 

It's a Thunderbolt dock, little bit too small to get a SCART connector on it

 

Same mouse, same monitor!

Is that you, bruv?

 

Cleaned up my setup after parting with my desktop and moving to a docked Ally / Mac setup:



If I want to run "desktop" Windows setup I can just run either on the Ally (Via 3080 XG Mobile) or spin up a VM on my server / Home lab build.

EDIT: Sniper Elite 5 is running via GeForce Now Ultimate on the Mac (testing it out for a month, surprisingly decent even on Wifi - Waaaaaaaaaaayyy better on Ethernet of course).