Yes, there is a thing like that. — When it comes to mechanical keyboards, ANSI-US users have it best, hands down. They benefit from the widest available selection of prebuilt mechanical keyboards, switches, keycaps and a plethora of additional modding options. When it comes to other layouts, especially the ISO-layouts and the DE in particular (german, as used…

I know, I do. — I was born into the prosperity of cold-war era Austria. This sounds dramatic and to some extent it was. Tschernobyl hadn’t happened yet and Germany was still divided. We couldn’t cross over to hungary that easily and we’d still have to show our passports when crossing borders in general. Still…

You might not like most of them. — The mechanical keyboard craze of the past decade or so doesn’t seem to end. Hey, that’s all well and good, I am an avid mechanical keyboard user myself and recently recommended you should buy one in 2020, if you haven’t already. …

A commentary after recently binging it — Iam not too keen on traditional TV anymore and also streaming has lost lots of it’s appeal for me quite a while ago. Anyways, I still came back to Netflix for Stranger Things (just like everyone), more on that in another article, for a month or two. Since I’m already…

The clickiest switches on the market? — After being stuck at customs for what felt like ages, finally the Clickiez arrived. Yes, I love clicky switches and I even like Cherry MX Blues quite a bit. Recently I was mainly using Kailh Box Whites so you know where my perspective is coming from. As a testboard I…

How practical is it really? — I love simple things. I love practical things. So why not use typewriters for my writing, as have countless others before me? Convenience. But isn’t convenience what ultimately makes us fat and lazy? Where’s the benefit in convenience when we don’t spend our whole day hunting and putting our very…

Imagining the Perfect Distraction Free Smartphone — Distraction free everything is the new craze around the block for quite some years now. And who can blame the makers of the Lightphone, the Mudita Pure, Punkt. MP02 and others? We are living in a time where information and tech are overwhelming distractions to all of us. …

The Clever Dumb Phone — Finally it has arrived. After an agonizing wait since backing the project way back in early 2020, I finally got my charcoal black Mudita Pure phone. It’s a special piece of hardware in this day and age. I’ll tell you why, how my experience with backing a crowd funded project…

RGB, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Hotswap, Wireless, Just Everything! — As a german speaking mechanical keyboard enthusiast, not everything is fine and dandy. Looking for mechanical keyboards in ISO-DE layout, or just for fitting keycaps, can be a real pain. While there is almost everything available for US-ANSI, for the german, european layout, the selection is scarce at best. …