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Although our title sounds like a Subway ad gone horribly wrong. It's at least honest about what you are actually getting, then RedDragons "Wired One-Handed Mechanical Gaming Keyboard", because if a person who recently lost their arm or hand was looking for a solution for full keyboard functionality in an ergonomic package for one hand. They would probably get frustrated really quickly seeing these things show up all of the time on Amazon.
Sometimes you hang out in old industrial warehouses. Like normal human beings do. Perfectly average thing. Wandering about seeing the leveling pits where machines used to be, as well as flooded warehouses with tables holding up tube monitors with Wyse terminals for machines that haven't been powered on for over 35 years.
In the corner of one of the rooms was this beauty of a keyboard. It was covered in ash initially, but we ended up cleaning it up. It cleaned up well! It's time to get an antique going.
Read onward as we put the KMFDM CD "Attak" into an equally ancient player while we repair this thing.
Wherein the blog has failed successfully - January Update. This is just some updates that we had to let the readers know. Our spam blocker decided to put all of the comments from the alt-nets right into the garbage. Shame on you, spam blocker! But we guess it's to be expected since alt-nets default to ...
On one hand. We're happy that we have our health. We're happy that we're not (back) on the streets again. That there's still food on the plate and a roof all albeit temporarily, over our heads. A lot of our friends and family did suffer through this year. In different ways. Read on if you care. This isn't going to be a tech article or anything like that.
P.S. I know some bloggers talk about their "Top post of 2025," but that would require me to keep track of people, which is just too much damned work.
Out of all of the controllers that we've seen hit our bench, PDP Rock Candy's were surprisingly one of the few we rarely saw. Despite their price, if they broke, people didn't bother to repair them. Just toss and get another.
There were generally three types of people who got these controllers:
The best part is, they're still cheap, and they still work in Windows 11 without the need for special drivers.
Read on if you want to see some repair and me rant about controllers once again.
It's Christmas, and apparently, what I got was a bunch of controllers that were broken. Perfect gift for a guy like me!
As you could see in the picture. We got two Nvidia Shield 2015 controllers, Model #P2570, and one 2017 Model #P2920. All on with stickers, saying two words, "no power." The P2920, we aren't going to focus on too much. Because in part, we've already talked about that controller a lot. But also after replacing the battery, we DID get it to power up, only to find out that the Bluetooth side refuses to engage when holding the Nvidia button (anyone who has brought the Bluetooth back from the dead from an electrical standpoint, feel free to comment below. There's absolutely no flashing white light. The charging circuit and USB plug seem to work fine.)
Okay! Read onwards if you want to see some pictures of controller guts and a half-assed review on the original controller Nvidia came with, known as the P2570.
Just when you thought the keyboard blogs were done. In comes a different keyboard to my bench known as the "Glorious GMMK3" keyboard which is supposed to be one of those DIY level keyboards for people to get into the joy purchasing your own switches, your own keycaps, cramming housing insulation into the shell of your keyboard just so that you too can have that special "YouTuber grade THOCK" as you type. Or, perhaps you would rather go with linear switches with o-rings because you actually like to keep your job.
Looking up the cost of these complete kits, they generally go for $160+ (USD), which is double what we paid for our Red Dragon K556 when it was brand new on the market. A little boutique to appease the gamers with money. However, it is still basic enough to be picked up in most chain outlets. This particular keyboard landed on my bench for $10, whole dollars on Craigslist, with the supposed mother explaining how her "Gamer Kid" was working on this and broke it.
Fair ball. When we picked up the box, we could already hear the little rattle of screws rolling about inside. So! Let's crack this bad boy open and see what hell awaits us!
This article will contain some dirt-horror as we're going to tear apart our very first Redragon K556 that we purchased back in 2019, then later used heavily for work. This article is almost an addendum to the previous one, where we fixed two K556 keyboards with very minimal effort. But we also wanted to follow up on what happened to the very first keyboard. We got the nice keycaps that are not being made anymore.
Put away your lunch and read onward.
One of the things about running a website is that you sometimes forget some features that were always there. We have chosen to remain a heavy graphical site. We are not going to replace everything with minimalistic fonts.
Because of this decision, it's in our best interest to make sure that the content that we provide appears to you, the user, as fast as possible. We've talked about optimization of filesize, which helps significantly. But we also need to consider that not everyone will be connecting to us with the absolute best of connections. The final destination may only be receiving our site at the speeds of dial-up, at the late 1990s level of technology. If you're a webmaster who has gone through the pitfalls of slow imaging on alternative networks. Then feel free to read onward into my Diatribes.
