Okay, this is like a tech support kinda question but idk where the hell to ask it so I am gunna ask it here. My old keyboard died a couple of days ago. Just gave up the ghost, and I cursed the gods and got out my bluetooth keyboard. I had been using my lappy exclusively (so not using an external keyboard) but hooked it up to my monitor and started jamming away on the bigger screen. It’s further away from my face, so I sometimes miss typos (or just can’t spell and fk auto-correct). But I have also been noticing letters flipping from time to time at random. Just having a blast. I’ve got a real stream of conciousness way of thinking/typing/talking/existing - yada, yada! So I am not catching this stuff until later and tsk, tsking and going back and fixing it. Now I am wondering if I am experiencing rampant levels of dyslexia or if others know about some weird latancy issues with bluetooth keyboards where someone could type faster than the output so stuff gets jumbled? Cause idk, but like…hell idk. Doesn’t hurt to ask?

So yeah, anyone know about this. Either way, not crying over it. Cause what am I gunna do? Keyboard does what it needs to…so yeah. Just find it weird, but maybe also I am typing WHOLE FREAKIN’ NOVELS for every comment so shit gets messed up more. Eh.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    I’ve got some IT background and am now higher up the ranks handling servers, automation, and back end stuff. My boss and most of my team refuse to use the bluetooth keyboards and mice in our company’s conference rooms because of how trash they are, and the hands on IT team response to bluetooth keyboards being weird is to replace the batteries, and if that doesn’t fix it, replace with a wired keyboard.

    If you’re looking for wireless, Logitech wireless keyboards and mice that come with a Logitech USB dongle seem to be decent. They use some different standard for the wireless instead of bluetooth that seems to be more reliable.

    Don’t underestimate the effect of not being able to see text you’re typing clearly though. Most people seem to do quite a bit of almost unconcious error correction when typing, based on looking at what is on the screen.

    • cashmaggot@piefed.socialOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      Nah, actually I am right there with your whole team. I like wired more on account of it holding up for way longer and not having to be bothered with. I’m gunna have the missus take a look, but I didn’t see anything wrong with the thing as a whole. I just left it sitting around for a little cause I wasn’t feeling the best and didn’t want to use anything but my lappy. I have been going back and forth on the text thing. Because I am a mad extremist and can’t seem to help it. I used to use old-lady text size for everything. Was just blowing up my screen. It was an easy read, but it lowered reading speed. Which kinda altered my comprehension in a way, because you’re taking in information super slowly. And my brain isn’t the greatest at keeping the pieces held together. I just loaded up Fedora a couple of weeks ago from Endeavor which I adored as a whole but was crashing at random times and was driving me up a wall. I kept all the fonts at base level to see if I could cope. Cause like I said, I wanted to be able to read faster. But I think I’ve just got to give in and boost it. Even if it’s a little.

      Thanks for the response by the by, was a fun one =)

      p.s. - I have the bluetooth dongle to go out and write little short stories based off of micro-prompts. So in that sense, it just has to fit in a bag, connect, stay charged, and be somewhat capable at not having me write cor/ or corb when I wanna write corn. It’s crazy how they squish up these keyboards and make them unusable. I was looking for a super micro one to type out some stuff in bed and can’t find a non-squished handheld qwerty. So if you know one that hasn’t terribly butchered the bottom row I’d be down for a suggestion =)!

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        FYI wireless BLE keyboards, when implemented properly, will last months on a single charge. Unlike mice, they consume very little power, since they don’t scan the surface beneath them 1000-8000 times per second.

        Logitech and similar models that come with a dongle use some fashion of 2.4Ghz Band RF, which may use more power, and the battery will not last as long.

        • cashmaggot@piefed.socialOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 months ago

          Thank you dub, which btw DUBYA! Hahaha! Aww man, I love linguistics. Freakin’ A! You say warsh too? Ah! It’s like being swaddled mentally =)! I never thought about the mechanics behind the two but it is some fun brain fodder. And it makes sense, the second you pause and give it a think. Thanks again =)