manikyath

you're using displayport, you're encountering my least favourite feature of displayport. *some* monitors have a configuration option to not disconnect when they go to sleep, but it's often well hidden for some back-asswards reason.

the problem is that they cant make assumptions about the taxes if shipping across the pond. despite being pretty large at this point, lttstore really doesnt have the international volume to know the ins and outs of import/export taxes of every country they may ship to. it's at least in part why i've never ordered from LTTstore, and some other NA brands i'd really like to have stuff from.. but i'd rather not deal with shipping from outside the EU.

unscrew the motherboard and carefully move it down to the right until you can get the plug at least started in the socket, then it's just a matter of pushing down.

the LLM does not have a database of sources. that's not how they work. the trained model has no reference to 'each individual source used' in a way that can be traced back to said source with certainty. also, the law proposes the list of sources used should be sent to some govt office... should they then send an E-mail with millions of URL's? because the content of websites is often at least partially copyrighted... so every crawled webpage is affected by this.

support - no. work - more than likely yes. the QVL is a list of parts that the manufacturer tested on the board, and will absolutely 100% guarantee to work. but that doesnt mean that anything that wasnt tested doesnt work, since computer components are extremely standardized these days it's rare to find a combination of ram stick and motherboard that doesnt work, and even then it's usually a matter of just grabbing one speed lower on the list of profiles. what.. are you even on about? XMP/DOCP is a method for the ram stick to tell the motherboard what it wants to run at. it literally exists so novice computer builders dont blow up their ram with punching in the wrong settings.

this. it really feels like the law was made to prevent AI models from snooping on copyrighted works and "profiting" from them without paying the copyright owner their due share... which is really a good thing. BUT they then didnt stop and consider just how such a thing would be achieved and what the result would look like... which is a really bad thing.

then lock the motherboard. there, done. dont tie the display or the battery to the motherboard. there's no reason to do that, it achieves nothing.

let me translate that for you: apple has stopped binding components to devices by serial number, using some false pretense about calibration profiles to avoid facing regulatory backlash for actively blocking any sort of repairability of their devices. you cannot get legitimate parts to repair apple devices without agreeing to horrendous agreements designed to put repair shops out of business. on top of that, the stolen phones argument is complete BS here. no one is stealing phones to harvest their battery and display.

might be worth just investing in one or two portable displays. also - what sort of computer are you using with this? if it's a laptop, get a second display of comparable size to the laptop.

ideally you want some sort of soft material combined with a hard backing to cover the display, sort of like the flip covers for a tablet. but when you say "work travel" - is this "i'll be staying there for a week" or "i'm somewhere new every couple of months"?

i used to work at a place that did this, the way we (we being the team that did the maintenances, not management) found the concept to make the most sense is the following: - every 6 months, scheduled around the releases of windows build updates. - push trough any windows and driver updates that are available. - do the standard array of sfc scan, dism, and disk cleanup to make sure all is clean and good. - ideally combine this with any pending questions or preferences the client has. if they occasionally need help with something, this is the time to sort that out. - ofcourse also give the hardware a propper cleaning, if the customer is able to bring the computer in. as for how much to charge.. it depends. ideally you want to price it to where enough customers buy the option for it to make sense to do it, but still have enough profit for the opportunity cost to make sense. again, the place i worked that did this, it was a significant timeshare of the support team, to the point where the profitability of it all was often questioned.

i have a bunch of hardware store specials that have them. this series from "profile" (what is that brand even..) has stands on the back to loop cables around, and the stands are hooked in such key shaped holes: https://www.hubo.be/nl/p/profile-stekkerdoos-6x-met-kabel-1-5m-wit/334188/ i'd give you an actual name for the product series, but profile doesnt bother with that.. just the half-round looking ones.

is the laptop within the warranty period? becaue if it is, this is bullshit.

yes. i completely agree to all of this, but it's beside the point i'm trying to make. i'm not saying the $200 makes sense, i'm saying that it's the wrong comparison to make. even from logitech there's alternatives with more features at a lower price. in hindsight i expressed it very poorly in the first post, but essentially the G15's construction is amazingly cost-optimized past just the LCD, which is not that much of an addition to cost. whereas the "g pro X 60" (what is that name even..) and other similar mechanical keyboards are much less cost optimized; the bill of materials is far bigger, there's a LOT more pick&place machine to be done. also, besides the price of "the cheapest keys we can find on alibaba", it can be assumed that optical switches are not "the cheapest keys on alibaba". yes, 50 cents per switch is a very high quote, but likewise 3 cents is a hilareously low quote. beyond that, per key RGB (which i meant to imply to be included with the first post, but didnt mention.. again, hindsight is 20/20) is a VERY complicated matter. it adds *some* to the parts cost in LED's, it adds a bunch of passives, it adds a lot of complexity to the microcontroller, and probably the biggest "hidden" impact is the complexity of the PCB. rubberdomes of the day are essentially just a flatflex folded double, to add individually controllable RGB lighting to a keyboard would require some very creative work with WB2812-alike LED's (that's what in aRGB led strips), some very creative trace routing (that costs man-hours in development, that need to be recouped), or multi-layer PCB's. i agree none of this adds up to nearly tripling the price, but that wasnt my point; my point is that rubberdomes are inherently cheaper to manufacture than "what we have come to expect of a premium mechanical keyboard", so the direct comparison in price is not the complete picture. case in point.. the "regular" Pro X is cheaper than the proposed price on the Pro X 60, and the G413 is down at 80 bucks for a lack of individual RGB. => wrong comparison to make. in other words, no, OP should not replace his keyboard with the G Pro X 60 "because 200 bucks makes sense", but if OP wants to compare his big beefy gamer keyboard with a newer release from logitech, there's better products to pick from. its as relevant as comparing the G15 to the K120.

much debate, very words. you took one part of my argument and wrote it off as irrelevant, my reply to that was to bring back the part that you either forgot or neglected to consider, and explain how the 'complete package' is relevant for the point made. as for knowing how discussions work.. yes, they arent supposed to contain statements about the topic, often of opposing opinion, trying to use references to prove one side of the discussion correct. perhaps if you're so convinced about your point you should return with a cost breakdown for how a wireless keyboard with optical switches (alibaba trap: it's not because they say optical that they are optical.) and individual addressible RGB is not any different to make than a rubberdome. just so you dont miss it; i'm not talking about the pricetag itself, i'm saying that these are fundamentally different products. hence the nissan sunny vs mercedes GLA comparison. - i've even went for mercedes because of how overpriced they tend to be. my point in this regard is that: and because of that, this straight forwards price comparison is more shallow than the complete reality of the situation. - in light of your reply i've bothered to check on the pricing of before mentioned logitech keyboard, $200 is the preorder price, so more than likely not what it'll be worth on a shelf of best buy by christmas. yet, you keep arguing as if i'm somehow here stating that the $200 pricepoint is explained by the cost of mechanical keys. i'm here to defend the point i made, not what you decided to make of it.

is there a reason to delete it?

i mean.. the G15 is a plastic clamshell with rubberdomes,some LED's, and an LCD. those old keyboards have as much deck flex as a wet noodle. make of that pricepoint what you will, but it's made stronger, with more expensive materials, with a more complicated design. you can get a mushy rubberdome for a tenner, compared to that the G15 looks like an overpriced piece of gamer junk. if logitech made a spiritual successor to the G15 today, and it was a rubberdome with a single color RGB control, with as much deck flex as the G15.. even at the $70 pricepoint it would get laughed away like a piece of garbage... because compared to some more modern offerings it really is. on that note.. the corsair K95.. despite my hatred for corsair's software it manages to pack all but the LCD, in a keyboard that's at the same pricepoint as the proposed logitech. so no, i'm not saying the $200 makes sense, i'm saying there's more to the picture.

and yet.. you completely miss the point; you cant make a comparison on "how expensive logitech keyboards have gotten" based on these two keyboards, because they have a fundamentally different construction. different parts parts, different complex assembly, etc. the big "cost pieces" of the G15 were the LCD, and the piece of acrylic behind the rubberdomes to spread around the light, perhaps you could consider the software too, but the reason why said keyboard is still supported is because logitech's software is essentially universal across all their peripherals. the big "cost pieces" of the mechanical are the part cost, pick&place machine cost, and potential failure rate of adding over 200 parts to your design. it's sort of like comparing the cost of a 2006 nissan sunny, to the cost of a 2024 mercedes GLA. oh.. and before you mistake me again.. when i switched away from my G110, i've immediately replaced the missing G keys with a streamdeck. i *was* one of those people who would use the silly features of those old timey logitech keyboards on a daily basis, i'm not defending the idea of removing them.. my only point here is that the comparison being proposed is more shallow than the reality behind it.

did you read what you quoted? because

hence the rest of my post, which you decided to not quote: also.. €50 on the BOM is very relevant when comparing to a €70 product. but since you misquoted me, i'll also add that the mechanical individually backlit ones have 208 components to assemble onto the PCB (104 switches, 104 LED's), whereas rubberdomes are "just" pads on the flatflex applied as a graphite coating (essentially the same as soldermask), a spacer, and an injection molded rubber dome sheet. i've had my rubberdome G110 apart a few times for cleaning (it's lasted me well into the era of mechanical keyboard people saying how rubberdomes are too unreliable to even consider.. lol) and it's really impressive how few parts are involved. for example; the difference in part count between the G15's 18 G-keys, and the G110's 12 G-keys is 6: the 6 keycaps. if we'd make that same difference for an individually backlit mechanical keyboard, that's 18 without counting any potential extra driver circuitry for the 18 LED channels to be driven (R, G, and B for each of the 6 keys.) you caught me in the middle of attempting to use fever-brain to make a BOM for a side project, and i can tell you from very fresh experience that BOM is a very dangerous thing to get out of control. the "components to add" may only cost 6 bucks, but the circuitry around them may add 15 more. (these are actually numbers i pulled from before mentioned side project)

not quite.. going trough alibaba listings, bulk pricing on cherry clones are around 20-50 cents. rubberdomes essentially are made as part of the flatflex that connects the switches, and the rest of it is injection molded stuff. past that those 'classic' backlit keyboards had maybe 6 LED's at most, and the modern individual backlit ones have 104 - one for every key. these are separate from the keyswitch by the way. i'm not saying that going from rubberdome to mechanical explains the price, all i'm saying is that the BOM is fundamentally different.

i mean.. that's not entirely a honest comparison, because mechanical switches cost a lot more than rubberdomes. on that note.. i have a G110 and a G512, and the G110 is in near new shape, the G512 is worn way down already.. quality has changed over the years.