Wow. That price is really disappointing. I guess Keboardio makes super premium keycaps? Iāve never owned any. I thought they just make some funky split keyboard. I didnāt realize they were a manufacturer.
Yeah, looking more, the samples were produced in XDA profile, which is something keyboardio has made and has available on their site. So theyāve probably never actually made a DSA set?
For the āpreorder discountā of $150? Hmmā¦ thatās just ā¦ hmm
Iām really hesitant about reverse dye-sub from a company I havenāt really seen a lot of caps come from. Especially at that price, it seems like a big gamble.
damn, thatās pretty bold. Seems like an easy one to shut down. Very obviously intending to mislead
oh, well i guess that covers it. nothing to see hereā¦ 
What even is trademark?
Itās not like someone could start a company called āFord Carsā or āApple Devicesā - thereās this legal thing called Likelihood of Confusion
Youāre all being incredibly narrow-minded about this. Any free thinkers interested in a good conversation can join me on KeebTalk Keyboard Forum Website (not affiliated with KeebTalk.com).
Itās a contest between Ability to tell theyāre not GMK vs Likelihood of Confusion.
Damn. I just got an ad for that website on my Instagram.
I wonder if the AI has more difficulty training on keyboards with very consistent sounds across the deck, or if itās sensitive enough that it really doesnāt matterā¦ but if they can detect gravitational waves with lasers and see through walls with WiFi signals I guess itās not much of a stretch.
Maybe the cheat is to bake your password into a macro, or have a dedicated password pad 
I mean, side channel attacks (link 1, link 2) are only going to get more prevalentā¦
Welcome to the future 
P.S. Have fun in your cybersecurity careers, clicky switch enjoyers!!!
I picked up some (not New) North Pole V2s for posterity since they arenāt being made anymore, and was fiddling with them last night - I was curious if that little yellow pad nobody likes is removable.
Yep, it is. 
I do like the switches more without it - and also found that you can pretty easily install it in other MX-style switches. So if you wanted to full-silent your JWICK Half-Silents, well bam hereās aā¦ sort of easy way. (Actually not so easy; simple to install, less so to remove from the donor thanks to small spaces.)
What Iād actually like to know is if Gateron will sell me a bag of them on their own, especially since theyāre not currently using them for anythingā¦ >.>
Layers is the trick.
Layers and switching out keyboard layouts, switches, and keycaps like every other day should thwart the spies following me. 
I removed the little yellow pad on mines.
And I donāt really like the slip stick feel of it, makes it kindof tactile in a bad way (for me). Heard it was very common on switches that were using the same material for the housing and the stem.
I think part of the goal with the bottom port (introduced alongside the pad) was to mitigate slip-stick and sluggishness, but it sounds like it didnāt work all that well. Iām kind of a fan myself, but it makes total sense to me that most people buying linear switches want them to actually be linear in-practice.
This is true in my experience, just about regardless of material. I donāt think Iāve seen an exception yet, really. While North Poles actually donāt fit into that category on a technicality, they might as well be in it because the experience is the same.
The housings are polycarb and the stems are āinkā - but they definitely have the slip-stick thing going on with each-other. (In case youāre wondering, I did try an Ink stem an an Ink housing, and yes, it did make the slip-stick worse.)
Another switch that has a similar flavor of slip-stick is the Tecsee Jadeite / Diamond; it has that āalmost tactileā feeling of overcoming grip at the start of travel. Once the stem is moving at natural typing speed it feels super smooth to me, but not before that little bit of grip at the beginning. This is distinct from the flavor of slip-stick Iāve experienced with all-POM switches, for example, which seems less grippy at the start and more shuddery throughout - and is less noticeable at typing speeds than the sort of slip-stick on the North Poles and other Aqua-King-likes.
This is really intereseting.
Iāve read somewhere that you could fuse together two pieces of the same material if their contact surface perfectly match.
Looks like pieces of the same material tend to fusionate during friction, maybe the explanation of the slip stick phenomenom ?
