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One more photo of the keyboard frame after the surgery. Almost all holes went in the middle, except one. 
But that still holds its screw just fine.
And no sign of any modification is visible from the other side. Perfect.
#commodore #retrogaming #keyboard #modding #c116 #plus4 #8bit #repair
I just did a "poor man's" repair to my laptop's keyboard.
Some keys were no longer responding normally to key presses. "R" was the worst.
I pulled the "R" keycap off the keyboard. I cleaned the switch underneath and put it back, but it was still not working well. If I tapped the switch directly without the keycap, it worked fine. I figured tolerances must have gone off somewhere, so I slapped 4 layers of masking tape under the keycap. It works much better now. I also did the "E". I have other keys to do, but I'm taking a break from the repair to consider my options, and see whether what I've done holds up.
I do welcome advice regarding the use of alternative material rather than masking tape for this fix.
I used this article:
https://www.ifixit.com/Troubleshooting/Dell_Laptop/Keyboard+Not+Working/482862
And this video:
from @iFixit to have an idea of what it would entail.
My laptop is a Dell XPS 15 9530.
Find free step-by-step repair instructions, manuals,…
www.ifixit.com
If you're - like me - a software developer from Europe, and/or opted for a US #keyboard for other reasons, you may have come across "US International": It's a variety of the layout that maintains all the benefits, particularly typing out special characters with way less effort, but also allows to access your native language's specialties, e.g umlauts, without awkwardly switching layouts mid-sentence.
Just recently now, a coworker showed me #EurKEY. It is pretty similar, but with some derivations from US Intl that make it even more useful to me (and probably to you), e.g. I can now use „ and “ again. Here it is: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/layout.html
Newest project prototype is fully functional! Which means now I'm finally on a wireless keeb again 
@martijn@ieji.deIt would be great if #mastodon would allow ctrl+enter (or cmd+enter on mac?) to suspend an account when typing in the custom note box.
I've resisted the mechanical keyboard siren call for years, but in the end, 8BitDo got me with the NES color scheme
@kkarhan@infosec.space@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill also #BlackBerry's #PlayBook #Tablet was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it "#WiiU-Effect" in terms of marketing.
Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.
I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like @fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.
Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.
#Sony even released some #Symbian #S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...
