Employers are mining the data their workers generate

Re:Employers are mining the data their workers generate by Duladian on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:55PM (#20481472)

In my experience I've yet to encounter a USB switch that will forward the LCD display data properly to the G15 keyboard. Although, I was using cheap USB and KVMs switches.

Another good question is who uses an overpriced "gamer" keyboard for work?

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Re:Employers are mining the data their workers generate by Nullabillity on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:24PM (#20481688)

"Gamer" equipment tends to be far more reasonably priced than most good office-oriented equivalents. They also seem to be the only laptop segment that hasn't completely fallen to anorexia.

My old company ended up standardizing on Fnatic keyboards because they were the cheapest way to get silent Cherry switches with a reasonable layout.

I also used a gaming MSI laptop, because it was cheaper to buy and upgrade that than to buy a reasonable business Dell. ThinkPads weren't much better eiter (but also not an option anyway, thanks to Superfish and co).

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Re:Employers are mining the data their workers generate by Glyptodon on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:21PM (#20483228)

My office has a large number of what I'd call "gaming borderline" keyboards mostly because people are looking for whatever has decent switches for not high prices. Also why Logitech makes the K840 I think, not that I'm recommending it.

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Re:Employers are mining the data their workers generate by WoahNoun on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:00PM (#20481937)

Gaming keyboards tend to be the cheapest high-quality mechanical keyboards.

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