I had a job that required us to be logged in and accepting phone calls right on the dot of our start time. At that time, it meant we spent 10 unpaid minutes logging into all our separate programs, and reading our email so we knew the latest and greatest news on the lawsuit against us. We rebelled and employment law agreed with us. They didn’t give us any back pay but they changed our start time to 10 minutes prior to our previous start times. They were quite chagrined but still felt they had to question our every move because we were no longer to be trusted.
I used wireless for a long time but one day I realized that to keep it charged it was plugged in most of the time, so I figured I may as well just get a wired one.
My primary keyboard is also a fancy gaming setup with programmable LEDs. Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard.
Cherry MX Brown.
I write constantly for both my day job and my one true passion. I take keyboards seriously. I’ve tried Cherry MX Red (very hard on the hands) and speed switches (they feel lovely but are really fast - not ideal if you make frequent typing errors, which I do.)
The Browns are the best for hours and hours of writing, IMO, and seem fine for gaming.
The new MacBook keyboards, however, are not bad. Back before the butterfly keyboard fiasco I really loved the MacBook keyboards. I think they switched back to the old formula. So I approve of the current (2019) MacBook keyboard. The only real issue there is the design of the Mac itself which would frequently cut off my circulation with that sharp edge. But I haven’t had that issue for a while.
These are the switches on mine too. I may actually have the same keyboard 
My gf works from home and uses an Apple keyboard that is totally flat. I don’t know how she does it. If I walk into her office she will turn and look at me, answering my question, while continuing to type at amazing speed.
Meanwhile, I hunt and peck with one finger and suck at that.
I used to be very good at radio call-in contests. I’d won a case of beer, NASCAR tickets, and cash from them. In the before-times, I had won an NPR sustaining member sweepstakes worth $1500. That was going to go towards our Naples trip, but then Covid happened.
I won $4,000 (or $5,000) playing video poker at the Reno airport while waiting for a flight (Royal Flush). So, it’s one of the rare days I didn’t have any losses to offset my winnings. (I guess we could subtract the $100 I put in the machine to start with)
Around 10 years ago, I flew to Vegas a lot, and I always seemed to win a few hundred at the machines near my gate.
When I was a kid 1000 pestatas was about £5. I’m guessing at some point I held over £50 worth of pesatas but I can’t really remember. Since I’ve been an adult IK’ve only had GBP, EUR and USD and never had more than 1000 of any at one time.
My wife’s uncle had to go to Zimbabwe once. He brought back several million dollars. (Worth about two bucks.)
I won an ipad in one of those “put your business card in this tin, and we’ll draw one” things.
I have a set of Zimbabwean bills I use as examples in my Econ. classes. 4 notes - 10, 20, 50 and 100 Trillion dollars.
Kneel before me, Elmo!
Sunday I won $6500. That’s right around the most I’ve won.
I do not enjoy gambling, but I once took $100 to the cruise ship casino. I played blackjack for an hour and was up $500.
I took my winnings to the craps table and lost every cent in 15 minutes without really understanding the game.
When I was younger I used to enter a lot of sweepstakes. There used to be websites that would provided lists of a whole bunch of online sweepstakes, many of which you were allowed to enter once per day. So every day I would go through the list, entering all of them. I won a lot of small things that way; stuff like tshirts, gift cards, CDs. I think the biggest thing I won was a Casio PDA that ran Windows CE, circa 2000. I think the reported value was $400.
Regarding the most cash I’ve ever had on me, I have had over $1000 USD on me before. Back in 2015 I took one of those “educational” trips to Cuba. Since American credit cards don’t work in Cuba, you have to pay for everything in cash. And you have to bring it all with you, because your ATM card won’t work there, either. So before the trip I made a few large withdrawals from the ATM and packed it all in my suitcase (IIRC I put half of it in my checked bag and half in my carry on, figuring if one of them got stolen or lost I’d at least have half of it left). I didn’t come close to spending all of it, but I wanted to be sure I didn’t run out.
Besides that I traveled to India for work once, where I used Rs1000 notes (worth around $25). And traveling around East Africa in 2016 Ugandan and Tanzanian currency was on the order of thousands of shillings to the dollar. Kenyan currency was worth more; the going exchange rate was 100 Kenyan Shillings to the dollar if I remember correctly, but I guess I did withdraw the equivalent of $100 from an ATM, which would have been 1000 Kenyan shillings.
The last time I had significant non-USA cash in my pocket would have been the 1970’s, and I don’t remember the exchange rates at the time (France, Italy, UK.) Didn’t vote in that one.
I voted ‘other’ in the ‘why no Republicans’ poll because the Republicans have been behaving so badly recently that anybody willing to run for POTUS on that line is, IMO, seriously flawed by their willingness to align with that party (in its current form. I wouldn’t have said that some years ago.) That is kind of close to ‘enabling the others’, but to me not quite – they’re saying that they’re willing to be part of a party that’s excusing trying to undermine the entire electoral system. ‘Enabling the others’ would be an additional good reason, though.
I clicked I’d won things worth less than $100 (each); but, thinking about it now, at least one item might have been worth a bit more than that. Not sure, though, so I’ll leave it alone.
I don’t know the difference between the keyboards, though I’d guess that a mechanical one uses the keys to actually move something internal other than the key, while on an electronic one pressing on a key opens a circuit without moving anything other than the key? Is that right? I don’t know which one I’'m using – does it tell anything that they click? – but I don’t think a computer mechanical keyboard works just like a typewriter version, because there isn’t room for all of that in there. Didn’t vote in the poll that mentions the typewriter version.
She probably doesn’t know how she does it either. I worked as a dispatcher and had a typical keyboard and a separate, different one for a paging system I used. I would switch from one to the other without even thinking about the differences and never had any problems until a new guy came around for training and pointed out to me that the two keyboards and the phone had number pads in a different order. Right after that, I started making mistakes left and right, dammit. So frustrating, but also so funny.
A good indicator is how much the keyboard cost. Mechanical keyboards are pricey. They won’t come standard with a new PC, for example. They are also much heavier than a standard keyboard.
Some people are obsessively into these keyboards and build them themselves out of various parts. Or they collect old models.
Despite really having a preference for them, I don’t have intimate knowledge of how they work. It has to do with each individual key operating and striking independently.
The various types of switches control the depth you have to push down to register a strike, and how much pressure it takes. And yes, they do tend to be clicky.
If mechanical keyboards are pricey, then I don’t have one. It does click, though.
When we were in Turkey in 1999, our one visit to the ATM netted us more than 100 million Turkish Lira, value = $200.
Almost certainly more than $50, and quite possibly considerably more than that. I think mine was ~ $90 and it’s not top of the line.