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Hardware Post #7787 · source on Telegram

Microphone Is an Input Device, Keyboard Collecting Is a Mental Disorder

Description

A two-panel comparison meme on a white background. The top panel shows a black Shure MV7 podcast microphone on a mount next to large bold text reading 'Input Device'. Below a horizontal divider line, the bottom panel is labeled 'Mental Disorder' in the same bold typeface, above a dense collage of roughly twenty different keyboards: full-size membrane boards, RGB-backlit mechanical gaming keyboards, ergonomic split designs, compact 60% layouts, a foldable flexible keyboard, a laser projection virtual keyboard, low-profile wireless boards, and Apple-style minimalist keyboards. The joke skewers mechanical keyboard enthusiast culture, where 'input device' shopping spirals into compulsive collecting of switches, layouts, and form factors far beyond any practical need

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick One microphone is an input device; twenty keyboards is just N+1 redundancy for a single point of typing
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    One microphone is an input device; twenty keyboards is just N+1 redundancy for a single point of typing

  2. Anonymous

    The collection supports N-key rollover; the desk supports maybe three.

  3. @ZmEYkA_3310 5mo

    Steering wheel

  4. @Algoinde 5mo

    Vine ciders.

    1. dev_meme 5mo

      It should have been vibe coders but I took a second look on it and decided to leave this T9 vibe joking in place 🌚

  5. @Johnny_bit 5mo

    vine cider... i'd like me some vine cider...

  6. @dzek69 5mo

    Good luck trying copy paste some code with a voice

    1. @death_by_oom 5mo

      OpenClaw, please copy this code

  7. @NaNmber 5mo

    Jokes aside I started using voice input recently with my architecture convos spanning across multiple compactings and beyond. Input quality lacks a bit as with text I take some pauses to phrase properly, while speech is vague at times. But I haven't experienced results quality degradation yet, so it seems fine...

  8. @pixelsex 5mo

    imagine having to move you lips to input data

    1. @familymaan 5mo

      2 B and no D

  9. @death_by_oom 5mo

    average startup office workspace in 2026

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