Well this is beyond absurd.

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    2 days ago

    Why would you want to declare your allegiance to some of the most shitty and overpriced gaming hardware on the market?

  • The Death Adder was objectively a damn fine mouse. So why do I not recommend it? Because of the software that requires an online account to change settings.

    Also, if I wanted “artisanal keycaps” I’d go on etsy and buy from actual artists.

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      It is odd when companies behave like monopolies when they aren’t. Cisco is another one but they just have those weird niche audiences that buy into it

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      There’s a FOSS reimplementation of the Razer configuration software on Linux. Openrazer is the driver package and polychromatic is the GUI to configure it

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    “To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the cult of Razer,”

    or the mark of someone with a 3D printer and 9 cents of plastic.

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      Still, you’d need a pretty good 3D printer to get that much detail in such a small object, right?

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        Yes, but you’d have to start with wanting to print something as dumb and ugly as this.

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        Even the cheapest Resin printers could do this. FDM printers definitely not.

        Resin printers are a big health hazard though, I developed epoxy contact allergy from exposure to the rosin, even though I was careful with always wearing PPE

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          Well obviously you were not wearing PPE and let your skin touch the uncured resin, but I agree the toxicity of resins is vastly understated by the industry.

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          PPE for those resins isn’t a pair of gloves and a paper mask, it is a full cover splash apron and a full face respirator that is rated for organic chemical gas. The fumes getting on your skin or trapped in mucous membranes like the lungs and eyes that causes it, direct spills just accelerate the process.

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              They would need to be gloves that are resistant to plastic solvents and plasticizers, I’m not personally convinced the usual nitrile ones would do anything at all against some of them as they are also used in nitrile production.

              Still though, having skin exposed to the fumes in any capacity can do it from what I can tell, I know a few people in college at a makerspace that never directly worked with the SLA printers but still developed the allergy from being in the same enclosed space.

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          You are wrong about this.

          Look into the centauri carbon. It can print minis with insane detail if you get a smaller nozzle.

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    Razer, you could’ve just released the keycap and been like “Hey look, fancy handmade snake keycap :)”

    there was no need to release a PR statement where you verbally suck yourself off. Calling your brand a “cult” is not the good look you think it is.

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    3 days ago

    ‘a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer’

    For anyone interested in this, they sell red flags at Home Depot for a lot cheaper.

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      Nothing says artisan like a mass produced piece of plastic stamped out of a mold by the thousand.

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      Hey now. I found they also have horrible customer service and try to weasel their way out of warranty cases.

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    Worst quality headsets ever with massive bloatware for a software package to install drivers and RGB controls. They used to have decent gaming mice, but now so many other companies make equal or better there’s no reason at all to buy a Razer.

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      How’s Linux support? As far as I know, most other companies don’t get the save level of support that Logitech and Razer do.

      Maybe that’ll change when Keychron finish their zgm firmware project and some mice with it hit the market.

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        Razer is deprecating the standalone app and moving to a web app for the next version of synapse. So it was be OS agnostic.

        The beta for the new version is out and works flawless on Linux and Mac devices. But it only supports like 3 device so far they haven’t had time to roll out support for the back log.

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          I know. My point is that Razer and Logitech are known to be well-supported. I don’t know if that is true for other manufacturers.

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      They still have the only good keypad on the market. Everything else is either gimmicky and made of cheap plastic or basically unuseable.

      The naga is still a best inclass mouse, and the deathadder and mamba mice are some of the best large mice in the world if you hate the stupid ass retarded trend of tiny light crap mice that everyone makes.

      Their keyboards are mostly meh, if you can find they half off they are fine I guess.

      And synapse 5 is now a web app and thus universal and works on Linux. But it only just started rolling out and only supports like 3 devices so far. Based on synpase 3 and 4a roll out time for devices we should see good coverage of devices in about a year.

      Over all the only problem razer has at this point is their products are about 20-30% more expensive then they should be for the quality.

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        I disagree. I’ve been using a logictech gamepad for 7 years now. Had a razer before that. The logitech works just as well and is cheaper. As for linux support that’s good.

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      Most hardware I’ve checked out from this company was actually a piece by piece replica of something a competitor was selling with less flashy nonsense and much less bloatware (or none). So pardon me if I’ve always thought of Razer as a counterfeiting company with a huge branding and marketing budget.

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        Razer only has like 5 or 6 unique designs. The naga, deathadder,mamba,tartarus, and blackwidow.

        The rest is the same generic design every other company also copies and rips off of each other.

        It’s not so much razer is a knock off company. In that all of keyboard and mice is a massive cess pit of incestuous theft and stealing of design from each other.

        Razer honestly does it less than most of the big companies. They also have pioneered more of design space than basically any company expect Logitech.

        More people rip off razer gear then razer rips off others.

        Most people ripping razer off use higher end parts tho, razer does design well they just cheap out massively on quality.

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    When I think of razer what comes to mind is overpriced peripherals that break and have annoying software to set them up.

    I prefer qmk supported keyboards so I can use via or vial to setup my keyboard.

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      The first thing I think of, and the only tangental history I have with the brand was Nerdcubed’s main computer dying, opening a brand new backup Razer laptop he’d bought for such an occasion, taking it out of the box for the first time that day, and running into a “Your computer’s fucked, mate” screen after hitting the power button