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Fair enough, whatever works for you - but I feel like this is more of an exclusion and the majority of people are just too lazy to set their monitor brightness properly.

My problem is kind of the opposite - most light themes I've seen are too contrasty and I can't discern the different colours all that well, moreover too much contrast is tiring to my eyes. Black text on white background is about the same as white text on black background. Most of the time I prefer dark themes, but those with low or medium contrast.

I've thought about this as well, but I haven't been able to find such a light sensor.

There are actually some models already with a built in ambient light sensor. I don't know how much of a convenience it would be, whether it would be distracting if small changes in ambient light make the brightness go up and down all the time. I personally prefer changing it manually - I have a macro pad with knobs which are mapped to do that.

Reply with "That's your problem, not mine".

Limmy pls.

Controversial opinion: if your monitor is set to the proper brightness for the room's ambient light, light or dark theme becomes a matter of preference. If you're in a completely dark room with your brightness set to 100%, then of course a light theme won't work.

There's also the flip side of this - clueless beginners buying needlessly expensive things (not to them because they're beginners but in general), in turn telling manufacturers that there's a market for needlessly expensive things. But hopefully the people with more sense outweigh them so that the market regulates itself.

All the boards I currently rotate between (3 at this time) have factory soldered hotswap sockets. I haven't done much soldering myself, none on keyboards in particular. For PCBs that come assembled or unassembled I prefer to pay a bit more for assembled because it's generally not a huge difference. Unfortunately some don't offer that option.

I have a solderable PCB of one of the first custom boards I got a few years back and I still haven't gotten to building it - I couldn't commit to a specific switch, the PCB doesn't support soldering hotswap sockets, and adding millmax ones seemed too much of a hassle. Moreover at one point they announced they'll supply hotswap PCBs, so I'm probably going that route.

Yes.

I don't know what platform this is, but such a review should be moderated in some way. If an employee treats you badly during normal service, then fine, it's justified to drop a negative review, but if you're as incompetent as to be unable to understand that nobody is obliged to serve you outside of the stated working hours, it's entirely your problem and it shouldn't affect the rating of the establishment.

Cool! Thanks a lot for the thorough answer!