Keyboard tome mysteries

 This is mostly a rant, so far,

 that you can ignore. 

I disagree with some of my new keyboard's terminology.

"Fn" or, "Function Key" is imprinted "Fn" and that seems simple enough and is copied by several keyboard companies.

To access special keys that have nothing to do with typing, press Fn and the key which usually has the special function imprinted on the key!

But these guys wanted to reinvent technology.

The Function key now has four modes (it would be technically impossible to have more than 2, except for *another* switch I haven't mentioned yet)

Also the four modes start with "0" just to look extra-technical.

Also, to use two of the modes, you need a different type of a computer (I didn't mention that either, for fear of confusion)

The damn Fn button is "on" or "off", pressed or unpressed, 0 or 1 (if you like techie terminology.)

But now thanks to the alternate universe-switch, it can be 2 or 3 (Are you following this?)

Being the richer-than-god guy that you are, you prolly have TWO computers, but are too cheap-ass to buy two keyboards.

• Change channels to one or the other computer.
• Change the Type of computer (Apple or windows) (This action will rename your function key)
• Press the function key (to, uh, turn on a light or whatever)

It all becomes clearer if you are into writing computer programs ("Macros") for your keyboard

(Which is possible I suppose, but I have not read that page yet)

In a way different section, you can stumble blindly around to find the keyboard light combo that is pleasing to you.

Don't like rainbows? (too suspect subversive "woke"?) They have a keyboard key that changes the default(?) rainbow color to, for example, red (as in "kiss your ass goodbye soon" red)

But can you duplicate it for friends next Tuesday?
I really wouldn't know.
Punch the key and watch different patterns, until one looks acceptable (not puke blinking-green)

None of this needed a program, although I think maybe I could use one.

I was reading a reddit thread which asked about disabling the sleep-tendencies of the keyboard.

A snarky guy DYOR bla-bla and gave an answer.
We (general "we") don't want to read tomes, it's Nice to be able to ask a question to masses of people at once,

but the people always run across the snarky, the mean and the confidently stupid, first, and those people win awards for non-helpful bullshit answers (10k of them)

"Google is your friend"

"I have no problems (shs)"

"DYOR"

"I don't know"

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Here is something I'd like to try, blogging on my phone using the keyboard.

Yes, when the apocalypse happens and the laptop is dead, I can use the phone to talk to the keyboard! 

I'm doing it now.

But, could I suddenly decide to switch back to the Laptop?

Uh, not instantly, it's a blog after all that gets updated online, but, ignoring those little details, hang on....

Yes!

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Anyway...

I worry that the lens (The glass covering the lenses) is either scratched or could be scratched.

Guess what? It does not matter a hell of a lot.linky

I'm so relieved!! You have no idea. The microscopic scratch I cannot really see (My eyes are kind of bad) vs the sandblasted scratch they put for test purposes.

My thumb and flies would have a much bigger effect.

I wonder sometimes about reviewers dissing phones.

Yes it seems better than God, but it's just not apple.

Bah.

They should buy an actual camera to compare the phone to.

$4k but then would you shut the hell up and stop bitching?
(Did I mention it was $4k, Twerp?)

Speaking of which, if people care so much about picture quality, why not just buy a camera?

But you've seen the photos, the ones where a politician is speaking and all the reporters eagerly hold up their phone.

The dancers in Iraq (wherever) or the miserable people after a disaster, are prolly hosted on much more expensive dedicated fancy cameras.

Which brings me to my next question, how the hell to keep lenses clean in dusty environments?

Also, dedicated cameras don't have a piece of glass to shoot through, it's the unprotected lens against the world.

This phone sits its butt down on the glass covering the lenses, that seems wrong, somehow.