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  • For me, as primarily a backend dev, the argument was that it’s a framework, unlike React, so you get an everything-in-one solution which is quite easy to setup and use.

    Given that Google still hasn’t killed this one yet, it’s also a mature platform with plenty of articles online on how to use it.

    IIRC the license was also better than React’s, at least last time I checked.

    Not sure on what the landscape looks like today, but when I was making the choice, the internet didn’t seem to consider other solutions to be competitive with either React or Angular.









  • I also have the Pro version, and I like it, with caveats.

    First of all, the LEDs are waaay too bright. I had to change their brightness levels in the firmware, which was not the easiest as IIRC the code for that was not the best documented.

    On the flipside, making changes to the firmware, compiling and uploading it to the keyboard is quite easy.

    Secondly, the Bluetooth can be a bit buggy. Not only can the keyboard randomly refuse to connect (for which the fix is a button combo to forget the connection), the two halves themselves sometimes have trouble connecting.

    Thankfully, that’s a rare occurrence, even if still quite annoying.

    The keyboard itself, however, is still quite comfortable for my tiny hands, is very customizable in terms of what key does what, and you can connect it directly to your PC via cable.

    The last one also has a caveat, though, as there’s currently no way for the two halves to talk via cable (though I think some people are working on that, at least for the pro version).

    I needed something good for work, and I mostly got it. I’m planning to stick with this keyboard until it dies.

    Oh, and I like that you can adjust the tenting, though I always use the highest setting.








  • Some ideas could include, but are not limited to:

    • ban companies from buying housing properties
    • introduce a fairly high tax on every second (or at least third, progressively higher with each) property to deter buying up properties to rent
    • perhaps introduce another tax on properties which have been vacant for X months/years
    • introduce rent control
    • perhaps even introduce some form house price control (per square meter, tied to median wage, perhaps)
    • make the government build some housing

    You can debate how well each of these would work, but there are many ways to bring prices down without making it less pleasant to live in those houses. I’m most partial to a progressive property tax, rent control and government housing, myself.