Weekly News Digest: Magnetic Personalities
It’s been a slow week in the world of consumerism. Apparently, even the marketing teams are taking a break, or perhaps they’ve finally run out of adjectives to describe “innovative” black plastic rectangles. Either way, we have exactly one item to discuss, so let’s get this over with.
Keychron Explains How Magnets Work
Keychron has published a riveting guide on how to use “HE Mode” on their launcher web app. For the uninitiated, “HE” stands for Hall Effect, which is the fancy way of saying “magnetic switches.”
The guide walks you through setting up actuation distances and “Rapid Trigger” features. Rapid Trigger allows the key to reset the instant you let go, which is theoretically useful for rhythm games and shooters. In practice, it mostly just gives you one less excuse for why your K/D ratio is embarrassing.
They also explain that you can confuse yourself with “Advanced Mode” if the basic settings aren’t granular enough for your obsessive tweaking. If you own a Keychron Q HE board and enjoy fiddling with graphs instead of typing, this is for you.
That’s it. That’s the digest. Go outside.