I bought this mini wireless keyboard with a touchpad at the store for use with my HTPC so that I could finally get around to updating a shit load of packages as well as Flash and XBMC. It's a bit of an odd feeling to shit on this product, as I simultaneously experienced the greatest fluke of fortune I could imagine.
http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Touch.../dp/B003GU1028
Where did I get lucky?
Well, as I predicted, all of my lirc remote mappings (so that my Harmony remote works perfectly with XBMC) got totally fucked and it took me ages through trial and error to get it all back up to speed, and even better than before. I started doing all of my long overdue updates and worked through all of the troubleshooting, overall it took me 6 hours. The keyboard worked pretty fucking decently through all those 6 hours. Just as I finished typing out my last XML, saving it, testing XBMC, and breathing a sigh of accomplished relief, the fucking thing died.
What are the chances that it would die at the very second I no longer needed it? Anyways it goes back to the store later today. I never heard of Gear Head, who are these guys? I didn't find these Amazon reviews until after the frakkin' toaster gave out. Seriously, they're products basically work for hours until they die.
Don't buy anything "Gear Head" folks.
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