Exactly, yeah. I learned professional touch typing at 16 so to me the backlight wins.
dimitarvp
newpain01
newpain01
Ted
My monitors were recently replaced at work and they rotate, so I’m going to give portrait mode a whirl. 
carlosarli
They are dell ultrasharp I’ll find the model out and post it. I quite like them although not perfect I got them on a good deal 
michallepicki
Nicd
Regular phone cable is not crossover. I had to make my own by cutting the cable in the middle and soldering the wires crossed.
hubertlepicki
But you could buy a telephone cable, pair of RJ-11 connectors and cross over the cable when mounting a connector in similar fashion to doing crossover with UTP cable / RJ-45 connectors.
Although, I don’t find that necessary anymore with ethernet as I think pretty much everything nowadays detects if a cable is twisted or untwisted and just straight cable works for most bases.
The only problem I can see is that you usually buy the JR-11/RJ-45 connectors in packets of 100, but it costs like 4 EUR for the packet in my local electronic shop. Still, it’s probably better solution than soldering in the middle of cable, from my experience these things usually don’t last (but I do suck at soldering).
Nicd
RJ11 uses 6P, 4P4C is RJ9. And I realise I could buy those connectors and some wire but then I’d have to buy a new crimping tool as well (mine only has 8P and 6P). This was a much cheaper option and with heat shrink tubing it should be durable enough. 
hubertlepicki
Oh you are right! I only now noticed it’s not the standard telephone socket. My tool doesn’t support it either.