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Kunal Bagaria
Kunal Bagaria

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I made a CLI tool in Rust to play mechanical keyboard sound effects globally

Rustyvibes

A Rust CLI that makes mechanical keyboard sound effects on every key press. It was a collaborative effort that took months to make, is now finally releasing.

macOS:

brew install kb24x7/rustyvibes/rustyvibes
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Windows / Linux:

cargo install rustyvibes
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Usage

rustyvibes <soundpack_path>
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Download Soundpacks: Here


Mechvibes vs. Rustyvibes

How does Rustyvibes compare to its competitors like Mechvibes? Mechvibes uses Electron and Chromium which is very resource intensive. Rustyvibes on the other hand is made with Rust and can be upto 10x-100x more resource efficient.

Mechvibes Soundpacks: Here


Privacy

Rustyvibes is a fully open-sourced project and never uses any network activity at all.

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GNVageesh

Awesome