I had the same issue twice on the same device model. It could well be (somewhat systematic) hardware issues. I also thought that it would be unlikely but wanted to check if I was being a shoddy pirate so I could learn to do better. Thanks.

Hello internet stranger, do you know if the Kinesis are hot swappable? They do not mention either way on their product discriptions.

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