In amongst the kipple is a Pok3r UK Mechanical. I use the Caps Lock for Fn to access arrow and Function keys. It’s not ideal so I use it here where space is… er… at a premium. At work I use the much more professional Filco Majetouch Ninja.
Am I doing it right?
I saw that little red nub and my wrist immediately started hurting. Those things are my nemesis.
HJKL! (actually I’ve only just taught myself not to use the arrow keys in Vim this month after several years of nearly full time use…)
I’ve got one of these bad boys. All the feel of an old-school model M, but with a nicer color scheme and built-in trackpoint.
I want one of those mouse pads!
How does moving the tip of your finger a few millimeters give you a wristache?
And I do have a recommendation, having tried a few models. If, like me, you want to try a small “60%” keyboard (lacking both a numeric keypad and arrows)
Wh–what? Why? WHY WOULD YOU EVER.
I’ve been computering since 1986 and I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a keyboard without arrows. Half-size arrows squinched up in the corner, bizarro-layout arrows stacked up the side, even the “Right, Down, shift-to-reverse” thing that the Commodore had going on, but no arrows? You might as well leave off the space bar.
I once hired a guy for some contract work and, when we set his desk up with a desktop, the first thing he did was plug his own keyboard in. It was one of those Dvorak keyboards, and he’d gotten so used to it that he couldn’t type on the keyboard layouts 99.999999% of the world uses. He even had a modded laptop. But he got the work done and I guess if it made him happy to carry his own peripherals around…
Yet there are crazies that want us to use letters to represent a change in position!
Utter, utter madness. It makes me want to cancel Christmas… again.
This has never ceased to amaze me. I grew up on Windows, but have had a Mac for my entire adult life, which is when I actually started to care about things like writing in Español correctly.
Accents and other diacritics just make obvious sense on a Mac, once you learn them. Want an ü? opt-u (u for umlaut) to make a hovering ¨, then the u. Want it over an ö? opt-u o. You just learn the accent shortcut, which is always two characters, and then type the letter.
Windows always requires five keys, and they are completely meaningless, requiring rote memorization and a separate keyboard(?!?)
Why haven’t they just caught up with the program yet?
In some situations, Id be willing to map some ctrl+ letter options for the arrows if it meant getting to dump the extra width on the right side.
I haven’t read all of the above, so perhaps someone has mentioned that mechanical keyboards should not be cleaned in a dishwasher, whereas this is quite possible (no detergent!) with many membrane keyboards. Or you could use distilled water for them. Sounds weird, but I have read this in some editions of Scott Mueller’s insanely detailed bible “Upgrading and Repairing PC’s”. This is the series of books you go to when you need to know truly esoteric things such as the pin-outs for practically any processor. Or simply how to best clean and maintain a keyboard. An amazing wealth of material.
…how do they work?!
Er, shouldn’t that be “faster”?
I accidentally read that to rhyme with mustache and spent a little too long giggling.
That honestly makes me sweat a little.
