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I press buttons until the light matrix shows colors I like. Currently working mostly with Elixir and Rust on various personal projects.

I'm the bitch who complains that the ending of Interstellar involves extremely inefficient transmission of information

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Kodi @kodicraft7/29/2024, 4:06 PM

store string byte @stosb

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing7/28/2024, 11:38 AM

It’s kinda weird to me, how small layouts are popular with keyboard enthusiasts. You’d think they’d look at a 100% layout and go, I want more keys. not less. Like, all the popular group buys, and keyboard sets and stuff, should be for stuff that looks like cross between a Cherry G80-9009 and Space Cadet keyboard.
I wanna go on a mechanical keyboard site, and mainly see things that look like Hyper 7 keyboards.

#posting #keyboards #mechanical keyboards

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing7/29/2024, 3:18 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUVVxrL6VGU

The image alone doesn’t really show how cool the G80-9009 actually is. It has 12 extra F keys, that you can assign key macros to. The screen on the top, lets you display what both the regular F keys and extra F keys do.
There’s also a Calculator lock key, that puts a calculator on screen, that you can use with the numpad.
So sad that there aren’t modern consumer keyboards, with this type of functionality.

#posting #keyboards

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you have to Bee nice to me @prof-badvibes7/28/2024, 8:40 PM

Looks like those image links are broken, I get a message saying that "the webpage will not show this image anonymously" when I click

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing7/29/2024, 5:22 AM

Thanks for telling me! I replaced them with links that work :3

you have to Bee nice to me @prof-badvibes7/29/2024, 11:56 AM

NP!

TheHelplessCelt @the-helpless-celt7/28/2024, 10:55 PM

I want a Hyper 7 so damn badly. I need it with a beige case and some SA profile keycaps.

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing7/29/2024, 2:57 PM

I would love to have a Hyper 7. Unfortunately, their special made keycap set only supports a US layout, and fitting a typical German set on them would require either a lot of relegendable keys, or a ton of blank ones.

store string byte @stosb7/29/2024, 4:09 PM

i recently thought about which keys on my keyboard i don't use and the only ones are the menu key, pause/break, and some of the function keys

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing7/29/2024, 4:27 PM

The Menu key can be pretty useful when you’re navigating a program mainly with the keyboard.
For instance, if your typing in a word processor, a misspelled word will be underlined in red— without a Menu key, you’d have to take a hand off the board, move the cursor to the offending word, right click and then select one of the suggestions from the context menu. With the Menu key, you can just navigate to the word with the arrows, and then just press the Menu key for the context menu, and navigate that with the arrows also.
Though, its use is definitely situational, and most programs heavily favor the mouse over the keyboard.

store string byte @stosb7/29/2024, 6:52 PM

one thing i think i would like is a tenkeyless keyboard and a standalone numpad i can put to the right of my mouse

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing7/29/2024, 7:10 PM

There are a lot of standalone numpads for you to get. Tho, I’ve not seen many, that have a matching TKL. I’ve seen that on some keyboard sets, but those are expensive. Recently 8Bitdo, the controller company, has put out some retro styled TKLs that have matching separate numpads (the TKLs also have been getting good reviews). Said numpads even have build in seven-segment displays, letting them also act as standalone calculators. The TKLs are only available in the ANSI layout though.

store string byte @stosb7/29/2024, 8:00 PM

a) i don't really care about them matching
b) the keyboard i have now has an ansi layout

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ira 🌷🐰@irina8/28/2024, 2:16 PM

like, on one hand maximalist keyboards like these are cool on their own right - but on the other, god damn I could do with some extra keys at work.

a numpad with two extra rows for ABCDEF would kick ass, and I currently have a bunch of autohotkey scripts for like, putting in the current utc time in three different formats - those would be so much better as dedicated buttons than as "single double or triple tap the menu key". shift+num* = ° isn't the most elegant either

but even if i could find a modern keyboard like that - good luck getting it past work it requirements ;-; can't even have a compose key or unbind numlock like at home, thanks windows

ira 🌷🐰@irina8/28/2024, 2:38 PM

like, there's an answer here and it's "get a tkl and a numpad with a macro pad like this (not big enough imo, give me another row of height) but let me imagine a big ol custom keyboard made for me ok

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing8/28/2024, 2:44 PM

I really get you. Wish there was a company, where you could just send a picutre of your layout, and they make a board and keys excatly like it.

ira 🌷🐰@irina8/28/2024, 2:51 PM

it's not an impossible business model: "custom PCB and a 3d printed case, go solder some switches together" but the market is tiny and most people don't know more than a handful of keyboard shortcuts, let alone want dedicated keys for them

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing8/28/2024, 2:56 PM

Heck, if I could get whatever layout I want, I’d honestly settle with a membrane design. It sucks how standardize keyboards are; the most manufactures are willing to do, is make keyboards with less keys, rather than more.

ira 🌷🐰@irina8/29/2024, 5:24 AM

https://customkbd.com/collections/other-plates/products/custom-pom-plate

god it's actually terrifyingly possible

Tanuki-loving Tanuki Shill @Tanuki-Computing8/29/2024, 5:33 AM

Huh, I also know there's plenty of places that'll do custom PCBs so there's actually little in the way. The only problem left would be getting a case (probably through 3D printing) and getting key caps (there might be places that'd do that for you).

ira 🌷🐰@irina8/29/2024, 5:39 AM

this place seems to do custom cut acrylic cases too, and there's definitely custom keycap places (probably not double shot injection molded but you can't have it all)

all an insane amount of money though I'd guess