Lapis the Nevrean

@lapisnev

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Things that make you go 🤌. Weird computer stuff. Artist and general creative type. Occasionally funny. Gentoo on main. I play rhythm games!

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Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev4/30/2023, 3:50 PM

count swagula @clip

count swagula @clip4/30/2023, 3:46 PM

looking at old pre-modern smartphone sony ericsson pda style phones and i think i just found one of the worst keyboards ever conceived

"The "butterfly keyboard" which delivered a qwerty experience on a constrained keypad using rocker keys was conceived by Björn Ahlberg who is credited on the patent for this design."

via https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/sony-ericsson-m600

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev4/30/2023, 3:50 PM

I'll take a Bluetooth slider case for a conventional glass slab

Just don't make me type on 15 rocker switches, Christ

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in reply to @clip's post:

~@modulusshift4/30/2023, 3:54 PM

Wait, oh god, rocker switches? I thought it’d be like T9, where the software just does it’s best guess at which letter you wanted from the key lol

count swagula @clip4/30/2023, 4:06 PM

YEAH... that was my first guess too but nope! rocker switches! :)

~@modulusshift4/30/2023, 4:22 PM

Okay, between this and Apple’s experiments with the ultra thin “butterfly keyboard” design, I’m beginning to wonder if that term was ever used for anything good.

Maya @Mayabotics2/22/2024, 5:11 PM

Only way back in the 90s, for the IBM ThinkPad 701's Butterfly Keyboard.

Jessica @ticky4/30/2023, 4:55 PM

you know what I think this could’ve been okay

does mean you lose the traditional letter relationship with the keys though, making it somehow less compatible with vanity numbers lol

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