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this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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This picture is very concerning due to the lack of letters and punctuation on some of these keyboards. One has "QAZ" in the wrong place, two more lack those letters entirely, and one has gone so far as to remove "L" too. What psychopath designed these?
Look up layers, each physical switch can be used for multiple keys.
For letters and punctuation though? Seriously? Like, okay, lesser used punctuation like carets, tildes, lesser/greater than, stuff like that seems reasonable to stick behind a layer. Letters though?
I write JavaScript on the tiny ones so I have to type a lot of () and {} and stuff. It took me a little while to get used to.
Also I have them mapped so that QAZ are Esc, Tab, Shift. So all letters are accounted for on layer 0.
chording (using multiple hotkeys to redefine the char set) requires retraining and mental overhead and can lead to errors. no thanks. I don't even like the superset buttons on laptops, fuck fn keys etc.
That psychopath would be me (for the pink one and the black one, the green one is a vault 35). If you want to have your eyes opened, the black one with the QAZ on the right has an interest check going on now.
I understand removing numpads for people who don't enter a lot of numbers since you have a second set, but removing things beyond that, I don't know, I don't get it. I don't even think I can give up my function row (f1-f12)
I can see using Fn+# for function. I’d keep F11 for the full screen shortcut though.