Lofree EDGE – The World’s Thinnest Mechanical Keyboard is just 16mm, less than two iPhones thick

[-] mirisgaiss@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

iphone is now a unit of measurement? ugh

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 9 points 4 months ago

It's better than football fields though

[-] silverlightBeing@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Or washing machines

[-] somnuz@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Hey, they started with millimeters so any additional info is kinda passable (in my books) as a visual / imagination stimulus.

Sometimes it can be really helpful, like with the distance from Earth to Moon, almost 385 000 km — that’s yeah, a lot, this gives the facts.

..but, when I found out that all the planets from our solar system packed next to each other would fit into this gap with some space to spare — this gives the perspective.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

How many bananas is that?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I don't see anything like QMK but I do see a "Lofree Configurator," so this will be a hard no from me. Looks really cool though.

[-] AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure but it seems the CHERRY KW X ULP is as slim or slimmer, while it uses mechanical scissor switches instead of classical mechanical ones they are still mechanical.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 4 months ago

What are mechanical scissor switches? I've never heard of them.

[-] AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

https://www.cherry-world.com/mx-ulp-click These are the ones used, I think currently only Cherry produces any like these.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, so horizontal spring versus vertical spring

[+] onlinepersona@programming.dev -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What's this then?

9mm split keyboard

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Is the one you linked mechanical? I wasn't sure

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 4 months ago

Nope

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 4 months ago

The reviews are hilarious

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -4 points 4 months ago

🤔 which ones? From what I'm reading mac has problems (no surprise there; if it ain't Malus, you're SOL), some dude spilled stuff over his keyboard, another didn't read the guide on which cables to connect and trashed his keyboard by throwing it into his backpack with cables still attached, others aren't used to split keyboards (took me about an hour to get used to it), and so on.

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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 months ago

Do you work for the split keyboard company?

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -3 points 4 months ago

Nope. Should I?

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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 months ago

Just wondered.

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