Shane CelisMy one IRL #mechanicalkeyboards buddy went ahead and designed a truly custom keyboard. It's got gerber files and everything. Respect.
I can't go less than 6x4 keys per hand, but I do love the trackball under the thumb.
antonoI went down the split-keyboard rabbit hole and ended up with five of them. Managing five separate firmware configs was its own hobby. So I collapsed everything into one Nix flake — keebs-nix. One repo, one command, builds them all, identical every time.
https://blog.antono.info/keebs-nix
https://github.com/antono/keebs-nix
HundRecommendations for alternatives to Gateron G Pro 3.0 White switches? They should be the same, only smoother!
Recommendations for alternatives to Gateron G Pro 3.0 White switches? They should be the same, only smoother! - Feddit.nu
I have the Gateron G Pro 3.0 White switches, which I like, except that they’re not that smooth. I previously had the Red variant, which I found to be smoother. To my understanding this has to do with the springs being lighter in the white ones, which is making them feel less smooth? Anyway. I don’t want the most smoothest switch ever, and I’m too old and too tired to go the custom switch route again. I’m okay with ‘good enough’. I haven’t kept up with this community for like 5 years or so now. I assume we’ve seen like a billion new switches since then. Do you have any recommendations?
Sean EarleRE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/116790342839514246
Does anyone on here recognise these keycaps? They're very cute and I would be interested in getting some
Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast [Unofficial]One of our favorite budget gaming keyboards drops back down to its lowest-ever price of $45 at Amazon — RK R65 packs lubed switches, metallic knob, and gasket mount for excellent sound and feel
The VergeThese mechanical keyboards are two very different sides of the same beautifully made coin
PlutarchLookin' bad. Lookin' real bad.
#BattleStations #Corne #MechanicalKeyboards #Ergonomics #WhyAmIDoingThis
David CulleyI learned touch typing with the website monkeytype.¹
It's a nice website, but it's full of surveillance-capitalism crap, like Google's Firebase. Its developer is a twenty-something five years out of college. He started monkeytype in 2020 while still being in college, so I presume he doesn't know how to achieve his idea in a different way and maybe isn't even aware of the problems that using Google's technology entails.
Users can already be uniquely identified by their typing patterns.²
I am thus sceptic of storing extremely detailed information about my keystroke dynamics (like which letters I misspell the most, which of my fingers are strong and which are weak, how many milliseconds lie between certain bi-grams such as 'th', 'ng', 'he', 'lo', et cetera) in a database on Google's infrastructure.
Knowing Google, they might someday use that information to track me. So I don't want to give it to them in the first place.³ I don't think I'm overly paranoid here.
Has anyone already thought about this?
¹ https://monkeytype.com
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
³ I use monkeytype only while being logged out and blocking all Firebase-related network traffic.
Gravement bêteI have genuine questions about mechanical keyboards
Would anyone be okay to answer them patiently?
🔁 boosts appreciated
Abhinav 🧭RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/114670121574607975
What's the point of these #MechanicalKeyboards if I make an LLM write all my code? Typing on these is such a pleasure. I'm gonna stick to typing by myself, thank you. #AI