Lookin' bad.  Lookin' real bad.

#BattleStations #Corne #MechanicalKeyboards #Ergonomics #WhyAmIDoingThis

I 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.

#moneytype #TouchTyping #MechanicalKeyboards

I have genuine questions about mechanical keyboards

Would anyone be okay to answer them patiently?

🔁 boosts appreciated

#mechanicalKeyboard #mechanicalKeyboards #AskFedi

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

Logitech G512 X 98 Review: A Hybrid Mish-Mash

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/logitech-g512-x-98/

New Beam Spring Keyboards

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/beam-spring-b104-keyboard/

#HackerNews #BeamSpringKeyboards #MechanicalKeyboards #TechGadgets #KeyboardEnthusiasts #ModelFKeyboards

Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/keychron-k2-he-concrete-edition/

[Groupbuy] 8-bit series – Ferocious Forest

https://lemmy.ml/post/47943706

Been using the Flow Lite 100 for about a day now, coming from a full mechanical keyboard, and apart from the layout being a bit different to what I'm used to, typing on this thing is just insanely nice.

It's this really nice midpoint between a mechanical keyboard and laptop keyboard (both experiences I like in different ways).

One thing I didn't realise I'd appreciate this much is that it's got more of a "creamy" click, which is really nice!

#Keyboards #MechanicalKeyboards

Switching to a split keyboard isn’t instant for most people.

But when it does click… it really clicks, and there's no going back. ⌨️✨

What was your experience like? Was it instant comfort or a slow transition?

#UHK #splitkeyboard #ergonomics #mechanicalkeyboards #typingexperience