How do you use your keyboard on your lap?
https://lemmy.world/post/1305118
How do you use your keyboard on your lap? - LemmyWorld
I’m quite tall and have rather long arms. As a consequence, I rarely find myself
sitting at the desk with the elbows bent at a proper angle while typing. I
figured out it would be more comfortable for me to work with the keyboard
sitting on my lap, tented if possible, but I couldn’t find a stable
configuration with my split 34-keys board. Is there anybody that came up with a
smart solution to this? I’m also considering building a small unibody like the
hummingbird, but I guess it may be too small to comfortably sit on the lap.
I find that something with more texture on my lap helps, like a towel of some kind, or a board with an exposed PCB helps a lot. I’ve also heard the Atreus works really well on the lap.
The exposed PCB and towel could be a neat trick when I work from home, but I’d like to find a slightly more refined solution, possibly portable. At some point, the endgame will probably be a set of clamped mounts at home and one at work, to which magnetically attach the keyboard I carry around.
The Atreus is an interesting option in the meanwhile, but I have a few concerns. First and foremost, too little pinky stagger. I don’t even find the one of my chocofi to be enough and operate the upper pinky key with my ring finger instead. Not a big deal tho, I could ignore the additional keys and I will probably move to a 30 keys layout someday.
Next, there’s the software: I’m not sure moving away from zmk is worth it.
And lastly, I have no experience with mechanical switches apart from the keychron bananas (which I hate) and linear chocs. But I don’t like long travels, so MX style switches is probably not my cup of tea (and honestly I’d like a shorter travel for chocs too). Actually I’m on the look for a way to reproduce the feeling of the latest MacBook Pros. I’ve never used an apple keyboard before (fortunately, it seems), but I really enjoy the tactility and short travel of the one on my laptop. I’ve heard good things about kailh speed switches, but I never tried them.