Typing re-imagined as a dynamic context-free experience for maximum user adaptive input flexibility, total surface interaction and pure visual feedback.

@NanoRaptor

Honestly not much more cursed than the original 2015 MacBook keyboards.

Dear Apple,

Key travel was NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MEASURED in Angstroms.

@rl_dane
May as well type on a touchscreen. Or a ZX81...
@NanoRaptor

@ddlyh @NanoRaptor

Remember the keyboard from Russia in the Mid/Late naughties that had mechanical keys, but the top of every keycap was a small OLED screen? "Das Keyboard," or something?

I dare Apple to put that on a friggin' laptop. 😁

@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor well, you’ll need that for the regression into hieroglyphic‡ writing most of society is currently rushing towards…

‡) called “Emoji” these days, but same difference, except instead of no less than three perfectly workable hieroglyphs, they use the aubergine emoji to hide the meaning and annoy cooks

@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor also, why does FixedMisc have so much nicer crocheting symbols than Gentium?

(Though, I suspect that Gentium just lacks it and Firefox falls back to DejaVu Sans, given the look.)

@mirabilos @ddlyh @NanoRaptor

It's also useful for accents, alternate layouts,and international modes!

@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor these are largely static, and you can print them on keycaps.

BTDT. It works better if the grid around the keycaps is in a decidedly distinct colour, e.g. light compared to black keycaps with white enlasering.

@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor It doesn’t work as well when the keys and the grid are both dark, as the individual keycaps don’t have a distinguishable border, like in this photo (ignore the cat lying across the table, it’s the lower laptop’s):

@mirabilos @ddlyh @NanoRaptor

Wow, that's fancy.

Also, ignore a cat?? Do you know me? Have we ever spoken before? 🤣😻

@rl_dane
That would be amazing! Even better to use e-ink screens!
@NanoRaptor
@rl_dane @ddlyh @NanoRaptor "Das Keyboard" was a keyboard with unmarked keys. russian + oled sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard (bonus: the WP article also mentions existing eink models and Apple's patent office posture in that space)
Optimus Maximus keyboard - Wikipedia