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System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock

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Post by bbojan »

Haegin wrote: post #245
ImprovedSilence wrote: post #227

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I have a nice ten-keyless mech keyboard that I love to use for programming. However I really do miss having a number pad more than I thought I would.

If it's programmable you could set up a layer with a number pad on it. I've done that with mine and basically never use the actual number keys now.

Yup, I did this and it's great. I also ended up assigning the thumb key to 0, since I've noticed it's used more often than other digits (and also you have to fit it somewhere, since the other ones are in a 3x3 grid).

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Post by alias_neo »

johnzim wrote: post #8
protomyth wrote: post #2

I wish a person could order one of these without the numeric keypad. I deeply hate being off-center to the screen when typing on these larger portables.

I have no idea who thought this was a good idea. The trackpad is even off to the left to accommodate it. I'm not a fan of symmetry for symmetry's sake, but I do think some affordances for the human body might be a good idea. How do southpaws enjoy this keyboard setup? The ergonomics of laptops are bad enough without stuff like this.

I don't own a single keyboard with a numpad, it's utterly useless as a left-handed person. All of my mechs are TKL or less.

I built a numpad once but found I'm so used to not having one, even positioned on the left, it wasn't much use.

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Post by noderblade »

peakaboo wrote: post #343
noderblade wrote: post #342

Wft is wrong with laptop market. Fhd on 15". While smartphones usually comes with fhd+ and 4k on 6 inches.

Battery time is always much better if you avoid the 4k screens and such.

Its plain bs it has been tested on multiple platforms yielding almost the same times.

Also if pixel count would be an issue smarphones would also go this way as they are more battery time critical.

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Post by Cederfjard »

caslon wrote: post #101
Cederfjard wrote: post #65

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> Programming? Bind the buttons to commonly-used UNIX programs to make for a better IDE than an IDE. Mind sharing some examples of your bindings?

My favorite (and the one I find myself getting the most joy from using) is /, which I have bound to tangle and weave my currently-open project (dbus, yay) into /tmp, apply a stylesheet to the output of it, determine languages used within, embed Emscripten-compiled interpreters for the languages being used into the generated pages (its file system API is incredible, "I Can't Believe It's Not UNIX!"-worthy), and launch…

Thanks!

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Post by Symbiote »

atatatat wrote: post #276
stonecharioteer wrote: post #242

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I'd actually be into that. I come from the split keyboards world. Put your god damned numpad in the middle and give me ortholinear keys on each side. I will throw money at you today.

> I come from the split keyboards world. What terrifying place is that? (I'm just poking fun, but seriously: where?)

I maintain a gallery of split keyboards for people to see what's available: https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/

Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179311

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