Recently bought a Keychron K3 and so far very happy with it. Its price/quality is really good. The main drawback is that it might take a bit to get used to it, especially if you use laptops with different layouts.
I Like Small Keyboards
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#32thanks, me too. the one big disadvantage here, if you have to go into an office, is either having to own multiple or transporting your keyboard back and forth every day. there was a period where i was doing standard + ortho Plank + an ErgoDox-like on three different machines and it's a bit of a mindfuck context switching between them. extremely inefficient.
> if you have to go into an office, is either having to own multiple or transporting your keyboard back and forth every day That's easy. Own multiple. I have three of the same keyboard: one for the office, one for the home office, and one for the couch.
Not quite as easy if you have to hot-desk, and don't always get the same desk each time you're in the office :)
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#3365% is the sweet spot for me. Reaching across a numpad for a mouse aggravates my RSI. I ditched 100% long ago, then eventually ditched the mouse and moved to a laptop-style trackpad in the middle, which did the trick. Over the years, I tried pretty much every keyboard with a built in trackpad. Usually the keyboards were so-so to poor. Eventually I got a plate of 6061 aluminum, added a nice wooden wrist support with r…
The dactyl keyboard family with built in trackballs are way nicer than ones with built in track pads at least from my experience. My personal favorite so far has been a Charybdis from bastardkeyboards. Expensive but I don't need a mouse anymore for being productive.
Hah, 2 minutes before my remark. I feel like if anyone has 2+ ergomech keyboards, they should really try something with a pointing device. It's clear they don't mind having an expensive hobby :D
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#34Although not very small, HHKB is my workhorse.
I'm not a fan of mechanical keyboards so I was going to post a link to my favorite keyboard (Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II) and just found out it's discontinued. I'm so bummed out because it's such a great keyboard and the two I use are getting old. It's hard to believe it wasn't a good seller for them because it was frequently out of stock and when it came back in stock you had to be quick to get one.
Oh no! That keyboard was incredible. Very compact, built in TrackPoint (tm) pointing stick, and option to use USB dongle or Bluetooth. It was the perfect KVM / server rack keyboard, and uniquely great as a VR headset keyboard. I remember it was frequently out of stock and would sell out very quickly. Cannot understand why they would discontinue this keyboard.
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#35Gonna shill my project, a 34 key solar powered split keyboard https://github.com/cjshearer/cweep.
Each half should end up just a bit wider than a smartphone (114mm x 86mm).
I'm still working on the case generation, which is intended to have a metal backplate for magnetic mounting, but I've gotten distracted developing a generic method to convert kicad geometry primitives to cadquery, so others can benefit from this workflow that uses the PCB geometry as the source of truth for generating an enclosure.
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#3665% is the sweet spot for me. Reaching across a numpad for a mouse aggravates my RSI. I ditched 100% long ago, then eventually ditched the mouse and moved to a laptop-style trackpad in the middle, which did the trick. Over the years, I tried pretty much every keyboard with a built in trackpad. Usually the keyboards were so-so to poor. Eventually I got a plate of 6061 aluminum, added a nice wooden wrist support with r…
The dactyl keyboard family with built in trackballs are way nicer than ones with built in track pads at least from my experience. My personal favorite so far has been a Charybdis from bastardkeyboards. Expensive but I don't need a mouse anymore for being productive.
That looks really nice! I haven't spent much time with split keyboards, particularly the extreme ergo things like that but I am very tempted!
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#37thanks, me too. the one big disadvantage here, if you have to go into an office, is either having to own multiple or transporting your keyboard back and forth every day. there was a period where i was doing standard + ortho Plank + an ErgoDox-like on three different machines and it's a bit of a mindfuck context switching between them. extremely inefficient.
> if you have to go into an office, is either having to own multiple or transporting your keyboard back and forth every day That's easy. Own multiple. I have three of the same keyboard: one for the office, one for the home office, and one for the couch.
I did that, but after a few months there was a discernible difference between 2 identical keyboards due to wear (the one at work was being used much more than the home one). This annoyed me to no end and I sold one of them.
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#38Gonna shill my project, a 34 key solar powered split keyboard https://github.com/cjshearer/cweep . Each half should end up just a bit wider than a smartphone (114mm x 86mm). I'm still working on the case generation, which is intended to have a metal backplate for magnetic mounting, but I've gotten distracted developing a generic method to convert kicad geometry primitives to cadquery, so others can benefit from this…
What is that battery? It looks like it will last about ten years, wouldn't a solar keyboard need a battery about 1/50th the size?
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#39I like to be able to sit down at any computer and keyboard and be fully productive right away.
Exactly, so do away with the zoo of national keyboards, any language should be typable on the standard QWERTY keyboard.
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#40so how do you type a number?