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My Mechanical Keyboard

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Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by ihuman »

slashblake wrote: post #120
thght wrote: post #93

I am 100% sure My macbook pro keyboard is really damaging my fingers/joints. I stopped coding all day on my macbook because my hands really started to hurt very badly, suffering some sort of RSI. Then I decided to start coding on my Cooler Master mechanical keyboard to see wether that would give some relieve. Within 2 weeks the pain was completely gone! I now only use my mac keyboard for short messages like this. I t…

Ctrl-[

Or swap escape and caps lock. My keyboard supports macros, so I swapped them on one of the macro layers and never looked back.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by hossbeast »

perryh2 wrote: post #17
rdtsc wrote: post #10

I think people always are easily obsessed and get attached to things they touch. Those things becomes extensions of themselves. I am that way about my smart phone, keyboard and headphones. I could replace the monitor tomorrow without thinking twice about it. Get a new hard drive, new router, even a new a new laptop because I don't touch but use an external keyboard. But, as soon as my IBM Model M keyboard stopped wor…

Check out Unicomp keyboards: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD

I wish there was an ergonomic/split version

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by jccalhoun »

SquareWheel wrote: post #126
Void_ wrote: post #95

This is some amazing writing. I couldn't care less about what kind of keyboard I use, but I kept reading and reading because this was just so easy to read. Can anybody explain why what made this such a good read? Or point me in a direction where I can improve my own writing?

I guess I'll be the contrarian today, but honestly I found his writing to be needlessly long and meandering. I felt I already knew what he was going to say (based on the title alone), but it took dozens of paragraphs to get to the meat of it. The history with previous Apple devices didn't seem all that necessary to get to the real point at the end. Maybe I'm just more impatient as a reader?

I'm with you. when the title is "my mechanical keyboard" all I want to know is "what keyboard is it?"

If the article is about "why I switched to a mechanical keyboard" or "How I came to use a mechanical keyboard" then call it that. It will be an accurate description of what the title is about and the reader will know what to expect.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by hossbeast »

isaac_is_goat wrote: post #125

Mechanical keyboards are overrated. They're great , don't get me wrong - and I've used them for years - but they are not the end all be-all to everything your fingertips will press down. I've actually given up on my Cherry MX Brown DAS and switch to a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop and it's absolutely fantastic. The design is odd at first, but after using it for a few hours I realized that the way I thought about…

I love the Sculpt. I have one at work, and one at home.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by jccalhoun »

isaac_is_goat wrote: post #125

Mechanical keyboards are overrated. They're great , don't get me wrong - and I've used them for years - but they are not the end all be-all to everything your fingertips will press down. I've actually given up on my Cherry MX Brown DAS and switch to a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop and it's absolutely fantastic. The design is odd at first, but after using it for a few hours I realized that the way I thought about…

I wish there were some split mechanical keyboards. I know there is the "Ultimate Hacking Keyboard" but that is out of my price range.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by hossbeast »

mojuba wrote: post #98
Lio wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe that's true. In the '00s it felt like Apple was designing hardware just for people, like me, for whom Unix was important. Now it feels, to me, that Apple has moved to prioritising a new niche. That new niche is people for whom social media is a top priority, hence the focus on emojis as a headline feature of macOS and now the MacBook Pro. Maybe I'm just angry because I'm in an aging demographic and Apple is jus…

To be fair though, emojis are not central in their marketing messages. People like you and me can view it as a passing gimmick. Remember Ping? The belly-up mouse? We can forgive a few flops, right? Or how do we know emojis are not the new language of some sort? There is still a lot of good stuff going on. Logic Pro X now includes Alchemy (acquired by Apple recently) and to many music producers this is huge. The finge…

The problem is all the software mentioned in the article. Pages, Numbers, Safari, and God help us all, iTunes.

15 years from now Apple will be the most important hardware OEM for Andromeda devices.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by isaac_is_goat »

hossbeast wrote: post #134
isaac_is_goat wrote: post #125

Mechanical keyboards are overrated. They're great , don't get me wrong - and I've used them for years - but they are not the end all be-all to everything your fingertips will press down. I've actually given up on my Cherry MX Brown DAS and switch to a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop and it's absolutely fantastic. The design is odd at first, but after using it for a few hours I realized that the way I thought about…

I love the Sculpt. I have one at work, and one at home.

I've been using it home, because I have a magic keyboard at work but I'll probably get another one to use there as well; it's that good.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by gf263 »

Void_ wrote: post #95

This is some amazing writing. I couldn't care less about what kind of keyboard I use, but I kept reading and reading because this was just so easy to read. Can anybody explain why what made this such a good read? Or point me in a direction where I can improve my own writing?

You might be interested in "On Writing Well" (https://smile.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonficti...)

The author explains why we get drawn into good writing about topics we don't care about. Has some great examples in it too.

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by jtreminio »

I've been using Macs for less than most of you - only 3 years.

However, in that time I have become used to the keyboard shortcuts that come with OSX - CMD + Q for closing _any_ program, copy/paste/cut/etc all using CMD vs CTRL. These have turned out to be _much_ better than what's offered on Windows.

The few times I've grown curious again to try Windows 10, the keyboard shortcuts are absolutely the main reason I jump back to OSX. The terminal can be emulated, there's usually programs on Windows that match what I use on OSX, but the shortcuts, I have been unable to figure that out.

Any tips?

Re: My Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by softawre »

jtreminio wrote: post #139

I've been using Macs for less than most of you - only 3 years. However, in that time I have become used to the keyboard shortcuts that come with OSX - CMD + Q for closing _any_ program, copy/paste/cut/etc all using CMD vs CTRL. These have turned out to be _much_ better than what's offered on Windows. The few times I've grown curious again to try Windows 10, the keyboard shortcuts are absolutely the main reason I jump…

keyboard shortcuts can be easily remapped. This seems like a silly reason to pick one OS over the other. (e.g., switch alt and control)
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