with great sadness i had to retire my trusty Ergodox Infinity, but: new keeb!

[mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu]

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @ferricoxide@blahaj.zone Ah, yes. Blank keycaps and using Dvorak (I needed to learn a different layout as part of dealing with a repetitive strain injury years back) make my desktop virtually unusable to anyone else.​

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@SometimeHippy @molly0xfff out of curiosity, because videos and descriptions aren't being clear about it: does the bar on this one spring back, or stay where you slide it like the other models seem to do? and what does that imply for horizontal movement?

like is there a carriage return button so you can recenter without moving, or do you perhaps need to install drivers for absolute positioning? or if it springs back, do you have to swipe a couple times to move across the screen sometimes?

[solardavy@climatejustice.social]

@molly0xfff I should find friends with fancy keyboards... Good tip 👍🏼

And have fun typing!

[sometimehippy@mastodon.online]

@groxx @molly0xfff It's a cylinder within the casing, so the rotation of the cylinder gives you the up/down movement. Left/right is done by the equivalent movement of the cylinder within. It doesn't spring back, but there is a button at end within the housing which sends the pointer out to the extreme in if you run out of movement. (I think! It's been ages since it became intuitive, and I don't have it in front of me right now). I've got a fast cursor, so don't usually hit the ends.

[freshstart@hachyderm.io]

@molly0xfff people really really love their glove 80s. Hope you enjoy the feel and the soft easy keyswitches and that your hands and brain love you for it.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@molly0xfff I made so many typos with this thing until my hands relearned where everything was:

[pl@ludosphere.fr]

@molly0xfff out there typing like she’s driving a Battle Mech.

[everythingispublichealth@mastodon.social]

@molly0xfff RIP

[turmoni@social.treehouse.systems]

@molly0xfff I recently discovered the community firmware that gives you per-key RGB control and this is incredibly useful for my gaming layer that shifts a bunch of keys over by one so WASD is usable. I no longer have to think "wait is this one of the keys that I moved or is it normal?"

[matt@oliphaunt.social]

@beep @molly0xfff I can personally attest it feels amazing too! And reasonably priced relative to its competitors.

[wookieeboy@hachyderm.io]

@molly0xfff I’m currently wondering if my ergo keyboard was a good idea. It is also ortholinear and while I have adjusted well to it, I’m now lost on a regular keyboard. Using my laptop as a laptop is now an exercise in frustration.

#firstworldproblems #keyboards

[molly0xfff@hachyderm.io]

@wookieeboy oddly enough I seem to have two brain slots for "desk keyboard" and "laptop keyboard". going between my Ergodox and my laptop was no problem but when I had to briefly use a standard layout external keyboard at my desk it was very weird