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Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom

This is the oddest #KeyboardLayout I've seen in quite a while: cnx-software.com/2025/01/20/ba

And yes, the #OrtholinearKeyboard of that small #handheld computer seems to be a #MechanicalKeyboard, they say it has #Kailh Brown switches, seemingly MX compatible.

Moving around the O and especially the P and L key reminds me of the #keyboard layout of the #Enigma, also because I also already was experimenting with such layouts: github.com/xtaran/XTK/blob/mas

Ortholinear split keyboard computer with tiny screen showing a color palette inbetween the two halves. The keyboard layout looks as follows: Ret P L Del Q W E R T Y U I A S D F G H J K Z X C V B N M O Gr Left Right Caps with "Gr" being a shift stick schemata like symbol probably switching to some graphics mode. All keys are 1u wide and aligned at the center screen except the bottom row which seems to have been moved a tiny bit outwards.
#Forth#ColorForth#PC32
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Debacle

@nick @wikimediaDE

Ich mag das alte Layout auch ein bisschen lieber. Bis ich zum eigentlichen Inhalt komme (im Screenshot z.B. zum Wahlspruch „In Vielfalt geeint“) muß ich nun 16 × PgDn drücken. Vorher gar nicht. Aber ich werde mich dran gewöhnen. Die 16 × PgDn werde ich irgendwann ganz automatisch machen. Als #Emacs-User bin ich ganz andere #Keyboard-Abenteuer gewöhnt 😃

Screenshot mit einem zweigeteilten Emacs-Bildschirm. Links das neue Wikipedia-Layout, rechts das traditionelle, jeweils mit dem Artikel über die Europäische Union. Links ist gar nichts vom eigentlichen Inhalt des Artikels zu sehen, rechts die ersten ca. 20 Zeilen.
#eww#Wikipedia
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Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES

I just did a "poor man's" repair to my laptop's keyboard.

Some keys were no longer responding normally to key presses. "R" was the worst.

I pulled the "R" keycap off the keyboard. I cleaned the switch underneath and put it back, but it was still not working well. If I tapped the switch directly without the keycap, it worked fine. I figured tolerances must have gone off somewhere, so I slapped 4 layers of masking tape under the keycap. It works much better now. I also did the "E". I have other keys to do, but I'm taking a break from the repair to consider my options, and see whether what I've done holds up.

I do welcome advice regarding the use of alternative material rather than masking tape for this fix.

I used this article:

ifixit.com/Troubleshooting/Del

And this video:

youtu.be/ORL-uA9coGE

from @iFixit to have an idea of what it would entail.

My laptop is a Dell XPS 15 9530.

www.ifixit.comiFixitFind free step-by-step repair instructions, manuals, schematics, community support, and other DIY resources. You can do it! We show you how.
#DellXPS#laptop#keyboard
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill also #BlackBerry's #PlayBook #Tablet was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it "#WiiU-Effect" in terms of marketing.

  • Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.

I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like @fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.

  • Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.

#Sony even released some #Symbian #S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...

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Third spruce tree on the left

One of the reasons I still enjoy using my 2013 17" #Alienware #laptop (4 batteries later.. getting hard to find; and now running linux) is that - besides being an absolute unit - it has a FULL 101+ fullsize #keyboard. No keys with 5 overloads, no half-size/smished key bullshit, full cursor-t, numpad.

The (otherwise very nice) super slim MSI from work I'm using now has an undersized `Shift` key and where I put my pinky to `Shift` ends up giving me a capital `Z` which is super annoying.

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Jost :thisisfine: 🔥

Can someone recommend an Android keyboard that supports multi-language text correction?

The Android Keyboard (AOSP) that comes with CalyxOS is really annoying when mixing English and German words, or when using the German keyboard layout to type English sentences.

Gboard does that very well but I'd like to avoid using it, if possible.

#android#keyboard#askfedi
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Clarissa | making Enigma Heart

Anybody got recommendations on a wireless keyboard that I could possibly replace this old girl with?

This keyboard rules, and it still works perfectly, but I want to go wireless to reduce desk clutter.

I'd like something that's fairly heavy. Full 104- or 103-key a must. Rubber domes preferred -- or, if it's mechanical, something that's pretty quiet, as my office is also the bedroom that I share with my wife, and I like to work at night.

A wooden desk with a white Compaq KB-9860, a full-size PS/2 keyboard from the late 1990s. Also shown is a well-loved copy of Masters of Doom by David Kushner, which is currently serving as a monitor stand.
#Keyboard#Keyboards#MechanicalKeyboards
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