hannadryad

@hannadryad@lemmy.world

Fortysomething trans woman (she/her) living in the middle of nowhere with husband, cats and puppy. Interested in esports, film photography, music, cooking, nature, and witchy things. Not on social media.

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hannadryad,

It’s my own layout starting from Colemak DH with the “missing” outer keys on another layer.

hannadryad,

Yeah I’m doing it to establish a common layout for my symbol / number / navigation layers more than anything else, so I can expand from there to some 28 and 30 key keyboards as well as the Ferris Sweep with some consistant muscle memory.

hannadryad,

Personally I’m not sure it’s worth it longer term. 5x3+2 is my preference but I’m doing this to sort my layers so I can try some of the unibody split keyboards that have less keys to go round.

hannadryad,

I totally agree. I was focusing on getting the positioning of symbol layers and such right, and I wanted that to be independent of the number of thumbkey so when I add thumbkeys back in (say for weteor/grumpy) the core layouts will remain the same.

hannadryad,

Beautiful design. I love the casing over the nice view and roller.

Succumbed to an OLKB Planck (lemmy.world)

I ordered this on a whim and got a cheap set of keycaps off Amazon for it, but now that I have it put together (plastic switch plate, tape modded, gateron cap golden yellows, double o-ringed keycaps) it is sounding and feeling really good. The keycaps were a cheap but they are bright and fun. I might make it my “throw in a bag...

hannadryad,

It’s mostly a copy of my 34 key layout so the thumb keys are shift - space - enter - layer. Having the spacebar would throw that off. I was tempted but in the end I didn’t want to lose a key on the top three rows for “enter”.

hannadryad,

Haha its actually a Neon Genesis Evangelion themed keycap set so the additional keycaps are icons of the angels. I have them wired up to Vim and AutoHotkey shortcuts.

hannadryad,

Yeah I’m new to it and still getting used to it. I’ve gone the slow but accurate route, which is incredibly frustrating, but I’ll get there.

hannadryad,

Yes it’s to keep my wrists a bit further apart but also to give my pinky fingers less work to do.

hannadryad,

I think once you accept that standard keyboards are laid out as they are just by convention and nothing else, and that moving to a new layout will take a bit of time, the prospect of having a keyboard where everything is exactly where you want it to be becomes quite thrilling. This is actually my first bit of real typing using Colemak DH. It is excruciatingly slow to touch type but I didn’t know it at all two weeks ago. In two more weeks time I’ll have my first split keyboard in my hands. So it’s definately doable…

hannadryad,

I just worked out that a rotary controller can be mapped onto a mouse scroll wheel, which suddenly makes a lot of sense. I’ve been sitting here thinking “why would I want a volume knob? Why would I want two?” Is there anything else I am missing about rotary controllers?

hannadryad,

I would add “and only if it is a fresh build” because while I am interested in seeing new builds, and I do want to support vendors, I don’t want to be spammed here. A pinned thread for vendor news as the other commentor suggested would do just as well for info.

hannadryad,

What’s really annoying me right now is that I’m learning on a row staggered keyboard and I know fine well that the V and K should not be there, but, for the purposes of the exercise they are and I have to kind of bear with it and hope that my new muscle memory will correct when my little Ferris Sweep arrives.

hannadryad,

I’m really loving it. Something clicked when I started adding the top row to my drills and now its actually fun. I’m deliberately taking my time so I don’t pick up any bad habits. My QWERTY typing is fast but atrocious in terms of form.

hannadryad,

Ech what a nightmare. I figure I have one shot at an alt layout before my brain plasticity finally gives out so Colemak DH it is.

I hear you re: row stagger. I actually just realised in terms of touch typing the keys on the bottom row are shifted one column/one finger compared to a column staggered keyboard. Just as well I caught that before CDVK got too engrained.

hannadryad,

There’s only so many rabbitholes I can go down …

hannadryad,

I’m really enjoying learning it so far. Semimak sounds really interesting. I think what I take away from reading about alt layouts is, beyond a certain point, you need to start to understand the dexterity and capability of your own fingers because metrics won’t tell you much more than the very basics of what a layout can do.

hannadryad,

I almost feel like my piano training has kicked in with my QWERTY technique. I almost move my left hand above my right sometimes to hit certain keys. It’s definitely a lost cause and you are totally right: we know so much more about ergonomics now that if you are going to learn to touch type at this point, you might as well learn an alternative layout.

hannadryad,

Very nice. I just ordered some small tetrahedral-shaped beanbags from Etsy.

New layout. No kbd yet but new layout. (github.com)

I am still waiting for my Ferris Sweep to arrive but in the meanwhile I have been keeping busy by drilling Colemak DH and learning QMK. I posted last week about some ideas I had for the layout I wanted to try, which I have since refined and managed to code up in QMK to the point that it compiles! This may sound a bit weird but I...

hannadryad,

Yes that extra thumb key is awfully tempting. It was touch and go whether I was going to start my ergo keyboard journey with two or three thumb keys. In the end I went with a hunch that I didn’t want to pull my thumb too far under my palm for that third key but having escape or a leader key right on my thumbs would be very powerful.

Pointing device options

Hiya all. I was wondering what pointing options there were out there for split ergo keyboards? Looking around, on the face of it there seems to be the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 and well that’s about it. There seem to be plenty of trackballs at various prices but nothing that looks particularly small and nondescript....

hannadryad,

Ok here is a slightly tangential answer to my own post.

Wacom Intuos Small

It’s a bit on the large side at 20cm x 16cm but it has bluetooth and supports Windows, Mac and ChromeOS, and can be used as a pointing device with advanced gestures.

That’s 4cm wider and deeper than the magic trackpad with probably the same active area (the outside edges of the Intuos aren’t touch sensitive) but it is almost half the price of the magic trackpad and fully supported on other operating systems.

I’m kind of tempted but it is kind of huge.

hannadryad,

Yeah, I have seen all of them. I’m not going to discount them completely because they are on the small side, but they do all seem to be from the land that time forgot and almost designed for kiosks or something like that? As you say one has a PS/2 connector. Mice have come on leaps and bounds with support for multiple bluetooth profiles, great tracking and so on. I guess there is very little demand for trackpads.

hannadryad,

Oh those look like fun. It might be a bit beyond me right now - the combination of everything - but yeah for the future I quite fancy that.

hannadryad,

Btw for great justice I have ordered a small Wacom Intuos and a Logitech Ergo M575.

hannadryad,

The IBM … I’m going to say joystick … is so underrated. If I do go down the path of designing my own board I will definitely be looking into getting one on there in place of a switch or nestled in somehow.

hannadryad,

I didn’t even know they had came over. Thanks.

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