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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that a second upside down "F"?

[–] Reverendender 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I didn't have a second B from this set 🫠

[–] litchralee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Reverendender 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well. Aspiring user, anyway.

[–] litchralee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We all have to start somewhere. My first attempt lasted four months, when I was at uni. My second attempt was after I obtained employment, and then dedicated Colemak to my home machines so as to retain my 120 WPM with QWERTY when at work. And I've been going since.

I did try to use Colemak on mobile, but with Swype-style input, the accuracy rate drops to almost nothing. Funny how Colemak being so efficient with the home row means that predictive text can't be as effective.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which mobile keyboard do you use?

[–] litchralee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just the plain Google Keyboard on Android.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_ 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you accidentally remove the default upvote from your own comment?

[–] litchralee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I intentionally remove it, as I prefer zero-based counters.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_ 0 points 1 month ago

If I had a nickel for every time I've had this same conversation on Lemmy, I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Reverendender 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Indeed. Q13 Pro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yo, I have the same wrist support and mousepad.

You have great taste! Unsurprisingly, I love your keyboard too.

[–] Reverendender 4 points 1 month ago

I cannot find any faults with your argument here

[–] southsamurai 3 points 1 month ago

That layout looks comfy as hell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What keycaps are the alphas? I see plenty of Keychron (KSA?) elsewhere.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 1 month ago

Signature Plastics UnAlice. I’m planning to get the rest of the set soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why Colemak? What about it makes it learning a new layout worth it?

[–] Reverendender 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It puts the most used letters closer to where your fingers are more often. It already feels more intuitive, and I’ve barely begun. It’s still stupidly difficult retraining my brain, but I found some great courses online

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Reverendender 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but supposedly easier to learn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cool, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

long tidepod for a wrist rest, i like it

[–] Reverendender 3 points 1 month ago

Don’t let its tasty appearance fool you; it’s crap. I’ll get around to replacing it at some point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Kinda cool, gives me real IMSAI 8080 vibes with all the colours

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There are half a dozen of us!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, why did you go with Colemak over colemak-dh or other layouts?

I totally see people not choosing the lessor used layouts just for convenience sake, but DH is quite common, well supported, and fixes some fundamental issues.

[–] Reverendender 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not familiar, please explain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The DH mod addresses the d and h issues that Colemak has. Long story short, if you type primarily in English the DH mod means you will need to stretch your fingers to hit those keys way less often. More information is here.

https://colemakmods.github.io/mod-dh/#colemak-problems

As for other layouts, the advice that has treated me well is to focus on post covid layouts. Due to a sudden availability of free time a lot of research was done during COVID on keyboard layouts. Resultantly, post Covid layouts tend to be substantially better than pre COVID. I am a fan of Engram, Graphire, and The Hands Down Family personally.

This all being said these are harder to learn because they completely separate themselves from qwerty/qwertz.

[–] Reverendender 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where does one acquire the computerized brain implants that are clearly neccssary for Engram, Graphire, and The Hands Down Family?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It’s slow to install but I strongly recommend the services of keybr.com They have modes that install those specific layouts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

idk why I skipped colemak-dh long ago when I found out about it. and idk if I want to change now after more than a decade using colemak lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It makes sense to stick with something that’s good. I think the small gain going from Colemak to Colemak-DH wouldn’t be worth the struggle.

I use Engram and don’t plan on changing even though I suspect better layouts do exist. The effort is too high for a 1% gain. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)