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I cleaned up the old Apple keyboard (removed all keys, removed all crumbs, reassembled) and first, I’m surprised how much larger it is than the newer version…
Second, it’s so mushy. I can’t use it, it feels terrible to type on!
I’m going to try a Kisnt KN85 this week and we’ll see how that feels.
#keyboards

So you know how keyboards in VR are a pain in the ass?
Maybe Tacoma’s method for text input is actually a good option for VR, sign language. I don’t really know sign language and I know they differ between languages, but for hand tracking headsets gestures seem like a way better text input than most VR keyboards out there

wild surprise in the @… collection: a well-mixed stereo soundboard of the triple(?)-drummer boredoms from summer '06. quality 👁️ screaming from the drop. https://heads.social/@livetapes/113959…

Expert systems are inevitable
Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future
Java Applets will replace all other software
Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency
Better claim your stake in the Metaverse
By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars
Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops
You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over "the next couple of years", as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Razer Dives Into AI for Consumers, Professionals and Gamers
The maker of gaming keyboards and mice is planning a $600 million AI push.

Like most people, I've been using a touchscreen smartphone for many years, but I miss phones with keyboards. I've traded the number of words I could type per minute on my BlackBerry for the number of typos I make in a sentence. Oh, and autocorrect! Damn autocorrect!
Duuuuck!

Pixel-Nutzer können Apps nun schneller mit der Eingabetaste des Keyboards öffnen
Pixel-Nutzer können Apps jetzt schneller mit der Eingabetaste des Keyboards öffnen, statt auf das App-Symbol zu tippen.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/115989361814944766
Bring back turbo buttons.

Side note: a minimal installation – base without base (pictured in my previous toot) – is not recommended.
Key mapping fails. This might be acceptable with American keyboards, but the consequences for other maps can be frustrating.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_…

So I tested a split keyboard last week, and there were a few things that bothered me about it (more on that later) so I figured I would look for other keyboards...
Oh shit, rabbit hole!
I didn't find any split keyboard that I liked, and besides that they are super expensive! Like, I've paid less for computers than some of those keyboards cost.
So then I thought about building one, but that gets expensive as well, and...
1/n

I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a vibrant subculture of hex grid computer keyboards. (The ones I’ve heard of are musical keyboards, not for typing.)
Re this from @…:
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115584712092872585

What the fuck? Does the tilde flush my toilet now? Does Enter type the letter L? What is even going on?

#SilentSunday #keyboards #MacroPhotography

@… @… Word of warning regarding wired modes of wireless keyboards, though — keeping a keyboard with batteries always charging can occasionally produce "spicy pillows", i.e., blown up batteries that are a fire risk.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/115582619249846396
Remember when the computers were bigger than the monitors?

this is WILD
they are making sounds by pulling tape back and forth thru reel-to-reel tape players with long bamboo bows and controlling the pitch with keyboards
https://youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc

Thanks to a correction from @…, my post now gives a pass-through for VoiceOver on macOS:
“Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts”
https://adri…

Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts
Identifying keyboard shortcuts for an application is mostly an internationalization problem. It’s also not a new problem. A recent (to me) example is the WordPress Gutenberg team starting to discuss keyboard shortcuts in 2017, addressing what will and won’t work across keyboards for different languages. Sight gag for my old…

History of the Electronic Accordion, Bruce Triggs, Gr8IDEAS Presentation, 2020
Garage band favorite Farfisa was an #accordion company ❤️‍🔥
Can’t recall if I mention all the wacky keyboards that accordion-maker Hohner made, like Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” clavinet
Much left out of my

For better or worse, I’ve had a revelation re: low-profile mechanical keyboards:
Low-Profile Gateron Mechanical Brown switches are at best uninspiring. I’ve gotten to know these via the Keychron K3. It’s fine, but mushy. In the future I will probably skip low-profile mechanical switches altogether.