And surprisingly it’s going pretty well. I’m late to the fad I think, but only a few weeks ago I thought it was bananas to not have arrow keys. Then I learned about the whole tiny-keyboard world, and decided to go for it.
The keyboard I’m using is a Ferris Sweep, which as free and open hardware you may produce yourself.
At the moment I have 9 layers, 7 of them in frequent use. The learning process has been surprisingly not bad. And using QMK I have tweaked the key map a lot already.
If you use a computer a lot, say for your job, it’s worth optimizing how you interact with it.
Lmao I have a colleague who brings in like a new flavour of keyboard in every month that somehow has even less keys than the last one and when he asks for my help he’s like “oh sorry i bound the windows key to my buttplug” as a struggle to write literally anything. Nobody can psyop me down from a full size keyboard with numpad. Anyway bringing your own keeb is good from a hygiene standpoint aint catching ur keyboard boogers.
Also I don’t trust the clean desk aesthetic if ur desk isnt a mess of post-it notes, random PC parts, a bunch of pens and notebooks and 3 missmatched monitors I don’t trust you
same… i refuse to buy a 10-keyless keyboard and it’s getting harder and harder to find full sized keyboards
I’m using a mountain Everest keeb atm nice for being able to switch the numpad to different sides. I also made the little screen attachment permanently show this
I really need to clean my keyboard… It’s a full-sized Keychron I got on sale for $20. Desk is full of diagrams of different networks and algorithms on legal pads.
Need to use a mouse for drafting stuff, and most of those programs also heavily use key bindings so I’m never getting rid of my full sized.