Hahaha yeah I mean I'm never on reddit anymore, but !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world just doesn't have the same amount of activity or verified sellers, so I did my pre-purchase research using my private redlib instance
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Mouse is off screen. I'm using a Logitech https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09HM94VDS?psc=1
Logitech also has an even more vertical mouse as well
The keyboard itself is a prebuilt from keyboard-hoarders. Reddit ergo mech keyboard subreddit has a large list of approved sellers. I'm also eyeing
I can already tell this will be great once I get the hang of it. It feels much more natural on the wrists and back/shoulders.
It seems like it will take a lot of time to get up to speed, unfortunately. But that was sort of expected, I made a lot of big switches all at once so I could develop my target muscle memory all in one go.
Here are my present stats on keybr. I've clocked 5 hours on it across the last 5 days.
Perfect, that's exactly what I'm going for.
Yeah I've been playing with it a bit at work today with my mappings printed outaround me. Noticing a few that I'm not in love with (mainly symbols and some hotkeys) going to try to adhear to the miryoku mantra of hotkeys alternating sides, as I find some of the defaults I need to move my whole hand to be inefficient.
Adding these rubber feet resolved all sliding, but I'm sure if I angled the kickstands properly the first go around that it would have worked as is
Pic incase someone runs into the same issue in the future:
Yeah I was considering clamps as well, but I also wanted something portable for travel as I tend to do stints of doing remote work abroad
If I don't figure out how to get the kickstands to work I'll look for some clamps
I've seen those svalboarda around, they're interesting but the price point is a little out of my comfort zone for something so different. I'd feel dumb if I got it and hated it haha.
I do really like boards with trackballs integrated, and might be interested in checking out something like that
Part of the reason I did it all in one go as well was so I still had the proper muscle memory for QWERTY mechs/laptop Krebs, and I've read that doing it all in one go was a good way to achieve that. Are you still able to type on qwerty boards without a hitch?
I'm most likely going to be unable to actually use these for work for a few weeks. These came in on Saturday and I've spent about 3hrs on kebr and I'm about halfway unlocked with the letters with a target wpm set to 15 lol.
Figured I'll use kebr for initial letter learning and then start switching to other platforms like monkeytype and one that i saw suggested with common n-grams after that
Looking forward to getting over this initial hump, but its definitely been a bit demoralizing.
Nothing I could find on the sellers website, unfortunately.
Googling choc sculpted keycaps got me https://www.printables.com/model/400911-kailh-choc-ergonomic-sculpted-keycaps
Idk about anyone else, but I get higher bits of identifying information with ironfox on eff cover your tracks, than I did on Mull