Oh, actually this is a PC keyboard forum and some people obviously posted some off-topic items like flashlights, etc. Hahaā¦
In reality, this off-topic banter has happened before to BLF projects that encountered delays and people just make things manageable the long waitingās effect through crazy off topic posts, all in the spirit of fun.
Have to admit, nice keyboard, but when looking it up they mention, its 89,99 and it does not come with keys, you have to buy them separately ? :person_facepalming:
I donāt really consider Home and End to be essential. However, it comes with a lot more keycaps than it can actually fit at one time, so the user can include whatever keys they want. And the firmware is open and easily configured, so the user can arrange the keys in any way. It also has extensive layering functionality, so it can give each key a bunch of different functions. Itās designed to be whatever the individual user wants.
About Home and End in particular though, I have three different ways to access those functions:
Vim-like programs: 0 and $
Emacs-like programs: Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E
Other: Fn-Left and Fn-Right
If thereās a thing missing that I wonder how people live without though, itāsā¦ How can you use a keyboard without mouse functions? I find it really useful being able to click and scroll and stuff from the keyboard, without having to move my hand to a mouse.
TK? Could you make the keyās auto ranging and only use like 4 actual letters? In this way I could have fun with my wife when sheās doing the two fingered hunt and peck and only getting one word on āpaperā.
I must be doing something wrong though, because even after all my posts here I still have paint on my keys.
Agreed, its the tilde placement on regular full size and TKL boards that puzzles me. That key could be very commonly used for some people for all I know however.
Edit: Oh man that iceberg chart. Too real. Flashlights saved me from mech keyboards, but they didnāt save my wallet. And now Iām getting practice soldering soooā¦
Itās a first draft. I was mostly wondering whether people think the categories make sense, whether anything seems to be missing or extra, whether any items are in the wrong place, etc.
As is, there is probably too much detail to put things into an image. And Iām not sure things are really in the right places.
In particular, I was really tempted to make āFlashlight phone appā its own categoryā¦ either above Muggle or perhaps way down at the bottom as āAscendedā.
I jumped from Enthusiast to Irredeemable by buying a cheap soldering station with hot air.
ADDED:
No, actually my first flashlight was Creepy. Because it used 10440.