4 ms·
It does cross into irrational territory though when you can make money with an equivalent tool.
by hueving 10y ago
It does cross into irrational territory though when you can make money with an equivalent tool.
- nitrogen 10y agoIt's a matter of ergonomics, as well as aesthetic taste. Some keyboards allow some keyboardists to make more money than other keyboards. If you can type faster and enjoy typing more, you can make more money, and you're more likely to stick with the profession. If your keyboard makes you hate every moment of your day because of the way it feels or because it injures your hands or wrists, then you will likely make less money. Plus, our profession requires enough creativity to be compared (loosely) to art. An artist's tools need to feel a certain way to evoke the right state of mind for creative work.
- kpil 10y agoA colleague snapped once at the recently delivered $5 keyboard attached to a really expensive workstation, and ripped out the cheap rattling keyboard with keys that twist and hooks into others, and smashed it into a pillar and then broke it in half. Keys where flying over the office. Silence. And then applause. I don't really understand why professional tools are allowed to be so absolutely horrible.
- fnj 10y agoDestroying a keyboard is actually pretty hard - something like physically cracking a CD. I have accomplished it however. I am notorious for keyboard rage, and have hurt the heel of my right hand pretty badly on multiple occasions pounding mercilessly on keyboards. I'll say one thing about my Unicomp keyboard. I have beat it savagely while enraged at some other screw-up in the computer or OS. I have sent keys flying, but always I could find them and snap them back in easily. It is physically as strong as a brick outhouse. After many years I have succeeded in wearing away some of the corners of the lettering on the E, S, and A keys, but they are still readable, and it is still as tight mechanically as new.
- brokenmachine 10y agoMy keyboards nowadays are so expensive and difficult to replace that I wouldn't ever dream of breaking them on purpose. My Ergodox took me countless hours to plan, more to assemble, then even more hours after that tweaking the firmware. It wasn't cheap either, but some of the best money I've ever spent regardless. The horrible hp membrane keyboards at work, however, I would love to nuke from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
- jacobolus 10y agoAnyone willing to bold mod a Model M really owes it to him/herself to try a Model F.
- nitrogen 10y agoOn that subject, is the modelfkeyboards project legit? It looks cool but they're like six months behind already.
- jacobolus 10y agoIt’s definitely “legit”, in the sense that the creators/backers are members of online keyboard communities with good reputations. New hardware projects are always incredibly difficult, but I expect them to ship all their keyboards, possibly with some delay.
- nitrogen 10y agoCool. I really want to try one.
- ipsin 10y agoI don't even know what "irrational" means in this context. If I enjoy using the keyboard and think it improves my performance, even if I am mistaken, how is that irrational? Happiness is not a measure of efficiency.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- dom0 10y agoDon't you see, you always need to optimize yourself and everything around you using rational methods. If no rational methods are available, fall back to pseudorational methods. Easy.