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Is it not possible to BYO keyboard? This must be a productivity drag on a lot of people in similar situations
by cookie_monsta 7y ago
Is it not possible to BYO keyboard? This must be a productivity drag on a lot of people in similar situations
- netsharc 7y agoGeez, does he not know about software keyboard layouts? The hardware keyboard in front of me has German labels on most of the symbol keys, but I mostly set Windows to use the US keyboard layout and use my memory. Curly braces are a pain in the ass (and fingers) in the German layout, because one would have to press AltGr (the right Alt button) and 7 or 0 to get { or }. You end up holding right Alt with your thumb and needing to stretch to reach for 7. [ and ] is AltGr+8 and 9, and they're also both ergonomic disasters, because you have to tuck your thumb underneath your palm. Lastly, as he wrote, y and z are switched around on the German layout. An interesting quirk is that amayon.com and amayon.de redirect to Amazon, someone thought about all the suffering QWERTY expats.
- stkdump 7y agoKeyboards, if you don't have special requirements, are cheap and easy to get. I prefer using US layout keyboards everywhere, so I don't have to remember to ignore labels (such as the braces which are shifted by one place). Then using the layout US-international no dead keys.