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What's the point of Eink on a keyboard? Anyone stare at their keyboard for hours at a time? Isn't Eink is supposed to help you read without screen fatigue? Why

What's the point of Eink on a keyboard? Anyone stare at their keyboard for hours at a time? Isn't Eink is supposed to help you read without screen fatigue? Why not make Eink spoons and forks next? /sarcasm

thomastjeffery 6y ago
Power usage, I suppose.
dleslie 6y ago
I'd love to have one in order to switch between Canadian Multilingual, American English, math and symbolic logic.
- ashtonkem 6y ago
  Symbolic logic makes sense, but most keyboard users can touch type in their own locale.
  - jarfil 6y ago
    Some people know several languages, but it's difficult to learn a locale well enough to 100% touch type when you only have a keyboard in a single locale, and don't use some of the languages as often as others. Also, per-software layers with action icons instead of learning alphabetic shortcuts.
    - masklinn 6y ago
      It's also difficult to know all alternate layouts by heart e.g. Apple's US International has 4 different layout (shifted, alted and alt-shifted), and while being able to type "˚" directly can be convenient I literally never remember it's alt-k, so I hunt through basically all the alt-ed layout until I find it.
  - dleslie 6y ago
    I still hunt and peck for accents necessary for Quebecois.
packet_nerd 6y ago
Learning to type in a new language maybe? I've used stickers for that before[1] but it would cool to be able change the labels on the keys automatically. :-) [1] Like this: https://www.amazon.com/HRH-Keyboard-Stickers-Background-Lettering/dp/B076FX1HHH/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=thai+keyboard+stickers&qid=1590947914&sr=8-4 https://www.amazon.com/HRH-Keyboard-Stickers-Background-Lett...
- Stratoscope 6y ago
  Original IBM PC users may remember a program from 1983 called WordVision that came with keyboard stickers. There's a picture of the sticker sheet here: https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/10869/software-spotlight-wordvision https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/10869/software-spotl... It was an idea that really only worked if WordVision was the only app you used on the PC. Plus the stickers got dirty around the edges and came loose after a while. Fun fact: WordVision was designed by Jim Edlin, no relation to the 'edlin' command line text editor that shipped with MS-DOS and PC-DOS.

thomastjeffery 6y ago

Power usage, I suppose.

dleslie 6y ago

I'd love to have one in order to switch between Canadian Multilingual, American English, math and symbolic logic.

ashtonkem 6y ago
Symbolic logic makes sense, but most keyboard users can touch type in their own locale.
- jarfil 6y ago
  Some people know several languages, but it's difficult to learn a locale well enough to 100% touch type when you only have a keyboard in a single locale, and don't use some of the languages as often as others. Also, per-software layers with action icons instead of learning alphabetic shortcuts.
  - masklinn 6y ago
    It's also difficult to know all alternate layouts by heart e.g. Apple's US International has 4 different layout (shifted, alted and alt-shifted), and while being able to type "˚" directly can be convenient I literally never remember it's alt-k, so I hunt through basically all the alt-ed layout until I find it.
- dleslie 6y ago
  I still hunt and peck for accents necessary for Quebecois.

packet_nerd 6y ago

Learning to type in a new language maybe? I've used stickers for that before[1] but it would cool to be able change the labels on the keys automatically. :-) [1] Like this: https://www.amazon.com/HRH-Keyboard-Stickers-Background-Lettering/dp/B076FX1HHH/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=thai+keyboard+stickers&qid=1590947914&sr=8-4 https://www.amazon.com/HRH-Keyboard-Stickers-Background-Lett...

Stratoscope 6y ago
Original IBM PC users may remember a program from 1983 called WordVision that came with keyboard stickers. There's a picture of the sticker sheet here: https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/10869/software-spotlight-wordvision https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/10869/software-spotl... It was an idea that really only worked if WordVision was the only app you used on the PC. Plus the stickers got dirty around the edges and came loose after a while. Fun fact: WordVision was designed by Jim Edlin, no relation to the 'edlin' command line text editor that shipped with MS-DOS and PC-DOS.