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I've had one of these for nearly a couple years now and I absolutely love it. I ended up getting a second so I could have one at work and home and not have to m

by kryptn 5y ago

I've had one of these for nearly a couple years now and I absolutely love it. I ended up getting a second so I could have one at work and home and not have to move either. After I got the second I had the issue of keeping the two firmwares in sync, so to solve that I wrote a github action[1] to build the firmware and a quick Nim app[2] to pull it down & flash it, although it turns out I haven't felt the need to really change the key map after I settled on something. I wish I could get a good laptop with an ortholinear layout, it's just that much more comfortable for me. Your hands will kind of torque when typing on a regular keyboard layout after getting used to an ortho. [1] https://github.com/kryptn/qmk_firmware/blob/master/.github/workflows/kryptn_build.yml https://github.com/kryptn/qmk_firmware/blob/master/.github/w... This build doesn't work anymore, I actually just tried it the other day and I haven't bothered to figure out what to update but I assume the action would still work with a valid target. [2] https://github.com/kryptn/kb-sync https://github.com/kryptn/kb-sync

ianai 5y ago
So what’s the main sell? I see their reviewer using two hands to type in it. I thought only needing one hand to type might be the benefit.
- kryptn 5y ago
  If you're happy with your keyboard it's likely a hard sell. I'm not sure where you're getting the impression it's meant to be used with one hand, but QMK would give you the ability to create a keymap that you could use with one hand if you wanted. Handful of reasons I like it: - I was able to maintain the pok3r navigation function layer - QMK is pretty flexible, it took little effort to type/code until I felt something could be better, then modify a keymap to make it better - The size is a bonus, it's really easy to take with you - Hotswappable switches are great, and only needing 47 of them to try out new switches makes it easy

by kryptn 5y ago

ianai 5y ago

So what’s the main sell? I see their reviewer using two hands to type in it. I thought only needing one hand to type might be the benefit.

kryptn 5y ago
If you're happy with your keyboard it's likely a hard sell. I'm not sure where you're getting the impression it's meant to be used with one hand, but QMK would give you the ability to create a keymap that you could use with one hand if you wanted. Handful of reasons I like it: - I was able to maintain the pok3r navigation function layer - QMK is pretty flexible, it took little effort to type/code until I felt something could be better, then modify a keymap to make it better - The size is a bonus, it's really easy to take with you - Hotswappable switches are great, and only needing 47 of them to try out new switches makes it easy