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> I don’t think it’s a bad impulse to want to optimize the visual/tactile/ergonomic/auditory experience of peripherals Are you optimizing? Do you have a measur

by Rayhem 4y ago

> I don’t think it’s a bad impulse to want to optimize the visual/tactile/ergonomic/auditory experience of peripherals Are you optimizing? Do you have a measurable fitness function and know what will slide you up or down that surface? How do you know you're not just conjuring faults with old setups to juice novelty? > limited edition group buys also creates massive FOMO I've been here. I recently spent some time looking at new vehicles, trying to decide which one was "best", agonizing over minor ergonomic details, how clean each company's color would be in 10 years, etc. After a little too much of this I came to the conclusion that that was exactly what manufacturers wanted me to do so I would be susceptible to any and all advertising. Ultimately I looked at the two vehicles I spent the most time thinking about, said "Which of these is most comfortable immediately after getting in", and pulled the trigger. I'm infinitely happier for having finalized something and freeing up bandwidth for other things I truly enjoy than for having spent six more months agonizing over where a switch was located.

jurassic 4y ago
A lot of my exploration has been centered on ergonomic concerns and exploring different positions and layout sizes. I do think my overall progress has been in the direction of “better for my body”. But I would struggle to quantify it in an non-subjective way. I started with a stock Filco 75% TKL layout with cherry mx browns (as vanilla as it gets in mechanical keyboards). Then a couple years later I bought a nicer TKL board and my first fancy keycaps just for aesthetic reasons, and while doing that I became exposed to the wide range of layouts that exist. I had some wrist pain so decided to try some exotic angled layouts (atreus62, alice, etc). Eventually decided I needed a fully split layout to get my shoulder position and overall posture where I wanted it, and there are a lot of these variants at various levels of compactness and functionality. And of course once you’re into nonstandard layouts it’s always a battle to find caps that will cover it, so often nice caps that I bought in the past can’t transfer over to a new layout because I don’t have the right mods and spacebars. I like the aesthetic element also. But it’s not been my primary driver. The keycaps I have are very nice and more than enough to satisfy me.
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
  I'm all for mechanical keyboards, I use a Cherry MX Blue based board. I also enjoyed the IBM buckling spring models at the time, but reading your comment just sounds like the "journey" that everybody else within the "hobby" goes through. I've seen pretty much the same story dozens of times before. Not to invalidate what you think about it, I'm admittedly intrigued, just put off that it's a treadmill rather than a "this is objectively the pinnacle of typing in 2022, buy this if you can live with x compromise", and instead it's a lot like audiophile corksniffing.

by Rayhem 4y ago

jurassic 4y ago

A lot of my exploration has been centered on ergonomic concerns and exploring different positions and layout sizes. I do think my overall progress has been in the direction of “better for my body”. But I would struggle to quantify it in an non-subjective way. I started with a stock Filco 75% TKL layout with cherry mx browns (as vanilla as it gets in mechanical keyboards). Then a couple years later I bought a nicer TKL board and my first fancy keycaps just for aesthetic reasons, and while doing that I became exposed to the wide range of layouts that exist. I had some wrist pain so decided to try some exotic angled layouts (atreus62, alice, etc). Eventually decided I needed a fully split layout to get my shoulder position and overall posture where I wanted it, and there are a lot of these variants at various levels of compactness and functionality. And of course once you’re into nonstandard layouts it’s always a battle to find caps that will cover it, so often nice caps that I bought in the past can’t transfer over to a new layout because I don’t have the right mods and spacebars. I like the aesthetic element also. But it’s not been my primary driver. The keycaps I have are very nice and more than enough to satisfy me.

hammyhavoc 4y ago
I'm all for mechanical keyboards, I use a Cherry MX Blue based board. I also enjoyed the IBM buckling spring models at the time, but reading your comment just sounds like the "journey" that everybody else within the "hobby" goes through. I've seen pretty much the same story dozens of times before. Not to invalidate what you think about it, I'm admittedly intrigued, just put off that it's a treadmill rather than a "this is objectively the pinnacle of typing in 2022, buy this if you can live with x compromise", and instead it's a lot like audiophile corksniffing.