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The 'f' and 'j' keys usually have little bumps on them, or are more deeply recessed than the other keys, so you can find them by touch.
by hrnnnnnn 12y ago
The 'f' and 'j' keys usually have little bumps on them, or are more deeply recessed than the other keys, so you can find them by touch.
- feld 12y agoAccording to a friend who had cancer as a child, chemotherapy causes you to lose sensitivity in your extremities over time (nerve issues?). I'm guessing the feel of the 'f' and 'j' keys don't help him much.
- agentdrtran 12y agoI usually need backlighting if I'm trying to find a special character.
- drh 12y agoNot everyone is a touch-typist (although I recently put in the effort to finally learn - highly recommended). Also, there are some weird keys out of reach from the home row you may need every now and then - the fn keys on a Mac being a good example. Turning volume up/down in very low lighting is a pain if you can't see the keys. That said, I found the blue LEDs of the Macbook keyboard backlight to be too bright when used in combination with flux on lowest screen brightness, so I wrote a small command line app to reduce it below the minimum normally permitted by the function keys: https://github.com/drhaynes/brightness.c https://github.com/drhaynes/brightness.c