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e8u asked: 60 percent keyboards are not good. Those keys are *not* unnecessary, and putting them behind a fn key turns basic shortcuts into the Vulcan nerve pinch. I suspect a ploy to make "hackers" willing to buy keyboards with fewer keyswitches.

thetransintransgenic:

socialjusticemunchkin:

60% keyboards are excellent.

First of all, I don’t need to reach around when I can just press down the fn key on my left pinky (people press capslock by accident sometimes, it’s that convenient of a location) and not move my hands away from their proper positions. The only thing I could complain about is the way I have to choose between having a r-alt and the fn key below my right thumb because that would allow me to use ctrl at the “capslock” location, but that’s a flaw in the language my parents taught me, not 60% keyboards.

Second, I can have my mouse way closer to my right hand when there are no useless keys in the way. It’s more ergonomic that way.

Third, I can actually carry my keyboard around and look only like an obnoxious nerd instead of a 80s cyberpunk character wannabe.

Fourth, they are sm0l and cute and pretty.

FRIGGING    BLASPHEMY

THERE IS ONLY

ONE

TRUE

KEYBOARD

(The later Symbolics keyboards, with the Square, Circle, and Triangle are also acceptable, because they named them (”Blockhead”, “Bubblehead”, and “Pinhead”) which is ADORABLE.)

Above: the keyboard Emacs was made for.

Below: the keyboard Vi was made for:

1 month ago · tagged #the joke is that the blank keys are just as comprehensible #baby leet · 25 notes · source: socialjusticemunchkin · .permalink

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   Three fifths of one half of the ultimate huniform keyboard: All it needs it all the fingers and to have tactile feedback...

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13. thetransintransgenic said: metagorgon: Also, same.
14. thetransintransgenic said: metagorgon: No, it just made sure to include the full APL character set (apparently not in the standard APL layout?). Because… they could. I guess.
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    And – of course – the keyboard ` ed ` was made for:

17. metagorgon said: i would love to learn APL. its inscrutability and terseness arouses me.
18. metagorgon said: actually, isn’t that an APL keyboard?
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    Above: the keyboard Emacs was made for. Below: the keyboard Vi was made for:

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    IT HAS BOOLEAN SYMBOLS

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