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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:29:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I had a weird realization today:
   You know how I make terrible keyboards? It turns out I can also made good keyboards!

   Well, kinda. I had this silly gamer keyboard I kept around because it was small and I used it when I needed a random USB keyboard, but it was horrible to use. No contrast on the key labels...

   but wait I have a bunch of keycaps since I'm a keyboard-making punk. what if I just put some onto it... and now it's readable! and looks snappy!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:31:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     prior to swapping it. I think they really designed it to only be usable when the backlights are on, which they never are when I'm using it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:37:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Briala

     @static yeah. I'm not really a fan of this layout. My main keyboard is a full-sized one, like I said, I really only kept this around cause it's tiny.

   • Briala (static@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:37:56 JST Briala

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     @foone I actually really dislike this layout and don't understand why everyone is using it for this form factor. The right-column keys are too easy to hit when I want Enter or Backspace, and the cursor keys have no physical separation which means I usually have to look at them to hit the correct one. The old Happy Hacking Keyboard 2 was much better but it is sadly unique.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:40:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I don't know where I got these keycaps but the baggie says "YSA Red Samurai 151", if you want to track them down

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 10:47:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     also I'm sorry for this. I'll get back to bad keyboards as soon as I can

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 11:25:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • bazzargh

     @bazzargh the clarity matters when it's a layout I don't often use. I'm always going "where's the pageup on this thing?" and having trouble reading them

   • bazzargh (bazzargh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 11:25:43 JST bazzargh

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     @foone Those are nice, but, does the clarity even matter? I got milkshake weirdos on mine because they look cool when I'm _not_ using them, even tho they'd be awful for finding keys if I didn't touch type. I took them off to clean on sunday and put half of them back on upside down in the wrong places! I think I'd quite like a set that was more abstract art, das keyboard but by jasper johns

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 17:14:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • 🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉

     @kimschulz it's a layout I don't use often, so I need to know where it puts page up and delete and shit

   • 🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉 (kimschulz@social.data.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 17:14:25 JST 🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉

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     @foone why do you need labels? I have blank key caps on many of my keyboards 😀