Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
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My daily driver setup. Using clamps like this allows me to mount to the chair without having to drill into it (or any other permanent modification like that). My biggest complaint about this setup is the USB cable reaching from the chair to the computer. I always need to be aware of where the cable is when rotating the chair and whatnot.
Very cool to see a Svalboard! I've had on my radar for a while, but probably a bit too drastic of a change for me at the moment.
How happy are you with it?
Very happy! The main downsides:
But once I got used to it, this is just the best typing/pointing experience. Your fingers have such a short distance to travel while typing, it is almost like you are using a 10-key keyboard (where your fingers never leave the home row) except you don't have to memorize a hundred different layers. Then there are the trackballs that are just millimeters from the home row, making this the best pointing/scrolling experience I have tried. Granted, I have never used something like a Charybdis/Keyball, which have a similar layout of trackballs under the keys.
This is also pretty much the most adaptive keyboard available. The key clusters can be easily adjusted on-the-fly into a new position to fit your hands as needed. I feel almost as if I could lose half a finger and be able to simply adjust the position of the appropriate key cluster to accommodate it. At worst, I am sure I could reach out on the Discord to ask for advice or help coming up with a design that could be custom 3D-printed to accommodate my finger stumps.
Very cool, thank you