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I have a split ortholinear keyboard that I made with parts from Keebio, I fucking love it. It has really reduced wrist strain for me.
It's the Levinson Rev. 3, which is relatively cheap (this is an expensive hobby just FYI) if you want to get into keyboards.
Edit: Levinson Rev. 3 was discontinued but the BFO-9000 is still a good option for a no-frills dip into things.
Yeah custom keyboards get absurdly expensive very quickly.
Only if you keep getting new ones though and doing it DIY is pretty good too. Don't think I'd buy another keyboard again after building my current DIY one. Instead I'll just be designing my own from what I've learned that I've liked with this current one.
I had one of the ZSA moonlander split keyboards for a while and I loved parts of it. My RSI vanished.
1 - it was hard for me to use other keyboards that weren't colemak
2 - in split, if I took my hand off to use the mouse I found it hard to find the home row again. It took me like 2 months to learn colemak but never clued into the home row the same way I can on a normal keyboard.
3 - I felt like it took up a lot of space, not good for small spaces.
As a fellow Colemak user who has used other layouts in the past, I have to wonder how many of the issues I have with my keyboard now are because of Colemak, since I didn't seem to have them with Dvorak or Workman.
But maybe I'm just salty that my WPM never recovered fully after switching.
Uh oh I'm getting that keyboard itch again. I think my max qwerty was higher my normal was fine, like 100-110 is my comfort zone. Colemak was so fluid, and I do still get RSI if I type a lot of my non-custom layout qwerty...
Maybe a good christmas present for myself.
Any PCB that's compatible with QMK firmware (and maybe others, but QMK is easy & the most well-known) should be able to be flashed with any layout, so even if you get tired of Colemak, you can change it to whatever you want. :)
Edit: You can also get hot-swap sockets that allow you to change your switches without desoldering anything.
Oh yay, love hearing how more plastic is being produced and then discarded for no other reason than ‘a hobby’.
Overproduced, sure. Discarded? Not really. There's a massive culture of swapping, similar to PC parts or craft notions and yarn.
Maybe the companies responsible for the fact that you have microplastics in every organ should be the focus of your ire instead of random strangers.
You don’t know that I already haven’t so still not addressing the point about being less wasteful and just a lame attempt at diversion.
Hmm, I think I'll throw out all of my keycaps now since you've convinced me they're useless. Happy? Lmao. Not sure what the fuck you're trying to do here.