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Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards

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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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Loving it so far. Moved from a Corne and the pinky stagger and especially the thumb cluster are so much more comfortable for me on this one.

Currently using Gateron Brown v3 switches and Cheap OEM profiles from Aliexpress

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a reason behind using an RJ45 instead of a 3 or 4 wire audio cable?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 8 wires of the RJ45 cable are all used, allowing to have only one MCU. Also, RJ45 cables and connectors are cheap and common.

To manage all these keys with only 8 wires, a special "duplex matrix" is used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and I guess you can unplug it without short cutting something like a TRRS does?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In theory yes. In practice, I never had problem hot plugging my trrs on my keyseebee board.