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How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I'd also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I'd appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it's a weird feeling to know that some stuff might have been messed up under the hood.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great one 😅

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Glad you liked it! 😀
Being able to at least entertain people by sharing my misfortune makes it more bearable. 😉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From your discussion with Kanata "two numpads as a makeshift cheap "split ortholinear" keyboard" I am curious to see a picture of this. If I misunderstood the posts and this is the Kanat guy saying this then oops, otherwise, this sounds interesting as a super-portable full-sized keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The idea was from here: https://nitter.net/redditmechbot/status/979515586467201024 (The original reddit post has since been deleted.), but imagine the same with the Genius Numpad i100, which can be had for around the equivalent of $10 here. 😀

This isn't long-term though, I just had it lying around and figured out how to make it work using evsieve to combine two keyboards into one and kanata to create the mapping. I am planning on building a piantor for myself, I just wanted to check if I could get used to an ortholinear 36 or 34 key layout, and so far it looks like I can adjust well.