I want a keyboard that is just one main key with 100 or so modifier keys surrounding it.
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Let's embrace that stenotype life.
No Z key ?
You've got an 'S' key, so that's enough.
Perfect for ordering some pissa
Fun fact: "pissa" means piss in Finnish
But can you still order it online?
No 'a', so it's perfect for ordering some piss.
It's the one labelled 'caps-lock'. Probably needs a key combo to actually toggle caps-lock.
Similarly the left 'shift' is also the 'a' key. I would guess tap for 'a', hold for 'shift'.
Alphabet didn't turn enough profit this quarter, so they had to make some difficult choices and cut their less used options
Can someone explain why this would be even slightly useful to anyone?
How does one type without a and z?
this is a fancy mechanical keyboard and can be programmed. The missing keys are typed using key combinations.
In general I love the reprogrammability of mech keyboards, but this one is fucking weird ngl
The left Shift is A, and Caps Lock is Z.
To get those keys to function as Shift/Caps you would need to hold down the Fn key (bottom right).
I’m all for minimalist keyboards, but this shit is a bit too ridiculous.
it is possible if you get enough time to think of every word, you just need to to find synonims so you don't write specific letters, often needing to switch both words/speech style
(it's very difficult though, I've been writing this comment for 5 to 10 minutes)
You cn totlly get by without them
Definitely unneeded. The ending letter of the series of letters we employ to form words is especially useless, but to be honest the first is mostly superfluous too
Managers will still expect you to do 60% of your work on 60% of your keyboard.
I SO hate the CapsLock, the most useless key in the best of locations. I converted it to XCape on all my keebs!
Usually on boards like this it's remapped to Ctrl, Esc or whatever you actually want. At this point having the caps button still there is purely cosmetic.
As someone that into mech keyboard hobby, I can say that's still perceivable for average user as you still retain the familiar "qwerty" layout.
Look up stenograph keyboard. They have lesser keys but allows someone to write higher wpm and programmable though I don't think they would fit for average office workload (unless you types a lot).
Wtf is code?