Comment on Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy

FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pinecone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are tons of quiet mechanical keyboards. I’m using a low profile optical switch that’s quieter than my mouse clicks

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  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are those optical switches expensive though?

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    • Pinecone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No

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• VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are definitely quiet tactile switches. The reason why they can still make sound is because they’re bottoming out which you don’t have to do.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a partial solution, you can put o-rings in the keycaps. I had some of the bands for braces laying around at one point and used those, and it worked fairly well.

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• NAXLAB@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dvorak is a cypher of Qwerty tho. Anything typed in Dvorak but transcribed as english can be reliably intensified and decyphered

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• Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  normalise good but quiet keyboards

  Oh man, if Topre became popular enough to bring the price down through scale that would be pretty rad

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• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I went out of my way to find a keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches. They’re basically a high-force tactile feel, but no clicky sound like MX Blue switches. I absolutely love them for typing, and I’ve been using them for years.

  I’m not sure if there’s newer options now for silent switches? I know they had a couple models with extra internal damping.

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  • murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used boba u4 silents on my custom keyboard. Absolutely love them. Wish they made a consumer-grade keyboard with them (or maybe they already do?) But I’ve been working on a MacBook recently and tbh the keyboard there is pretty good now. So next step for me is to build a low profile keyboard

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• crispy_kilt@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dvorak

  vi tho.

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  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That awkward moment when you use Nano

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Up against the wall

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    • gatelike@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always uninstall nano the first time it shows itself

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  • murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On my colemak keyboard I put arrow keys on another layer under where hjkl are on qwerty. Beyond that, most of the keys are remembered by mnemonic rather than position imo

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