Holy forking shirtballs, the longer I look at that the worse it gets
As a PowerShell scripter, having the backtick and pipe keys moved with the escape and delete in their places would just drive me batty
Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
LWD@lemm.ee 5 months agoThere’s some pretty wild keyboards out there, but I have to agree. It’s not that they’re adding another key, it’s that the key has no use.
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Laptop keyboards in general are a real mess. I don’t think there’s any Fn standardization (or any standardization at all outside of desktop keyboards), so these days it’s one of the biggest things I check before considering a purchase.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the world’s worst change, but it’s weird that they got rid of the keys near the bottom while splitting Backspace in half.
Could be worse.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Um… that’s your example of a “wild” keyboard? I would’ve gone with a “Steno” keyboard. Which is inspired by the custom keyboards used in court houses to write transcripts. Typing on one of these (once you learn how) is about 3x faster than a querty keyboard:
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nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 5 months ago
Holy shit, watching that video was excruciating