You must spin it two times, not three.

apt-get install qbittorrent why would I visit their site for any reason?

And just to add - why is torrenting associated with shady stuff? Linux isos are available and download much faster over it, same for some monolithic applications like LibreOffice and other regular stuff.

Open Source and Open API or bust. Simple as that for me.

So it’s double-triple bad to have debt? Then manage the finances, assess the risks, cut unrealistic expectations that will toss you into the debt spiral, because it’s triple-bad. Who is to blame?

Filing for bankruptcy is offloading your responsibility to others who then have to pay with their money for your faults.

It’s a cheap way out for people that do not act responsibly.

Bankruptcy? Okay, but then lose all saying in your money spending because you just proved you can’t handle it yourself.

Great transparent neon retro style!

I don’t know the optical ones but maybe this helps:

Kailh Choc

Red Pro: linear, 35gf

Purpz: linear, 25gf

Light Blue/Pink/gChoc: linear, 20gf

All have 3 mm travel and trigger at 1,5 mm

FairPhone 3 user here. It’s true, just updated to Android 13, came with 9.

Additionally: Micro-SD, Dual-SIM, replaceable battery, can be repaired by myself at home, cheap/fair priced replacement parts and ethically sourced ressources.

It. is. possible.

I suspect the homerow is still ARST… so I wonder.

Colemak has two columns on the digit finger, this layout here however seems to have two columns on the pinkie finger, putting more stess to them?

Or are the keys shifted so the homerow here is VARS, but that doesn’t seem to make sense as the Colemak layout has been designed with the most common keys at the homerow… also the staggering would be weird then.

Any insights here?

Thank you for your write-up, especially how the coating changes the texture.

I hope the engravings stay bright for a long time. Do they make filled engravings? So, take a black cap, engrave, then fill with white paint?

I’ve seen the possibility to order custom caps at FK some time ago and found that mighty impressing for a manufcturer to provide this service. Tons of combinations possible. They sure know what the keebnerds crave :D.

Enjoy your new caps :)

Congratulations! Was it difficult to do? What are those keycaps and which keyboard layout is this?

Looks nice and clean, great! Could you tell us a bit more about it?

There’s a dot in your URL giving a 404.

Bongocat approves 🪘😸🪘

I have seen your zilpzalp on my journey and it looks funny and happy in a positive way :) Nicely done

Yeah, me too :D Taipo probably is not for me, mad respects!

That’s tricky to describe. The MX keys are on my more substancial keyboards that are quite heavy and have metal plates in them, so they can take quite a punch :D and I feel more confident when being a little more forceful when writing.

On a laptop keyboard however there is much less travel but still a solid frame so the keyvoard does not move when typing as it is fixed in the frame.

On the ergo mech both halves are very light so they would move around if I’d heavily press down. So I am more tapping than hitting, thus the lighter switches (35g) really make sense and I personally would not use a stiffer key spring and consider going even lighter.

The Choc have a key travel of 3 mm and trigger after 1,5 mm (+/-) so they actually feel neither like MX nor Laptop switches as they are lighter than MX but have more travel than Laptop switches. It’s difficult to describe.

Overall I like them and my brain can differentiate between all three keyboards, which is great because Laptop+RowStagger=QWERTY and Choc+ColumnStagger=Colemak and my brain accepts this and is able to switch the layout. My QWERTY skills have taken a hefty hit in the meantine and while training Colemak. I plan to retrain QWERTY once Colemak is much better but that will still take a long time.

The Chocs feel nice but the spring is resisant even in the first sub-millimeters so they feel stiffer and harder as they really are as they resist against your finger more than a wobbly Laptop keyboard, that gives a few sub-mm before pressing against the spring. I hope I could describe what I mean with this.

PS: typed on my mobile so probably full of typos, sorry :)

The soldering process was pretty easy. I responded to a comment with a bit more detail a little further down as a reply to a similar question.

The like the increased column stagger very much as it fits my fingers quite well and feels very natural. I think if I’d went with a Corne I would not be as happy as I am now with the columnal layout.

Had a look at canary. It shuffles many keys around and I was astounded they changed the ,./ keys. I’m not sure I like it at first sight. How is your experience after a while?

That looks very cozy! Enjoy your cat, eh, keeb. 😸

Indeed, wpm is not relevant, accuracy is.

The first weeks I focused solely on accuracy while learning the layout and in the first days I achieved a whopping 8 wpm - but with 99,5% acc ;) Those first days I experienced fatigue and quite substantial headaches while training, I could really feel how the neurons began to rearrange in my head.

After that an episode of 30 wpm 98% came and I completely switched to Colemak.

The next weeks I focused partly on accuracy and partly on speed, to enable my fingers to act more intuitively. Than tanked acc sometimes to around 95%, with wpm of course following down but picking up after some time, but still with bad accuracy.

Then I shifted training focus back to accuracy again for some time and now I am currently in my “endurance” phase, how I like to call it.

Some days ago I found the time to type a few more chapters on “War of the Worlds” with Amphetype: four hours of sentences, punctuation, dashes, colons, semicolons, spoken texts, everything - at only around 45-55 wpm but with 98% to 100% accuracy, averaging at around 99%.

That’s when I can “zone out” and type automatically. Sometimes I don’t know how that word appeared or how I typed it, I just did. While typing sentence after sentence and lesson after lesson it sometimes happens that suddenly and utterly unexpected I just stop and can’t type another key. Then I wonder what’s going on and come back “zoning in” and reflect what’s happening. Then I realize: the finger that I just wanted to press down to type a key just did not move. It flat out rejected the automatic command to press down the button and stopped the typing process in its tracks. Upon inspection I realize the finger would have pressed a wrong key - so it did not, which was not a conscious decision of me. I swear, this is scary stuff (but amazing).

On monkeytype (with my default english 1k) currently has a record of 63 wpm at 99% and averages at 55.79 wpm at 96.72%, but it’s been a while. On problemwords I can battle several mistyped words down to 2-3 words with concentration and a bit of patience before gaining another one. On Amphetype (The War of the Worlds, whole sentences, interpunctuation, et. al.) it’s around 55 wpm with around 98,7%.

So I think accuracy could still be better but it’s probably mostly okay.

Working on the endurance / automatic typing now for some time, before switching back to the accuracy block and then the speed block again.

Typing own texts, such as these articles, have a perceivable worse accuracy, but that’s normal as the brain has to focus on building sentences alongside typing. That improves the more typing is automated.

Absolutely wild 😄 well done!