Late to this, but you can’t call tactiles “brown” anymore; ever since Cherry’s patent expired some 10 years ago the market has exploded. Right now I’m typing on a franken tester board with some 30 tactiles of different make and model, and I barely have scratched 20% of the tactile switches available on the market, by my estimation.
What are the keyboards she is using now? Did she express any preferences about them? What typewriter is she using?
Budget and location might make things a little tight, HMRC really loves collecting their due.
Yea, the moment hotswap and a degree of customisability is called for, a lot of the mainstream “niceties” tend to be dropped.
Points 1, 2 and 3 are practically non-existent in the hobbyist mechanical keyboard space. You might get a few 100% boards but open floating design is not favoured, and passthrough is considered unnecessary.
It’s going to be loud regardless, especially since the Navies have a thicker bar AND you’ll be using more force to get past it and the heavier spring.
And yes, they’re heavy. I like heavy switches (really hate anything less than 50g), but even those were a little tiring to type on the first time. You will need to get used to typing on them.
Will echo the other suggestion made, get a tester pack first.
Oh! They’re the ways you can configure a key to interact with layers! The hover usually is quite self-explanatory. But yes, might want to do a search if some of them are not clear.
There’s actually a lot you can do; If you ever feel like VIA can’t let you do something, you can actually program strings directly with the “Any” key in the “Special” category. That lets you directly enter QMK keycodes, and you can set up pretty nifty functions if you want to. That’s definitely a long read or video for another time though.
Keychron right? There should be four layers. 0 and 1 are for when the keyboard is set to Mac, 2 and 3 when it is set to Windows.
There is one thing I don’t understand on VIA, layers where when you hover over a button it explains it to you.
Eh, what do you mean? And isn’t that good?
The 4 icons are just for you to customise with.
Double legends are meaningless on a fully programmable keyboard. Just use VIA and take a screenshot of your layers if you’re worried about forgetting.
Keycaps are easy, anything MX compatible (which is like most of them) will work. Since the V6 is a 100% it’s even easier, since it’s a standard layout and you don’t need to look for extended keycap sets that have keys to correspond to certain layout types.
Switches you need to just bite the bullet every now and then. A tester only will get you so far. Expect to make a few regretful purchases from time to time.
Nevermind that, an approach like what Sharp and the old PDAs did with transflective displays would be pretty neat too. But I suspect what’ll happen is that they’ll be called out for not providing “rich colours and deep blacks”.
Is that what happened? Because it works absolute shite with Bluetooth keyboards too.
They did announce an 11" tablet, no idea if it’s launched.
It’s basically a LCD with a special matte coating, is that it?
UK has similar iPhone adoption rates I last looked, and I’m quite sure my UK friends don’t use iMessage either!
So how do you participate in the work chat with just SMS? Lots of informal collaborations in both my last role and current role needed and needs WhatsApp, with both internal and external stakeholders. I literally cannot do my jobs without WhatsApp.
Delivery services will contact you on WhatsApp as proof that the delivery was made, disputes are much harder to solve without it.
Many businesses use WhatsApp as part of their chat support (luckily, not the banks, small wins at least). Talk to a person on the phone? Good luck.
These are just the examples off the top of my head; I feel like so many here are naive on what it’s like to live in a modern, digital society.
Have to use WhatsApp to function in society though, where I am. At least, those messages aren’t really that important in the long run so they don’t need to be backed up, so no loss there for me.
Eh, I thought Google gave 15GB, not 20GB?
Also I just checked my own WhatsApp backup space, it’s just shy of 500mb with videos. Good for me I guess! I really don’t use WhatsApp that much compared to Telegram.
I still think it’s a pretty good thing to have, 30 days for things like migrating or having your phone being repaired sounds pretty good. It’s a neat service, not sure why the upset comments.
Technically, it’s easier, because there were 0 in the past. :P But yes, the variety of choice is dazzling!