On 9/3/19 8:17 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2019-09-03 3:25 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
If you work on look, hunt and peck princible, then sure, anything will do.
Oddly, swearing at keyboards seems fairly limited to computer types. I use to work with a lot of copy-typists, and they could work on anything at all. They'd switch from Suns to Macs to Thinkpads to real typewriters without complaint. Some of them were using multilingual layouts and could use QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ at blazing speeds depending on the language of the project.
These people were the fastest and most accurate keyboarders I've ever met — like, ‘retype a whole page with no errors faster than you could walk to the photocopier and back’ fast — and they lived all day on keyboards. I don't think I heard about them complain about a computer keyboard ever. Plenty of complaints about chairs and desks, sure, but no complaints about keyboards.
(There was a specific desk's keyboard that they'd complain about *a lot* though, and refuse to use unless it was the only one available. It belonged to an editor who would water their plants over the keyboard and also eat their lunch directly over it. It's the only keyboard I've ever seem that had algae growing between the keys, while some of the keys would rebound very slowly accompanied by a wet sucking noise. It was very unhygienic.)
I never learned to type, and likely will keep my 4½-finger typing technique until I die. My current (non-Raspberry Pi) keyboard is a CoolerMaster gaming thing with an irritating top row. They keys are marked
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
which is no fun if you're keyboarding by sight.
Stewart
Honestly I've gotten really use to Das or mechinal keyboards so anything else feels really mushy to me. Even this Mac laptop a family member gave to me and I just use Linux on it. Its not bad just the travel really sucks and the feel is weird even through my Das keyboard which I'm had for over 2 years feels a lot better. Maybe I'm just gotten spoiled by mechinal keyboards, Nick
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