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[yournewkeyboard]

hey why make it fold in half on that axis❓

[yournewkeyboard]

ah, like romeo and juliette

hey why make it fold in half on that axis❓

[yournewkeyboard]

but water bottles and keyboards are friends

look, they're playing :3

hey why make it fold in half on that axis❓

[yournewkeyboard]

I got sick of ads and stupid smart tv crap that can't stay connected to the wifi and keeps logging me out of things. So I put linux on an old dell optiplex I had laying around and connected that to our tv.

The first remote/keyboard was something I picked up for the tv pc. It has a mouse built in that works wiimote-style too.

The second device is a "Lenovo Mini Wireless Keyboard N5901" with mouse. My friend @knittingnoodle found it at a thrift store for me and I'm sooo grateful. This thing is so cool and it has a trackball!!!

[yournewkeyboard]

[yournewkeyboard]

[yournewkeyboard]

does it still count as qwerty if you change how many letters are in each row 🤔

[yournewkeyboard]

does it still count as qwerty if you change how many letters are in each row 🤔

[yournewkeyboard]

you need to make your keyboard more fucked up tbh

Fuck with me.

[yournewkeyboard]

The best part about having a split is having space between each half to set your things. The creator of this keyboard fully embraced that lol

I'm kind of obsessed with this thing. Truly stretching the bounds of what you can call a keyboard. Sure there's keys, but we've far departed from anything you could call a board. That's a keysomethingelse. A keyobject. I'm not sure what you would call it, but I keylike it.

[yournewkeyboard]

Here's my idea for a latin declining/conjugating keyboard

[yournewkeyboard]

Behold! My latest Bad Keyboard, the ShiftKeyBoard!

It's got nine buttons, and an 8-way gear shifter. You simply shift into different gears to select which sub-keyboard to use. Surprisingly easy to use, in fact.

Here's the layout I used:

Two more things:

1. the numbers under each gear position image are an implementation detail for the gearshifter I used, which I had on my guide image to help me code it.

2. the funniest thing I discovered is that you have to shift into neutral before reprogramming the keyboard or it wouldn't work right. I kept leaving it in first gear which caused problems, where it would only recognize 1 and 4th gear.

[yournewkeyboard]

I've been doing so much copying and pasting recently and will be continuing to do so for the foreseeable future, and it's been doing a number on my left hand because I have to keep hitting Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V while stretching my fingers, so I decided to buy a three-key keyboard macropad that literally only has a Ctrl, C, and V key, designed specifically for copying and pasting.

[yournewkeyboard]

This one was so stupid that it physically hurt to type FOUR LETTERS so no way was I getting to "Hello world". It's a Unary keyboard! You just tap as many times as the ascii character you want to send, then after a small pause, it types it. Even simpler than the binary keyboard!

(originally posted on May 4th, 2020)

[yournewkeyboard]

what the fuck do you mean your keyboard doesnt have letters

We have no letters Kathleen!

[yournewkeyboard]

oh it makes sense now. boards are Ikea's whole thing

pathetic keyboard I saw on a prop laptop at Ikea