Being born in the 80s, I was told I was born in the nineteen hundreds. It didn’t feel great.

There’s a sweet misconception being cleared up, that’s the stuff, thank you stranger!

Meee tooo, hard disappoint. I was thrilled there were a whopping 10 misconceptions about the extinct animal!

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I think I’ll do okay with actual typing, but sightless pressing of the arrow keys to move a cursor around, hold shift, and tap end to highlight a whole sentence, that’ll take a long time to retrain. I placed my order, so I guess in 2 weeks I’ll find out!

Update

Ok, I’ve dug into each option! I think I’m leaning toward trying out the Ergodox EZ! My only hurdle know is, I love cherry mx speed silver switches after having used them for years, but the Ergodox EZ can’t have back lit keys and cherry mx speed silver switches. It looks like that might just be down to what Ergrodox has access too because cherry mx rgb speed switches definitely exist and can be purchased.

So I might buy a backlit Ergodox EZ and buy a set of cherry mx speed silvers and swap them. I’m still mildly concerned about getting used to the keyboard, but the idea I can just keep my old keyboard hooked up for work is reassuring. I do a lot of navigation and cursor/selection using arrow keys, hold shift, home, end etc and those muscle memory movements won’t work with the Ergodox EZ.

Thanks to everyone for the helpful information!

Thank you for the extra info! The non-uniform placement of the keys was my concern as well. I feel like it’d work well, but then have doubts as well. I have enough room to keep my standard corsair mechanical hooked up and in reach too in case it’s needed.

Do you use the Ergodox EZ for gaming? If so, how is it?

Reading into the ZSA Moonlander, it looks great, I think it’d be comfortable and easy to get used to for me. I see some reviews saying it has up to 16ms latency though, have you noticed any latency, do any gaming?

I appreciate all the great information! I’m looking into each keyboard suggested and seeing if I feel like it’ll work well for my use case. I’m wondering if as @hellweaver666@discuss.tchncs.de mentioned, just getting the left hand portion of the keyboard would be best. I work from home as well, and my corsair doesn’t bother me at all for typing while working, and I use the DEL, HOME, Page Up and Page Down, and End keys, and numerical pad constantly.

I have a friend who uses a Cyborg, which looks extra crazy to me, but with as customizable as it is, it looks like it might help too with gaming: https://store.azeron.eu/

My Opera GX is doing that, persisted through clearing cache, and rebooting. Now I’m just using Edge for Lemmy.

I can’t disagree with the point of the video, social media sites/apps are really great, until they aren’t. It seems like the reasons for “until they aren’t” are getting more severe and happen faster, largely propelled by the companies running them getting greedy and shitty.

OP’s claims being verifiable or not, can we all agree that Meta’s interests aren’t benevolent toward competing competitors and their technology? The fact that is even a hint of a reason that admins of lemmy.world had a clandestine meeting with Meta would be concerning. OP’s logic is sound, and if the lemmy.world admins didn’t meet with Meta, they could state as much and dispel the possibility. Or they could entirely lie about it if no NDA was signed, but they haven’t responded to that question which is concerning.

If the admins of lemmy.world struck a deal with meta, maybe agreed to a payment, who knows what a deal like that would look like, would you all still feel comfortable using it as your home instance?