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Ellipse wrote: ↑

01 May 2023, 06:29

The push buttons probably need to be eliminated for example, since they cost nearly $1 each.

On a $500 keyboard, I'm ready to spend $2, even $20, more for the convenience of push-button switches on the controller. I hope we can keep them.

Beautiful cases, Ellipse! I can't wait! My preference for the HHKB configuration of these new keyboards is to configure the main block just like the HHKB. This leads to having redundant Esc keys on these new keyboards that have a function row. This preserves muscle memory with actual HHKBs or the F7...

Yes, remapping Caps Lock to another modifier is definitely smart use of such an easily reached key. I use it for Control, myself, in line with my HHKB and winkeyless boards. 🌐 is a bit tricky though, as accidentally hitting it by itself will bring up the character palette. You’ll learn to avoid tha...

Arkku, thank you for the detailed notes on compiling QMK such that Mac will recognize the Apple Fn/Globe key. I could work through that if it really becomes a necessity for me. For now, I'm remapping Insert to Globe in Karabiner. That's a good solution. I'm interested in a keyboard-only solution mos...

On my 2019 Macbook Pro's preferences panel for modifiers, the internal keyboard shows a fn key and my F77 shows a globe key. I did not expect this and I would like to know what scancode is interpreted as the globe key on the Mac. I do run Karabiner so maybe that intervenes in what modifier keys the ...

I'm potentially interested in both the AEK and the Chicony. Can you share anything about your personal history with the AEK? Do you know if it has been retrobrighted? Looks like it has very minimal yellowing so I'm wondering how it got that way, or if it just stayed that way through limited light ex...

I'm very willing to compromise on my wish list of deviations from ANSI, to help form a consensus of features that a majority of alternative users want. My strongest preference is for a UNIX/HHKB layout on the main keyboard block, the most important (to me) feature of which is split backspace: I want...

I would be interested in paying a bit more for

- Tsangan bottom row (like the F62 and F77)
- split backspace
- split right shift (maybe)
- ISO left shift with ANSI enter (am I alone on this one?)

in any combination

I have floss modded my F77 with no problems. I used Superfloss, and I pushed the floss down enough that it does not protrude above the tops of the springs.

I don't know how I would remove the floss if I ever wanted to. I almost didn't do the mod for that reason. But I did and I'm happy with it.

My keyboard is only about a month and a half old, but it's my daily driver and the powder coating is still perfect.

I got my F77 working. @Twst, thanks for the confirmation about the keys needing to be present. That got me 90% there. I had already tried the Q-Tip trick to remove the stabilizer, but the stabilizer was way too tight for that to work. I tried stuffing two Q-Tips in, as shown in the video, and that w...

I had to disassemble my beautiful new F77 because I unknowingly used a vertical (black) stabilizer where I needed a horizontal one, so I needed to remove the barrel holding the wrong stabilizer. I put in a new barrel with the white stabilizer in place, but now I'm having trouble getting the keyboard...