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←⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Some interesting legend choices there. Oddly, at least in the Apple circles I keep, the M0110 is quite unknown. Sure, the OG Macintosh is praised for what it kicked off—the desktop operating systems we all use today are still just incremental improvements on what the little Mac te...

←⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Some interesting legend choices there. Oddly, at least in the Apple circles I keep, the M0110 is quite unknown. Well, of course. As form factors go, the M0110 is awful (and that's not counting the intentional omission of the numpad). There's a reason it was replaced with the M0110...

Muirium wrote: ↑

28 Oct 2023, 10:12

And yet the phone touchscreens now so ubiquitous around the world—Fingerworks' living legacy—are always painful for cursor movement and text selection. The irony!

Painful cursor movement and text selection is the core of the HHKB experience, so that part does check out.

The mythology I’m on about is the one which goes "of course the spacebar's ABS, they couldn't make PBT spacebars back then." The insistence was that it was just impossible before some point in time. Oh, yeah, I've seen this more than once. And, for some reason, that argument always comes two or thr...

All this mythology about banana-shaped spacebars unless they're ABS is a distortion of the truth. Damn right. Lately, GMK has been producing ABS bananas and passing them off as "within tolerance". GH abounds with the screams of kids complaining about it. Many of my favourite keyboards have 80s vint...

the keyboard is mine now, who I bought it from is not your problem, if you are envious that I paid 20 euros for it it is your problem. I'll sell it for what I decide, and then 190 euros is also a low price if you're an expert in keyboards because if you think that 190 euros is a high price then you...

FEKKSutM2nU A little gold nugget at 2:22: “Studio is the first in the Happy Hacking keyboard series to use mechanical switches”. That settles it, then: Topre-based keyboards aren't mechanical; manufacturer says so. Snotty HHKB-lovers who have been insisting in saying otherwise for years have now be...

Not a good form factor. Not a good physical layout. And now... no "good feeling of oneness" switch, either. Seems to me that the only thing distinguishing this keeb from a cheap-ass clone is the brand name slapped on it. Not even the integrated mouse-cl◉t manages to make an impression of "improvemen...

Pushing my pedant's glasses up the bridge of my nose again, technically they were right about that as well. What you've likely got is a passive PS/2 to USB adapter , actually intended for USB era keyboards which can speak natively in either USB or "PS/2" (actually AT protocol, PS/2 is just the phys...

BTW... ... just as Control must be left of A. ¿And to the right of what, as well? All modifiers should be on either side of the keyboard... and if we follow the basic rule of symmetry of the modifiers placements, that means that RCTRL should be where {ANSI | the lower half of ISO} Enter is. Which wo...

Kidding. I use Backspace plenty, as I so often edit things around when I’m (re)writing them. But honestly, it's a nice big key even at 1.5u and causes me no problem. I do highly recommend mapping Shift + Backspace to Delete. If that's missing on a system, then I’m more likely to start cursing while...

So I finally got off my lazy ass and replaced the blanks in my F77 Aren't those blacks still blanks? Or are you paying homage to Topre's black on black legends? Even they aren't quite that invisible. That's the cost of pulling Escape down from the number row, where it should be, just as Control mus...

Muirium wrote: ↑

25 Oct 2023, 16:56

Hey, I’m new, I've read fuck all, but I know the future of [FORUM] is crypto, baby.

KEEBCOIN

Muirium wrote: ↑

25 Oct 2023, 12:38

... to edit in £h€ ฿ig ৳uck$.

Don't you mean £h€ ฿i₲ ৳u₡₭$ instead? This is ₷₽₳₥, after all. ¤

So I finally got off my lazy ass and replaced the blanks in my F77 with Ellipse's es-LA keycap sets. I mixed the cream alphas from one set with the dark gray modifiers (plus three blue ones, and two black unprinted keys for ${REASON}). F77.jpg Looks great, but I would love to have gray alphas instea...

Now, a somewhat better picture of my F77. F77.jpg Note the placement of the Esc key. The "Caps Lock vs. Ctrl on the home row" holy war is over, and both sides have lost. Esc is the way to go; vi forever . HRI_F.jpg Also note the extra HRI key, custom made as well. A position indicator on the number ...

Whenever I am trying out a new national layout or (or customizing one), this is the keyboard I test it out with: Model_M_XXK.jpg The XXK is not alone anymore. Mini-X.jpg Indeed, this is a Unicomp Mini-M. I replaced the buttons with blanks and a large batch of X keys (all by Unicomp). As is by now m...

This is the only one that got to be uploaded.

Let's test this again. It works now!





Decent pictures, instead of these photatoes, to be taken later.

… Ellipse "light gray" caps would fix that problem... Funny you should mention this, because... After months, I finally got off my lazy ass and replaced the all-blank keycaps on my F77. This is it now looks like: https://www.farah.cl/0/dt/01.jpg F77, esLA layout. Cream alphas, dark gray modifiers, ...

NathanA wrote: ↑

02 Oct 2023, 15:40

… Ellipse "light gray" caps would fix that problem...

Funny you should mention this, because...

engr it is possible but the minimum order value for everyone would be several thousand dollars. That doesn't sound too bad if there are a few dozen of people interested. Could you set up an interest form like you did for other customizations? I would be happy to order a couple of white/grey keysets...

Confirmed ok to request an update of the BEPO file, please send the update in the next week or so before they go on break if possible. If anyone wants to make any additional custom layouts or keys, now is the time as the factory will be doing a small batch of the BEPO and CSA after returning from t...

I hope this thing does NOT come with Alps switches!!!

how do you put this thing in bootloader mode in the first place? The scboot command line tool provided by Soarer tells his firmware to jump to the bootloader. I don't know if TMK has an equivalent, as I don't use TMK. Since you forgot to map a key combination to do that, maybe it has a default comb...

TBH I don’t know why you would need a key shortcut to toggle boot mode. So as to be able to put the ATmega chip in bootloader mode, to load a new .hex upon it. All guides you'll see mention physically pressing the Reset button on the teensy (or whatever), but there isn't such an exposed button on t...

I decided to pick up one of these mystery devices and give it a try. All the listings I found use the same photos, so I guess these are being manufactured. Here's one of them: https://i.postimg.cc/4y3rsgnf/s-l1600-sm.jpg Soarer's scinfo and scboot tools recognize it, but none of dfu-loader, avrdude...

More firmware news: wolfman is wrapping up the approval process for the refactoring to get the xwhatsit accepted into the main QMK project. Here are the details: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/21193 Everyone feel free to test out this refactored firmware and let us know the feedback! Will...

I agree with everything NathanA said, and I'll add one more thing: Generally speaking, the "consensus" is that F's buckling springs are "better" than M's, but not so much so as to overcome differences in the physical layout; that's why you'll see not few people prefering a Model M keyboard (full-siz...

Fortunately, Soarer has higher level functions to allow you to work around things like that. Namely: ifselect. Selects are like ifset but where you control the value yourself. What I did with that was assign a key to toggle between Winkeyless and modern layouts: shuffling the modifiers around diffe...

6.25 is not small. I’d much rather have a 5 unit spacebar: one thing Apple gets right on their modern hardware, and I got used to on the PowerBook. Even my HHKB’s 6.0u still feels a bit too wide to me, after more than just a little use. ;) If it were for me, the space bar would be 5.5U, placed symm...