At someone who has to pound a lot of keys for a living, I’ve taken a small passing interest in these sorts of split boards, especially since they keep popping up so prevalently in the Lemmy “all” feed. (Currently I use a variety of traditional, but very nice mechanical keyswitched, 104 key boards.)
But… The apparent universal lack of a number row is turning me off of all the offerings I’m seeing on display, or built by others. Is there a reason for that? I use my number pad a lot, ergonomically terrible or not, but losing not only that but also the number row would drive me batshit. No arrows, either? Are you guys doing all that stuff with foot pedals, Fn key combos, or telepathy, or do you have a manservant off to the side holding a numeric pad for you, or what?
I’ve built myself a Redox (Open Source split keyboard).
That one has a number row. Also due to the possibility of programming multiple layers I can hold down a key on the left half, then use the right half as a numpad.
It would also be possible to program it as a toggle button to switch to jumped more, so you don’t have to hold it down, but I prefer not having some kind of invisible state in my keyboard that I have to keep track of.
At someone who has to pound a lot of keys for a living, I’ve taken a small passing interest in these sorts of split boards, especially since they keep popping up so prevalently in the Lemmy “all” feed. (Currently I use a variety of traditional, but very nice mechanical keyswitched, 104 key boards.)
But… The apparent universal lack of a number row is turning me off of all the offerings I’m seeing on display, or built by others. Is there a reason for that? I use my number pad a lot, ergonomically terrible or not, but losing not only that but also the number row would drive me batshit. No arrows, either? Are you guys doing all that stuff with foot pedals, Fn key combos, or telepathy, or do you have a manservant off to the side holding a numeric pad for you, or what?
I’ve built myself a Redox (Open Source split keyboard).
That one has a number row. Also due to the possibility of programming multiple layers I can hold down a key on the left half, then use the right half as a numpad.
It would also be possible to program it as a toggle button to switch to jumped more, so you don’t have to hold it down, but I prefer not having some kind of invisible state in my keyboard that I have to keep track of.