On 9/3/19 8:17 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2019-09-03 3:25 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
If you work on look, hunt and peck princible, then sure, anything
will do.
Oddly, swearing at keyboards seems fairly limited to computer types. I
use to work with a lot of copy-typists, and they could work on
anything at all. They'd switch from Suns to Macs to Thinkpads to real
typewriters without complaint. Some of them were using multilingual
layouts and could use QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ at blazing speeds
depending on the language of the project.
These people were the fastest and most accurate keyboarders I've ever
met — like, ‘retype a whole page with no errors faster than you could
walk to the photocopier and back’ fast — and they lived all day on
keyboards. I don't think I heard about them complain about a computer
keyboard ever. Plenty of complaints about chairs and desks, sure, but
no complaints about keyboards.
(There was a specific desk's keyboard that they'd complain about *a
lot* though, and refuse to use unless it was the only one available.
It belonged to an editor who would water their plants over the
keyboard and also eat their lunch directly over it. It's the only
keyboard I've ever seem that had algae growing between the keys, while
some of the keys would rebound very slowly accompanied by a wet
sucking noise. It was very unhygienic.)
I never learned to type, and likely will keep my 4½-finger typing
technique until I die. My current (non-Raspberry Pi) keyboard is a
CoolerMaster gaming thing with an irritating top row. They keys are
marked
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
which is no fun if you're keyboarding by sight.
Stewart
Honestly I've gotten really use to Das or mechinal keyboards so anything
else feels really
mushy to me. Even this Mac laptop a family member gave to me and I just
use Linux on it.
Its not bad just the travel really sucks and the feel is weird even
through my Das keyboard
which I'm had for over 2 years feels a lot better.
Maybe I'm just gotten spoiled by mechinal keyboards,
Nick
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