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first step: sync your tools between places.
I have the same logitech mouse at work and at home..it is total overkill at work but having the exact same mouse helps me a lot, the first few weeks were very weird to me when i had to constantly adapt.
I could never stand non-standard qwertz keyboard layouts. -
@ceee making a comment just to criticize such a minor thing is really extra .-.
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@BurnoutDV unfortunately it’s not that easy in my case. To be able to have some special keymaps it requires you to have a special hardware of the keyboard (custom PCB) rather than just the same software config. And building custom mech is often expensive you know...
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@tokumei really nice! I always want to give the ergo a try. But it doesn’t give a classic minimal look which I would prefer over “hacky” ones
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@svgPhoenix I always believe small keyboards are only owned by programmers. Who else wants such a gear?
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@dralcanar you can get a newly made model m from the company called unicomp. They bought the manufacturing machines.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/
also there is the tvs gold keyboard, the model m of india.
https://amazon.in/TVS-Bharal-Gold-K...
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@cervantes01 and blank keycaps
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@buitrung I have some macros set up for navigation of my IDE and web browser etc. I would hate using modifier-key combos on a minimal keyboard instead of dedicated buttons.
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@svgPhoenix depends on the need but 60-65% keyboards are really nice, especially if you can reprogram unused keys to map to your needs.
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@svgPhoenix can you give some real examples? Not to mention vim and vimium, 'cause they are well known. I use spaceFN layout to make it possible to do lots of things in everywhere, not merely in IDE and browser.
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@buitrung they're mostly for changing between different parts of my projects or opening up documentation sites, so sharing my personal config wouldn't be that useful.
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@BurnoutDV i'd sync my shit too but laptops don't have PS/2 ports anymore and I like the analog precision and tactile drag of ball mice and a ball mouse with a USB end is very rare indeed...
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@heyheni unicomp's keyboards are different, everything's much looser than the original Model M's.
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@Parzi without looking, but at some point USB 2 ps/2 adapters existed
How my keyboard evolves:
0. Like any normal man, I started with a cheap standard Qwerty keyboard. As I began learning programming, I wanted something more elegant, so...
1. I've been using layout Dvorak (and then Programmer Dvorak) for like 5 years+ now. Anyone has intention to type on my machine soon gives up or even is blocked by me from the very start. It always takes a couple of minutes to explain to them what's going on here. They think I'm weird. I feel untouchable :)
2. My first mechkey was a 104-key Filco. Time flew by and I wanted my thing to be more compact so I went for a 66% and a TKL.
3. Recently I find out that though my keyboard is not a full-sized, there're yet some keys I've never touched (the bottom right modifiers, scroll lock, etc), so I look for a leaner one: HHKB and its alike but with slight remappings. Now I'm satisfied with the tiny, corners-trimmed keyboard but others look at it and ask how it is even possible to scroll the web page using the thing.
Prob 1: my boss can never type on my keyboard. Sometimes he still grumbles when he cannot correct my fouls right on my machine.
Prob 2: my keyboards at home and at work are not the same and some keymapping cannot applied to one of the two. That's async.
rant