• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    4 days ago

    Is that Velcro (or hook-and-loop, or something) tape on the Kinesis?

    I’ve owned 3-4 Kinesis Advantage keyboards! Eventually I realized I needed switches that were a little harder to press so I got an ErgoDox and different switches.

    I still love the layout of the Advantage though. I wish they sold one with replaceable switches. I didn’t like the top buttons (esc, F-keys, etc) but I didn’t use them very often.

    • jet@hackertalks.comOPM
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      4 days ago

      I do love my Kinesis addiction!

      Is that Velcro (or hook-and-loop, or something) tape on the Kinesis?

      Yes Indeed! An approach to modular widget placement

      Eventually I realized I needed switches that were a little harder to press so I got an ErgoDox and different switches.

      Makes total sense, I’ve also enjoyed the wireless split kinesises.

      I wish they sold one with replaceable switches. I didn’t like the top buttons (esc, F-keys, etc) but I didn’t use them very often.

      On their dev blog they did talk about iterating through different designs for modular keys, but the curved pcb made that hard to consistently engineer.

      The chiclet fkeys I could do without. I would prefer real keys.