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Re:Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using ma... by juancn on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:12PM (#24096738)
The touch bar is a no-go for me. I really use the F-keys a lot, so I have it on F-key all the time.

My ideal setup would be to make the trackpad a tad smaller, add the physical function keys again and the touch bar above.

I don't think it was a good tradeoff for many use cases.

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Re:Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using ma... by K7PJP on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:56PM (#24138519)
I’m curious, what do you use F-keys for? I’ve moved to a mech keyboard with no F-keys, as I've never had much use for them. I do have a few choice custom shortcuts, using Command-Option-based shortcuts.
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Re:Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using ma... by juancn on Sunday August 23, 2020 @07:20PM (#24256136)
Coding mostly. I know by heart most of IntelliJ shortcuts. Things like find usages, type safe move and copy of code, rename of entities, etc. are F-key bound by default. I don’t customize because customization of defaults makes it harder to work on other people’s computers.

With the pandemic is kind of a non issue, but at the office it’s quite common.

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