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Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by zdw on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:15AM (#36767734)
I run an ergodox split keyboard and a thumb trackball.

Half the Keys have no labels, unless it's the one with the clear caps, which has no labels at all.

Right shift is mapped to Escape (for vim, of course)

There is no Caps-lock, only Control.

Nobody messes with my stuff. :)

Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by astrospective on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:34AM (#36767835)
Same, few more labels and a more stock mapping but I’ve seen people give up after seconds of attempting it.
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by __mharrison__ on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:37AM (#36768253)
(Cool. I've moved on from ergodox to lily58 and have a cst trackball.)

This last weekend I pulled out my 12 year old Thinkpad running custom qtile window manager to transfer old DV movies to mp4s. Sadly my muscle memory was mostly gone and I had to revert to gnome... (Hanging my head in shame.)

Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by zoky on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:05AM (#36770920)
I'm shining a laser pointer into a fiber cable to write this comment, come at me
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by fennecfoxy on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:53AM (#36786360)
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by snapplebobapple on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:17AM (#36814058)
I quantum entangled some atoms in my brain with some atoms in each of the starlink satellite's networking gear and use that to respond to comments. Don't tell elon.
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by dizhn on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:21AM (#36769400)
To be honest this would not even cause me pause unless you set esc to something that else or some other weird thing. Your right shift and caps lock might have confused me if i had a reason to touch them but normally I wouldn't. (No labels on keys? If it's US qwerty most HN users would be fine with it.)
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by HKH2 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:22AM (#36770603)
Somehow vertical mice are also good for keeping people away.
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by seventhson on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:13AM (#36770987)
Switch to a Dvorak layout (with blank keycaps!) and you will have all the bases covered.
Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by sterlind on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:32AM (#36774142)
My old team used to buy donuts on computers that were left unattended and logged in, as a game to get people to lock their screens. Dvorak alone saved me a couple of times!