A while ago, I bought a pre-built Totem and just enough switches. I could never get used to the large stagger and the splay.

When I saw a relatively cheap wireless Corne on Aliexpress, I thought I’d have another try at a low profile keyboard. I didn’t think of checking how many switches I had. Well, I’m two short! Damn.

Otherwise, the keeb uses ZMK and it took me a minute to flash it with my config.

  • RedSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.mlOP
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    14 days ago

    Miryoku is worth looking at for layout ideas. But using it as-is of a non starter for me.

    I’m still slowly making changes to my layout. It has some features that you say you don’t like in your blog (numpad on the left) but it works for me.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      14 days ago

      I mean, lefties exist. It’s fine if they want to have left-dominant. And if fast 10-key numeric entry isn’t important and you’re a rightie, then that’s fine too. It’s just, in both cases, the exception rather than the rule.

      I really liked the layer switching on the thumbs; the problem, as I mentioned, is that if you’re not ambi and you have a low key count board, a lot of common stuff is going to be in layers, and preferably under your dominant hand, and that really only comfortably lets you use three layers (under your non-dominant thumbs), and it’s just not enough.

      But TLDR on my blog, the real killer of Miryoku for me was having the modifier keys (M/A/C/S) under alphabet keys. There’s simply no way to time that s.t. it’s not either causing false mods or slowing your typing down. I really can only see Shift being under a letter key not doing either if you’re not a fast typist. Nobody types perfectly consistently. Maybe MAC alone works, with a long enough activation delay; those aren’t used in speed typing. But shift has to be its own key, or shared with something uncommon, like brace/bracket or some other uncommon punctuation.