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.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    10 days ago

    So… whatcha gonna do with all that Totem, all that Totem inside your desk?

    I like it. I need the aggressive stagger. I wish it had a full pinky column, but I can do without. Does it have hot-swappable keys? What’s the interface?

    I have a pre-built Piantor Plus, which I like well enough, but I got the most tactile Chocs available and they still feel really squishy to me. I’m coming to the conclusion that I need a hot-swap keyboard so I can experiment with different key switches.

    What I’m trying to say, RedSideOfTheMoon, is: are you looking to maybe offload that Totem? If so, how much? Let me know, if you are. I’m in the US.

    • RedSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      I thought I needed the aggressive stagger… until I tried it.

      I’m in Europe so the shipping to the US would be expensive. Anyway I’m not sure I want to entirely give up on it.

      It is the wireless ZMK version, hotswappable switches, resin printed case. It is very nice.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        2·
        10 days ago

        Aww, it sounds perfectly horrible! You should definitely resell it.

        Anyway, yeah, everyone’s fingers are different. My fingers are very clearly different lengths; at rest, they sit almost perfectly on a Piantor’s keys; I think the designer must have had hands very similar to mine.

        One day, if we don’t extinct ourselves, 3D printers will be like microwaves, and be able to print circuit boards, and every household will have one. They’ll all be able to print custom keyboards for each person. Or, maybe by then everyone will be using cybernetic interfaces and typing will go the way of cursive.

      • StefanT@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        I took it as a basis and adapted it to my needs. It’s for my travel keyboard that has to be as portable as possible. For normal work I use another keyboard that has extra keys for the modifiers.

      • RedSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.mlOP
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        10 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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          10 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.