I've taken it too far haven't I?
What do you plan to do with the extra 17 switches that aren’t necessary for morse code?
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Not sure if this is bragging or a call for help
Somewhere in the middle? More of late night realisation than anything else.
Nahh, 2 half numpads is, still, like, nearly double the number of fingers you have, so waay overkill with all that finger movement
I see the reasoning for everything else, but no thumb keys makes no sense to me.
I wish I could join the under-20-keys gang. What are you running with tho? KMK?
Personally I'm not sure it's worth it longer term. 5x3+2 is my preference but I'm doing this to sort my layers so I can try some of the unibody split keyboards that have less keys to go round.
Eh, I don't get it at all so I can't judge. I feel like even a 104 key-layout is kinda lacking, a keyboad just doesn't seem like the right place for minimalism to me.
I like the little Ferris!