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Comment by garciansmith

2 days ago

I find this kind of keyboard remapping essential when using a laptop now that I'm used to using an external keyboard with QMK firmware at my desk (though these days I use Kmonad).

My framework 16 has a QMK firmware and can be remapped with complex setups.

But I didn't find any cool use case for it, what do you use it for ?

Oh my god! I hate using anything that is not my keyboard anymore. Laptops are not ‘lap’tops for me since I will just be slow without my keyboard. The split keyboard with many thumb keys is tough to achieve on laptop.

  • Yeah, that is the downside to making your keyboard your own. Anytime I use someone else's computer I always spend a few seconds wondering why I just turned caps lock on and wrote a bunch of gibberish.

    • I had a friend with a kinesis dvorak keyboard.

      Happily he would put it in "guest" qwerty mode when I had to type on it. It was hard enough typing in a cereal bowl.

    • The caps lock thing always happens with me haha, the funnest thing is other people are unable to understand hitting caps lock is more ergonomic than right ctrl.

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