danieldk

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[–] danieldk 1 points 1 year ago

You mean like a Kinesis Advantage2 (and its predecessors)? Monoblock, 20 degree built-in tenting, thumb keys and key wells.

(The linked keyboard looks quite bad from an ergonomics perspective. It has quite large positive tilt, which is bad for your wrists.)

[–] danieldk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks! The confusing thing in the original message is that, in context, hotswap socket makes you think of a hotswap socket for the microcontroller itself, not a switch.

[–] danieldk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m deep in the rabbit hole now, though, on a Corne, as I found besides ulnar deviation, right pinkie overload was the next cause of pain.

Also two of Corne's thumb keys are far too much inward 😬, known to cause thumb issues.

[–] danieldk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had wrist pains every now and then over the years. They never felt bad enough so find a doctor, so it never had a specific diagnosis.

Then I had a worse brush with wrist pain I decided to try several split keyboards (Microsoft Sculpt on and off, Kinesis Freestyle Edge, Ferris Sweep, Kyria) and they didn't really improve things and sometimes gave me new pains. Only after switching to a Kinesis Advantage2 I saw large improvements and wrist pains mostly going away.

I also started to be more mindful of taking breaks (sometimes it works out, sometimes I am so focused that time flies by) and do some hand exercises during breaks. I also got an easily adjustable standing desk (just a press of the button), so I can tune it to have exactly the right height and switch between sitting and standing.

[–] danieldk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use an Ender 3v2. It's fine, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. It seems to have quite a bit of wear and often requires retuning stuff to get good prints. Also needs upgrades to make it better (like getting auto-levelling).

[–] danieldk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you’re interested in something different, one really promising keyboard project just launched: Svalboard.

I have no experience with the Datahand, but the lateral finger movements necessary on that board look 😱. On a regular column stagger keyboard only the index finger makes a lot of lateral movements (meh) and the thumb (but following the natural thumb arc anyway).

[–] danieldk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You missed the original contoured keyboard, Maltron: http://www.maltron.com/store/p20/Maltron_L90_dual_hand_fully_ergonomic_%283D%29_keyboard_-_US_English.html

I have/had a Dactyl, Advantage2, and Advantage360, but the Glove80 is definitely my favorite!

[–] danieldk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, IMO the promotional posts really got out of hand on the old subreddit. A certain manufacturer (who do make lovely cases) posted pretty comparable pics every 2 days or so. On the one hand I think we should nurture our vendor community, on the other hand I'd rather see this happening organically with users sharing their experiences with builds that they buy. I agree that a sticky thread would be a good solution, people who are interested could just follow that thread. To give it more freshness, maybe it could be a monthly Vendor news in [August, ...] thread where vendors could post.

I think the only exception should be made for announcements of things like new case files or GitHub repos with Gerbers (which can include a link to the vendor that made it). Only permitting that type of vendor posts outside the vendor thread would encourage vendors to make new source files available.

[–] danieldk 2 points 1 year ago

For me it doesn't matter much. Since I have a contoured keyboard nearly all alpha keys are easy to reach with my hand on the palm rest (not hovering). But I'd rather have h on the home row as well, since it reduces finger movement for frequent bigrams like th. I have backspace on one of my thumb keys, but I don't use it frequently, to it'd be more optimal to put a letter like e there, so that h can move to the home row. So even though I use Colemak-DH, I am experimenting a bit with other layouts like Maltron since I don't believe Colemak it necessary among the best layouts, it just gained quite a lot of popularity. Well and it's fun to rewire parts of your brain :).

It's a bit of a shame that layouts are high effort. Given a large enough budget, you can try multiple ergo keyboards. But the cost of learning a layout is so high that people experiment only little with it (if at all), so people continue to use QWERTY or if they learn something else it would be Colemak now or Dvorak 20 years ago. Of course Colemak and Dvorak are large improvements over QWERTY, but they may also be local optima.

[–] danieldk 1 points 1 year ago

Still in the honeymoon phase. I hope to write up a review after a longer time.

[–] danieldk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, but as @galilette@[email protected] mentioned, this move is not great on non-contoured keyboards.

[–] danieldk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The index finger is tricky because being a long finger, it is comparatively better to extend up than to curl down (assuming your wrist is neutral or slightly raised)

Ah, thanks, that makes sense. I guess I have that issue less, since I use a contoured keyboard and curling the index/middle fingers is pretty comfortable.

 

I found a good as new white Glove80 (Choc Brown) for a price that is far too low. I am normally not a fan of white hardware, but I think the white Glove80 looks pretty nice. Found out through the MoErgo Discord that there is a white Logitech Ergo M575 that goes really well with it.

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Got my Glove80 (self.ergomechkeyboards)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danieldk to c/ergomechkeyboards
 

Got my Glove80 yesterday 🎉. Still too early for a proper review, but loving it so far. The transition from a Kinesis Advantage is straightforward , the pinky columns feel easier to reach which is a definite improvement.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danieldk to c/ergomechkeyboards
 

I recently wrote a review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Pro, which might interest some of you. I know that some folks love it, but I expected better switches, better keycaps, fewer Bluetooth issues, and a better ZMK editor for the steep price.

(Still loving the Advantage line though, happily using the Advantage2 at the home office and office-office.)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danieldk to c/ergomechkeyboards
 

I have been using KinT controllers in my Advantage2 keyboards. However, I have been a bit worried about the availability of Teensy MCUs. I have been using Teensy LCs, but they are pretty much out of stock until 2024 and may never get in stock again. Teensy 4.0 and 4.2 controllers go for 30-40 Euro, which is pretty insane in a world of 4 Euro Raspberry Pi Picos.

At any rate, I'd like to keep some spares in case one of the controllers breaks. Moreover, I have been wishing for USB-C, since I am a Mac user. Luckily, /u/dj_edit made a KinT fork that uses the Black Pill microcontroller that is readily available for a few bucks and best of all has USB-C.

So, this week I got the PCBs and converted my first Advantage from vanilla KinT to KinT Black Pill:

I also ported their Vial support over to QMK, which required some changes to work with the latest QMK (mostly porting over stuff to info.json):

https://github.com/danieldk/qmk_firmware/tree/danieldk/keyboards/kinesis/kintbp

The USB-C mount is one from the series of mounts that I found on Amazon and discussed in this Reddit post

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