So far so good. I went with a logitech 10 keyless style since it was only $39.99 on sale. I don’t know what kind of switches this thing uses but it has pbt keycaps, I think? Anyway here it is on amazon. Feels good to finally have a new kb where I don’t have to struggle pushing down the p key.
no I mean the part to the left of the num pad:
maybe that’s just my personal nomenclature? you use it to navigate up down left right top bottom.
what I can’t stand is a 60% where you need to use some key combo for pg up, arrows or whatever. fts. but for some reason thye are more numerous and cheaper.
that’s a pretty fancy number pad, and not toooo expensive actually. I got a $10 number pad on aliexpress and found I never use it. But if you have data entry or gaming or some other application then very possibly justifiable.
Oooohhhh! Yes OK that makes sense. I think the K2 is a 75% maybe? It has those keys but they are jammed in there. The home/end/pgup/down keys are on the right side positioned in a single column. The arrow keys are stuffed in the right corner.
So I have that but it’s just in a different spot. The K2 also has a separate F key row too.
I do some spread sheet work at times in my day job and use a calculator at times. Plus it has built in game lol. I have the matching keyboard so u just want to complete the set too.
ya k2 is 75%. I’d rather just go up a tiny bit to 80% [tkl] and have an easy to use navpad. Also anything that abbreviates/relocates the shift key I don’t like.
for me personally since I will always have to use computers I don’t control, I try not to deviate too much from standard at home because I just get myself all muddled. In highschool I changed my kb to Dvorak over the march break. It was great and I immediately got up to my prior typing speed on qwerty. But then I couldn’t type anymore back in the school lab. So I decided I had to go with qwerty. Sadly. Lesson learned.
(In the revolution, perhaps we may strike a committee to reform the keyboard. As it is, inherently, a location of collective struggle/complacency.)
At home I have caps lock mapped to control and even that is annoying when I use other kbs because I’m constantly engaging caps by accident. This is why I won’t go so far as learning emacs or vim or other more intensive kb interfaces; would constantly be a problem for me.
Maybe when I am retired I will go back to Dvorak and make all kinds of mad macros on some custom QMK thingy. Or thingies, with a bunch of side kb macro pads hanging off the side for specific applications.
+1 calculator - people don’t value this enough; just because you can use calc on your phone doesn’t mean it’s the best way. honestly a printing calculator is amazing if you can get it cheap (which you can at a big box thrift store) but either is better than a dang phone.