mleku on Nostr: my two ortholinear mech keyboards use very light, short press activation keys what ...

my two ortholinear mech keyboards use very light, short press activation keys

what this means is that you can actually press and hold them down with a lot less pressure than normal, for comparison, the cherry silver on my spare has 45nm and the new gaterons on my daily driver are 38

it is habit to be used to pushing them down for the "tacticle" complete press but actually the switch actuates a lot less than this depth of push

so i'm using the cherry currently playing games and realised that i can use a lot less pressure and this is nice because i have peripheral neuropathy

and as i discover just how light i really have to press i'm now going to start training myself to push a lot less and not always push them right down for touch typing either

it's not as definite a signal to stop but i know i can adjust to this and get used to not pushing them to the end ofd their travel and get a better typing speed and less pain

i switched already to dvorak in 2004 to reduce my muscle strain in my hands from typing, this is even more

and also, i now want a custom circuitboard i can put cherry silver low profiles on because their travel is half as much which means half as much total pressure with a tactile termination at the bottom

there's laptops with these things now

normal people don't understand because they don't type as fast or as much as i do

so, i disregard them, as i do with the constabulary