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Can we normalise good but quiet keyboards. Like, I like the tactile feel of using a mechanical, but I hate the sound. Quieter mechanical keyboards aren't a thing but they should be. Now as a security measure if nothing else.
Also Dvorak keyboards I guess
There are tons of quiet mechanical keyboards. I'm using a low profile optical switch that's quieter than my mouse clicks
Are those optical switches expensive though?
No
There are definitely quiet tactile switches. The reason why they can still make sound is because they’re bottoming out which you don’t have to do.
As a partial solution, you can put o-rings in the keycaps. I had some of the bands for braces laying around at one point and used those, and it worked fairly well.
Dvorak is a cypher of Qwerty tho. Anything typed in Dvorak but transcribed as english can be reliably identified and decyphered
I went out of my way to find a keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches. They're basically a high-force tactile feel, but no clicky sound like MX Blue switches. I absolutely love them for typing, and I've been using them for years.
I'm not sure if there's newer options now for silent switches? I know they had a couple models with extra internal damping.
I used boba u4 silents on my custom keyboard. Absolutely love them. Wish they made a consumer-grade keyboard with them (or maybe they already do?) But I've been working on a MacBook recently and tbh the keyboard there is pretty good now. So next step for me is to build a low profile keyboard
Oh man, if Topre became popular enough to bring the price down through scale that would be pretty rad
vi tho.
That awkward moment when you use Nano
Up against the wall
I always uninstall nano the first time it shows itself
On my colemak keyboard I put arrow keys on another layer under where hjkl are on qwerty. Beyond that, most of the keys are remembered by mnemonic rather than position imo