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Keyboard Layout From Another Dimension
Description
A close-up product photo shows a black LG compact keyboard with separated, staggered horizontal sections. Visible keys include punctuation keys, "Esc Back", "Enter" with a media-play icon, "Shift", and "Delete", plus arrow and volume symbols printed in blue. The odd physical layout makes a familiar input device look spatially hostile, which lands as a developer ergonomics joke for anyone whose muscle memory depends on predictable key placement.
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This keyboard has enough layout entropy to make Vim users discover new modes by accident.
why Comment deleted
🤣 Comment deleted
Is this a real keyboard? Comment deleted
Yes (sadly) Comment deleted
the fuck was delete sacrificed for? Comment deleted
delete is to the left of the arrow keys Comment deleted
yes, i'm not blind the fuck is the square? Comment deleted
for ps emulation Comment deleted
the key to switch to a better keyboard Comment deleted
To this one? Comment deleted
WHY THE FUCK THIS Comment deleted
ah, the "cram as many symbols as possible into every key" keyboard Comment deleted
I wonder why they just don't make it hexagonal and add this f*ing 6th row Comment deleted
I think this square supposed to have a burger symbol inside (like E without left stick), I also have one on my keyboard, but I still dunno why it exists Comment deleted
context menu key Comment deleted
Thanks, now I know Comment deleted
Who designed this.... and WHY Comment deleted
...and WHERE Comment deleted
Okay, now I'm getting why. Conventional keyboard used to have 6 rows, but they apparently tried to fit it all in 4 rows Comment deleted
fn row number row q a y modifier row + spacebar yeah, 6 rows checks out. some keyboards don't have the fn row though Comment deleted
Japanese one seems to solve issue by using 5 rows, but maybe just because they couldn't manage to fit all symbols into 4 Comment deleted
anything other than dvorak is stone-age Comment deleted
dvorak is english specific Comment deleted
anything other than たていすかん is unusable Comment deleted
(keys that correspond to QWERTY ones on combined qwerty+kana keyboards, reading: ta.te.i.su.ka.n, meaning: probably none) Comment deleted
suka Comment deleted
turns out this is usable too Comment deleted
this isn't useful for anything Comment deleted
Don't let Apple see it. They might be inspired by it. Comment deleted
So they will release it in 5 yrs and sell it as a "revolutionary product". And know what? It will bring them money anyway. Comment deleted
Where are the F keys then? Comment deleted
Oh nvm ipad “power” user Comment deleted
On your keyboard to press for the ones who have THIS Comment deleted
I have Fn lock on mine. Lmao i think the only thing it does is replacing the F keys with media, brightness and such buttons Comment deleted
fn lock is like capslock, but for fn. useless as fuck and everytime when I use someone else's laptop I have to guess if theirs is normal or not Comment deleted
No no you will know it on mine. It has an led and if you press it by itself it acts as lock, if you press it in combination it acts as if its normal Fn key, and it memorizes its state regardless of the os or rebooting Comment deleted
great. did you know some laptops like to invert that LED based on a BIOS setting? Comment deleted
Invert? Comment deleted
On my laptop, you can configure in the firmware whether the F1-12 keys function as F1-12 or as their other functions. This setting affects the light-off state of Fn lock. With the light on, it's the opposite of what was set in the firmware. Comment deleted
Is this a computer keyboard layout from the 70s? Comment deleted