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class3shock ◴[] No.42204139[source]
If you aren't a gamer is a keyboard with this tech worth looking at?
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1. exceptione ◴[] No.42204387[source]
The question that should have been answered, but wasn't.

Since booleans default to false, I would say: no.

More seriously, if you assign different meanings to a key relating to how deep it gets pressed, it will result in lots of key misses I suppose. You will have to develop a piano feel, but for a piano there is a correlation with loudness.

So if you define a soft action for a gentle press on space, and a "stronger" action for a deep press on space, maybe you can do useful things without fucking up your typing.

Things like: going to

  start of word, (soft)
  start of sentence (medium)
  column 0 (hard)
But i am a bit wary about how precise and consistent the board will be. But if it works, it might save on key combinations to learn.
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2. danohuiginn ◴[] No.42207187[source]
slam the keys hard enough and you get all caps?