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Came up with this late at night. Not while being anywhere near a laptop though.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

I've had this ErgoDox for, like, 6 years. It has underlights, but no backlights, but also no home row keys. The entire time I've owned it, in the dark I've struggled to find the home row, often taking seconds to find my finger placement by feeling the edges of the keyspace. It's been a constant source of irritation, but it never occurred to me to just buy some home row caps.

Anyway, I was tidying up to office the other day, and found a little packet that came with the keyboard containing home row caps. FML, but with a silver lining, right?

In the process of swapping out those two caps, I completely broke the J switch. So now I'm (temporarily) using a Kinesis Gaming keyboard and learning an object lesson about how utterly miserable row stagger is.

My point is that backlighting would probably have saved me a lot of grief; not as much as home row keys, but still better than nothing.