That is completely wild, hats off!
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It's a different kind of effort, one that doesn't give you RSI or at least improves your situation. And as explained, that mental effort is temporary, it gets engrained in your muscle memory quite quick.
I'm kinda curious about those caps, as well! The layout looks Colemak-ish, is it far off?
The layout looks Colemak-ish, so I'd expect the E to be the key labeled 5 on the right half.
Smaller keyboards like this use layers to reuse certain keys, rather than adding more. The idea is to minimize finger/hand/arm movement. Things like choosing a more efficient layout (QWERTY is actuality pretty bad in that regard), using home row mods (so the letter keys under your index fingers double as Shift when held, for example), and so on.
It takes some getting used to, but it actually quickly becomes second nature.
I've used Rockstor in the past, I liked it mostly (but in the end went with a self-configured OpenSUSE system).
Apart from that, I hear good things about OMV and TrueNAS
Coming across your mapping (again, I might add, it was already on my personal list of inspirational stuff), was a bit of a trigger to redo my mapping. Pinched your altgr-on-innermost-homerow-keys and it's very nice.
I'm in camp "arrows on hjkl on a layer, home/pgdn/pgup/end right below that", but if you really want them as physical keys, I'd probably stuff them below the pinky cluster, right next to the outer thumb.
That, or maybe something dpad-like on the left edge, close to the H.
Edit: Oh, for clarification: I'm a programmer, as well. I make plenty of use of the arrow keys, so it's not like "eh, let's stuff those on a layer, I never use 'em anyway" or something.
Actually, you're right.
Oh well, a humanity, then, just not ours.
Hadn't read The Algebraist yet, so there's a new one on my list. Thanks! I'll make sure to check out Barnes, too.
Not just "should", the GDPR actually requires it. Not giving consent must be an easy option, not this dark pattern clickfest bullshit.
Iain M. Banks: we're living in an AI-regulated Utopia, but the AI that we totally trust might be doing some light imperialism on the side.
Pratchett / Baxter: we're headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense, and another one, and another one, and another one, and oops, a blank...
Edit: added the Long Earth one.
Or being forced to find a headset somewhere because my hearing is shit and I can't make out what they're saying (and don't get me started on the auto-generated sub's).
Also, not having ads waved in my face on YouTube is a plus.
Also, I read a lot faster than the average youtuber talks.
Some things benefit from video, but tech articles tend to not fall under that category.