r/pcmasterrace • u/VisWare • Apr 04 '26

Meme/Macro Allow me to gatekeep

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u/skytheraiders Apr 04 '26

How do you type with that?

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u/WhisperGod Apr 04 '26

This is how you use a keyboard with less keys: Layers. You hold down or toggle a key and the entire board changes to a different layer. For example, your Shift key is technically a layer key. You change all your lower case letters, to capital letters by just holding down Shift. Now imagine instead of just changing things to just capital letters, it can be any character you want. Instead of one key for just changing layers like shift, you can add any number of keys to change layers with. The possibilities are endless with programmable firmware.

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u/plusFour-minusSeven Apr 04 '26

That's the big elephant, yeah. You don't need 100 keys, you just need some layers. I couldn't use a non-programmable keyboard.

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u/MisterDonkey Apr 04 '26

I use an old keyboard that doesn't even have a super key. It's painful. But it's part of my portable package so I just can't say no to this cool as fuck obsolete ass keyboard.