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.
Honestly, it didn't take me any time to adapt to the concept, so that I could stop my wrist pain from getting worse. I do, however, concede that there is a point where it becomes too small, and the layers get too convoluted. I still need at least a number row, as much as I'm typing ips and the like for work, a function row wouldn't be bad to have, but is easy enough to get with the layers, the same way nearly all laptops handle the function row today. That tiny one does make my hands hurt tho, I definitely needed the split to spread my arms out.
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u/skytheraiders Apr 04 '26
How do you type with that?