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So the next thing is to start using keyboard shortcuts to switch browser tabs. Ctrl+num on most browsers and operating systems (although weirdly it's alt+num on Ubuntu).

I'm already using my zsa #moonlander to make shortcuts, so that all applications are an easy chord with my left hand. My thumb switches to my navigation layer, and the most common applications are keys QWERTG mapped to meta+(1-6).

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After 1 week with the new keyboard at home, my view still stands. The new one is a lovely keyboard, and it really feels great to type on. However, it can not compete with my Moonlander when it comes to flexibility and configurability. The Moonlander is the best keyboard I have ever used. Expensive, but great. The Moonlander also has just enough keys for those of us that use a non-english typeset on a regular basis.

Also, as a side-note, and as a touch typer, I have gotten really used to the Moonlander being columnar instead of using a traditional layout. The “traditional” layout made sense back in the days of mechanical typewriters, where the typeset arms weren’t supposed to be able to tangle themselves up if you typed “too fast”. The traditional layout really doesn’t make much sense these days, on computers.

Bought a new keyboard for home as I plan to use my beloved Moonlander at work instead. Went for a QMK Keychron keyboard which is lovely in itself, but trying things out I am now holding a completely new appreciation for ZSA’s firmware configurator, which is what I use to configure the Moonlander. It is MILES ahead of the QMK/VIA configurator. I had no idea.

I thought the ZSA configurator, being based on QMK, would be similar to what I could expect for any QMK keyboard. I was wrong.

It is like comparing the latest set of flight controls with a bicycle.

i am reading about the cask of `mouseless@preview` and making notes for inspiration for my #moonlander layouts. i have a pointer control and window control layer to cycle tabs of terminals and browsers, and i have 8 directional nudges bound but i think i can do better. #HID #UI
github.com/croian/mouseless/bl

GitHubmouseless/mouseless_documentation.md at main · croian/mouselessBug tracking and more for Mouseless. Contribute to croian/mouseless development by creating an account on GitHub.

Anyone got the #ZSA #Moonlander platform?

It's not a looker, but it's really sturdy and easy to adjust.

However, for a neutral, relaxed angle in my arms, I need to move the desk down so far that the desktop touches my legs; couldn't sit there on a normal chair anymore.

I don't recall having unusually long upper arms like an ape, so how do y'all manage?

#Private #MoonLander
"Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole"

<<This was the second landing attempt for Intuitive Machines.>>

🔗apnews.com/article/moon-landin

The landing gear is too stiff, and the base is too small for this tall lander. Intuitive Machines needs a folding landing gear with shock absorbers.

There's a good 🇨🇦 design available online! 😉

🔗spaceq.ca/the-canadian-story-o

I sniped a used #Moonlander (split ortholinear keyboard) off Ebay, and this is *properly* cursed:

The last time I tried out a similar keyboard, YEARS ago, I tried to switch to a new keyboard layout at the same time (Neo2, good for German programmers. Yes, I know.)

This didn't work out, and I stuck with my beat-up, external Thinkpad Keyboard and regular German QWERTZ layout, because who cares, in the end.

My brain, that’s who. Plugged in the Moonlander, now my fingers want to type Neo2 😭