was thinking of replaying the souls trilogy with a colossal weapon str build since that seems to be what suits me in those games but I need to fix my controller first so I took apart my xbox controller to solder in new bumper buttons and it’ll be a miracle if I didn’t totally destroy this thing. already broke some plastic parts I got to get replacements off aliexpress for. luxury deluxe model controller my ass
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Using the bumper retaining piece as a spring is so frustrating
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so it turns out that the kind of keyboard i want (which is a full keyboard where someone has taken a circular saw to the entire numpad but left everything else the same, i.e. 87 key keyboard) does not appear to exist except as mechanical Gamer Keyboards For Gamers. I find this tremendously bizarre, but I guess that’s life.
Luckily there are a number of Wireless mechanical Gamers Keyboards for Gamers so I’ll probably just get one of those.
thanks for the suggestions everyone though!!
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I was very fond of 96-key layouts until I switched to a split ortholinear if you haven’t seen those yet
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im on a 65% and not gonna front i miss the f keys sometimes
i’m at a premium for space unfortunately, i got a very small desk and the size of “normal keyboard minus the numpad” is exactly right
i keep hurting my shoulder using the mouse, basically
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the problem is that i use Home, End, Pg up, Pg down, AND delete. Everything but insert. i need those keys.
f keys are whatever but my muscle memory will suffer without whatever-you-call-that-part-of-the-keyboard
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Yeah, some categories of product are arbitrarily For Gamers Only. I was shopping for a low-latency wireless headset for smoother conversation over work Zooms. Took me a while to figure out only Gamer headsets have low latency
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i’m in a similar boat, i would honestly just buy the same headset you got but i want active noise canceling. still have to do more research
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65% keyboards keep those (and the arrow keys) and ditch the f keys and numpad. it’s the best layout
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what kind of maniac wants to lose the function keys?
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I use a 40% keyboard and the objective is to move your hands around less and use your thumbs to shift layers to bring the keys you need to you. Mapping the number row to the F row is standard but I’ve also seen the number row/f row moved to home row by a hold/toggle.
Ideally my fingers move at most one row up or down and my thumbs do the work
(Of course to each their own)
I have to be honest I don’t even know what half of the F keys do. Sometimes my computer tells me to press them if I’m in the BIOS so I do. F7? Complete mystery, afraid to touch it.
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quick save and quick load in max payne
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is there keyboard with f keys, no number row, and the number pad? just because of jobs and stuff I’m way faster on the numpad, also it controls directions in gemstone (the numbers are directions and there’s also in out up and down)
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typically you’d get a keyboard with rewritable firmware
but! you could also remap the number row to F keys with PowerToys on the OS level
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the aesthetics of one less row on top but still with the numpad on though, stretched out looking keyboard
they totally exist but they ditch the function row, not the number row (but would allow reprogramming them to function row)
first long board that comes to mind is the key company candy bar. there have got to be cheaper Chinese oem ones I’m just not aware of any offhand
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had the beginning of an illuminating thought earlier today on a drive, realizing that I only talk about linux when I am depressed
hmmm
…
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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