Yeah, I believe they’re using this keyboard as one thats very comfortable to use in steno mode but can still be used in vanilla keyboard mode
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Kailh Box Reds, even if they make me feel like I’m the regrettable centrist of mechanical keyboards.
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Are there adapters that don’t work with it?
I kinda thought they all would.
I’m like 90% sure what I used to use was the Elecom ps1 adapter.
they were cheap at the time.
I can’t seem to find them cheap anywhere online now though. Figures. 
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/JC-PS101UBK-Converter-Connection-Supports-Controller/dp/B000FO601O
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I think the one we have just doesn’t map it very well? I’d have to check again
Kailh Box Pinks are what is on my Lily58, and I like them. Like a stiffer Cherry Blue.
in my exploration scraping x360ce’s user database for device info i came across japanese open hardware kit “neGT-USB” for this purpose, though may be hard to source one contemporarily
input chording is up there with vr as unintuitive tech with blown out physical and cognitive barriers unfit for general consmption that people have been calling the next big thing since the late 60s, i don’t wanna play guitar to compose email
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Hmm, there seems to be a schematic and firmware image over here: レゲーの部屋別館: 移転記念！ maybe I could in fact DIY that
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i did however willingly and happily use a blackberry torch for 5 years and longingly regard subway ads for courtroom steno courses as a certainly-doomed career change possibility so… maybe i do
https://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/court-calendar/telephone-conferences
current lockdown status: eagerly anticipating putting the Valve v. Ironburg zoom court proceedings on speakerphone next week
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input chording’s no more unusual than touch typing, might as well say “I don’t want to play an accordion to compose an email”
Anyway, I think it’s going to become more popular now because we’re finally living in an era where there isn’t a barrier to entry of several hundred to several thousand dollars of gear just to get started.
I have this open in a tab on my laptop and I have no idea where it came from. is it from this thread? who knows! but if it’s not in here it probably deserves to be, so here you go.
What if I do want to play an accordion to compose an email though
anyway chording is definitely way more unusual than touch typing because regular keyboards have big friendly letters printed on them so you can start by not touch typing, then gradually and accidentally fall into touch typing. I type all fucked up because I taught myself to do it, but it’s better than steno which I literally could not teach myself to do. The barrier to entry is way, way higher, even disregarding costs.
I do think it’s cool as hell though and want to learn it, I just think it will always be relatively niche just because you simply cannot learn it on your own.
someone with or has tried both tell me: Dualsense or Xsex
I had less than a minute with the DualSense but it still has the weird bulges on the sides that make controllers hard to relax the back of your hand on.
The XBS|X pad is solid and improves the Dpad, bumper, and triggers.
Not sure if DualSense will get support on PC or not so the fancy mechanism might be lost
Personally I’d say SX is nicer, but just to complicate things a little the DualSense’s gyro is far and away the best performing of any controller to date
Form factor, DualSense is like a chunkier Xbone pad and the SX a smaller trimmer Xbone pad
Steam supports all the DualSense’s DualShock 4-like features: gyro, touchpad, legacy rumble, LED, etc. and games are starting to natively as well. Sony/Gaikai are working through full Linux support for the controller’s advanced features (audio-based rumble and adaptive triggers) with the intention of getting support for Android and embedded systems, so there’s slight chance a handful of PS5 ports may use these functions on PC in the future, but I wouldn’t bet on it. The advanced features are fun to play with from a hardware hacking perspective – the triggers seem to operate on some sort of proprietary microcode – but I don’t expect you’ll really get much out of them off console.
While Valve and Ironburg litigate the future of paddles NVIDIA apparently want to make one of the older Steam Controller prototypes For Real…
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i would buy this in 0 seconds
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Are those scroll wheels by the triggers?
that is tight
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the pippin trackball is back baby
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Yeah, I love the scroll wheel idea, but that seems like an odd spot.
Really curious about there being two of them on the same “axis.”
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