This looks awesome - thanks! What’s the all-in price?

what’s “large” and what’s “cheap”?

If the internet is gone I have no need for a Linux box.

Linux isn’t dependent on the internet FYI. It doesn’t send telemetrics data to Microsoft for example.

If you’re going to print something, just buy a book. It’s much cheaper and you don’t have to deal with the carcinogenic effects from the printing.

Online guides are often poorly written.

Also forgot to point out, you can buy keys with a transparent cover over the top on ali so you can shove a piece of paper underneath the transparent bit to use as labels.

https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sa64d09e1337e4dbe8ab64b7194aa790cF.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif

Amateurs. I use butterflies.

https://xkcd.com/378/

I get this, but an IDE should be invisible and grow as you do and not require you to learn lots of janky things before it becomes a little bit useful for you.

Need the basics, great, here they are. Don’t understand some advanced feature? Well the IDE has it here, but it isn’t in your way, mess with it as and when you want. It’ll still be there.

I don’t think one IDE does everything for different languages and its ok to swap editors depending on your workflow, your project and your ever-changing skillset.

I’m using Mate and it allows me to easily define custom shortcuts to open apps and so on. I suppose autoIt / the linux variants / custom script can add additional functionality to the keypad as well!

‘~Esc$&:;()[]{}<>=+*

Other than it being your password, why?

I’m using ch57x-keyboard-tool to configure it

Great! I’ve bought similar without the dials (I wish I didn’t have to pay extra for the stupid LEDs) and was hoping there was something open sourcey to configure it with rather than their dodgy codebase for the same reasons you list!

Of course there are going to be passages to skip as with any technical reference.

Your opinions don’t align with mine, so I’m going to personally insult you.

It’s this toxic attitude that we reject. If you prefer to stare at screens all the time causing damage to your retinas, then I’m happy for you.

It sounds beautiful! It’d be really nice if there were transparent rubber keypads available that could be put over phone screens. Then you could fashion an old phone as a keyboard with infinite layers. A simple flutter app to set up the shortcuts and make them configurable and badda boom!

Mechanical keyboards have a huge, fanatical following! /c/mechanical_keyboards - shame it’s dead. I expected to see posts of why the IBM Model M is better than everything else!

I’m really happy that it works for you! Well done on doing the hard work to find it!

Exactly! The old books cover the terminal commands really well and almost everything will still apply. If you read it cover to cover, you’re going to end up knowing more commands than most daily users of Linux and it’d help you with any networking / IT courses you intend to study.

Wow. I updated the post above with some cheapo alternatives that have mechanical keys.

There’s also MIDI controllers like: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007444327683.html maybe more listed under DJ / mixing controllers

Edit: The post asked about how I feel about the size. My opinion is that I wish it had 1 (ideally 2) more vertical sets of keys because that would allow me to use my thumb for button pressing too. But overall I’m happy and I think it’s my only real problem with it.

Check aliexpress. You’re going to find things that excite you including a kb that’s very similar

EDIT: I thought I’d go searching, some ideas:

• https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007032783471.html
• https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008256166426.html
• https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007032783471.html
• https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006814738256.html - an extra row. Sure it’ll take another USB port but you could stick them together!

Looks nice. How much did it cost?

amateur chemistry

So… cooking meth?