Good to see this project moving along, and if the team is monitoring this, give Brian a smack from me :P

Sidenote: If you (or anyone else) has one to sell, I'd love to try QMK'ing one.

Those Hall effect switches and design are amazing.

I am not familiar with QMK but I have converted mine to use a Teensy++ and wrote a simple firmware for that. The nice thing about the Teensy++ is that it fits into the socket of the original 8051 (clone), you only have to crosswire or remove a couple of pins.

This post inspired me to modify my own in a very similar fashion: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=12212.0

Teensy++: https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensypp.html

And this is the firmware I wrote and still use: https://github.com/imarko/dhteensy

I think there might be some better versions out there but I wrote this to work just the way I wanted so never bothered with anything else.

I don't have one to sell unfortunately, my spares may need to last me a lifetime :)

Hot Take: A purse/bag is superior to pockets in most situations, stays organized and can handle the array of items needed for life much more gracefully then pockets. I don't need to completely unpack my purse at the end of the day and it's ready to go for the next. Hell if I want to change bags everything is in an organizer that can slip out and into a different one. Can't do that with pockets!

Also form fitting clothing is a pain with bulky devices. Nothing says fun like keys being jammed into your leg or trying to wiggle a phone in and out. Looser fits are almost needed.

But I agree with your final statement, let's not give people crap for choosing practical pockets. Wear what you will!

There is no doubt purses are useful on occasion and if you are carrying a purse, pockets are redundant.

But I suspect one of the big reasons women complain about pockets is because there are occasions where having to carry around a purse is a needless hassle. I totally agree that tight pants are largely cross purpose with big pockets.

All of my knowledge on the topic is second hand so I lack the foundation to disagree.

Also can wake your monitors when you're connected to wifi! Took me a few months before I realized that my displays would sleep themselves if I was disconnected, walked in one day with wifi disabled, enabled it and my monitors popped up

I was just thinking this, as cool as having TouchID on a keyboard is, I'm not willing to keep a spare keyboard or ditch my GergoPlex for it.

Another user pointed out that a Watch can fill a similar void, but keeping one _just_ for authentication seems overkill.

Maybe binding the system password into the keyboard firmware is ok. Unless you need to worry about someone dumping FW or decamping chips or whatever.

I came here to bring this up, I use a Key2 daily and have used a UniHertz Titan for a time. Many applications don't handle odd screen aspects very gracefully. (Like Instagram opting for zooming stories instead of lettering).

But sticky headers are the bane of my existence.

Heavy keys as well, and harsh bottom-out.

There's a ton of rethinking what a keyboard is that is going on in the ergo space right now as to what a keyboard _should_ be and how they should function. From physical layouts, curvature, keymaps, layering and combos it's interesting to see the experimentation going on. These devices are going to be used for the rest of our lives, they should at least be non-harmful over time.

Right now I'm using a GergoPlex, but my holy grail is a QMK'd DataHand. (And if you know who has one, please send them my way)

You have already designed many keyboards, go on with a GergoHand! (happy Gergo, not Plex, user here)

I wish it was that easy! There's so many mechanical parts to consider and CAD is not my strong suit.

That being said, if someone wants to miniturise the LalBoard and rework it, I could design a PCB/firmware :)

It was more of an "I dare you", not that it is that easy at all. To be fair, I don't think I'd find it more comfortable than a normal split keyboard

If you're going that route, go for GergoPlex with 12g switches :)

But you can do that by changing the default layer.

[0] !https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/using-qmk/software-features/feature...

I have a Titan set up with all my accounts for when My Key2 finally goes. It's beefier, but more modern.

I'm really hoping Onward doesn't botch the release of their new BlackBerry PKB. Because if that's half good, that Titan will just sit in the drawer :P