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[–] 41 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Oh hey. It's the keyboard used in the 2008 action movie Wanted.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    Movie any good? Worth finding?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The story is a little bit curved and I don't want to spoiler all bullet points, but if you don't search for a far-reaching target or complicated woven meaning, I'm sure you can enjoy it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

    If you like action movies, yes.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Replace the second U with an S and it gains a lot of functionality.

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    [–] 18 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    What's the longest single word your can type with that keyboard? Best I can do is "yucky".

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    cookoff

    No caps because no shift.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (2 children)
    1. You win, I think. That definitely seems to be an accepted spelling.
    2. Pretty sure this particular keyboard is gonna be only caps. One of my keyboards even does this with numlock. It is on by defualt, has no numlock key, and if I plug in a second or use software to turn it off, the keyboard turns it back on like a useless machine.
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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    i have a crappy dell wireless keyboard here that doesn't have a NUMLOCK. in some linux distributions or environments it defaults OFF, and i have to rig the DE or numlockx to enable it at login. i only keep it around because it's a kb+mouse set that shares one dongle.. it's handy to move from pc to pc when i need to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Mine was made for a chemical analyzer for medical and drug testing (it has a METH key, among others!), and firmware-wise the customization was sort of a hack. Keeping numlock on was necessary to make it work how they intended.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Ergonomics is important, so I present you my quick prototype of a QWERTY version:

    !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

    Screenshot of Sketchbook app featuring my doodle of a qwerty-like keyboard with just the keys Y, U, O, enter, F, K, C and spacebar. The hidden layers revealed by Sketchbook's GUI disclose my initial attempt to make a precise key grid for all QWERTY keys.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    How many 'U' keys do you need??

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    With the power of macros, we can maintain the same functionality while reducing the form factor to a single key!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (6 children)

    Wait, are all the macros just pressing the same key different numbers of times?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    No need. It knows what the next letter is at any given time. In fact, we can just type out the whole phrase with one key press!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

    Of course, predictive text macro. What could possible go wrong?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    It's typing out "fuck you" every time, so not exactly a demanding prediction...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Ahhh, the legendary IBM Model F!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    A single "fuck you" button would be an innovative improvement.

    Not sure if science is ready yet to accomplish such a task!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    But you wouldn't be able to write "as per my last email"...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    'Nobody got fired for buying IBM...' '... hold my beer.'

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Missing an exclamation mark.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    No caps lock?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    This makes me wonder how we can take a standard qwerty keyboard, and turn it into a layout with as many expletives as possible?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I would just need a off key...

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