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At someone who has to pound a lot of keys for a living, I've taken a small passing interest in these sorts of split boards, especially since they keep popping up so prevalently in the Lemmy "all" feed. (Currently I use a variety of traditional, but very nice mechanical keyswitched, 104 key boards.)
But... The apparent universal lack of a number row is turning me off of all the offerings I'm seeing on display, or built by others. Is there a reason for that? I use my number pad a lot, ergonomically terrible or not, but losing not only that but also the number row would drive me batshit. No arrows, either? Are you guys doing all that stuff with foot pedals, Fn key combos, or telepathy, or do you have a manservant off to the side holding a numeric pad for you, or what?
i have a number row, and a number pad (on a layer)
look up the lily58 for a rumber row.
for a numpad, I just press a key with my thumb on the left keyboard, and my whole right keyboard becomes a numpad. 7 8 9 stay in the same place as they normally are on the number row, with 4 5 6 under them, 1 2 3 under those.
works like a charm