noted thanks for the feedback
IMO the promotional posts really got out of hand on the old subreddit.
yeah, I totally agree and was actively brainstorming the best way to reign it in. I definitely think if we do it thread-wise it'd want to be a monthly/weekly post rather than a singular one. For that we'd need to look into having a bot do it though, I think. I think personally my comfort level is posts being fine, but no more than one per week. It's important to have a way to let vendors advertise, within limits, directly to those of us that also want to buy the kinds of things they are selling. This supports both the vendors and the consumers. But there is a balance to be had to prevent it getting spammy whilst also preventing it from getting so buried that people who might want it, miss it.
I like the thread idea but it'll take some setting up. I think for the mean time I'll add a limitation to once-per-week and see how we go.
What do people think about if the vendor is running a givaway/sale/etc.? is that a different enough tier of post that it's okay to make a separate post? or should also strictly be confined to a scheduled vendor thread still?
Might make a post about this asking wider opinions. Thanks for your input.
Duplicate post?
Another option is the cirque touchpads. I've not tried them but they are popular and people find them usable enough as an actual replacement primary pointing device, which isn't the case with things like the pimoroni trackball, etc.
Let's not get in the habit of posting promotional posts every day. I'm not sure what the limit should be but twice in as many days already feels too frequent. I'll leave this up today but I'll remove any more from you that come in the next 7 days. Once or twice per week seems a reasonable frequency as a starting place.
This is really cool and I love the idea of routing the 50cm channel for sound. Would love to see how your layout ends up mapping onto this.
What's the purpose of the little holes in the keycaps? Just aesthetics?
Hexagons are the bestagons
Hm, maybe I'll make a lowpro keyboards community. There's a lowpro specific discord server after all.
I think most people map their keyboards to something based upon US QWERTY and set their input language in the OS to their language layout. that means no faffing around with unicode. e.g. QMK's KC_SEMI is ; in English (United States) locale but å in a nordic layout. There's not really a fully portable way to achieve it all on-keyboard because the means to input unicode differs between operating systems. However, you can use QMK's unicode support but you will also need to include some keys that toggle between which OS you're plugged into to have it work.
For portability you are better off using whatever the most widely-used means of typing your given characters are across OSs, so if Linux/Mac/Windows all have the same deadkey combination for ë and ê on their built-in AZERTY, use a macro that types that. As for æ and œ then yeah, you might be shit out of luck with a properly agnostic portable system. Unicode stuff, as I said above, is not OS agnostic so you will have to toggle a setting based on which OS you are using at the time. I don't think there's a way to detect that from the host unless there is a hueristic I'm unaware of.
Good luck, I hope you come up with a low-friction solution.
Nope, how do you like it?