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The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually, my giant mechanical Blackwidow keyboard is way easier to use than my laptop when my nails are long.

[–] tal@lemmy.today -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How can it be easier to use keys with traditional keyswitches? You'd have more key travel.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've switched out keycaps to make them comfortable for me. You can customise them. I find it very hare to type on a laptop keyboard for a long time and it fucks up my posture.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm. Interesting.

If you don't mind me asking, could you describe what alternate keycaps were used? Like, taller keycaps in the front, shorter in the back? Like, I still think that the amount of keytravel would be a negative, but maybe the issue is that the long nails descend into the keyboard given the normal position of a hand typing, and basically changing the angle improves that.

If that's the case, I'm wondering whether maybe it'd be possible to change the angle of the keyboard as a whole. Like, either use an external keyboard propped up differently, tilting away from the user, or a laptop with the front part of the base shimmed up to tilt away from the user.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I use softer keycaps, some are resin! I also have the back propped up like you mentioned with the built in lifts. I also have carpel tunnel so I don't want to cram my hands into a small space and it's OK to be slow sometimes. And a good wrist rest is key.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I also have the back propped up like you mentioned with the built in lifts

Ah hah!

Yeah, there are some ergo keyboards that have that "reverse tilt" built in. They're aimed more at being easier on the wrist than at trying to permit for long nails, but they do exist.

e.g.:

https://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/

I also have carpel tunnel

That'd be an argument for a keyboard, like, a mechanical one where you don't bottom out the keys on press, and then training yourself to not bottom them out, which is a big argument mechanical keyboard fans have for theirs versus rubber dome keyboards. And you need a fair bit of key travel for that, yeah. Hmm.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've convinced some if my girlfriends to switch as they have white versions and Blackwidows are fairly cheap on Ebay (£50-75). :) They like them as they're heavy writers.