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I must be in the minority. I haven’t used any of these keys in over a decade. Probably more like 15 years at this point. Command + something can replace almost all of these, so why waste an extra key on it.
Really you just need a command key, get rid of the rest. Hold it down for different lengths of time to indicate which key input you want.
You still use keys?
There's a comedy sketch from about twenty years ago where that happens but I can't find it at the mo.
You joke, but my caps lock on my laptop keyboard is mapped to command and if I double tap it and hold it’s my hyper key. On my crkbd keyboard if I hold
a
it’s option and semicolon is control. I have quite a lot of keys like this. It’s very efficient.