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Rate My Lily 58 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by garretble to c/ergomechkeyboards
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I had some wrist issues a couple of years ago and that pushed me to go to the split keyboard route.

I really love this keyboard. I’m someone who actually quite likes the low profile, laptop style keys, so I didn’t know if I’d enjoy this set up. But I quickly grew to love it.

Bright lights and flashing stuff isn’t really my thing, so I’m really glad I was able to find these keycaps that’s just look nice and clean. Underneath are the most silent cherry reds I could find (I’m also not a big fan out loud keyboards. Blasphemy, I know! 😃).

And for my biggest nerd cred: I’m so glad I can save my precious Dvorak layout straight to the keyboard. No longer have to deal with Windows’ layout switching.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice setup! What was the total cost? Looking into something similar. What made you choose the lily over other alternatives?

[–] garretble 1 points 1 year ago

Oh thanks!

I think all told I spent about $250, but $70 of that was paying someone to do the initial soldering. It’s something I probably could have done, but I decided it’d take me forever to do it.

I didn’t have any specific reason to go with this one other than that I know some people with some Ergodox, and while they are neat, I just wanted something different. And all told I saved $100 with this one. I don’t feel like I’m losing any functionality, either, which is nice, and theoretically I could add more stuff to the screens that the Ergodox obviously doesn’t have.

I also like that they are really small and pretty thin, so taking it with me in my bag isn’t that hard. And setting up on a table is easy and doesn’t take up too much space.

[–] overby 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like your setup. I’m more a smaller keyboard type - but it’s a nice setup :-)

[–] garretble 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Do you have an example of the smaller keyboards you are interested in?

[–] overby 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now I'm using a Corne keyboard with a 42-key layout. Working on a new Corne with 36/34-key layout.

Something like this layout: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brianoverby/keymapSVG/main/svg/keymap_3x5-2.svg

[–] garretble 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow, and I thought my keyboard was tiny!

[–] overby 2 points 1 year ago

You should just use what works for you - and it's a nice keyboard you got there :-)