Honestly it was a joke that got out of hand
Oh yeah I can upload it to imgur or something
Well said
Haha it was at my wife's family cottage for decades and we tried to sell it in a garage sale but nobody wanted it so it's been sitting in our basement for several years. I had a SNES and N64 hooked up to it for a while but didn't play them much so now it's back in the basement.
Also getting a screenshot of a typing test on it was kind of a huge pain and I probably did it in the most convoluted way possible. But in the end I was super happy with how the shot turned out, especially since a friend of mine made this insanely cool video out of it.
In a good way or a bad way?
I'm almost always on Mac so I don't need Ctrl much but it is in a layer when I do need it.
It’s honestly really useful having the three keys off to the right. You can just map them to macros or something.
I write JavaScript on the tiny ones so I have to type a lot of () and {} and stuff. It took me a little while to get used to.
Also I have them mapped so that QAZ are Esc, Tab, Shift. So all letters are accounted for on layer 0.
That, my friend, is the keymap of the future.
I haven't tried home row mods, but I really should. I use a Mac most of the time, so most of the stuff I would do with F keys is just mapped to media controls on the third layer. I've barely even used any of the QAZ boards on Windows since I pretty much only use W for gaming.
Here's the map I've been using for the past month or so. I use pretty much the same layout minus the macro keys on the Vault 35.
I also have used this unhinged map and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It's the default map that I wrote for the firmware.
And then I started trying out this gaming layer on the Vault last week. Still getting used to it.
So about gaming… A couple weeks ago I had a dream that I was gaming and my friend told me I was playing poorly because of my keyboard so then we got in a fight. I usually use a 65% for gaming but last week someone convinced me I could use the Vault 35 (green one on the bottom left) so I tried it last week. It went okay after I got everything mapped the way I wanted but then at one point I accidentally turned off my gaming layer and the friend who I got in a fight with in the dream started to get annoyed so I pretended my game was messing up. Then I came clean the next day and he said "fuck you".
Moral of the story is I'm going to continue gaming on the 35%.
Here it is! (Sorry I’m guessing imgur wasn’t really what you had in mind when you said not a centralized platform)