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  • This Keyboard Has A =?UTF-8?B?4oCcU01PTOKAnQ==?= Key

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 10 23:44:39 2025
    The reviews claims this is the “world’s largest keyboard”. <https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/keyboards/im-typing-this-on-the-worlds-largest-keyboard-a-178-key-best-designed-to-make-you-more-productive>.
    It claims to be inspired by the legendary “Space Cadet” keyboard from
    the 1980s <https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Space-Cadet-Keyboard-650629356>, and is certainly a wonder to behold. Yet with all the modifiers it
    does provide (look, they found room for *two* “Meta” keys, both on the right-hand side!), they somehow decided to omit any CTRL keys.

    Note on modifiers: “Meta” is commonly a synonym for “Alt”, while the “Super” key is usually mapped to the one with the Windows logo on it,
    for those still stuck in the Microsoft world. The “Hyper” moodifier
    has no equivalent on a conventional keyboard. These are all names well-established from the days of high-powered workstations running
    Unix or doing AI work with Lisp. But what the heck is the “SMOL” key supposed to do?

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 11 06:43:43 2025
    In comp.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Note on modifiers: “Meta” is commonly a synonym for “Alt”, while the “Super” key is usually mapped to the one with the Windows logo on it,
    for those still stuck in the Microsoft world. The “Hyper” moodifier
    has no equivalent on a conventional keyboard. These are all names well-established from the days of high-powered workstations running
    Unix or doing AI work with Lisp. But what the heck is the “SMOL” key supposed to do?

    https://mechboards.co.uk/products/hyper-7-v4?variant=41911394795725

    The SMOL key is with NEXT, PRIOR, and END suggesting that is sort of
    start of something key. (It's one of four red keys in the keycap variant
    that seems to show up first.)

    Send More Onion Latkes is an option if you remap the key.

    Elijah
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    onion latkes are an obvious (and delicious) variation on potato latkes

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