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# Flat keyboards break fingers
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*Something about metal plates and pancakes.*
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Ask any nerd about keyboards and you'll probably end up getting a
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lecture about *mechanical* keyboards. Probably cherry MX. If that
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doesn't ring a bell to you, congratulations, you're a not-tech-savvy
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person that somehow found my website. Good news, because this
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post is for you.
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You see, this isn't about mechanical keyboards. Or any other type of
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special high quality clicky clacky keyboards. This is about
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standard-issue, run-of-the-mill, plain-as-jane keyboards. Those $10
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mushy pieces of shit you can get at about any computer or electronics
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store. More specifically, those current day *flat* pancake keyboards.
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Now you've probably noticed the trend of keyboards
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getting flatter and flatter. They look trendy like that, but that wasn't the
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reason for their invention at first. The initial flat keyboards were made as
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a compromise between having a decent keyboard, and having one flat enough to
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properly fit in a laptop. It made sense, unless you liked lugging around a
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thick briefcase-sized computer. There was a functional reason to make them a bit
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flatter.
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But now it's the dawn of 2021. Flat keyboards are a trend, the flatter the
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better. They look sleek and modern. They also type like absolute dog shit.
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In fact how people type on them at all is a mystery to me.
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Let's discuss travel distance. The flatter you go, the
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less distance there is until the key bottoms out. You'll want a bit of distance;
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having a bit more improves precision, having a bit less means it's less tiring
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for your fingers. Unfortunately the modern day keyboard was hit by a truck tire
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and ended up so flat, there's barely any travel distance left. If you want to
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know what typing on one of these feels like, try hammering your fingers on your
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desk. Don't actually do that though, you'll break your fingers. Just as much as
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you'd break your fingers on typing on one of these roadkill keyboards.
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People in the past were quick to complain about this sort of thing, yet here
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we are. We somehow stopped giving a damn. We've gone form-over-function, except
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function got literally thrown out the window. Do the people designing these things
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even use their computers? Probably not, I'd assume they just have a really fancy
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apple computer they use as an ornament for status symbolism.
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Now I want to point out that there have been many decent flat keyboards in the
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past. I've typed this rant on a thinkpad t450's keyboard. It's not perfect, but
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it goes a long way to prove that so long as you don't turn it into a pancake,
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a flatter keyboard can and will do the job for you. It's an example that
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form *and* function can come together in a nice package. So next time you go
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out to buy a new keyboard, try spending the extra buck on something quality.
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Heck, you might end up enjoying what you buy for once. |