No escape, no control: A 'Severance' keyboard is coming soon

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/21/no-escape-no-control-a-severance-keyboard-is-coming-soon

by guerrilla • 1 year ago

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rbanffy• 1 year ago

Are there any good tutorials on how to design mechanical keyboard PCBs?

thih93• 1 year ago

I’d be fine with missing ctrl and esc, I actually don’t use them[1].

But I couldn’t work without any modifier keys next to space (cmd, opt), that’s an unexpected dealbreaker for me.

[1]: I remap ctrl to capslock and use ctrl+[ in place of escape.

garciasn• 1 year ago

Depending on cost, I absolutely want them to take my money, but I have absolutely no intention of using it; it's just for good looks and gags.

tyleo• 1 year ago

Here is a link to the page where you actually buy the keyboard: https://www.atomickb.com/sign-up

They have their own blog post on it which I find better than the OP Apple insider post: https://www.atomickb.com/all-posts/severance-keyboard

Magma7404• 1 year ago

70% layout

Isn't 70 or 75% supposed to have the arrows next to the other keys in a compact way? Here we have a regular keyboard with less keys.

dasKrokodil• 1 year ago

If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like:

https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement

joenot443• 1 year ago

For anyone who's never considered doing so, I highly recommend remapping the Caps-Lock key to Esc.

Fast access for the left pinky and makes for some nice mental symmetry in having the right pinky bound to Enter (Yes) and the left bound to Esc (No).

The only downside is when you're on someone else's machine and suddenly start typing in caps :)

snthpy• 1 year ago

Just don't open vim with it - there really will be no escape then.

thih93• 1 year ago

Easy, use Ctrl-[ instead! It’s no different than pressing Esc, at least in terminal.

So even today, on Unix-like systems, applications running in a terminal emulator receive the character Ctrl-I when the user presses the Tab key, the character Ctrl-[ when the user presses Esc, etc.

https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/3570

btschaegg2• 1 year ago

Well, if control is missing, too…

Of course, there are still more creative ways. Like

  :.! kill -9 $(pgrep -u $(whoami) vim)

andrewgr144• 1 year ago

Does anyone know if the thing that looks like a key in the middle of the four directional arrows is actually a key? If so, does it have a default key binding (it doesn't appear to have any symbol on it)? It it is an actual key, I assume that it can be mapped to something (presumably to replace one of the three super-common keys that they left out because this is intended as a meme keyboard, not a serious daily driver, but we all know that isn't going to stop some people from using it that way.)

No escape, no control: A 'Severance' keyboard is coming soon

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