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ebastler:

--- Quote from: bd139 on April 23, 2021, 07:03:08 am ---There's a BIOS option to swap Fn with Ctrl if you want  :-+

The rationale is that it's easier to press the offset ctrl with your thumb if it's slightly further to the right.

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I used the remapped Ctrl/Fn keys when I had a Thinkpad a couple of years ago, but of course that confused others when they wanted to type on that machine. Couldn't Lenovo make these keys the same size so you can swap the keycaps too when you remap them?

And what is that argument about pressing Ctrl with your thumb? That key is on the far left of the keyboard! :scared: I am not a proper touch typist, but have always used my pinky to press the Ctrl key.
bd139:

--- Quote from: ebastler on April 23, 2021, 04:26:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 23, 2021, 07:03:08 am ---There's a BIOS option to swap Fn with Ctrl if you want  :-+

The rationale is that it's easier to press the offset ctrl with your thumb if it's slightly further to the right.

--- End quote ---

I used the remapped Ctrl/Fn keys when I had a Thinkpad a couple of years ago, but of course that confused others when they wanted to type on that machine. Couldn't Lenovo make these keys the same size so you can swap the keycaps too when you remap them?

And what is that argument about pressing Ctrl with your thumb? That key is on the far left of the keyboard! :scared: I am not a proper touch typist, but have always used my pinky to press the Ctrl key.

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Thumb is a lot more accurate than that piece of shit straggly thing on the other end of your hand  :-DD

I may have an advantage though because I have excessively large hands so contortions like that are easily possible.
Kleinstein:
Things went down-hill with labtops when they started to change the screen to 16:9. Suddenly a 15 inch screen was wider than the keyboard and they had space on both sides, though not enough to fit a numerical keypad.

For serious simulations I would still prefer a desktop computer: the laptops are often relatively weak on cooling and may throttle down after a minute or so. With the graphs it also helps to have a large sceen. A 17 inch laptop is also not really portable by todays standards, but still a tiny picture compared to a normal monitor.

The control key's are often a bit out of the normal way - don't have them on a regular type-writer. For me it is usually the other hand to operate the control key.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: blueskull on April 23, 2021, 04:29:31 pm ---Improperly designed keys are worse than small keys for sure.

The laptop I'm currently typing on has full sized keyboard (despite being a 10" UMPC, the keyboard frame bezel is just a few mm), but the keys are so badly made that the tactile feedback does not guarantee a reliable trigger or no double trigger. So I have to slam the keys hard to make sure it triggers reliably, once per strike.

OTOH, on a 7" UMPC where keys are very small, the keys are very reliable and actually after a few days of use I kinda got used to it.

Still, I'm on this 10" for most of the time, just because that 7" one uses a display designed for portrait and placed in landscape, so I have to rotate the display, and that means screen tearing on Xorg, and KiCAD (and a few other wxWidget tools) don't work well on Wayland.

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Pretty tough to use KiCAD etc. on a 7" device, LOL!  :D
gnuarm:
The real problem with my laptop is the screen is too small.  I'd like it to be 60 inches so I can put it on the wall in front of me, but the wall isn't big enough for that with two doors in it.  So a 17" screen actually in my lap is the best I can do. 

I've noticed over the years as the screens get more pixels the print gets smaller.  I'm sure this has nothing to do with my eyes getting older  ;).  But I've wondered if that would extend to one of those really high def screens with over 3000 pixel width.  Do the icons and print continue to get smaller? 

I know you can adjust a scaling setting in Windows, but not every program respects that.  In fact, the ones most important to me don't change, like simulators and other tools.  So should I stick with 1920 pixels or might a higher resolution display work ok?  The added pixels won't do diddly for me.  I can't see the ones I've got!  Things that are one pixel wide often are near invisible.  KiCAD, I'm talking about YOU!   :box:
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