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Cats are good at ignoring humans until they need food or water. Go ahead & type away - the most reaction you're likely to get is a single annoyed crack of the eye, then right back to sleep.
Cat owners: I'd better not make the smallest noise in case my cat wakes up.
Cats: I want something, time to lay on my owner's face and suffocate them until they wake up.
You have NO idea how many intrusive thoughts per second the average cat has to deal with
Yeah you just gotta wait.
What a florf.
Cats are ridiculous. They are so cute that it's enough to simply see pictures of them and your heart goes mruuurr. Pictures! 2D! Mruur! That's how cute they are.
I could be wrong… I’m not a doctor…
But if your heart is making that kind of sound, you might want to see a doctor.
I treat my heart like I treat my car: unless there's fluid actively leaking out, those noises are just for attention.
Good thing you're not a doctor, or I'd think you were trying to drum up business.
He might be an undercover Doc.
That’s one beautiful cat
It's a beautiful Standard Issue Cat.
Naps > Work
Oh, yeah - when comparing the amount of time cats spend doing each, it's definitely naps > work.
How do you like those keycaps?
I have the same. moa? I fricken love how soft they are. Sound great too. Mine are on an akko
What switches do you use with them? Just curious how they sound.
V3 piano pro.
THOK
I cant upload a video sadly !!
They’re allright. I like the shape, but the space bar has sloppy tolerances. Price to performance ratio is great.
I think you're fine to type, as long as you give the cat a bit of fuss and attention at the end of each sentence.
Naturally, every sentence ends with a period (of cat loving).
They get to sleep all they want, with no responsibilities. I never feel a moment’s hesitation about disturbing them :)
At this point just resign.
Speaking for all middle managers… NOOoo… just give us cat photos.
Recently bought an Ergo Purrch to keep my cat away from the keyboard. Very effective, and the cat loves it.
Yea no way my cat would ever use that. I put a single piece of paper on my desk instead, the fucker loves sleeping on squares.
The perch is square too. I sewed him a pillow and a small blanket for it. He was hesitant to go there at first, but now he loves it so much he'll nap there all day when I wfh, sometimes even on non-work days.
I mean all cats are different, but I don't recall any of my pets having an issue with me clacking at the keyboard, even the super loud IBMs.
You haven't lubed your switches enough?!?
Clicks keys are supposed to be noisy.
I know, I just don't understand the appeal. I want my keys to be thocky.
The tactile feedback of the clickly-clacky keys lets me type faster. on the other end of the spectrum, the tactile feed back is lower, but they're less annoying.
the beauty is you can find whatever works best for you.
It's also a security feature, that lets me know when I need to break someone's fingers for daring to use my keyboard. (In my defense, the last time that was really an issue, the asshole wasn't supposed to be in my office, and he was eating wings at the time.)
lol yeah, nobody touches my $500+ keyboard without washing their hands first.
The tactile feedback of the clickly-clacky keys lets me type faster.
I'm curious about this one. Could you elaborate? I'm on low profile choc switches (the ZSA Voyager), and I feel like going back to high profile or clicky would not be something I'd want to do again.
So, I'm going to preface this with noting that familiarity is the single largest factor for typing speed- at least when it comes to key board types. And a lot of it could also be a matter of confidence, as well.
In any case, the prevailing understanding is that mechanical keys are faster than membrane keys because of how they work. membrane keyboards are basically what you have on your microwave- a circuit board or some substrate with part of a curcuit, and a polymer membrane that has the other side of that circuit. You complete the circuit by squashing down on a blister in that membrane, and it registers a key press. Chiclet keys on most laptops are the exact same, except for the key pad you see riding on top of the blister.
Mechanical keyboards, on the other hand, are spring loaded, and the key press is registered somewhere between the top and bottom of the key's motion. exactly where depends on the switch, mind. The OG mechanical keyboards from way back in the day, were all clicky- the point of the click mechanism is that it would tell you when the key press was registered. You could hear and feel it as you pressed down and you could let without fully pressing the key down.
This greatly reduced the fatigue a typist would feel, letting them type more. it also improved typing speed. (this was, in point of fact compared to typewriters, at the time. but it's still true compared to chiclet keyboards.)
fast forward to the modern era with gaming keyboards going back to highly customizable switches. Linear switches (like Cherry MX Reds, have a progressive resistance to the key press. The further you push it down... the stronger the spring pushes back. There's no tactile mechanism- clicky-clacky or just 'tactile' clicky without the klacky.
while people can feel the point where the press is registered, that is not me, so I wind up bottoming out each key stroke- which again slows me down and causes more fatigue to build up.
As a side note, this is also good for gaming because in some games, you can ride the key on either side of the point it registers and squeak out a lot of rapid presses, which is harder to do with a click spring up in there.
Things like the cherry MX browns, that are tactile without being super loud about it, are better, but I still type faster on the full clicky-keys. (kahlil whites, IIRC.)
Part of me wonders about hall effect keyboards, but I can't be bothered to spend that much money just yet.
I'll just say: you can definitely practice enough with any kind of keyboard switches and get your muscle memory up to a point where the clicky feedback doesn't really give much of a benefit. Surely when it comes to raw speed, the tactile feedback is negligible. But I'm sure it has a large impact on typing fatigue. I've noticed with the choc switches that my fingers are much less tired after work. There is very little travel. And the ergonomics of a column-staggered split keyboard are amazing.
Well… membrane kbs suck. Once you’re into mechanical, yeah it’s a question of preference and familiarity.
Finding what works for you is part of the fun, though.
membrane kbs suck
Matter of opinion. I kind of like them in a way.
Once you’re into mechanical
Choc switches on my Voyager are (low profile) mechanical switches. 🤷♂️ Just not clicky. I also have a WASD V3 keyboard with Cherry silent reds. They were aight, I guess.
Time for silent switches. What keycap set is that?
I never understood why some people even want the click sound. I've always been satisfied with the sound you get from slamming the key into the barrier after the click when hitting enter to execute the command that finishes the current stage of whatever I was doing, followed by either a "wtf is wrong now?" or a "holy shit, did nothing really go wrong?"
If you are only touch typing, the click gives you an indicator before you bottom out.
Just some set I found on AliExpress that I liked the color scheme of. I’m on my phone but I’ll check once I arrive at my pc
You've made the right choice 🐱
How do you know your cat doesn't just want in on some Keyboard ASMR goodness? Quit depriving them!
If I were your boss,
Id say, “this is fair. Just get your stuff done as soon as you can, and in the meantime… I’m gonna need a kitty live stream.”
U wake the kitty its gonna be like the witch from left for dead
That's why you have a laptop
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