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  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoMechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Finger pain or 'my second mechanical keyboard'
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    21 hours ago

    Happy to share! 🙂 And I fully agree, while programming I’m not noticing any difference at all, or at least negligible difference at worst.

    I do notice I’m a little slower to reply to messages than I’m used to, when chatting in Slack and such, but it’s fine. Nothing is so urgent that it needs to arrive in seconds—at least not yet.

    But in my opinion the single biggest thing is the split thing. The way you can open up your chest (and your desk area) and sit straight with both of your arms straight forward. It’s like magic compared to before.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoMechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•Finger pain or 'my second mechanical keyboard'
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    1 day ago

    I grew up on ISO until I learned programming, at which point I switched to a US layout for programming and English, and my language layout for typing in that language.

    But ISO is honestly just so clumsy in my opinion. The return key is YUUUGE and the number of keys just makes it too tight for me. Less is more.

    I’m using a Colemak-DH US layout with the Voyager, and it’s so comfortable compared to QWERTY. I’m still not up to my old speed on regular keyboards, but getting there.

    It definitely wasn’t easy to start with. I went in the deep end immediately with the new layout, and the column-staggered shape. (The Voyager is not ortholinear by the way.) I went from about 110–117 words per minute to about 20 WPM, at first. Yes, twenty.

    But a lot of hours have been spent in front of monkeytype.com and the likes and I’m now back up to about 40–50 WPM while free typing and about 70–80 when using practicing tools.

    It’s really a balance between speed and comfort for me at this point. My muscle memory is destroyed with old keyboards as well, both with QWERTY, and especially the row-staggeredness of common keyboards. There’s just no way anymore. Those neutral pathways have been replaced. But I’m happy to take the plunge for the comfort and joy of typing.

    Others aren’t ready to sacrifice the speed though. And that’s fine. I could’ve also just gone with a Voyager and not switched layouts. Then I probably would’ve been flying at this point. But I would be less comfortable.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•NVIDIA is full of shitEnglish
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    4 days ago

    what did you expect?

    I expected as much. 👍

    The thing to which I was concurring was simply that they said the 9070 was excellent.

    nothing to do with FSR4 vs DLSS4

    The 2080 Super supports DLSS. 🤷‍♂️

    I’m just posting an anecdote, bro. Chill.

    Also the 2080 Super was released in 2019, not 2018. 👍

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•NVIDIA is full of shitEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Concur.

    I went from a 2080 Super to the RX 9070 XT and it flies. Coupled with a 9950X3D, I still feel a little bit like the GPU might be the bottleneck, but it doesn’t matter. It plays everything I want at way more frames than I need (240 Hz monitor).

    E.g., Rocket League went from struggling to keep 240 fps at lowest settings, to 700+ at max settings. Pretty stark improvement.