Post A8IajpjEC8f9Z2wFs0 by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #A8IajpjEC8f9Z2wFs0 by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-06-15T04:35:58Z
       
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       Keyboard where all the keycaps are little e-ink displays that can be updated in real time as you switch applications, push modifier keys, or change keyboard layout.
       
 (DIR) Post #A8IakfrsLETfGvNtZI by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-06-15T04:36:09Z
       
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       cc @wmww
       
 (DIR) Post #A8IdTC5y59ljsCKg52 by woozong@mastodon.social
       2021-06-15T05:06:17Z
       
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       @alexbuzzbeeHave a look at https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/
       
 (DIR) Post #A8IdYO8El2uWeTs2K0 by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-06-15T05:07:27Z
       
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       @woozong Absolutely cool but OLED is not really the right display technology for this.
       
 (DIR) Post #A8IfXrmJFQQqDWUd3w by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-06-15T05:29:51Z
       
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       If you hold down Control in a word processor, your (physical) C key changes to COPY, but if you do it in a terminal emulator, it changes to INTERRUPT instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #A8IfyFyxscdaoWzpvE by yojimbo@hackers.town
       2021-06-15T05:34:37Z
       
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       @alexbuzzbee A little like the "magic bar" on some recent Apple machines. There are a few eink keyboards out there but they're not responsive enough at the moment I don't think.https://www.nemeio.com/ springs to mind, but I don't think I'd like to actually type on it ...
       
 (DIR) Post #A8Ig8e4DBlUKPIP7Vg by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-06-15T05:36:07Z
       
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       @yojimbo I don't know if the hardware tech is quite there yet (and the software would be fiendish to make work), but it would be really cool. And actually useful by making keyboard shortcuts vastly more discoverable.
       
 (DIR) Post #A8IpMWubUEjPrFbbhQ by rick@fedi.n0id.space
       2021-06-15T07:19:54.041830Z
       
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       @alexbuzzbee there actually is such keyboard out there.. forget the name thou ^^v
       
 (DIR) Post #A8JEW6ZImfZhu9IvzM by jamesnvc@fosstodon.org
       2021-06-15T12:01:42Z
       
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       @alexbuzzbee I think @algernon has experimented with things kind of like that for the Keyboardio Model 01 with LED effects instead of eink. AFAIK, the challenge is you need some computer-side program to monitor what has focus and then figure out what availability shortcuts are, then communicate that over the serial port to the keyboard. Maybe trivially doable, but if the app is, say, Emacs, now you need to be running code in emacs to determine what shortcuts are available & then send from there…