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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by asteroid@lemmy.world to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

Hi all,

New to Lemmy, and new to ergo keyboards. I have been working (programming, writing reports, i.e. typing up to 10hrs a day) on an 13" mac over the last 8 months and I realised that was a bad idea...

I do have a great second monitor and a decent chair but I need to rebuild my workspace, potentially get a moveable desk, and most importantly I'm in the market for an ergonomic keyboard. Where do I start? I would like to go try some out in a shop but I live in Portugal and it doesn't seem a big thing here, the big tech shops just seem to have some basic models. I have already ordered one of those wrist pads.

Hope this is OK to post here, I found this forum via the deprecated ErgoMechBoards reddit. Tips and advice would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers :)

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[-] kukkurovaca@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

If you're willing to solder, most ergo keyboards are sold as relatively inexpensive PCB kits, which helps somewhat to offset the cost of having to guess about the layouts. The majority of the cost of the build will often be the switches, keycaps, and controllers, and if you socket the controllers, all of those can be reused if you don't like the board.

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