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Tbf most of my layer toggles are happening with a thumb, which isn't possible on a normal keyboars because they give you a 10x wide key for your most flexible digit, and no other keys in reach.

I recommend a keyboard with at least 3 keys in the thumb cluster. Once you figure out what you like and get used to it, it's like a superpower

It was a real game changer for me. If you combine it with layers for accessing numbers, arrows, symbols, home/end etc without moving your hand, it makes typing so much comfier and faster

Funny enough I use Colemak with my ergonomic (split, columnar stagger) keyboards only, and qwerty on mobile (and on my laptop since it has qwerty keyboard labels).

I recommend, in order of increasing effort:

1. briefly learn touch typing but then develop your own style with a more relaxed wrist position that de-emphasizes excessive hand movement, uncomfortable movements and crazy pinky stretches
2. get a columnar stagger, split keyboard
3. learn colemak (I like Colemak DH)

I used to switch back and forth between qwerty and qwertz on two different computers, and the laptop unlock passwords had a z in them. That was tough times.

I don't know if they do but if they do I doubt they've improved. The technique taught by many touch typing courses is a recipe for a wrist injury. It blows my mind that regulatory bodies aren't calling for keyboard layout reform. The "normal" row stagger keyboard as well as the qwerty layout should be in museums, not on billions of "modern" computers around the world.

got some examples of the woofs? I'm not doubting the claim just interested :D

It blows my mind that Linus is just so darn based all the time. That guy has a good take on like every issue.

eh the emacs folks are just chilling in a corner somewhere. Maybe in the old folks home together with the ed users

yeah but this isn't newcomers making noise. This is seasoned devs making meaningful contributions, and getting reactionary responses

Nobody can maintan a fork of the linux kernel on their own or even with a team. It's a HUGE task.

There already is rust in part of the linux kernel. It's not a fork.

But I agree with your first statement, people are dumb as hell, me included lol

There is no "your" new rust kernel. There is a gigantic ship of Theseus that is the Linux kernel, and many parts of it are being rewritten, refactored, removed an added all the time by god knows how many different people. Some of those things will be done in rust.

Can we stop reacting to this the way conservatives react to gay people? Just let some rust exist. Nobody is forcing everyone to be gay, and nobody is forcing everybody to immediately abandon C and rewrite everything in rust.

With all that money, he could have given every person in the world $12.625 billion!!! It's unfathomable!