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I'll plug another touch bar tool here.

Know how your $3,000 MacBook Pro keyboard keeps breaking? Know what's not broken and close to your keyboard? The touch bar. So I built a keyboard into the touchbar: https://github.com/RubenSandwich/TouchBarKeyboard. Problem solved.

But seriously, OP's tool has way more utility then mine.

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I'll plug another one: https://www.haptictouchbar.com/

This uses the trackpad haptic engine to (poorly) emulate a key click when pressing touchbar items.

I'm unsure how they overlooked putting a haptic engine in the touchbar itself but it feels way too late to attempt to salvage now. They need a new keyboard that people will fall in love with.

Bringing back something that essentially matches the 2015 keyboard's characteristics would go a long way with most users, in my opinion.

"But then how will they make it thinner!?"

This is stupid... I love it.

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