Are there any promising attempts at this?
Smartphone keyboards with glide typing function very well for language (i.e., no passwords and no programming). They have an important feature: they provide the input you want, not exactly characters for the keypresses you did.
If you consider the Chinese language, many people use the input either by drawing (elderly people) or with Pinyin, a phonetics script. In both cases there's a lot of software involved to figure out what people want.
The point is: programmers are a tiny minority who need exactly the characters for the keys they presses. Most other people just need text in their native language.
Google wrote about reaching "the next billion users": https://www.blog.google/technology/next-billion-users/next-b...
If only. Because when people write nonsensical sentences and you ask what’s going on, the reply is usually "sorry, on mobile".
On the other hand you will never get my proper keyboard for work away from me.
While mobile keyboards are "alright" for messaging where you can get away with errors, they're not the kind of thing you want to be using for prolonged periods, ie. writing documents or long emails. They're slow, error prone, and tiring because of the unnatural thumb movements.
For any significant amount of typing and where accuracy is needed (a single letter wrong is more understandable than being replace with a similar dictionary word), keyboards are still preferred.
But indeed not only programmers rely on keyboards.
I have literally never been able to make those work acceptably well.
[1]: https://www.iclever.com/products/BK05-Tri-Folding-Bluetooth-... [2]: http://www.blink.sh/
Now all I'd need is to figure out how I wanted access to my env. Eg, being able to ssh into a home machine and then work in emergencies seems valuable. But, that would involve exposing my machine. Hmm
Though I think I'd use Wireguard, but still. Some type of easy to manage VPN, with a Dynamic IP domain thing.
Any recommendations on the dynamic domain? Self hosting something might be neat
But this site has been recommended to me before- https://freedns.afraid.org/
I’ve recently installed Codeserver on a digital ocean server - https://github.com/cdr/code-server
I do almost all of my programming on it now. I think if I upgrade my phone to a bigger screen then this keyboard could mean I ditch the laptop when I travel
> 200 bucks
Why?
Real shame they stopped making them ages ago.
[0]: http://www.vortexgear.tw/vortex2_2.asp?kind=47&kind2=224&kin...
I am tired of having peripherals with built in proprietary batteries :(
Of course one of the big problems is that our portable monitors still need at least one of our finite set of hands, so it seems like we'll need AR/VR monitors before they become practical. But then if we have the free hands something more like a traditional keyboard would probably work.