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10 months in with my Ultimate Hacker Keyboard, and I can confidently say that it brings me more joy than any other electronic device I have, with maybe the exception of my MBP. Before I had mild RSI here and there, but with the UHK I have zero pain, ever. But it did take a lot of learning. I spent about 3 months feeling like an idiot ( hitting keys that weren't there, forgetting which macro I'd mapped, typing an arrow in vim mode instead of hjkl, etc ), so maybe it's not for everyone.

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I have an UHK now and love it so much that I bring it back and forth to work everyday. Before the UHK I had a MS Sculpt and was a bit worried I wouldn't be able to get used to the UHK so I used Karabiner to set up a mod later and pretrained myself for a couple of weeks before pulling the trigger. Once I got the UHK the learning curve wasn't bad at all. For people who maybe tried a split keyboard and couldn't deal with it I would recommend the UHK since it's mostly the same as a regular keyboard.

"That I bring it back and forth to work everyday".

Yeah, I said to hell with that, and just bought another one for work!

I'd love to get a split keyboard (especially one with a long cable so I can have the two halves shoulder-length apart), but 300 euros for a keyboard is WAAAY too much.

Maybe I can somehow repurpose my old (or even current) Das keyboard into a split one.

Depending where you're coming from, 300Euros one time payment can be a steal compared to the time and money you could end up spending at the physiotherapist or chiropractor later in life.

I'm not pointing fingers at anyone here but I find it ironic that some well paid developers in the western world can justify dropping nearly $1000 every year on the latest handheld social media machine and consider that a worthy investment but when it comes to spending $300 once on something that can help prevent certain health conditions it suddenly can't be justified.

And I find it ironic that some multibillionaires can justify buying a private jet but when it comes to buying good toothpaste they're suddenly "too poor".

I mean, assumptions are great, if you like building straw men. You know almost nothing about me, where I live and how much I make, or how much my phone costs (hint: under $200, once every two years).

Please don't feel threatened by my comment, I wasn't talking about you or anyone in particular. Like I said, I'm not pointing any fingers and if that's how you understood it, I apologize.

I don't feel threatened, I just think that the intersection of people who spend $1000 on a phone every year and those who won't spend $300 on a keyboard is very small. Besides, people spend their money on what they want to spend it on, and a $300 keyboard isn't expensive because of the existence of $1000 phones, but because of the existence of $100 keyboards.

I wish the UHK had a few more keys. I wish there was an Esc key.

I remapped Caps Lock with Karabiner to be ESC. Works fantastic.

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