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This is true. We’ve been so formatted by big keyboard that I never considered just the tip of my fingers. I hope you’ll make good use of our opposable thumbs in this new keyboard paradigm

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I agree. I blew out my left arm for a year from too much typing, so I switched to kinesis style keyboards so I could put modifier keys under my thumbs. I dunno if your suggestion was meant to be serious, but it's still great.

It wasn’t, but the reason I like to explore absurd looking ideas is because of the serendipity that lateral thinking opens up. Thanks for exploring that!

What would be a cool use case for thumb controls here? Is this something you could do with those gamer keypads?

I was pressing control and alt and shift with my pinky fingers, and that's how I blew out my arm.

I switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and now I have control, alt, hyper, super, backspace, and shift under my left thumb. My right thumb has control, alt, hyper, super, enter, and space.

I don't know anything about gamer keypads, is there one you suggest I investigate?

I’d start with this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_keypad

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