Haven’t tried the voyager but did try a corne and missed the number row.

I use vim so make heavy use of the symbols. My brain just couldn’t click with the layering I had to do.

I moved onto a lilly58 which I preferred for programming before ultimately building a dactyl.

Think it depends on your primary use case to be fair. I could type general text fine with the corne but missed the extra symbol keys for coding.

Home row mods on whichever one you go for is probably worth a look!

Looks cool!!!

Nice write up, I enjoyed reading this! 15-20 years ago I would have loved nix and dumping hours into configuring every little detail.

I’m at the point now where I just want a distro I can install in 10-20 mins, copy over a couple of dot files, install a few apps, and be up and running.

I’m still a bit sceptical over LLMs but I’ve used copilot for line code completion for a few years now.

More recently I’ve started playing about with agents. I’ve been using avante.nvim for a couple of months with Claude and quite like it. The setup was a bit of a faff but it works quite well and has support for the more mainstream agents.

Over the last few days I’ve started trying out augment code which has a neovim plugin. Still on the fence about that one.

I’m no expert when it comes to any of this but this is what I’ve been messing about with. Hope it’s useful!

For sure, and even on my own computers, the amount of times I used one of their Ubuntu isos to fix my broken grub was non zero! 😅

Used to buy these religiously every month about 15 years ago. They used to come with distros on a disc and I had pretty rubbish internet at the time so they were pretty handy for distro hopping.

They also did a really great podcast at that time too!

Glad to see they’re still going!

Call the old bill mate, you were robbed.

Spill the (non existent) beans, how much was that monstrosity?

Maybe just a child -> adult palette change but I tried 'em during lockdown and wasn’t impressed

Yeah, that’s right. Tbh I’ve not tried one in years. Something’s are better left in the nostalgic past. Crispy pancakes being a prime example.

Hold on Uncle Rodger… He tried to get them banned, therefore logic dictates that they’re actually pretty good!

Lab analysis inconclusive. But either way they’re great.

Turkey twizzler. There’s a whole Janie Oliver backstory…

Same, the internet has ruined us.

That’s fair. Just seems like the more revolutions around the sun I make the longer it takes me to adjust 😅

In this day in age I don’t know why we still do this. Like just keep it one way or the other 🤣

Probably a pretty high crossover on radio and guns. I watch ham radio stuff on YouTube and in turn get recommended a load of prepper content 😅

I went 100% -> tkl -> 60% -> corne (couldn’t do it) -> lilly58 -> kenisis -> dactyl

If you can solder then kits aren’t expensive vs pre built. Go for hot swap and you can start out with cheaper switches and experiment from there. And if you can’t solder then it’s actually good way to learn 🤣

Don’t compare yourself to the rest of the comments. If your setup works for you then it’s a good setup.

If you’re interested in becoming more keyboard driven, start with learning vscode/db gui shortcuts for things that you do a lot: executing queries, jump to definition, or renaming variables, etc.

We’re all on our own journey as cringe as it may sound. Mine was due to wrist, thumb, and shoulder pain rather than being super productive.

For normal text I do have home/end bound but use it so infrequently that I forget them 😅