...but have you ever used a keyboard with a touchscreen with a keyboard on it?
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@thomasfuchs why would anyone build this monstrosity
@thomasfuchs It's kind of an Reverse Art Lebedev!
@thomasfuchs Not a touchscreen, but in the early ‘90s concept keyboards were briefly popular. These were a regular array of flat buttons where each one was programmable. The one I used had a default configuration with a qwerty and alphabetic keyboard and a few dozen commonly used words around the edge. You printed out sheets to tell you what the buttons did, which were held in place over the buttons.
The programmable buttons bit was nice, but the lack of travel made them hard to type on. Much more recently, I saw a keyboard where all of the keycaps were OLED screens, which you could program with any layout (including words on some buttons).
@thomasfuchs Lenovo made a laptop where the entire keyboard was a touchpad, for people who hate typing, tactile feedback, and themselves.
@thomasfuchs I think we need the Pope to do an exorcism of this abomination.
@thomasfuchs What in the Tek War/Lawnmower Man/Earth Final Conflict.
@thomasfuchs this is the future movies promised us.
@thomasfuchs The sort of thing that makes one stop and say "there but for the grace of God go I."
(Or if you prefer "I've never had to knock on wood, and I'm glad I haven't yet.")
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No, but I have used a touchscreen with a numpad on it.
@thomasfuchs So, a torture device for touch typists? :)
@thomasfuchs It’s like the reverse of the MacBook Pro Touch Bar
This is some kind of new, fresh hell, isn't it. That thing is surely an abomination.
@thomasfuchs what… is happening here
@thomasfuchs do the physical keys move when you press the keys on the touchscreen keyboard? That would be fun...and I'm willing to pay...'bout 37 bucks for one.
@thomasfuchs naturally it is from Casio, the same people that brought us such gifts as this combined calculator-lighter-alarm clock.
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@thomasfuchs No but I bet @mwichary has!
@thomasfuchs Someone please send Chyrosran22 one of these
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Because what we need is a shitty onscreen keyboard for the desktop.
Eugh.
@thomasfuchs I have the illogically strong need to possess this.
@thomasfuchs That is sending such Ghost in the Shell energy. I love it so much. Someone decided to make the keyboards from their favorite anime reality. Respect.
@thomasfuchs yo dawg… I heard you liked typing…