I don’t need to look at the most common keys or the letters; but some of the weirder ones I don’t use often, I might have to actually look at the board for. Having them backlit helps see when it’s dark. 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve had this ErgoDox for, like, 6 years. It has underlights, but no backlights, but also no home row keys. The entire time I’ve owned it, in the dark I’ve struggled to find the home row, often taking seconds to find my finger placement by feeling the edges of the keyspace. It’s been a constant source of irritation, but it never occurred to me to just buy some home row caps.
Anyway, I was tidying up to office the other day, and found a little packet that came with the keyboard containing home row caps. FML, but with a silver lining, right?
In the process of swapping out those two caps, I completely broke the J switch. So now I’m (temporarily) using a Kinesis Gaming keyboard and learning an object lesson about how utterly miserable row stagger is.
My point is that backlighting would probably have saved me a lot of grief; not as much as home row keys, but still better than nothing.
The last time I used one of these was buying drywall because it only comes in two sizes with no in-between, too damn big and patch kits that are good for nothing.
Blackbeard in particular was all about the aesthetics. He’s the archetype for a damn good reason: theatricality makes legends. There’s no historical account of him ever directly killing anyone until his final battle, but that’s not what the outfit says. He’s basically pirate Batman.
Basically this. Since the captaincy was decided democratically, you don’t want to get people hurt or killed - your own or the ship you’re boarding. So what do you do? Act terrifying as hell, and make literally everyone you interact with THINK you’re going to butcher them into tiny pieces. It helps when you’re at least six inches, and more likely a foot taller than most any other sailor (Blackbeard was over 6 feet, most seamen were under 5’8 because of a variety of factors).
I do the revserse and try to put a dozen 2x4s and a couple small sheets of wood into a regular cart causing it to be difficult to maneuver through the aisles.
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