my two ortholinear mech keyboards use very light, short press activation keys

what this means is that you can actually press and hold them down with a lot less pressure than normal, for comparison, the cherry silver on my spare has 45nm and the new gaterons on my daily driver are 38

it is habit to be used to pushing them down for the "tacticle" complete press but actually the switch actuates a lot less than this depth of push

so i'm using the cherry currently playing games and realised that i can use a lot less pressure and this is nice because i have peripheral neuropathy

and as i discover just how light i really have to press i'm now going to start training myself to push a lot less and not always push them right down for touch typing either

it's not as definite a signal to stop but i know i can adjust to this and get used to not pushing them to the end ofd their travel and get a better typing speed and less pain

i switched already to dvorak in 2004 to reduce my muscle strain in my hands from typing, this is even more

and also, i now want a custom circuitboard i can put cherry silver low profiles on because their travel is half as much which means half as much total pressure with a tactile termination at the bottom

there's laptops with these things now

normal people don't understand because they don't type as fast or as much as i do

so, i disregard them, as i do with the constabulary

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But does the constabulary and the normal people regard you

no, i am very much mleku the disregarded, it has certain advantages

after figuring this out i realised i probably decrease the travel distance of the keys using the o-rings... i already have two on my main keyboard, so maybe 3 or 4 can be put on there, since the depth of travel to actuation is so short (under 2mm) and the full length of travel on these keys is at least 5mm in total, very likely 3, or at most 4 of these silicone o-rings means it actuates just before it hits the bottom of the travel distance

this would massively decrease my energy cost and muscle strain required to press keys, like, by half, which would be huge while i still have this problem of my muscles going into spasm because of chronic high blood sugar

oh yes, other things certainly will help but most of them are too expensive in one go for my current stack to cover without putting me in a risky position... right now i can go for 2 months without needing to have roped myself a job opportunity and that's as long as i would expect i'd need if i was going hammer and tongs to find something... i did at one point around may have even more buffer than this but oh well, lol, i had to buy these damned kitanica pants

so, er, yeah, got 400 o rings coming from amazon, which will let me put another two on my main keyboard (150) and i have spares laying around so maybe i can put 4 o-rings on the spare as well... this will be very nice

i noticed my typo in teh op "tacticle" and i just want to point out that the basis of the meaning of the word "tactical" has to do with touch, tactical and tactics means what you improvise while you are in contact with your opponent... it's instinctive and automatic and can happen in under 100ms

ohshit i didn't even realise i hadn't moved the rings i have already to the new relegendable caps... haha... gonna scrape all of them together and see if i can't manage to put 3 on my daily driver

and yeah, i can see... 3 rings almost fully covers the length of the stem of the cherry key socket... i think only 3 is possible, i dunno, if 4 is possible, great, that will be the benefit of having the cherry/gateron short travel actuation