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Item: Dygma Defy Wireless Ergonomic Programmable Split Keyboard
Age: 2 years
Price: R 4500
Switches: Kailh Silent Brown
Built-in tenting: Yes
Color: Silver/White
Wireless: Yes
RGB Underglow: No
Payment Method Accepted: Cash / EFT (Cleared in account)
Warranty: -
Warranty Holder: -
Packaging: Original
Condition: Excellent
Location: Cape Town CBD
Reason: Was great for home office use, but back to a job where I need to travel a lot, so resigned to just using laptop keyboard again.
Shipping: No, unless organized and paid for by buyer, risk on buyer.
Collection: Yes, in person in Cape Town CBD or Atlantic Seaboard.
Link: The Best Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard - Dygma Defy
Brief review of my time with the Defy.
I ended up not going with a drastically different keyboard layout at first, just to minify the amount of "new" things to get used to. Keeping modifier keys (shift, ctrl etc) in their familiar positions.
I'm a software developer by day, so spend a lot of time writing code, and so my setup of the Defy was mostly around making my daily programming patterns more accessible.
You can individually program the LEDs on the keyboard, as well as by "layer". So I set up colors such that all regular characters are white, modifiers are green, windows key is yellow etc.
Then I made layers, such that I can type common programming characters like brackets, equals, greater than, less than etc without moving off the home row. By pressing/long pressing/double tapping a thumb cluster button, I could switch to a layer for one or multiple following keypresses, allowing for example the `j` and `k` characters to now type `(` and `)` as an example.
All in all, it takes a few weeks and it feels overwhelming at first, but scoping down your customizations at the start and slowly adding more worked for me. I grew to love the layer system, and made one for navigation as well, where I could jump and move around in code all without moving my hands (yes I know vim is a thing haha).
The thumb cluster is the biggest game changer, giving each thumb access to ~4 things it can do is amazing, and really makes one wonder how on earth we ended up dedicating two opposable thumbs purely for pressing a single spacebar key.
All in all would recommend, but does take time and love to get dialed in.
FYI
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Age: 2 years
Price: R 4500
Switches: Kailh Silent Brown
Built-in tenting: Yes
Color: Silver/White
Wireless: Yes
RGB Underglow: No
Payment Method Accepted: Cash / EFT (Cleared in account)
Warranty: -
Warranty Holder: -
Packaging: Original
Condition: Excellent
Location: Cape Town CBD
Reason: Was great for home office use, but back to a job where I need to travel a lot, so resigned to just using laptop keyboard again.
Shipping: No, unless organized and paid for by buyer, risk on buyer.
Collection: Yes, in person in Cape Town CBD or Atlantic Seaboard.
Link: The Best Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard - Dygma Defy
Brief review of my time with the Defy.
I ended up not going with a drastically different keyboard layout at first, just to minify the amount of "new" things to get used to. Keeping modifier keys (shift, ctrl etc) in their familiar positions.
I'm a software developer by day, so spend a lot of time writing code, and so my setup of the Defy was mostly around making my daily programming patterns more accessible.
You can individually program the LEDs on the keyboard, as well as by "layer". So I set up colors such that all regular characters are white, modifiers are green, windows key is yellow etc.
Then I made layers, such that I can type common programming characters like brackets, equals, greater than, less than etc without moving off the home row. By pressing/long pressing/double tapping a thumb cluster button, I could switch to a layer for one or multiple following keypresses, allowing for example the `j` and `k` characters to now type `(` and `)` as an example.
All in all, it takes a few weeks and it feels overwhelming at first, but scoping down your customizations at the start and slowly adding more worked for me. I grew to love the layer system, and made one for navigation as well, where I could jump and move around in code all without moving my hands (yes I know vim is a thing haha).
The thumb cluster is the biggest game changer, giving each thumb access to ~4 things it can do is amazing, and really makes one wonder how on earth we ended up dedicating two opposable thumbs purely for pressing a single spacebar key.
All in all would recommend, but does take time and love to get dialed in.
FYI
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