This is dope.
The thing that I can’t understand about this product is why they didn’t cover the function keys. They are literally functional.
Although using the top row of keys does not cause you to accidentally hit keys above it.
This article has the same approach to word count as a high schooler writing a paper.
There actually is an easier solution for this kind of problem: Nail clippers.
Someone didn’t read the article. She addresses exactly this.
I can already hear the trolls making jokes about women being concerned about breaking a nail. If it’s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, I’m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget I’m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.
Someone didn’t read the article. She addresses exactly this.
I read the article. It still is the better solution.
You can’t have a solution if you ignore half of the problem statement. It’s completely unhelpful.
Problem: I want to be able to type better while having long nails.
Your solution: Don’t have long nails.
Sometimes, project requirements are shitty from the start. This one definitely is.
exactly. the only kind of self expression anyone needs is going on lemmy and making smug comments.
as someone, who could have been a professional classical guitar player, I am insulted.
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(Classic guitar players have long nails)
I prefer the trippy tribe 🥴
Kinda cool but shit $45 for a piece of silicone those margins are insane.
Yeah but it’s for Macs so what do you expect
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A chiclet membrane to go over your non-mechanical keyboard, it’s like double hell.
Actually, my giant mechanical Blackwidow keyboard is way easier to use than my laptop when my nails are long.
How can it be easier to use keys with traditional keyswitches? You’d have more key travel.
I’ve switched out keycaps to make them comfortable for me. You can customise them. I find it very hare to type on a laptop keyboard for a long time and it fucks up my posture.
Hmm. Interesting.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you describe what alternate keycaps were used? Like, taller keycaps in the front, shorter in the back? Like, I still think that the amount of keytravel would be a negative, but maybe the issue is that the long nails descend into the keyboard given the normal position of a hand typing, and basically changing the angle improves that.
If that’s the case, I’m wondering whether maybe it’d be possible to change the angle of the keyboard as a whole. Like, either use an external keyboard propped up differently, tilting away from the user, or a laptop with the front part of the base shimmed up to tilt away from the user.
I use softer keycaps, some are resin! I also have the back propped up like you mentioned with the built in lifts. I also have carpel tunnel so I don’t want to cram my hands into a small space and it’s OK to be slow sometimes. And a good wrist rest is key.
I also have the back propped up like you mentioned with the built in lifts
Ah hah!
Yeah, there are some ergo keyboards that have that “reverse tilt” built in. They’re aimed more at being easier on the wrist than at trying to permit for long nails, but they do exist.
e.g.:
I also have carpel tunnel
That’d be an argument for a keyboard, like, a mechanical one where you don’t bottom out the keys on press, and then training yourself to not bottom them out, which is a big argument mechanical keyboard fans have for theirs versus rubber dome keyboards. And you need a fair bit of key travel for that, yeah. Hmm.
I’ve convinced some if my girlfriends to switch as they have white versions and Blackwidows are fairly cheap on Ebay (£50-75). :) They like them as they’re heavy writers.
Sounds like typing on a keyboard made of Jujubes.
I’d eat that in a heartbeat.
I’m not a fan of the long nails because it hurts my insides.
Also fecal matter and bacteria are stored in abundance under long nails.
That part I like.
This thing costs about the same as one good set of nails
This thing costs less than one dose of antibiotics :
Don’t use that on your bum.
Works great under the nails though
It’s a sharp bidet.
Tell your girlfriend to get a queer manicure next time.
Strange topic. Makes me feel uncomfortable.
Why Are Long Nails Attractive
Interesting starting point.
As someone who is turned off by long nails (indicates they may be high maintenance), I enjoy reading about what others see in them.
Latter article is mostly AI generated images
Thanks - deleted. Fucking internet.
Typing with long nails is the embodiment of “beauty is pain.”
The pain is real, but the beauty is subjective.
It’ was a status thing. Those with manual labor jobs usually can’t have long nails, so long nails means they’re above manual labor. So the rich in the past did that, and now everybody wants to do that so and it becomes a beauty thing.
Everybody definitely doesn’t.
To me long nails are ick
The longer the more ick
I will never forget when I had to help a coworker with her laptop, she had long nails that had worn grooves in her keyboard keys.
She typed on her nails, the sound it made was terrible.
Ew. Most people I’ve seen w/ long nails type with the pads of their fingers, with absolutely terrible typing posture.
I guess a mechanical keyboard with round ketcaps would do the trick as well. Not the same budget though…
A solution to a self inflicted problem.
And? Nearly everything is a self inflicted problem. You could just lay down and stop bothering, so why don’t you do that?
Do I like long nails? Hell no. Does it affect me if somebody buys this keyboard to type and have long nails? Also hell no.
Ergonomic chairs are also a solution to an often self-inflicted problem. Mainly doing all kinds of things to your body when you’re young that you don’t realize you’ll regret when you’re older.
Are ergonomic chairs a bad thing?
Man, I wish I could just trim my bursitis.
The Tippy Type is a keyboard cover for MacBooks
I could have predicted that even if the article never mentioned it.
I guess its for mac book but on a real keyboard just replacing the caps with tall ones that loft from square to a circle at the top would be way better and less floppy
Honestly-I always wondered how in the hell women with nails even just a little bit long typed comfortably on a keyboard. I figured it was either a) not a big deal or b) a super pain in the arse and another example of the world (for whatever reason) not making a simple product to solve a simple issue (like bandaids that match people’s skin color for example).
Now I know! :)
Phones must be a bitch as well…. The solution to that might be a bit harder to pull off…
My SIL has long nails, and watching her use her phone and laptop is just fascinating. So many problems I just never even considered…
I’ve always wondered about wiping one’s ass. Seems like you’d want a nail brush handy to wash up every time.
Which part of the world are you from? Here we use toilet paper to wipe (but we still wash our hands afterwards). I haven’t really heard of someone using their nails before, that sounds kinda weird.
Must be the part where we don’t use armor plated TP.
What are you eating, Kevlar?
It’s about the angle, you cannot orient it towards your pads as much on a laptop.
