Another important thing about x13s on my mind: to change...

Another important thing about x13s on my mind: to change keyboard to japanese one, which will really help with my RSI.

It will require some modification of chassis and will cause the loss of guarantee, but it's not that scary as for 2-3k$ laptops.

#diy #laptop #thinkpad

Like 9 July at 16:41 | Open on fosstodon.org

5 comments

Alexander Hamizdat

@abcdw eep you could probably get a really nice T14s or T490s for a lot less money and trouble.

9 July at 16:46 | Open on hachyderm.io

dgr

@abcdw why do you need to modify the chassis?
Why not just put stickers on the keys or use something like the ergo dox - this is what I use.
IMHO, the state of Linux on ARM is quite good since Raspberry Pi 3.

9 July at 17:46 | Open on toot.li

Andrew Tropin

@dgr Because japanese keyboard have different keys (physical buttons) arrangement (luckily not all of them).

I don't care much about labels, the don't match my actual layout anyway :)

I have a variety of keyboards at my home from kinesis advantage to some self-made low profile mechanical prototypes. The problem that I'm not at home and won't be here anytime soon, so need it to be a part of my laptop :)

It's good, but there are still a lot of problems for arm laptops:
https://github.com/jhovold/linux/wiki/X13s

@dgr Because japanese keyboard have different keys (physical buttons) arrangement (luckily not all of them).

I don't care much about labels, the don't match my actual layout anyway :)

Expand text...

10 July at 8:15 | Open on fosstodon.org

dgr

@abcdw this is why I have ergo doxes all over the place - two at work, one at home and one in the backpack ;)
But I would like to go to a lower profile and even less keys for better portability but then I need to get real serious with the layers.

11 July at 11:47 | Open on toot.li

Andrew Tropin

@dgr I have only 32l backpack for all my stuff I carry around the world, so not so much room for ergodox at the moment :)

11 July at 12:01 | Open on fosstodon.org