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by function_seven 1403 days ago
Eh. Not a fan of the small keyboard on the GPD, but I'd take that over my phone's keyboard any day, especially for programing.

I have 10 years' of muscle memory for on-screen keyboards, and I still find them absolutely painful to use for anything other than a few words. When sending text messages, I use voice transcription (with the awkward "exclamation point", "newline", etc.).

If I were to use this, I'd set it up on some surface and just 2-finger type it like old-timey authors did on their typewriters.

And, FWIW, 20 years ago I jerry-rigged together a few gender benders and a null modem adapter so I could use my Palm Pilot to interface with VT100 terminals. Using Grafiti to send control characters and navigate TUIs was... interesting.