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sirbakealot t1_j2dc92x wrote

the poor battery life is because of the oleds. another thing to take note of is that underglow leds will draw power even when disabled.

if you really want/need displays go for the nice!views and you'll get around of week of uptime on the central half.

I have 600mah in my build and the central half gets roughly two months on one charge, no displays

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QWERKey-UK t1_j2d9r8k wrote

It's not that there are more Americans, it's because more actual countries use the ANSI layout.

I'm in the UK, but dropped ISO years ago in favour of ANSI. I don't need to worry about whether a keycap set supports ISO... or a keyboard for that matter. I also don't have to put up with the ridiculously tiny left shift key either. I also think ISO looks crap and unsymmetrical, but that last one is just personal preference.

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Kribakk OP t1_j2d7eb0 wrote

I’m Norwegian so I’m used to ISO with æøÄ instead of ā€˜<> or whatever. I am very open to new layout though and I’m even considering trying son Dvorak or Dvorak-like layouts. The season I’m asking this question is because I only use English on my ā€œtoy computersā€ like my Raspberry Pi’s, Arduino etc. so I’ll use some kind of English layout for those computers.

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DevilZmods t1_j2d6vkq wrote

Unless ISO layouts are all that you've used so far, go ANSI. US international has key combinations for a lot of Special Characters.

How you program your keyboard then should mostly depend on what layout your pc (or others that you may want to plug your keyboard in) is typically set to.

For example: I'm German and I need a way to type umlauts. I could set my pc to ANSI International and use qmk trickery to put the shortcuts for an umlaut on any single key, but then my keymap would be scrambled if I used the keyboard on any other device.

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