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0 pointsthrowaway677433y ago0 comments

I briefly considered and discounted a Mac based on keyboard , do they allow remapping now? The physical layout is still trash but remapping may help.

To clarify, it's not just apple - this trend of putting left slash above enter (ANSI) needs to stop, unofficial iso is just so much better.

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Macha3y ago· 1 in thread

There's no UI tool to remap individual keys, no.

It has supported installing custom keyboard layouts for a decade though. e.g. this one attempts to workaround mac os insisting you have an ANSI keyboard by installing a layout that makes mac os do the right thing when it's in that bad state: http://liyang.hu/osx-british.xhtml (Updated for Sierra: https://github.com/cbaggers/backup-uk-keyboard-layouts-for-m...)

It feels a little ridiculous having to hack around stupid design decisions for keyboards tbh

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