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geteilt von: https://feddit.de/post/3048730

Github link: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry

Here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDb8_ld9gOQ

I've been using it for almost two years now, and I'm not going back.

It's based on a spare Blackberry Q10 keyboard and a custom Arduino-compatible board that reads the keyboard matrix and outputs it as USB HID to the phone. From the viewpoint of the phone, it's just a regular USB keyboard, so no special software is needed.

But I do use a custom virtual keyboard to have just two rows of symbols that are not natively on the keyboard, as I didn't want to add another layer of rarely used symbols that I'd have to memorize.

(On the image you can see Ubuntu with XFCE4 running on it. I chose Ubuntu because it's what was easiest to get running in a chroot jail on the phone. I'm using VNC to display the GUI. I even managed to get FEX (x86/x64 emulator) and Wine running, so it runs x86/x64 Linux and Windows apps.)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's actually not too bad. It's worse to put it into a small pocket ;)

I fear, this whole thing would be 100% incompatible with woman's trousers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure most phones are. Wtf is it with women's clothes and those bullshit micro pockets anyway?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's totally stupid. About every woman I know complains (and rightfully so) about these micro pockets. Still nobody in the clothes industry can't be bothered to just put a few centimeters of extra cloth onto the pockets to make them actually useful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren’t women’s trousers well-known for not having pockets? Not happening there!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Either no pockets or pockets that are ridiculously shallow and narrow. Like I (M) can fit my whole hand up to my wrist with lots of room left over. Women's pants can fit just their four fingers if they're lucky.