Disappointing, but not surprising. Seems like I have some more work ahead of me to get something I want. Thank you for letting me know!

I was hoping for something that would let me physically move things around. I might have to settle for remapping, but I haven't come up with a map that's really satisfying yet. I'll keep the link you sent in mind if I go that route. Thanks for sharing!

Sadly, I'm not generally the hands on sort. Thanks for the suggestion though!

Are you fundamentally opposed to doing the remapping at an OS level? I suspect that most, if not all, OSes permit for such remapping in one way or another. For many, that might be an acceptable workaround.

I also think I vaguely recall some USB device from quite some time back that you could plug a keyboard into that proxied for the keyboard and provided macro functionality at the keyboard level for keyboards that couldn't do that, and I could believe that it might be able to remap.

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Probably not the device I was thinking of, but this appears to be a dedicated USB remapper:

https://www.remapper.org/

Time to make your own keyboard! If you don't have a 3d printer you can buy one online. Then you need just wires, switches, and a raspberry pi pico and you can make one any way you want!

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

This could help. It also has a GUI.

I have a laptop where my 2 key and tab key do not work. I have remapped them to home key and end key.

Is this what you want?

Realistically no, there is no way to move the mechanical switch to a new physical location. This would require replacing the PCB and using one with the correct spacing.

You can remap keys using QMK if supported but thats about it.

Otherwise, you will need to find a board that has the layout you prefer.

If I have to work in office, everyone is going to suffer.

My goodness I wish I had too much money right now.

Oh my god I want one so bad.

I'm in the baby-pool over here. Almost everything I do is fairly close to standard, and I prefer mnemonics for the ones that don't match their keycaps' legends. This set didn't have a single-key enter or numpad "+," but an arrow pointed in the same direction as Enter keys helps, and "PN" can be "plus number" in my brain. Even with "SYS," I was very happy to get those "s" sounds for my spaces. I only have one extra layer, and again I went with mnemonics for the most part over locations. Fn+I is insert and Fn+P is Print Screen, although that did necessitate Fn+B as Pause/Break, LOL, but who actually uses Pause/Break?

A family member of mine does mechanical keyboards— I don’t understand how ya’ll are able to memorize new layouts so quickly regardless of key caps! Someone should do some research on you guys.

Sometimes a person just gets tired of sourcing the perfect keycaps for a weird ass keyboard, LOL. both "SYS" keys are dedicated spaces, and "Fn" and the Right Alt are set up with "hold-tap" so if they're simply pressed and released, they are spaces as well, leaving me 5"u" of spacebar goodness.

... Nobody asked me, but they sell standalone mechanical numpads. 🫤

I'm at a game dev school and they have a several years old stack of mechanical keyboards, never used, all with no numpads. Management bought them without talking to teachers or students and when they came in everyone was like "you realize we literally can't do computer work without numpads right?". They had to buy a whole new batch with numpads and now it's cheap plastic keyboards lol

I rarely need one, and when I do have the need, I can just pull out another keyboard or standalone numpad. I imagine I am not alone in this community in having... a few extra keyboards.

Yeah, it's been all downhill since they dropped "mass" from the name, which I think came a while before the Corsair buyout. Honestly, drop has been filled with licensed BS since Corsair bought them, so this really isn't a huge loss I guess. It still feels like a loss though because I remember how it used to be.

I also have a thx789, excellent amp and one of the few that powered my HE-6 sufficiently.

...wdym use numbers rarely? They're numbers, you can't type nine into a spreadsheet and make it do math.

Is this one of those times when my lived experience is deeply unlike that of others? I hope so, it's been a while since I had one and I was starting to worry.

I'm with you, I might have purchased a few things if I had known. I have a thx789 that I use all the time, and a few keyboards. Although drop had been going downhill ever since the Corsair buyout it's still the end of an era. Hopefully apos can fill the gap somewhat.

It's also my go-to for global hotkeys and macros if programs can tell numpad keystrokes from just numbers.

My most-used boards do have a numpad, but it's not an everyday essential, and one of my earlier hand-wire projects was a numpad, so I go grab it if I'm running one of my no-numpad boards but need to do some data entry (usually CAD dimensions for me).

We're not accountants... most of us use numbers very rarely.

How y'all get by without a numpad, I'll never understand.