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It'll work for pretty well every keyboard and it's not flimsy (and you don't want a flimsy pedal). If you have a piano keyboard and don't have a pedal, you definitely need one.

Quickly lift and press down the pedal (while holding onto the notes of the next chord).

Continue playing that chord with the pedal down as long as it sounds fine.

Play the notes of a chord and press down pedal at the same time.

When you play the next one, you want to lift and press down again. How you can generally think of it is, keep the pedal down while playing a specific chord. You'll need to listen to what you're playing a bit more. Playing the sustain pedal (or damper pedal) with chords is a bit different. After you get to know how to use the pedal, you'll know when to raise and lower the pedal. These markings aren't always shown but when they are, you can follow them to know when to raise and lower the pedal. Basically, you put the pedal down when it says to, then quickly raise and lower the pedal where indicated.

Holding onto you piano notes