Geth @ Geth @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You middle click in a web page and it gives you the scroll orb instead of pasting text in the selected text box? Last time I checked that was not default behaviour, but possible with configuration.

Auto copy is a privacy concern and paste can be anything else but the middle mouse button, because it takes away the auto-scroll functionality which only makes sense to be on the wheel that deals with scrolling.

You lose the auto-scroll button, which I use all the time and it only makes sense to be on the scroll wheel. I dispise what Linux does to this button. 🤷

When you want to select a section in a long document or webpage without dragging the mouse and waiting for animations you hold click from where you want the start point to be and page up/down.

When you are trying to select multiple icons from a file browser using your keyboard, shift + arrows gives you item by item, shift + page up/down gives you pages of them.

When you are in a long document or webpage and are trying to scan the text for something and use your mouse to do something on the page, page up/down is often faster than the scroll bar and your mouse if free for pointing and selecting.

Page up/down works as previous/next in many media applications.

When you write text, see that you made a mistake in the middle of the sentence, correct it and then hit home or end to jump to the beginning/end of the sentence in one action.

When you want to select text pressing shift + left/right selects letter by letter, shift + ctrl + left/right selects a word, then shift + home/end selects the line.

In a browser home/end will bring you to the beginning/end of a page. Especially useful for long pages. In a text editor it does the same by adding ctrl to the mix.

Games and specialized software like 3d and cad use these keys all the time for all kinds of functionality.

They may not be the most glamorous keys, but they are very useful in many situations.

Middle mouse click is so much more useful as the navigation tool that it is. Using it for something completely unrelated like pasting is degeneracy.

Actually, any text manipulation assigned to the mouse is completely ignoring the functionality of the 2 normal input devices on a normal computer.

It's funny how you hit the nail on the head with Ohio perfectly since that's exactly the origin of it, people notices how there's nothing ever going on in Ohio and it just evolved from there.

Hey dad, you have no charisma. You just do anything mom says and you're cringy.

Yes, it's true, but she is be best there ever was and I would be nothing without her.

Really?

Yes, really really.

Hope to see another single player experience from Valve, doesn't matter if it's HL or something else, just don't make it multiplayer focused.

Climate Town absolute banger. Love that guy!

Vinyl uses a metal rod to poke the grooves in the disk like a blind caveman.

CD uses friking lasers like it's superman and spins that fucker until it warps.

They have all the talent, budget and time they would ever need. No amount of hype will ever detract from a good game. Hell even cyberpunk managed to stay afloat after a disastrous launch and will be remembered positively by people that played the patched versions. I don't believe the hype thing either.

I've heard the explanation that they're not working on the half life series because they want to have bigger leaps in innovation, but then they work on a moba/hero shooter.

What is that magic number?

We can fix it in the future has been an argument for decades at this point and we still haven't found that magical fix while barreling towards ecological desaster. All data points so far show that this magical technology will not arrive before we all suffer permanent and irreperable damage.

They block pop-up windows but now website designers have discovered they can just do soft pop-ups. The worst websites have at least 3, the cookie wall, the newsletter and some pay wall or offer, often overlapping.

Nebula has some of the better creators anyway.

I have premium and still use it just for this.

Making the internet usable again. Without this and ublock, I might quit the whole thing.

Giving it a whirl right now. Thanks for the recommendation.

Maybe I overreacted, but the person that was shitting on China themselves seemed to just spout US propaganda talking points, when in reality both have huge issues and also their good parts.

If I had to chose, I'd lean in the US's favor overall, but not by much, thankfully I don't live in either of them.