NeatNit @ NeatNit @discuss.tchncs.de

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Psst, check out my reply to the parent comment :) your wife might be right, though I'm firmly on your side

I have it on good authority that Sean Wrona, possibly the fastest typist in the world, does this too. When you really think about it, there's nothing wrong with doing it that way, but I agree that it feels wrong and weird.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m9EXEpjSDEw this is what his typing looks like in action (though no clear shot of him using shift or caps lock as far as I can see)

https://data.typeracer.com/pit/profile?user=arenasnow his profile on a competitive typing website.

Edit: found a quote from his website:

I recommend using caps lock instead of shift to type capital letters to allow more flexibility in the hand that you would normally use shift with.

I admit I've never used it, but it seems to require you to know in advance the key presses to get the character you want, so it's not going to help if it's a character you only use rarely.

Samsung Keyboard literally lets you design your own keyboard layout in a surprisingly robust and rich way. I don't know if it's available on non-Samsung phones though, and I can't wholeheartedly recommend it because it has a bunch of flaws and quirks. For example, every once in a while it seems to do select all + copy + paste, without you going anything besides typing normally. This can scroll the text to an inconvenient place, and remove special formatting. On YouTube if you're replying to a comment it destroys the username you're replying to, replacing the special highlight with just their name in plain text.

this is causing me physical pain

I actually find it a lot easier on mobile, because you can see all the symbols available to type without having to memorise them or have 2-4 different characters printed on each key. Gboard has almost every special character I ever need to use accessible in its two extra screens, and accented letters like êëéèē accessible by long-pressing the base letter.

Unexpected Keyboard (on F-Droid) is also fantastic for extra characters, give it a try, but I don't use it as a daily driver because of lack of spellcheck and glide typing.

I know, right?

For real though, Linux Mint comes with what seems to be a clone of it, name included, and I'm pretty sure I've seen other clones of it integrated into writing software. There have been plenty of opportunities to improve on the formula, and the experience is improved slightly, it's just not enough.

Edit: turns out the one in Mint is GNOME Character Map.

I'll have a tidal salt fen marsh, with extra tide.

I think this is more to do with scientists' definitions than English in general. See also: what is and isn't a nut, what is and isn't a vegetable, is there such thing as a fish.

I forgot already before I started writing this comment

You sure you're not thinking of the Pound symbol (£)? The Euro symbol (€) would have to be a third thing, if it's there at all.

I'm not British and don't know their keyboard layout, so maybe you're right, but I would expect £ to be accessible and € less so.

Edit: oh, you were right. £ is Shift+3, € is AltGr+4.

There's something a bit upsetting about how finding it online is faster and easier than using an application purpose-built for this purpose (Character Map)

thank you, I hoped this would be here.

As long as I can still get notifications and see the time, I don't think I care.

Also feel free to cross-post this to the other community, or anywhere else.

We'll see if my efforts fare any better.

I'll try to add that in. It's actually a fairly old story (in AI timescale) but you're right, it's worth mentioning.

Reposted because someone else's post was removed after I took issue with its AI-generated summary. If you're reading this, I didn't mean for this to happen, I hope you're not too angry. I actually would have preferred if you just edited your summary to correct it. And FWIW, I upvoted your post.

Do you watch every video available? I certainly can’t. So I make use of teasers and descriptions. That’s what they’re there and useful for.

Sure, me too, but when you literally say "Instant disqualification for me" that's an insane reaction. You should know when reading a summary that it's not a perfect representation of the source. Even human-written summaries or articles very often misunderstand or misrepresent their sources, many times stating the exact opposite of the source because of it. This obviously happens with AI summaries as well. The "instant disqualification" is what you can't excuse.

well the recap is wrong :(