toynbee @ toynbee @lemmy.world

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I still remember looking up alt codes on the character map.

I haven't had to represent degrees in decades, but for some reason I remembered the code being 0961. According to this page it was 0176. What a classic blunder!

This seems like a good starting point. Thank you for the recommendations; I'll reach out with potential future gripes.

My favorite has always been the Kensington Orbit. Probably a lot of people - even those who like Trackballs - would disagree, but I've been happily using these for around 25 years. Except in Minecraft.

When I was a kid, I got my hands on a PS/2 Y-adapter and so typed on two keyboards - left hand on one on my desk, right hand on one on a keyboard tray. I don't know what my typing speed and accuracy were then, but a few years back an entire office of people tried to beat me in a typing test and couldn't. Since then I've taken a typing test on a laptop while sitting in a hotel bed and gotten a score of 158 with, IIRC, 98.2% accuracy. (This was my best score but even since then all of my typing evaluations have gone well.)

I also use a trackball as exclusively as my environment allows, including while gaming (other than Minecraft). I'm not remotely a pro, but among my peers I tend to score highly in, for example, FPS'.

I'm not trying to brag; there are many better than I in both categories. The reason I bring these up is to demonstrate that something being the convention doesn't automatically make it better and something being unfit for your preferences doesn't make it inferior.

edit: AFAIK, I only have one left hand.

I'm going through this currently trying to find a privacy respecting Android keyboard.

Latest effort is Futo, recommended by a coworker. So far, I don't like it.

Thanks!

It's too bad that, at least for me, your comment doesn't come immediately after this one.

What app is that?

Also don't unfixably break things in your body even with redundancies. That's no fun, either.

It's been that long?

That's depressing for a few reasons

Is it?

For some reason, I suspect you are an enjoyer of Cinema Sins.

While I have no opinion on this subject (only having learned about it in this thread), I think you might be confusing PR (public relations) and PR (pull requests).

I've heard tales of its niceness.

I lichen you guys.

I got a head start... I wasn't even issued one until multiple decades into my life!

Ah, fair enough. I think I even remember seeing one or two of those. Thanks!

Ah, I thought I was missing a reference. Thanks!

Here I thought that was the cleftal horizon.