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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2729 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 7, 2023

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What's the quote from some character played by Samuel L. Jackson? "Nothing typed by someone's thumbs has ever been important." At one point in my life I wholeheartedly would have endorsed this, and I am still more likely to write more substantive posts with my computer via Qwerty-typing with two hands. But I'm older and less impulsive now and have learned to hate ppl saying "OK boomer" to me.

I use Hotmail, still, and I still call it Hotmail, and my address is my actual name without any numbers (I got in early) and Hotmail does the autocorrect thing. So maybe type in Hotmail and copy-paste it elsewhere? That seems an idiotic solution, though.

I can't even type with my thumbs on my phone since I got a phone and started needing to text way too late in life. So I do pathetic one-fingered hunt and peck typing.

Keyboards all the way!

I find typing on my phone easy enough (although not as fast as on a keyboard). The hard part is opening other tabs to reference something. Editing is also easier on a desktop or laptop.

Aight grandpa, let's get you back indoors safely ok? Haha

Honestly, autocorrect is a marvel. Swipe input makes one handed use feasible, albeit my current phone is finally big enough that it's still a chore. If you're on a remotely recent smartphone, then do try either Google's keyboard, the zanily named Gboard, or the Microsoft owned SwiftKey. They're largely interchangeable in my eyes.

I can touch type on my phone without looking at the keyboard. I just did so for this very sentence.

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