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I submitted the mysterious extra
nsituation on military keyboards as a question for Lateral and they featured it in today's episode!Spotify video • Spotify CDN raw file (34:18) • catbox.moe • Podverse.fm clip • Website with transcript
They reserve the right to edit questions and omitted the important
n-lock key. A keyboard with a permanently missing 3 would be ridiculous.Edit: Now it's also a highlight on YouTube, their second-most-viewed last year, but they didn't attribute the question to me there, not even in text