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QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid! (lazysoci.al)

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Whether you, like me, beleive that QAZWSX keyboards make far more sense, especially in a machine learning world, I think we all agree a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys doesn't make sense in modern society on modern devices.

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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

Wait, you've never had to type on your phone in landscape? Never played a game and had to type a message in chat? Never had to type while watching a video? Never had to do something in terminal and the text wasn't legible in portrait? 🥹

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

no, 2) qwerty is fine for that, literally 0 need for AI interpretation, 3) no, not that I can't just switch to a pc keyboard for 4) no

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