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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean like the way ~~sweeping~~ swiping figures out the words? And what do you do when trying to type out a password? Does it revert to a normal keyboard or function like T9 keyboard with multiple presses to select the right character?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

I think with the advent of passkeys, this issue is largely mitigated. But for the most part, yes, reversion to the familiar makes sense, whether that's QWERTY, T9 or simply disabling auto correct.