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[–] verstra@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Can someone explain why this would be even slightly useful to anyone?

How does one type without a and z?

[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it is possible if you get enough time to think of every word, you just need to to find synonims so you don't write specific letters, often needing to switch both words/speech style

(it's very difficult though, I've been writing this comment for 5 to 10 minutes)

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You cn totlly get by without them

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Definitely unneeded. The ending letter of the series of letters we employ to form words is especially useless, but to be honest the first is mostly superfluous too

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[–] Frozzie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Alphabet didn't turn enough profit this quarter, so they had to make some difficult choices and cut their less used options

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[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I SO hate the CapsLock, the most useless key in the best of locations. I converted it to XCape on all my keebs!

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Usually on boards like this it's remapped to Ctrl, Esc or whatever you actually want. At this point having the caps button still there is purely cosmetic.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

FN key on quadruple duty

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Wtf is code?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Managers will still expect you to do 60% of your work on 60% of your keyboard.

[–] Crafter72@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As someone that into mech keyboard hobby, I can say that's still perceivable for average user as you still retain the familiar "qwerty" layout.

Look up stenograph keyboard. They have lesser keys but allows someone to write higher wpm and programmable though I don't think they would fit for average office workload (unless you types a lot).

[–] bricked 1 points 1 day ago

With home row modifier keys you could get rid of yet abother row!

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

The control is right there, next to backspace

oh god help me..

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