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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzlab toys
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    4 days ago

    Having worked in tech support for a system that I knew very well, I often saw problems vanish when users attempted to demonstrate them with me present

    People would say my tech aura made it work

    Really though people just take more care when an expert is present, and so avoid whatever error their earlier carelessness caused

    I wonder if people who experience the opposite encourage less care among those around them




  • It was fine until “the adpocalypse”, when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.

    While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn’t give any share to YouTube.


  • psud@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzCalculatable
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    8 days ago

    I originally learned qwerty and touch typed at 60WPM, during a really boring job before smartphones and before we had internet to the desktop at work and I entertained myself learning to type again, but on dvorak

    So after 3 months I was back to 60WPM

    I really like that dvorak has all the vowels on the left of the home row, and t and h are on the right of the home row right where finger tapping cadence works for “th”

    So my speed hasn’t increased, but my fingers don’t need to move as much for common words. I don’t think it’s worth it if you play games on the computer, many games don’t map keyboard controls well. Eg Minecraft moves everything to whatever key is in the same place as the qwerty key; 7 days to die doesn’t change anything, so you need to choose keys for everything, or if you’re happy with the defaults, just change the ones that conflict when you fix “wasd” to “,aoe”