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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • i didn’t want to give up QWERTY familiarity.

    That’s the neat part: you don’t! Once you get comfortable with a different layout, then it’s a second step to get comfortable switching. You will have issues for a while, but your brain will develop a switch quite quickly (it’s much easier than learning Colemak). Once you have the switch, it’s easy to use both layouts.

    I work mostly on Colmak DH, but use QUERTY from time to time, when on my laptop.

    The ONLY problem I have now is when my wife wants to use my computer… She doesn’t want to try my fancy Colemak keyboard. (But it’s more about it being a split keyboard with unmarked action keys in random places, than about the colemak).


  • Yes, I use Colemak DH, but can also touch type on QUERTY when needed (when working on my laptop).

    I noticed that, while gaming helped me a little, it also taught me to put my fingers on the wrong keys (WSAD is not correct for typing), also QUERTY is really bad, I never tried to put fingers on the home row, because you barely use home row keys in QUERTY.

    It took me two months of regular training to switch to Colemak but it was worth it. I type much faster and I feel like a skilled pianist when my fingers fly smoothly over the keys, and somehow I am even better with QUERTY now than I was before!








  • Profitability went out of fashion. Control and power is the new trend. Big tech controls 95% (if not more) of all information sources. Even if they don’t own newspapers, they can make them more or less visible at will. Google tried to monetize it with ads everywhere but that is the old way of thinking.

    Cambridge analytica showed that by controlling the information, you can select who makes the laws.

    Musk bought Twitter without any chance for a reasonable return on investment. Guess why?

    The “old tech” (Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok) controls what you know. But AI goes a step further. It controls what you think about things. It can explain why, what you thought was outrageous, is perfectly normal, or vice versa. It’s your own personalised propaganda machine. Once enough people are hooked and get used to using AI, the enshitification phase will begin and the AI will become more and more opinionated. And most people won’t notice… Some will, but they don’t need to influence everyone.