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On my mind: How much I loathe - that is, passionately loathe, detest, utterly abominate - touchscreen keyboards.

I hate using them, and I hate the feeling of using them.

Actually, it is one of the reasons why I cannot abide smartphones, dreadfully useful though the devices undoubtedly are.

Personally, I feel that I must say that I love the tactile feel of a proper keyboard, that sense of resistance and pressure in the keys as you write/type.
 
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Agreed! I intensely dislike trying to type on an iPhone keyboard or an iPad keyboard; with my iPad I occasionally use an old BT external keyboard that I have paired with it on the rare occasions that I need and want to type on it rather than using the computer.

Most of the time I prefer typing on the computer, and even with that I have an external Magic Keyboard since I mostly use my 16" M1 MBP as a desktop substitute. I am much happier typing on a real keyboard, either an external BT one paired with a device or the one which is built into MBPs and MBAs. That semester of learning touch-typing in high school has paid off handsomely through the years!
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
On my mind: How much I loathe - that is, passionately loathe, detest, utterly abominate - touchscreen keyboards.
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I used to hate them, but I've had to get used to them over the years—there are so many times where my laptop just isn't available to use (like when I'm traveling).
Scepticalscribe said:
Personally, I feel that I must say that I love the tactile feel of a proper keyboard, that sense of resistance and pressure in the keys as you write/type.
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Yes, and that's why I like mechanical keyboards a lot—they're clicky-sounding, and the key travel is such that you can actually feel the keys being pressed. Also, I've noticed my wpm improve when using a mechanical.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
On my mind: How much I loathe - that is, passionately loathe, detest, utterly abominate - touchscreen keyboards.

I hate using them, and I hate the feeling of using them.

Actually, it is one of the reasons why I cannot abide smartphones, dreadfully useful though the devices are.

Personally, I feel that I must say that I love the tactile feel of a proper keyboard, that sense of resistance and pressure in the keys as you write/type.
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This is true. My iPhone should have come with a proper IBM keyboard...

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I use a dasKeyboard Mac for my iMac, (I loathe the stupid little chiclet* keyboard it came with...) and a Keytron K14 on my RPi 400 (yes, the one that is built into an even more stupid keyboard than my iMac came with)

* Some of you may remember the IBM PC Jr, the keyboard of which was generally accepted to be the WKOAT (Worst Keyboard of All Time). Before that, in Australia, was Time Office Computers, which paid Porche Design an incredible amount for the first chiclet keyboard I know of. In spite of winning a contract to supply the whole of the Australian Taxation department, it went bust shortly after, due to those keyboards.
 
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I don't like those small keyboards usually provided with iMacs, either: I much prefer the ones which also include the numerical keypad as well, as the current Magic Keyboard does, or at least one version of it does. I don't need to use the numbers all the time but when occasionally working with certain documents or when preparing my annual tax return forms, I can't imagine not having this!

For everyday typing such as I am doing right now, I still like having the more substantial keyboard at my fingertips.
 
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I bought myself a nice Keychron Q2 in blue a while back and am enjoying that a lot.
 
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Clix Pix said:
I don't like those small keyboards usually provided with iMacs, either: I much prefer the ones which also include the numerical keypad as well, as the current Magic Keyboard does, or at least one version of it does. I don't need to use the numbers all the time but when occasionally working with certain documents or when preparing my annual tax return forms, I can't imagine not having this!

For everyday typing such as I am doing right now, I still like having the more substantial keyboard at my fingertips.
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A heartfelt and profound amen to this.
 
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boswald said:
My mom is on my mind. I lost her last Saturday.
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My deepest sympathies, this must be heart-breaking for you.

I lost mine in December 2018, and so, I have some sense of (and a very strong memory of) what you must be going through.

This is a seismic loss, a core loss, one where the person who was the lodestar of your life, your first and primary relationship, the person who defined every subsequent relationship, whose love must have meant the world to you, is no longer with you.

Allow yourself to feel your loss and to express your grief.

All I can say is to try to be kind to yourself, take good care of yourself, and to remember that while they say that time heals, (and yes, it does), it also takes a lot of time - years and years - for this healing to begin to take any effect.
 
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My deepest sympathies, this must be heart-breaking for you.

I lost mine in December 2018, and so, I have some sense of (and a very strong memory of) what you must be going through.

This is a seismic loss, a core loss, one where the person who was the lodestar of your life, your first and primary relationship, the person who defined every subsequent relationship, whose love must have meant the world, is no longer with you.

Allow yourself to feel your loss and to express your grief.

All I can say is to try to be kind to yourself, take good care of yourself, and to remember that while they say that time heals, (and yes, it does), it also takes a lot of time - years and years - for this healing to begin to take any effect.
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That was one of the most empathetic, warm, heartfelt and genuine things I have ever read. Thank you.
 
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boswald said:
That was one of the most empathetic, warm, heartfelt and genuine things I have ever read. Thank you.
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Thank you.

You will never fully recover from this - or, rather, I should say, that you will be entering a new reality

At its most basic level, the "family" as you knew it - the one with your mother at the centre of what defined your sense of what was your family - has been transformed beyond recognition.

Now, I will say that over time - assuming that the relationship was a good one, was positive, - you will be able to take considerable solace from anything that will serve to remind you of your mother, and will be able to take refuge in what a friend of mine (who had lost his son in tragic circumstances) described as a personal "bank of memories".

For now, your tasks are to organise some sort of service that will celebrate your mother's life; and that is all about her, recognising and saluting who she was, the person she was - her hobbies, her interests and skills, her career if that was what gave her life meaning or identity - her character, her life and her loves.

Then, it will be time to take care of yourself, to focus on your own needs, to allow yourself space and time to grieve and not to be afraid to admit that you feel an aching loss, an emptiness, and a profound and probably bottomless sorrow.

This is only natural, and to acknowledge it and own it is - to my mind - healthy, and will enable you to begin to deal with it, accept it, learn to live with it, and thus, to begin to heal.
 
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rm5 said:
Building a website... everyone says it's the "easiest thing in the world," but Wordpress does have a bit of a learning curve it seems. I've been at it for almost three hours and am just finishing the homepage, so...
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That phrase - "it's the easiest thing in the world" is one that I instinctively distrust, as hard won experience tells me - almost invariably - that this is not so.
 
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I've decided I don't want to go on a Titanic Sight Seeing sub. If condolences are in order I'll offer them. :( Listened to a sub expert who said "the sub is an experimental vehicle, not even made out of steel, but fiberglass. I'd never go on it." The report on NPR said that you walk into this adventure with eyes wide open, taking your life in your hands, death is mentioned 3 times on the first page of the disclaimer, in a laundry list of ways you can die. A comparison was made with the space shuttle where it goes from 1 atmosphere to 0 atmospheres, this sub goes from 1 to 400. I'll fess up, never ever did I consider this. :oops:

www.insider.com

Missing Titanic tourist sub: Everything we know so far, from who's on board to when it disappeared

The Titan submersible went missing less than two hours after setting out for an eight-day tourist expedition to the Titanic wreck near Newfoundland.
www.insider.com www.insider.com
 
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Huntn said:
I've decided I don't want to go on a Titanic Sight Seeing sub. If condolences are in order I'll offer them. :( Listened to a sub expert who said "the sub is an experimental vehicle, not even made out of steel, but fiberglass. I'd never go on it." The report on NPR said that you walk into this adventure with eyes wide open, taking your life in your hands, death is mentioned 3 times on the first page of the disclaimer, in a laundry list of ways you can die. A comparison was made with the space shuttle where it goes from 1 atmosphere to 0 atmospheres, this sub goes from 1 to 400. I'll fess up, never ever did I consider this. :oops:

www.insider.com

Missing Titanic tourist sub: Everything we know so far, from who's on board to when it disappeared

The Titan submersible went missing less than two hours after setting out for an eight-day tourist expedition to the Titanic wreck near Newfoundland.
www.insider.com www.insider.com
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Agreed.

I'm more than content to watch a documentary about this, rather than participate in such an activity myself.

Mind you, reading those brief bios, some of the passengers strike me as the sort of wealthy individuals who also crave adventure in their lives, individuals who are also adrenalin junkies.
 
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I'm at work with a nasty toothache that's been on and off for a week, and is the result of my not going to the dentist for years. I have some high level pain killers which ironically make me feel nothing at all except the pain. How is it that my arms and legs can be completely numb yet my tooth pain is more evident than ever. Sick cruel world.
 
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I'm at work with a nasty toothache that's been on and off for a week, and is the result of my not going to the dentist for years. I have some high level pain killers which ironically make me feel nothing at all except the pain. How is it that my arms and legs can be completely numb yet my tooth pain is more evident than ever. Sick cruel world.
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Tooth-ache can be agonising; I remember suffering from occasional (and excruciating) pain from an impacted wisdom tooth (subsequently removed in an operation).

Cloves, and clove oil are excellent for alleviating (not curing) the pain of tooth-ache.

However, for a more permanent remedy, I would recommend that you pay a visit to your dentist.
 
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