What’s on your mind?

[Macky-Mac]

From what I've read, studies show that for mobile keyboards, typing with two thumbs is the fastest way to type.

I can only move my thumbs relatively quickly across an iPhone keyboard, but not as fast as most people. I suppose one of the reasons why people use their thumbs is because the device is being held, it's not flat on a surface. I still agree with you though, a normal keyboard is better no matter what.

Apparently holding an iPhone with both hands tends to put the thumbs in a better position to hit the keyboard at a good angle for both accuracy and speed. People using a finger often have a much shallower angle of attack that results in more surface of the finger hitting the keyboard......and that leads to hitting adjacent keys making errors that need to be corrected. So they say anyway.

Back in the dark ages when mobile keyboards started to appear, a stylus was frequently used to poke the keyboard.

 

[Clix Pix]

Ah, but Steve was adamantly opposed to the iPhone needing to be used with a stylus!

 

[Macky-Mac]

Ah, but Steve was adamantly opposed to the iPhone needing to be used with a stylus!

sure, and of course nobody (?) uses a stylus on an iPhone or other brands of phones.

The thing is that the way to type effectively on these mobile keyboards isn't the same as how you type on a manual keyboard where your fingers are pivoting up and down to "tap" the key......big fat fingers plopping down on big keys that have a bit of space between them.

Most of us who have problems with mobile keyboards, and that includes me, we've just not adjusted

 

[AVBeatMan]

From what I've read, studies show that for mobile keyboards, typing with two thumbs is the fastest way to type.



Apparently holding an iPhone with both hands tends to put the thumbs in a better position to hit the keyboard at a good angle for both accuracy and speed. People using a finger often have a much shallower angle of attack that results in more surface of the finger hitting the keyboard......and that leads to hitting adjacent keys making errors that need to be corrected. So they say anyway.

Back in the dark ages when mobile keyboards started to appear, a stylus was frequently used to poke the keyboard.

I always use my thumbs to type with. Hold the iPhone with fingers and type with thumbs. How else? Lay the phone on a table and use fingers?

 

[Apple fanboy]

I always use my thumbs to type with. Hold the iPhone with fingers and type with thumbs. How else? Lay the phone on a table and use fingers?

Hold iPhone in left hand. Type with index finger on right hand.

 

[decafjava]

Saw Oppenheimer last night, been a long time since I was in an actual theatre. Fantastic and highly recommended - there were moments I could not breath (of course the Trinity test) and others that chilled my heart or made me angry.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Hold iPhone in left hand. Type with index finger on right hand.

Yes, exactly.

That is what I do also, except that (on a phone) my typing is also done with the middle finger of my right hand.

My hands are too small to be able to reach the keys if I try to type with both hands while holding the phone.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Had a lovely chat with Decent Brother for around an hour.

 

[rm5]

Saw Oppenheimer last night, been a long time since I was in an actual theatre. Fantastic and highly recommended - there were moments I could not breath (of course the Trinity test) and others that chilled my heart or made me angry.

I saw it, too, and I also loved it! Didn't get back home till almost 1:00 in the morning, but nonetheless, it was really good!

 

[rm5]

It's been a busy weekend! Yesterday, I played a solo gig at a distillery, which was really nice, and I just played at a coffee house with an alto sax and bass player this morning. It was a lot of fun, just the three of us playing for two hours, they're both stellar musicians! There were a couple moments where the bass player intentionally laid out and I filled in in the left hand, and that was really cool! He did it at the right time every time, just as the climax of the alto player's solo was approaching

Also, on a completely unrelated note, they fixed Google Chrome so now it's not blue and pink anymore! Guess people, including myself, were annoyed by it so they changed it back in the last update—or who knows, maybe it was a bug...

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

We have not yet seen Oppenheimer. However, did watch all 23 episodes of Manhattan (like Bridgerton, it is "fiction inspired by fact"). Also bought the book (Still going through it. It is tedious. Wondering if there is a Readers Digest Condensed version...).

 

[yaxomoxay]

There are some lessons I never learn. Most notable example is me every single year reading social media posts and comments about the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and every single year debating with those acephalous people that think that we never went on the Moon and their silly “proofs.”
Then I regret it, as I am doing now.

Next year I’ll probably do the same, even if I am trying to be almost completely offline lately.

 

[KaiFiMacFan]

It's tempting to get sucked into those debates, but they're ultimately pointless because no one's changing their mind, and being challenged just makes them double down even harder. I think being online is more enjoyable if you focus on interacting with people you like and respect about topics you're interested in, as opposed to going for the low-hanging fruit, that ultimately ends up like a chess match with a pigeon*.

*that is, the pigeon knocks over the pieces; er, relieves itself, on the board; and struts around like it won.

 

[decafjava]

My dark fantasy is the Enterprise or better a Klingon Bird of Prey gets zapped to the past and ignoring timeline paradoxes can track who made these dumb posts and transport them into space where they either have a huge revelation or go mad. Actually let the Federation deal with flat earthers the Klingons would track online neo uhh "nasties" and beam behind them with bat'leths and well...

 

[Apple fanboy]

There are some lessons I never learn. Most notable example is me every single year reading social media posts and comments about the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and every single year debating with those acephalous people that think that we never went on the Moon and their silly “proofs.”
Then I regret it, as I am doing now.

Next year I’ll probably do the same, even if I am trying to be almost completely offline lately.

I wonder what flat earth people think about moon landings? Or why the flat moon rotates through the night sky?

 

[Apple fanboy]

It's tempting to get sucked into those debates, but they're ultimately pointless because no one's changing their mind, and being challenged just makes them double down even harder. I think being online is more enjoyable if you focus on interacting with people you like and respect about topics you're interested in, as opposed to going for the low-hanging fruit, that ultimately ends up like a chess match with a pigeon*.

*that is, the pigeon knocks over the pieces; er, relieves itself, on the board; and struts around like it won.

Exactly. There is so much polarisation these days. Everything is an opposite view.
No one ever posts I’m not sure. Let me research the topic, have a think about it and come back to you with a balanced viewpoint.

I miss the pre internet days….

 

[Mousse]

Most of us who have problems with mobile keyboards, and that includes me, we've just not adjusted

I can tell which generation members are from how they type on their phone.

Hold iPhone in left hand. Type with index finger on right hand.

Gen X or older.

I always use my thumbs to type with. Hold the iPhone with fingers and type with thumbs. How else?

Millennial or younger.

Lay the phone on a table and use fingers?

The how I type on my phone. I once did that at a restaurant and the server told me about the senior's👨‍🦳 discount.😳
I ain't that old, you ankle biter.😓

that ultimately ends up like a chess match with a pigeon*.

*that is, the pigeon knocks over the pieces; er, relieves itself, on the board; and struts around like it won.

This is why I only play chess with the more dignified rock dove.🧐

 

[Apple fanboy]

I can tell which generation members are from how they type on their phone.

Gen X or older.

Millennial or younger.

The how I type on my phone. I once did that at a restaurant and the server told me about the senior's👳‍♂️ discount.😳
I ain't that old, you ankle biter.😓

This is why I only play chess with the more dignified rock dove.🧐

NOT generation X! I’m generation P. In that I need to P a lot more than I used to! 🤪

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

There are some lessons I never learn. Most notable example is me every single year reading social media posts and comments about the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and every single year debating with those acephalous people that think that we never went on the Moon and their silly “proofs.”
Then I regret it, as I am doing now.

Next year I’ll probably do the same, even if I am trying to be almost completely offline lately.

I always used to believe that we actually went to the moon because it is clear from some of the videos shot that they were shot in a vacuum (dust falling at all the same speed, for example). And I thought that we didn't have a big enough vacuum chamber to shoot the landing module and the activities around it.

Until I saw a video of Brian Cox (scientist, not actor) demonstrating the falling of balloons, feathers, bricks, etc in a vacuum. This was in a gigantic vacuum chamber that is actually big enough to house the filming of the landing module and the activities they did.

Now I'm not so sure...

 

[Apple fanboy]

When we went to the moon all those years ago, I’m sure most people believed that all these years later we would have a moon base and trips to the moon would be commonplace.
In reality we’ve not been back in most of Macrumors lifetime.

 

[VulchR]

When we went to the moon all those years ago, I’m sure most people believed that all these years later we would have a moon base and trips to the moon would be commonplace.
In reality we’ve not been back in most of Macrumors lifetime.

I was a kid during the space race and watched every launch I could. When we landed on the moon I stayed up well past midnight watching the landing. I even outlasted my father, who worked for NASA. I remember the bitter disappointment and feeling of betrayal when Congress killed the Apollo program and focused on far less ambitious projects like SkyLab.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I was a kid, then, too, a small but very entranced and excited kid: I recall watching the coverage of that with absorbed fascination and utterly rapt attention.

My poor parents: They bought me a lot of books on the history of flight, and about space.

 

[compwiz1202]

Well, yes.

However, I do like heat.

Both the physical - though 42 (42C, that is) in the shade (which is what the car thermometer read this afternoon) does strike me as somewhat excessive - and the er, metaphorical, though, the latter only at times.

I don't even have to do the actual conversion, and I know that is HOT

 

[KaiFiMacFan]

The heat wave in southern Europe right now is crazy. It was 108 in Rome a little while ago. It's 104 in Palermo today. Wildfires are still raging in Corfu and Rhodes.

My partner and I are leaving for Portugal, Spain, and Italy at the end of this month. I'm hoping the weather isn't quite as bad then. It's supposed to cool off next week.

 

[decafjava]

The heat wave in southern Europe right now is crazy. It was 108 in Rome a little while ago. It's 104 in Palermo today. Wildfires are still raging in Corfu and Rhodes.

My partner and I are leaving for Portugal, Spain, and Italy at the end of this month. I'm hoping the weather isn't quite as bad then. It's supposed to cool off next week.

Well, it's cooled off here in Switzerland. We had thunderstorms and even hail in a couple of places, yesterday and it is currently 23 (73 F) where it was 82 F (31 C) just the weekend. It will warm up but not to the extent before.