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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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altgr-z still opens nvidia's bar instead of, you know, just typing ż. In 2021, not 2004.

Wait you mean the GeForce Experience overlay? I must have reassigned that right after installation so I didn't remember. But at least this one warrants having a hotkey in the first place!

Yep, that one. I've also reassigned that very quick

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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>this is the site which used to let you figure out who sent you anonymous questions because you could block anonymous users, and that user would then appear in their uncensored name in your blocklist.

>They fixed this by completely changing how anonymous blocking worked, so that it worked by IP address instead of by username, but for a while that information was exposed to the user

>which meant if someone sent you an anonymous question you could block them and then find out their IP address

lmao! What a dumpster fire. I'm glad I never used it for anything remotely serious and exclusively consumed content second-site by people who actually went to tumblr.com.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Sounds like a reasonable explanation for physical keyboards—if the new keyboard used by the OP was identical to the keyboard on their machine, I can see how Windows might reuse the same device driver instance since it has already been loaded into memory. But what about the on-screen keyboard? Do on-screen key presses get routed through the keyboard device driver too?

So fingers bounce when they touch a screen? I wrote a capacitive touch driver once back in uni and we debounced that. I don’t know how windows does it, I’m speculating

It wouldn't be the same debouncer, keyboard input is usually debounced before it reaches the OS, let alone whatever windowing system that an on screen keyboard sends events to.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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I learned years ago to use as “safe” a key as possible to wake up my computer, so I settled on Control. Wish I could remember what led me to that decision.

I use caps lock, apart from being safe it also gives a bit of feedback in the form of the light going on/off even before the conplete wakeup.

I've also discovered that capslock is a useful way of detecting (linux) kernel panics. If everything freezes, and capslock stops toggling that light, your kernel is dead.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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I hope someone reimplements tumblr as an open platform at some point. They got a lot right from a UX perspective.

The UX is designed from a user perspective, a lot right. The implementation is from a developers perspective mostly wrong.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

I had similar issues in Ontraport where if I typed too quickly my cursor would suddenly jump to the start of the textbox. I noticed I had to slow down like a hunt and peck typist and it wouldn't happen. I wonder if it was better for people who live near the server since it could be due to cross-Pacific latency.

I did try copy/pasting from another program, but formatting bugs made that unreliable.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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That’s really nice of him to put together such a concise, well-described list of issues for them. Hopefully someone sees this and adds it to their issue tracker. It’s very rare to see anyone internal grab something from outside like that though.

Heads up, foone uses they/them pronouns. I love their write ups, I know whenever I see their posts on here to cozy up with a coffee because it's about to get fun.

Thanks, I did miss that! Looks like it’s too late to edit now though

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

> One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p.

> It ended up being the last straw that pushed me to Ubuntu, and I've never looked back.

On Ubuntu, that would be:

  $ Q=$($(echo /usr/bin/*rintf) \\x70)
  $ echo hel$Q
  help
right?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

> One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. > It ended up being the last straw that pushed me to Ubuntu, and I've never looked back. On Ubuntu, that would be: $ Q=$($(echo /usr/bin/*rintf) \\x70) $ echo hel$Q help right?

  $ echo hel$'\x70'
  help
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