Just let me select text
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Just let me select text
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Re: Just let me select text
#2Agreed with the overall sentiment but screenshot+immediate text select on iOS/Mac has solved 99% of my issues here
Technology!
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#3How are they going to make money letting you do what you want?
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#4Is it a troll that the text on this page isn't selectable?
edit: It is intentional for sure, the other entries in this blog have selectable text.
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#5Yet I can't select text on this very blog.
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#6The irony here being that text cannot be selected in this post...
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#7On Android, long press home button activates Google Assistant that can OCR the current screen and translate immediately. Unironically one of the only two features keeping me on Android until now.
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#8It greeted me with a message: "Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person!" which is an interesting departure from the usual "this app won't work without javascript". But I couldn't select the text from the message to paste it here... while looking at the header above it "Just let me select text" I thought: yeah!
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#10use android/ gemini circle to search