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Just use QWERTY! (shkspr.mobi)

submitted 1 year ago by edent@lemmy.one to c/technology

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I've written a blog post about the most important technological issue of our time - why every streaming service has its own weird keyboard.

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[–] lupuchard@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I disagree. If you touch type you often only know where keys are through muscle memory, and existing muscle memory is not particularly useful when changing the entry method (I have to mime typing to remember where keys are on a keyboard). Alphabetic works well because you don't need to know any particular layout to know where keys are going to be, and I think makes a good standard for remote-controlled interfaces