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Yes, in another comment I explained that many years ago I wrote a software package to map program functions to the F keys, which on my keyboard were arranged in 2 columns of 5 on the left. It was before putting them in a single row across the top became the standard. The software displayed a diagram showing the key functions, laid out in the same pattern as the physical keys. I found it very easy to get the hang of looking at this diagram and pressing the right button without looking at the keys. Each keypress brought up new options, basically a multilevel submenu system, but using the buttons was faster than moving a mouse around and clicking.

Of course the concept is very obsolete for normal computer keyboards because that f-key layout isn’t around anymore. But if the device had the buttons right under the screen the key functions could be displayed above them. I could see that “soft buttons” concept becoming popular.

It’s popular enough for me already. I kind of hope it doesn’t become the online site because that will just attract trolls.

I’ve also been using Trust Café (aka WT.Social) but I like the Lemmy UI a lot better.

I think we’ll see multipurpose function buttons under the display, that change function programmatically depending on what the app is doing.

No I wouldn’t say touchscreens are out, I would say augmenting them with physical buttons is about to get popular.

Won’t someone think of the seamen?

His superpowers come from radioactive mac ‘n’ cheese.

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You worded that better than I could, well done.

Never expected the orange leopard to eat MY face.

Should be obvious to a prof that the beef and cattle feed producers would lose some business, the hemp farmers would get it instead, and the money spent on paper would stay in the country. Seems pretty simple.

Sort of like humans, but we turn into children again and die. Can’t say we don’t try tho.

The proud moment in every jellyfish’s life when the buds come in.

It’s mind boggling how quickly the GOP became the Fake Party of Fakeness. Almost any claim they make, you can look up and easily find it’s bullshit. It’s like Trump said, “I love the uneducated!” The party thrives on ignorance now. The main force driving them is young men without college who are angry that they don’t have more power. The party’s message is just plant your feet on the ground and insist you’re right until the other side throws up its hands and gives in, like the low self esteem gf who sticks with you no matter what because she’s too dumb to realize she has options. Problem is, Americans know they have options now - and like the saying goes, We Won’t Go Back. I’m really looking forward to this week.

That’s a major problem today - “what can I do?” means “where should I post about this?”. If it can be done with two thumbs on a phone, today’s activists are all over it.

Back in the 90s I worked out the arithmetic and concluded that legalizing agricultural hemp (not marijuana but fiber) and reducing American beef consumption by 10%, would save the South American rainforests.

I forget the numbers now, but at the time almost all timber logging in the rainforests was to make paper. I remember buying some really nice plywood called “teppa” that came from I think Argentina, which became unavailable because all the logs were being pulped. Anyway, if the market for beef dropped 10%, forcing the beef industry to cut production, the drop in cattle feed consumption would reduce the demand for corn (a main component). If the land were used for hemp fiber instead it would produce enough paper to completely replace our paper imports from S.A.

This practical exercise probably taught me more economics than my college Econ 101 class.

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