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that TV is a prime candidate for /tvtoohigh and also needs its own sub/comm for /tvwaaaaaytooclose, despite the mild “improvement” to the original image

many enthusiast keyboards are “tenkeyless” precisely because the numpad is too far from the home row to be actually useful when you get efficient typing patterns worked out

i have a tenkeyless and use programmers dvorak (which is honestly imo pretty brain dead for its use of the num row and still is “fine” for numbers): you get used to it very quickly, and typing numbers with the numpad as an efficiency improvement is more than made up for by using both hands on the num row, and by it being far closer to the home row

actually one of my grandparents was a typist at an accounting firm, and apparently num row is far more efficient for numbers in generally because you use 10 fingers and your thumbs are close to your “new home row” (aka the number row while you’re typing numbers), and whilst possible you’d never use both hands in the num pad because it’d be awkward and probably damaging to your wrists, and you’re rarely typing just numbers so having the num row closer to the home row is part of the efficiency calculation

… if we’re being pedantic, which we absolutely are

perhaps, but you still get feature fragmentation… things like custom emojis, stickers, what video codecs to support (heck i reckon they’d probably focus on chat first and video would only be available within the same app until some organisation effort happened), etc

you can see that a little bit on lemmy with the difference in how blocks work on lemmy vs piefed… piefed blocks on lemmy look like a shadow ban because lemmy doesn’t support the error style piefed uses… i think that’d it anyway

point being: just because software can exchange data and have the same problem domain and even in many cases use the same basic terminology, there can still be plenty of more advanced features that aren’t interoperable

re matrix, it can talk to anything… kinda… the matrix protocol has the idea of “bridges” built into it, so they should be able to translate between your client talking to the server via matrix protocol, and other things like XMPP, IRC, etc (at least in theory)

in australia we don’t require photo ID… you register to vote exactly once (usually done in high school and they walk you through it - at least that was my experience), and then you just show up… your name is on a list, and they cross you off

requiring ID and voter role purges are not a requirement for democracy

wreaks of “fuck you got mine”… so an invasive AI scan has scanned your content and deemed you 18+… gross… but at least you don’t have to upload ID (to a company that literally just had a major breach of their ID data)

but

now a new user joins. they don’t have that history of interaction, so what are they meant to do? either upload ID or not be part of their community

i mean, i’ve heard phone screens are legitimately horrendous for hygiene, which i wouldn’t be surprised by (no real evidence provided)

action cameras are made to be tough, mountable on your body, and are just dumb(ish) cameras

so… whistleblower

… that’s called a leak mate

i wouldn’t even say mac hardware is prohibitively expensive these days given how damn long it lasts

i can count on 1 hand the number of laptops i’ve used as my primary device for > 2 years and they’re all macs… current is going on 5 years and is only now looking like i might need a spec bump in the next 2

it’s absolutely true actually… whatsapp are the key holders and there was a leak a few weeks ago that showed meta staff can access anyone’s messages: they just need to raise a ticket and they get access to an app that allows them to pull up any user they like

this is always the case unless you’re the keyholder. any app where you can “forgot password” and get your data back you aren’t the key-holder (though recovery phrases are legitimate), or login simply via phone number and an SMS MFA or similar

it’s also true for apple stuff - despite being similarly encrypted - but they’ve at least on the surface displayed a willingness to protect user data from external threats