@rainer A couple years ago when I was considering switching to Linux I preemptively installed something called "WinCompose" on my Windows 10 and I have been *very* happy with it. I like it better than either the old Windows alt+NUMBERS feature or the new Windows WIN+. thing. I can often guess sequences I don't know because they are based on a visual logic (for example O + C is ©), and I can define my own sequences for emoji, and I can share my custom sequences with my Linux machine. It is very 👍
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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 13:34:37 JST mcc Incidentally, my most "over 40 person" opinion about computers is that keyboards should not have stickers. Like, phone keyboards. They should not have a "stickers" feature. How does that even work, I literally don't understand what this feature thinks it is doing. You cannot type a sticker.
If you want to put physical stickers on a physical keyboard that is a separate matter and I approve.
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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 13:34:37 JST mcc Also, while I'm complaining about the stickers, it drives me
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that "emoji keyboard" features in both phones and desktop PCs offer "emoji searches" which do not include non-emoji unicode codepoints. Sometimes I want to type the greek letter "mu", or the german "umlaut" symbol. Sometimes I want to type the not equals symbol? TOO BAD, says the Microsoft WIN+. key, those are NOT EMOJI and we will NOT BE HELPING YOU. COLORS OR YOU CAN'T TYPE IT!
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Rainer Sigwald (rainer@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 13:34:37 JST Rainer Sigwald @mcc SO MUCH! The Windows one makes me so angry because when you switch to the math tab you lose search. I just have to scroll around?!?
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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 13:34:38 JST mcc This seems like the kind of thing that people lately would call "my most boomer opinion about computers" but I don't think boomers are particularly defined by having strong opinions at all about computers in the first place, much less for their excessively cautious information security practices
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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 13:34:38 JST mcc However the "firefox suggestions" thing is especially bad because like… okay, so you start typing in the address bar, there's search autocomplete. Data is necessarily sent to the search provider because that is an essential part of how the feature works. But sending data to *firefox* is… not an essential part of the feature. It's for showing ads, but that's not in my interests. So it's a privacy risk in exchange for which I see ads.
What. Fuck.
A 2021 post about this:
https://www.belle-aurore.com/mike/2021/10/firefox-93-scrapes-your-keystrokes-automatically/
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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 13:34:39 JST mcc About this, by the way. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113099556637524803
I actually still am bothered by the fact that the address bar and the search bar have been combined into one bar. I have been bothered by this since 2008 when Firefox originally introduced the "Awesomebar" (yes, that was really what they called it).
It is *very uncomfortable* to me that everything you type in the address bar gets sent to a third party! This goes quadruply when you consider how easy it is to accidentally paste a password in there.
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