To the alps.
/r/BestKeyboardPuns
Recently having discovered this wonderful subreddit, I decided to tell my dad about it, seeing as he's the IT manager at a smallish company and has to deal with basically all tech-related problems. This is the product of that conversation.
NeedsAdjustment's Dad = $IT
Confused office worker = $Office
>$Office (on phone): "$IT, none of my apps work! They open and then close again! I don't know what to do!"
>$IT (on phone): "...what do you mean, they open and close?"
>$Office (on phone): "They just, like, flash on the screen and then disappear! Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi $IT, you're my only hope!"
A couple of minutes later, at $Office's department:
>$IT: "So could you show me the problem again?"
$Office clicks on Internet Explorer shortcut pinned to Desktop. The window opens briefly and then disappears.
>$IT (looking at $Office's keyboard): "...$Office, your phone's resting on the Escape key."
>$Office: ...
>$IT: ...
$Office removes phone from keyboard, clicks on Internet Explorer icon on taskbar. Hundreds of window previews fill the screen.
>$Office: "...Oh."
TL;DR: F8 in humanity destroyed (thanks to /u/hypervelocityvomit for being better at bad keyboard puns than I could ever hope to be).
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/r/EarthPorn
- /u/no
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Turns out it was all under CTRL.
sad
The space bar.
If you are not part of a tiny minority, the layout of keys on your keyboard is a standard called QWERTY. Now this layout has it's origins way back in the 1870s, in the age of typewriters. It has many disadvantages. The keys are not arranged for optimal speed. More typing strokes are done with the left hand (so it advantages left-handed people even if most people are right-handed). There is an offset, the columns slant diagonally (that is so the levers of the old typewriters don't run into each other).
But today we have many alternative layouts of varying efficiencies depending on the study (Dvorak, Coleman, Workman, etc) but it's a consensus that QWERTY is certainly not the most efficient. We have orthogonal keyboards with no stagger, or even columnar stagger that is more ergonomic.
Yet in spite that many of the improvements of the QWERTY layout exist for decades if not a century, most people still use and it seems they will still continue to use the QWERTY layout. Suppose re-training yourself is hard. Sure, but they don't even make their children at least are educated in a better layout when they are little.
This is the power of inertia in society. This is the power of normalization. Capitalism has just become the default state, many people accept it without question, the kids get educated into it. Even if something empirically demonstrated without a shadow of a doubt to be better would stare society in the face, the "whatever, this is how things are" reaction is likely.
TLDR: inferior ways of doing things can persist in society for centuries in spite of better alternatives, and capitalism just happens to be such a thing too.
Ctrl,shift,esc.
(Task manager shortcut)
