[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2019-09-03 3:25 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> If you work on look, hunt and peck princible, then sure, anything will do.

Oddly, swearing at keyboards seems fairly limited to computer types. I 
use to work with a lot of copy-typists, and they could work on anything 
at all. They'd switch from Suns to Macs to Thinkpads to real typewriters 
without complaint. Some of them were using multilingual layouts and 
could use QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ at blazing speeds depending on the 
language of the project.

These people were the fastest and most accurate keyboarders I've ever 
met — like, ‘retype a whole page with no errors faster than you could 
walk to the photocopier and back’ fast — and they lived all day on 
keyboards. I don't think I heard about them complain about a computer 
keyboard ever. Plenty of complaints about chairs and desks, sure, but no 
complaints about keyboards.

(There was a specific desk's keyboard that they'd complain about *a lot* 
though, and refuse to use unless it was the only one available. It 
belonged to an editor who would water their plants over the keyboard and 
also eat their lunch directly over it. It's the only keyboard I've ever 
seem that had algae growing between the keys, while some of the keys 
would rebound very slowly accompanied by a wet sucking noise. It was 
very unhygienic.)

I never learned to type, and likely will keep my 4½-finger typing 
technique until I die. My current (non-Raspberry Pi) keyboard is a 
CoolerMaster gaming thing with an irritating top row. They keys are marked

     ` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
     ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +

which is no fun if you're keyboarding by sight.

  Stewart