but I also like the 108 keyboards and not the small ones (daddy needs his numpad).

Man, I was glad to drop my numpad. That forces my mouse further off to the right and causes my keyboard not to be centered with my monitor.

I do have a very few prices of software that use it, and I didn’t want to give those up.

What I wound up doing was to get a separate, dedicated numpad for the very few pieces of software that I use that require it. Basically, I care about a handful of older roguelike games. I can put it in front of myself just for those rare occasions.

The numpad was a standby for people who did serious numeric data entry work and spent time to train themselves on the thing. Like, plonking data from paper into a computer. But that isn’t a field that most people need to deal with these days — most data can already be gotten in computer-readable form.

I do type numbers on some occasions — I write software and do use some statistical software — but it’s invariably mixed with other data, and the time cost of switching between the home row and the numpad is the dominant cost there.

The fact that a high proportion of PC users today use a laptop, and many of those have no numpad, creates a lot of pressure on software not to rely on it as well.

I could maybe see a left-handed person who uses a mouse with their left hand not caring as much, since the mouse isn’t a factor.

I mean, you hear about the people who do something. You don’t hear about the ones who don’t.

EDIT: Also, hermit crab smuggling and the CIA? What?

This gift is more for his dad than him

I’d get him something aimed at three-year-olds, and just get his dad a puzzle box:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_box

https://kubiyagames.com/collections/puzzle-boxes

having children

Not having children produces a long-term negative economic impact on the country, as the economic potential is tied to the size of the labor force.

Even if the Democrats had a majority, Congress doesn’t get say over the Presidential pardon.

Ahh, you’re right, thanks. I’d tried creating another account, and just assumed that deleting the active one would work and then switch me to another extant account. Doesn’t display a message or anything, just doesn’t let you do the deletion.

But if you switch first, it does work.

Oh, I know what you’re talking about. I was confused with other people talking about microfiber, because I was thinking about older ones that aren’t as fluffy, but a new microfiber blanket can have a bit of the same thing for me. Not nearly as intense as velvet for me, though.

makes me want to work my jaw up and down

I also have a “grit my teeth” reaction, but I don’t think that it’s because I have a sensation in my teeth. More like I just need to distract myself from being in contact with it.

Do you get it with suede too? Now that I think about it, it’s not just velvet…suede gives me a similar sensation. And both are fuzzy fabrics.

light touch with movement

Movement against velvet definitely is part of the problem for me.

Terrycloth is probably one of my favorite fabric feels. @auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com mentioned styrofoam, and I don’t like the feel of rubbing against it, but it’s certainly not on par with velvet for me.

It looks to me like it supports multiple. In fact, it has a default to anonymous kbin.earth setting that I don’t think that you can remove even if you add accounts on other instances.

Yeah, I needed to do that to get it installed, trying it out right now.

It feels more-responsive then Eternity, and the dev appears to be more active, but I did notice that it doesn’t appear to yet support monospaced blockquotes — just colorizes them differently at the moment. Probably some other stuff. Definitely usable, though.

EDIT: Note that I’ve only used it on a lemmy instance, not mbin or piefed, so I can’t speak as to the support there.

Apparently so.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/woman-who-got-trump-tattoo-on-forehead-now-wants-to-erase-it-asks-strangers-for-help-removing-controversial-ink-101725499788568.html

As of this writing, I don’t think that any of the viable Threadiverse Lemmy alternatives (mbin, piefed) support native mobile clients via the API.

investigates

Hmm. Apparently that’s not correct. Interstellar can handle both mbin and piefed. It’s not in F-Droid, though.

Yes.

EDIT:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haptodysphoria

Noun

haptodysphoria (uncountable)

1. An odd, disagreeable sensation felt by certain people when handling peaches, velvet or other fuzzy surfaces.

Well, peaches don’t bother me at all, and I can’t think of any other fuzzy surface that does. But I don’t like the feel of velvet at all.

And while I haven’t touched it recently — maybe partly because I avoid it — I’m pretty sure that, like OP, it bothered me more when I was younger.

EDIT2: I don’t experience anything like it being in my teeth, as OP does, just find it distinctly unpleasant. I remember looking at portraits of women wearing velvet dresses and thinking that they had to be outright masochists to have their entire body draped in the stuff.

I also can’t think of any other fabric that I have a similar dislike for. I don’t much like scratchy wool, but finer wool is fine, and even with rough wool, it’s not the same sensation at all.

EDIT3:

Now I’m just imagining what this this would have to feel like:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/62721fdc-78a9-487c-bebc-50b9270adbbc.jpeg

Gahhhh.

EDIT4: Further discussion in the thread and reflection later, it’s not just velvet. Suede also does it (not as strongly, I guess), and new microfiber blankets can cause a limited degree of the same sensation for me. And it’s associated with movement against the fabric.

Imagine the amount of cognitive dissonance you’d need to endure to think NK is not a dictatorship.

Setting aside dessalines’ views on living in North Korea, probably goes the other way too, considering what Internet access is like in North Korea:

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-reality-north-korea/

https://archive.ph/lC0oi

“A librarian sits between two internet users and continuously monitors what people on both sides are searching up,” Kim said in testimony to the researchers. “Every five minutes, the screen freezes automatically, and the librarian must do a fingerprint authentication to allow further internet use.” A state security officer was also always nearby, they said.

People were allowed to use the internet for an hour, and if someone wanted more time, they would need to obtain new permission, Kim said. It took around two days to get permission from authorities to use the internet, a task requiring approvals from various officials. If someone applied too often, they would be made to wait, Kim said. “Every Korean website is blocked, and only Chinese or English websites are available.”

A few dozen families with connections to Kim Jong-Un and some foreigners have unrestricted access to the global internet, while a “few thousand” people—including government officials, researchers, and students studying IT—can access a surveillance-heavy version of it, according to the report and previous research. North Koreans like Kim who are allowed some foreign travel, usually for business, can sometimes access the global web while abroad.

North Korea probably considers Lemmy or anything like it to be a dire threat to state security, would never permit its people to see it or access information on it. Totally undermine state control of the information sphere.

can’t even read

I can have it read to me in synthesized GLaDOS’s voice, even!

looks at map

Greenland and Canada’s Arctic Archipelago are presumably going to have to be pulling some double shifts on commenting.

All my teachers look like north korea concentration camp guard

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/27/i-thought-it-was-fake-news-secrecy-around-north-koreans-fighting-in-kursk

Even in elite units such as the Storm Corps, North Korean soldiers are systematically underfed and malnourished, according to accounts from defectors shared with the BBC.

Emaciated?