On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:59:50 -0000, Snit wrote:

On Mar 14, 2021 at 11:31:06 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:38:15 -0000, Snit wrote:

On Mar 9, 2021 at 12:49:54 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote
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I go back and forth with no real issue -- knowing to use control on Windows
and ChromeOS and Command on macOS. The few times I use a terminal on Linux or
Windows it always seems weird the "standard" copy and paste does not work. I
get why.

What doesn't work?

Terminals use things like Control+C to abort (terminate) a processes. You try
to copy and you literally kill whatever process (app) you are using! Some
processes will thankfully warn you and you do not lose everything, but the
concept is absurd. The UNIX way was first... then Apple used the Command key
(they used to call it the Open Apple key) and then Windows and later Linux
copied the Mac but did it in a way where they used the UNIX keys to do the
wrong thing. On Windows that is not quite so bad, but Linux is a UNIX clone.

Ah, I do copy and paste from command prompts in windows, but I've never tried doing it incorrectly (that sounds German). I highlight and press enter. Paste works as normal. But then I used to use DOS and CTRL-C for "break" is embedded in my head. And the earlier command prompts in Windows didn't allow pasting, so when it came in I remembered the highlight and enter method.

It is not that big of a deal, especially given how being command line it gives
a mental context change -- but why not have it be the same for both?

Because one of them would have to change. Presumably nobody thought of it at the time, or they developed in tandem seperately.

The UNIX convention was there long before the GUI hit key conventions. Apple
did it right... they created a new hot key for the GUI. Windows copied the
Mac, but went to the UNIX hot key, and when they did that they created
overlap.

But you have an extra pointless key.

Also do not like the weird hand calisthenics needed with Control,
though not a big deal.

I press the CTRL with my little finger, and the X/C/V with my first finger. I'd find CMD in the wrong place - next to spacebar isn't it? Too close.

I use my thumb for the Command key... and out of habit do so when on Windows
or Linux, so yeah, I likely am having the issue because I do it wrong. I also
am a CRAPPY typist... the "normal" way uses so many fingers!

Thumb on Command means V is too far for my first finger to reach, unless you have longer fingers than me.

The Command button is right next to the space bar. Z, X, C, and V are right
about it.

Your keyboard seems to have the spacebar further right than a PC. That would make me keep missing the space. Typical Apple, to **** with standards.

I have an Apple keyboard, but it works fine with pretty much any keyboard.

How do you press CMD?

Apple set the desktop standard for where the "added" key was... MS did not
follow until 1994 when they added the "Windows key".

Apple never set standards, they break them.

Is it true longer fingers and longer toes mean a longer cock?

I only have myself as an example.

Get out more :-)

I did not compare even before the pandemic. Finger sizes or other.

Not even a quick look in a changing room?

I usually do a quick test post before I send in anger (as it were!)



I have been hitting the "send" button as my brain registers an error and
screams "NOOOOOOOO!"

On forums which allow editing, I get lazy and just send, then proofread and adjust it. Sometimes I make so many adjustments, and someone replies so quickly, that they reply to something I've no longer written, or miss out on more information I added.

I have done that.

How many have you been banned from?

A few on Facebook... groups that are supposed to be "debate" or "political"
groups -- but are run by right wingers. All it takes is posting links to fact
checking sites, or scientific sites, to get many right wingers angered.

I keep ****ing off the left wingers (and pro-vaxxers) in imgur. My score is now -220, which apparently is still "neutral".

I tend to fact check things people post. That irks some.

I refuse to spend much time proving an idiot wrong.

I spend too much time doing so.

I noticed. Particularly with Dustin.

He, along with Carroll, are on auto-read. I should put Pothead there, given
how he is likely a Carroll sock... or at the very least tries to emulate
Carroll in posting almost nothing but insane attacks.

Auto read means it's tempting for you to still look, which you keep doing. Mine are shoved in a seperate folder I never look in unless something went in there in error.

Speaking of being a crappy typists, I have no idea what error I made, but the
autocorrect changed "irks" to "girls". Um, what?

It remembers how often you use that term and deems it likely, my phone does the same when sending texts. Just what websites have you been using? Better get a VPN or someone like diesel will out you.

I do not type "girls" often, but I do have a VPN. Don't use it much.

It's handy if you get banned from a forum. I'm also an Italian :-) Changed my writing style too.

I use it to get to some BBC content. Shhhh.... don't tell them.

I've done the same, would you believe some BBC content is available in the USA but not the UK? WTF?