Marcin WicharyMar 9

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either

The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

Show threadshorkMar 9
@mwichary I mean, if anyone's qualified to complain about keyboards
Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 9
@noiob THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL
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@mwichary you're right and you should say it

also you just made me realize that the emoji/unicode panel that didn't work for ages on my work macbook somehow fixed itself and I can easily type weird symbols again :>

Mar 9 at 4:41pmWeb
Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 9
@noiob That panel has been slow and buggy for a while now, too!
Show threadshorkMar 9

@mwichary well I'd rather have it than not, it's rather convenient when it works

also I think I just stumbled across a joke from the devs (because iPhone autocomplete)

Show threadMarcin WicharyMar 9
@noiob Huh!