• realitista@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    I spent 30 years thinking someday I’d start using the number pad and then finally gave up. I like having the typing part centered more.

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      3 days ago

      The number pad only ever became relevant to me after decades when I began playing video games that have more keybindings than I have brain cells. Caves Of Qud makes use of basically the the whole number pad just to manually move in 8 different directions.

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        3 days ago

        Caves of Qud annoyed me with that, but I got vim-ish movement keys worked out instead. Normal hjkl, bnyu for diagonals, took a bit but now it’s second nature

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      3 days ago

      Exactly. For me it’s closer to 40 years and I don’t think I ever used the number pad more than ten times. Tenkeyless is just better, unless you’re an accountant.

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        Or if you use different language keyboard layout. I mostly use Czech layout and if I wanted to type numbers without a numpad, I would need to hold shift+number to type them, or change the layout. So for me it’s more convenient to just use the numpad. Also I grew up with full sized keyboards so it’s also a habit.

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      3 days ago

      Do you people never do any actual work on your computers?

      I have body parts that are less important to me than my numpad.

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          Or programming. Or sysadmins. Or sales orders. Or order picking. Or…

          You need to type a number quickly?

          You need a keypad.

          The end.

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            I was a Unix sysadmin for years and never once used the num pad. I’m in sales now for 25 years and still don’t use it. I mean, it’s always been a goal of mine but I just never think of it when it’s time to use it, and it’s slower for me to use it than not use it. And I don’t enter enough numbers to get enough practice to be good at it.

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        3 days ago

        I’m a full TKL man myself. I don’t mind the space, just don’t like using space for stuff I never use.

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      3 days ago

      I’m a fan of TKL as well, but one annoying place where the numpad is missed is games and software that hardcode numpad keys

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      2 days ago

      I recently got a split keyboard and technically I have a numpad layer. I have never used it