• drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Former “IT” coworker would do that too. He apparently didn’t know how to type characters on tge number row, you know like & for example.

    I called him out on him using caps lock instead of shift and he asked “what do yoy do, hold shift?” with a tone that implied I was the crazy one.

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      1 year ago

      I switched from Mac to PC a couple years ago, and learning to use the Windows key for those slightly-obscure special character shortcuts (e.g. em-dash, accents) took some angry rewiring of muscle memory.