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   Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:25:52 JST Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

   every time i have to type something in on a TV with an on-screen keyboard i'm amazed that it still sucks as much now as it did five, ten, fifteen years ago.

   how has nobody thought of anything better than moving a cursor around to click individual letters? how have some interfaces made it worse by using five rows of alphabetically ordered keys?

   i've watched my parents hit "search" instead of space on android TV's youtube keyboard multiple times. i've done it myself multiple times. i've hit "clear" instead of "search" at least twice.

   the PSP had qwerty or T9. T9 with a d-pad sucks, but it at least sucks a bit less. the PS5 has qwerty or qwerty with motion controls.

   nearly ten years ago, steam input gave us the daisy wheel keyboard. yesterday, i typed "evil" and hit search on my xbox controller, because scrolling through pages of games with "evil" in their names to find the one i was looking for was a more appealing prospect than typing "the evil within" on that God awful on-screen keyboard.

   dumb phones gave us T9. PDAs gave us handwriting recognition. smartphones gave us swipe typing. TVs gave us an experience so painful that there's an app to connect your phone to your TV just so you can use its keyboard instead of the TV's.

   if LG can make their remote a wiimote, and google can put a microphone and speaker in theirs, and everyone can find the space for a fucking netflix button, why can nobody put some sort of typing interface on a TV remote?

   if an xbox or playstation or switch controller has fifteen buttons and two analogue sticks and a d-pad, why does typing have to be limited to moving a cursor around a qwerty board?

   xbox has a feature where you can PIN protect your account, and you enter your pin by using ten different buttons on the controller to input the ten different digits. that way, nobody can see what you're typing as you're typing it. that's genuinely clever design! why didn't they spend some of that brainpower on the fucking keyboard!!!

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     Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:25:51 JST Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

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     if steam could give us this (left), why can microsoft and sony and nintendo not do any better than this (right)?

     steam is a WEB STORE COMPANY specialising in DIGITAL HATS that made a NICHE CONTROLLER, ONCE, and it FLOPPED! microsoft invented the start button THIRTY YEARS AGO and has made FOUR GENERATIONS OF GAME CONSOLES with ON SCREEN QWERTY!!!

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     Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:44:26 JST Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

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     conspiracy theory: what if the reason so many movies and shows have single word names nowadays (severance, conclave, wicked, oppenheimer, silo) is because the studios know how awful it is to type long names into streaming services on your TV

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     Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:44:34 JST Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

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     The Bear is losing MILLIONS by not being called Bear. every day, hundreds of people press "clear" instead of space on their TV keyboards and give up trying to watch it and just watch reruns of seinfeld (one word) instead.

     that guy in the facebook movie was right all along: drop the "the".

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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:47:23 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     @lynnesbian tfw steam doesn't have the flower input method. It's probably patented or some shit
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     10π🍇 (piuvas@capivarinha.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:54:40 JST 10π🍇

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     @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space yo the left one is dope as fuck is that on the deck ?

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 15:17:11 JST iced depresso

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     @lispi314 @lynnesbian @hj steam input does not have flowers but its kind of close with pop-up menus.
     
     i do wish the foss control mappers had overlays like these :neocat_pensive:
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 15:17:13 JST LisPi

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     • narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
     @hj @lynnesbian Yet again patents are why we can't have nice things.
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     10π🍇 (piuvas@capivarinha.club)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:38:22 JST 10π🍇

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     @hazelnot@sunbeam.city @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space damn...

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     hazelnot :yell: (hazelnot@sunbeam.city)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:38:23 JST hazelnot :yell:

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     @piuvas @lynnesbian nope, the Deck replaced it with on-screen qwerty, at least you can use the touchpads as virtual fingers hovering over it but it still kinda sucks

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     Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw: (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:38:41 JST Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

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     @piuvas apparently from other people replying to this, it isn't :(

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