How do you think Mexican people spell year in Spanish if it’s not by going to Wikipedia and getting that letter that comes after m and before n in the Mexican alphabet? Eh? Eh? Anios!
Anos?
Cuantos anos tienes?
Solamente tengo un ano! Y con ese ano me cago. LOL.
Big difference between ano and anio.
Honestly shit like that works really well when half of your notebook’s keyboard doesn’t work anymore. The on screen keyboard is limited and copy pasting letters from texts can be faster. Especially with special characters. Or when you just need an a or s, opening the on screen keyboard again and again vs copy pasting it once and using it as a source - the second one is faster.
I am very sad and desperate I can’t afford a new laptop
You could get an external keyboard to use with your laptop.
I literally have one at home and didn’t think of that. Thanks.
What’s the model? I know a decent bit about laptop repair and I can do some research for you to see whether it would be a massive pain to replace the keyboard.
That’s super nice of you. I think it is an HP 250 G7 (that’s on the back), I bought it back in like 2017. I’m not very tech savvy and just bought the one a fellow student had and said she liked. It drives me nuts because I don’t get how to turn it on or off (I mean I do, but it changes what it wants all the time, you gotta rub it the right way).
Just looked into it a bit and although the part is pretty cheap it’s a bit of a tricky repair. If you had 50 dollars lying around and wanted something better than an external keyboard you could just do the whole top case (part that all the internals go into which contains the keyboard and trackpad). Still requires taking apart the computer completely, but if you (or a friend) are feeling adventurous it’s not a bad route.
Can you send me a link to what I would need to buy? Maybe I’ll find someone in a repair cafe who is willing to do that. Thanks!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/163904761816. They also have it on Amazon and probably a few other sites.
Quick question: how do I figure out if the malfunction is really caused by the physical keyboard and not some soft/hardware issue that has nothing to do with the keys themselves?
Unless there’s liquid damage and it’s certain rows of keys not working at all it’s unlikely that you’d have that sort of partial failure of your keyboard. Even in that case it’s still usually the keyboard. If certain keys only work with excess pressure that’s pretty much 100% a hardware failure of the keyboard itself.
I Google for the l and the I when I can’t identify them.
On desktop, how many people search for an emoji, then just copy paste the character into their text?
Instead of switching to the alt keyboard, not that one, the other, no the emoji not the international one, dammit.
Or bringing up the keyboard menu, then scrolling around, looking for the right one, searching, no, scroll, scroll scroll, etc.
I’m about to blow your mind.
Windows key + . brings up an emoji menu. I only discovered this by accident about a month ago.
On my KDE desktop its a simple Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Space.
Not even kidding
You just gotta slam your hand in just the right place.
You joke but Google is the easiest way to get the Euro symbol on a UK keyboard.
You guys are taking this Brexit thing really seriously.
I just wanna know when their referendum to join the US is gonna happen
It’s not as fun if we don’t steal it from them…
Kicking the ass of the British is just repetitive and boring at this point. We’ve already done that twice. We’ve only defeated the French once, and I’m sure they’ll put up more of a fight, when we tell them they have to speak American.
/s
Isn’t that just AltGr+4? A lot of UK keyboards write € on the 4 keycap next to the $.
None of the ones I’ve used tbh. That might just be luck though.
Just looking at a random selection of two laptops and five keyboards here and they all have the 4 $ € key marked. The only keyboard I can find that doesn’t is the Windows On-Screen Keyboard.
Although looking at laptops on shop websites, a lot of them have just 4 $ so maybe that is going out of fashion? Samsung yes, Asus no, Dell no, HP no.
Actually the Windows On-Screen Keyboard does show € but only after you press Alt-Gr…
You sure you’re not thinking of the Pound symbol (£)? The Euro symbol (€) would have to be a third thing, if it’s there at all.
I’m not British and don’t know their keyboard layout, so maybe you’re right, but I would expect £ to be accessible and € less so.
Edit: oh, you were right. £ is Shift+3, € is AltGr+4.
I do this when writing λ, Δ, Φ, etc. in a document on a computer I don’t own or when on my phone. It’s genuinely faster than scrolling through Word’s symbol list, for example.
You mean \lambda, \Delta and \Phi?
Not all of us are able to use superior tools like LaTeX for our documents, unfortunately
You mean LATEX?
(Btw for the uninitiated: The x is a chi, pronounced as in Koine/Modern Greek, like in British “hue”, first make sure it’s a “hj” and then squeeze it even tighter. At least according to Knuth it’s a chi, that is.)
Stop! Sync for Lemmy and/or markdown can only go so far…
If you are using office, insert formula accepts latex code.
Good to know. Been learning some LaTeX from a friend recently, so I’ll have to try this out.
I’m still trying to find out how people make that flipped d. /s
On Windows, win+r ‘charmap’ <enter> in case anyone ever needs it. On other OS/Window managers, I’m not sure off-hand about the shortcuts.
Yes, but you need to be wary of pasting the formatting.
So when you do this, instead of pasting with Control+V you will want to paste without formatting using the Control+Shift+V command.
So remember - if you want that capital ‘H’ without issues, use your Shift key when pasting what you copy from Wikipedia.
I just paste it in notepad to remove formatting.
And I’m not even joking, sometimes the special ALT 0227 doesnt work and my å is only on Wikipedia…
Dammnnn I use right click page without formatting so much, I hate it when software removes the option from the right click menu… looking at you Teams. This will change my life!
sounds a bit complex.
i prefer to paste into notepad, and then copy it from there
Missing some vital first steps :
Screenshot the webpage. Print it out. Scan the text using OCR. Cut single character.
You can copy the H and paste it into the address bar and copy again to clear the formatting.
First you copy, then open word pad and paste it there. Then remember that word pad has text formatting and open excel and paste it there. Then remember excel also has text formatting and open calculator and paste it there. Then remember that calculator can only handle numbers (or a few letters if you are a hacker and put it in hex mode) and open Minesweeper and try to set a new personal best time. Don’t you just hate it when you have one mine left and two squares with equal chance of being the mine?
Eventually remember the pasting thing, act impressed the computer still remembers what you were trying to paste and just paste it into your notepad document and hope no one notices it’s different.
MS getting rid of word pad really messes up my usual work flow. Or would if I wasn’t switching to Linux instead of W11. I hear the word pads grow on trees there and that it comes with sudoku built right in, but they are fancy and drop the “ku” to save typing time.
Well notepad still exists. Even though that’s not my normal text editor (I use Visual Studio Code) I use notepad for simple text manipulation frequently.
sudo -ku if you feel like getting crazy
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Can I borrow this?
see? IT FUCKING WORKS!!!
Presumably the original post was made facetiously, but since a lot of people are talking about special characters in the comments:
I can’t confirm anymore, but besides all the alt shortcuts in the comments, in Windows it used to be that you could open the Character Map from the Start menu, then either copy any character from a chart or select the character to see its alt code.
Presumably? Lmao wat
There have been enough times that I’ve stated something obvious and been declared mistaken by the original poster that I’ve learned to hedge my bets. Also, if I pretend to be ignorant of some obvious things, it can be funnier.
If you’d prefer it to be framed another way, I’m a coward.
Ha, that’s fair.
as someone who types special characters a lot, I can’t believe how people go about without the compose key
I feel like I saw one of those a very very long time ago, but otherwise, never heard of one. Thank you for the edification!
yo watch this
- – — ‽Found the neo user.
What is neo? Are you talking about neovim? I’ve never used it
Guess I lost that gamble.
This neo: https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/neo/
One of the great tricks is also [Super] + [.] to bring up a mixed emoji and emoticon library!
Where the hell is the “Super” key?
In case you actually don’t know:
Thx I have never heard it called that before
tHats cool and all but How do I get tHe otHer letters uppercase too
Modifier key
Use auto hotkey and set up so that super + {letter} gives you the uppercase letter
I ThINK I MESSED IT UP
Set a key as a modifier key and program the character provider function in your text editor to to give the corresponding capital letter of whatever key is pressed, in case the modifier key is down.
Even better, you can use the same modifier key with number keys and other symbol keys to give an alternative symbol, which you could also indicate on the keyboard.
Let’s call this the Shif… oh wait, what year is this?
Just take a picture of the Wikipedia page and use OCR. No need for that copy and pasting nonsense.
Email the page pdf to your nan so that she can print it out first.
Gnome search works also for characters
interesting
I used to do this, but then I changed to Hat. It’s increased my productivity significantly and saves me multiple hours each week.
Bro I can do you one better than that and it even works without internet after the first time if you work from home!
Open a file and copy the capitals (Ass for A, Bumbulum for B, etc.) from Wikipedia and boom! You add some html around it, go to godaddy or your favorite registrar and claim a domain (I like the expensive ones), manage nameserver and dynamic DNS with cloud flare so can access your home router without getting a static IP from your ISP, then use nginx to set up a reverse proxy (don’t forget to forward unique ports on your router in the NAT rules section!), spool a virtual machine and use your router to create a static lease, stick that file on that machine, and then make yourself a browser bookmark to the URL you purchased that hits your router port forwards to reverse proxy and lands you in that VM on a shared drive! The best part is you can often do this for less than $1000 per month depending on the URL you pick.
Oh, be sure to set up some 2FA though if you don’t want to get hacked.
I’m not a computer wiz, this is all way over my head.
Bro it’s super easy, just RTFM!
(I use arch BTW)
do you mind sharing your secret for the capital i? you just used three of them in one post and i have no idea how you accomplished such a feat
Use an l
I go to Infrastructure. I hope to find a shorter word in the future but so far I’ve got nothing.
It’s the same thing, but you go to the Wikipedia article for Æthelred I of Wessex and copy his Roman numeral.
I have just watched Idiocracy… I can’t take it anymore.
