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Cake day: October 5th, 2025

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  • 1-the tool you want to get better at

    Ex: if you are a software developer and mostly type obscure chains of semicolons, curly braces, and other infrequently used punctuation, using one of these websites to get better at quick brown fox typing will only half help.

    2-your native layout for the same reason

    I say this acknowledging there are two sorts of “I want to learn a skill” urges: the used and unused. I have plenty of things where I just wanted to learn the skill (take tying a few fancy knots for example). I don’t yet have a use for it. It’s just something I felt like learning. Touch typing feels more like the other kind, where the point of the skill is purely to use it. If you’re learning touch typing when you don’t type anything, do whatever makes you feel like you’ve learned something. If you’re learning touch typing to make typing faster, use the tools at hand.

    ->Put a box over the keyboard or turn your room lights off so you can’t see the labels very well.














  • Yes, I find Linux terribly unusable on my laptop, way too many driver issues, hard to get into a secure state, and I miss apps like signal (no official build) mpc-hc (the replacements are all trash) and a functional version of thunderbird (lol at the tray icon third party implementation that just doesn’t work). Etc, etc. I don’t have a ton of unique needs but I do want theto work

    ^and this is of course with KDE, gnome is all that but with just a trash user interface. How many gestures do I need to use to make my computer treat me like an adult ffs.

    It’s still of course on my server (an old laptop which ironically can’t be used as a laptop because at some point after some random update the login service broke and won’t accept input from the keyboard lol) and other headless devices I don’t have to actually use, thank god.