It’s different though, you swipe to get to the other characters instead of clicking the button more often. T9 was awesome in its time, but it also kind of relies on a dictionary, like the swiping on “standard” smartphone keyboards. In ThumbKey you type every single character, but it is fast, if you internalize the layout.

Has anybody ever really said that “I have nothing to hide” in the wild? I only ever read that in online discussions about how to counter that argument. Proponents of surveillance I met were either “companies need to have all the data, else they don’t survive the harsh competition” when it comes to surveillance capitalism or the say “All the crimes, protect the children” when it comes to state surveillance. They seem to be aware that they lose privacy, but they believe that it is OK for what they get.

ThumbKey made the difference for me. Completely new way to define touchscreen keyboards, but after some months now, I can type blindly on a touchscreen 👍. Caveat: in the beginning typing will be very, very slow.

Ceramic instead of Teflon is where it’s at.

As I was thinking of getting a vasectomy, you got me curious. But it is still in clinical trials according to Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance

For the animal trials: we could cut them down by a lot, but experimenting on tissue is not the same as on a full body and its complex system.

Have you tried Andor yet? That show is crazy good.

I don’t know whether that has to do with anything, but interesting trivia nonetheless: 4 is an unlucky number in China, because it sounds similar to “death”.

At a friend’s wedding. He is known for being clumsy. Literally 30 seconds out of church after the ceremony. He shows off the ring, just hear a cartoonish pling pling and the ring rolls straight down the street drain in slow-mo. Next 30 minutes are spent recovering the ring, people in suits and dresses digging through the gutter XD