Throw in some prayers while you’re at it. I heard they’re also valuable.

I submitted the mysterious extra n situation on military keyboards as a question for Lateral and they featured it in today’s episode!

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They reserve the right to edit questions and omitted the important n-lock key. A keyboard with a permanently missing 3 would be ridiculous.

I think this is a higher percentage than Windows 11 if you include 16-bit ones from the 90s and early 2000s. (What was wrong with NTVDM64, anyway?)

I’m getting used to Compose and AltGr. Unexpected Keyboard for Android helps learn compose codes by visualizing them but it’s still a bit of resistance. And yes, Compose can also be used to input Unicode hex codes.

Either way, I created a custom layout for AltGr and Shift+AltGr layers that is more convenient for me than remembering Compose and Unicode codes.

Add Windows-like Alt codes to the list. They’re not perfect (they use a DOS codepage and A-F in the Unicode extension clash with shortcuts in other programs like Firefox, although not passing them through via xkb would solve this) but people use them a lot, especially in my country. At? Alt+64. Backtick? Alt+96. Caret? Alt+94. Hash? Alt+38. Musical note? Alt+13. Yes, we can type most of these on the Czech layout with AltGr but people don’t know this and/or prefer things that work on the commonly default English layout too.

Mine too. I meant to write “my first interpretation” but wanted to use shorter and more varied vocabulary.

Apparently, “suicide” is also a disproportionally common search term on Bing as opposed to other search engines. What does that say about Microsoft?

The headline has two interpretations and I don’t like it.

• Every week, there is 1M+ users that bring up suicide
  • likely correct
• There is 1M+ long-term users that bring up suicide at least once every week
  • my first thought

I watch 576i DVDs on a 24" 1366x768 TV and I don’t mind because I sit reasonably far.

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Wikipedia only mentions analog/digital terrestrial, IPTV and cable as of 2020. They cite a 2013 article with this info: “Imported TV sets that are able to operate on both PAL and NTSC, such as those from Japan, have their NTSC abilities disabled by the government on import.” I can’t imagine how they do it on flat screens (it was not really feasible to import a new CRT in 2013+) because LCDs/OLEDs do all scaling in a single chip. Presumably, they could shut down the system if they detect 59.94 Hz with an added circuit but that’s easy to find and remove.

Does DPRK really have a TV satellite or is that guy just capturing analog (yes, analog) PAL or DVB-T2 terrestrial signals that make it to South Korea?

I live in the second world and holy shit, people are so wasteful.

Any used tablet with Android will do. Some can be found in the trash even.

The “n” is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints “²” and AltGr+3 prints “³” in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print “n” in xkb though.

I mean, if the redundant Windows keys produce different codes, it could be worth a lot to macro enthusiasts. The model exists with an English QWERTY layout too:

The picture seems to be from 1998 so you’ll likely need a passive DIN to mini-DIN adapter as well.

I did’t know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn’t know.

So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xkb; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).

• Default layer prints lowercase letters a-z and äöüß, numbers and the symbols in the lower-left of each key.
• Shift layer prints uppercase letters A-Z and ÄÖÜ and symbols at the top left of each key.
  • Caps Lock only affects letters.
• AltGr layer prints lower-right symbols, most of which are only populated in a later version of the layout.
• AltGr+Shift (Linux only) prints upper-right symbols.

As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size “2” and “n” are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.

By the way, Czech is more chaotic:

• we have lots more diacritics so the number row only prints numbers on its Shift layer (most people therefore use the numpad only)
• to print rare diacritics (ó, ď, ť, ň, and German ä, ö, ü), one has to first press the corresponding modifier key (´, ˇ, ˚, ¨) like on typewriters
  • an alternative for common capital diacritics (á, é, ě, í, ú, ů, ý, ž, š, č, ř) is to briefly turn on Caps Lock (advantage over typewriters)
  • pressing the ˚ key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)
• there is a bloody dedicated § key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown
• physical keyboards almost always reserve the right side of the keys for the English-US layout (very confusing for novices) so one has to type in the AltGr layer blind (except for €); it contains useful symbols ([]{}<>|\€$@#^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia Commons
• some lazy manufacturers combine the Czech/English and Slovak/English layouts, which are similar except ľ, ť and ô, leading to 5 (!) symbols per key, 3 of which are irrelevant unless you switch layouts
• Gboard for Android offers QWERTY for Czech, which looks normal (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů) and the unpopular QWERTZ-PC, which has all the physical keyboard’s quirks, but its “Czech QWERTZ” is based off German QWERTZ, containing ú and ů but not the other diacritics for some reason. All other keyboard apps with Czech language layout get this right (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů)!

Do you know why the 3 key has an n? I have a hunch:

This is clearly a tactical keyboard for use in military, aviation or maritime navigation systems! /s

Oh, so it does the reverse of what I thought

Why is there a Win-Lock option? I get Caps Lock and Fn-Lock but is there any other reason besides saving a finger for the all-important Win-Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L shortcut to open LinkedIn? /s

Exactly. Their stance is CSD or nothing.