#my keyboard setup

[creepedfinnart]

i mean i think she would've had the time

[zwoelffarben]

It's not actually a comma but a similar looking unicode character. I can't confirm what character they used from just the screenshot, but when I want a comma in the tags I personall use U+201A [ ‚ ], the Single Low-9 Quotation Mark.

I've actually got a dedicated key to press for typing it on my auxilary keyboard thanks to lua macros and autohotkey (I also have a dedicated key for the hammer and sickle ☭ and the singular die emoji 🎲_🎲, and like 120 other keys). If you're interested in setting up such a keyboard, here's a tutorial I put in someone else's notes.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, ONCE AGAIN THE GAME OF THE YEAR IS JUST HAVING A CATCH IN THE YARD WITH YOUR OLD MAN

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL GAME AWARDS (2022)

[zwoelffarben]

Love it when I see a cute game, go to play the demo, and the game has an unfortunately common but very disruptive bug that makes inaccessable to my left-handed ass.

You see, Windows 10 has a setting which lets you swap the primary/secondary mouse button from the typical left/right arrangement to a right/left arrangement to accomedate left-handed people like me who use their mouse in the left hand.

The common bug is that many games, including league of legends by million dollar company riot games, but also the game I wanted to try out, don't respect this setting at all, so you wind up with primary and secondary clicks backwards.

Its so annoying and inaccessable, and effects more games than I'd like.

A common related bug which affects more shit is the one where the game won't respect your keyboard layout.

[parchmentknight]

da gang play fortnite or somethn

[zwoelffarben]

I got a second keyboard and used a combination lua macros and autohotkey to make it so that I can type a bunch of non-qwerty keys using that second keyboard: one of the characters that was the onus for me getting that keyboard was I really wanted to be able to just type – instead of having to rigamarol a copy past.

And now in addition to having immediate access to – and —, I can just type ä, æ, ö, ü, ß, é, ñ, þ, ‚ (for 'commas' in tumblr tags), ‽, –, —,℉, ¡, ¿, ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰ (for citations /footnotes), and a bunch of other characters which have... varying degrees of usefulness, all set up in such a way that if ever I want to change the set up it's as easy as look up the unicode index for the character, and put it into a text doc on which ever line represents the key I want it to correspond to.

My current keyboard looks like this (one physical 8x6 keyboard with three modifiers):

I wholeheartedly reccommend that anyone who semi-regularly needs one or more characters not in their standard keyboard's layout bother with setting up a custom auxilary keyboard.

A pet peeve of mine, as many others, is when the dialogues format is a fucking horrible mess. But my first language is not english, so I can get over the comma being out the quotation marks instead of in, for example. But also, as many americans, I also do not like the „“. However, I can get over it too because that's just a cultural difference, being the German way of writing it. (Though I think other languages also do that, but don't remember the list.)

Now. Cultural difference is one thing. Using whatever the fuck you want because (general) you can not even phantom the idea of searching the correct punctuation mark is another thing.

My language used em dashes. And sometimes people just use everything but em dashes. I have seen people using the hyphen, the minus sign, and even the underscore. The damn underscore. I want to cry when I see the underscore in what is supposed to be dialogues.

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[emberglowfox]

finally able to actually play rain world as i've been adopted by a pack of slugs much better at this game than me

[sparkleoverlord]

[gotchibam]

Does anyone here draw in both desktop & mobile? I'm planning to get a galaxy tab at some point and since I don't really have any experience drawing on a (mobile) tablet, I'm curious abt how it feels to draw on one vs. drawing on pc w/ a graphic tablet 🤔

[zwoelffarben]

hey [ Þ ] is on my keyboard. well, my auxilary keyboard. Look, it's right Þere:

If you'll bare wiÞ me, Þis real easy to set up, I promise. You install two programs (AutoHotKey and LuaMacros), write a bit of basic code, and do some data entry and you're done. You'll be tippity tapping wit whatever characters you want, 'cause Þe way I have it set up works for emoji too🎲_🎲.

This tutorial will link you to this github repo. Click the <>Code button and download the zip.

Unzip the zipfile and run set_up.bat from it. It will ask for administrative permission to so it can download AutoHotKey and LuaMacros.

Open LuaMacros and open quickstart.lua in Lua Macros. The code'll look like the tutorial. If you follow the tutorial you'll be fine, and you'll have a working system once you're done scripting everything. But you'lee need to script a hotkey for each key your changing which'll get tedious if you regularly remap or want to change a lot of keys. My Luascript, instead of having each key send a unique hotkey for AHK to replace writes which key was pressed to a file then sends AHK one hotkey to interpret. Replace the section starting after if (direction == 0) then return end with: filewrite = io.open("output.txt", "w") if (button == XXX) then filewrite:write(0) elseif (button == XX ) then filewrite:write(1) elseif (button == XXX) then filewrite:write(2) elseif (button == XX ) then filewrite:write(3) --etc else print('Not yet assigned: ' .. button) end filewrite:close() lmc_send_keys('{F24}') end ) adding whatever keys you need in your chain of elseifs like following the tutorial . This'll tell Lua to write an index value representing the key to the file output.txt, then press F24. If you need to do debugging, these four lines can be inserted go after filewrite:close, but before lmc_send_keys('{F24}'): fileread = io.open("output.txt","r") print("\nThe contents in the file are: ") print(fileread:read()) fileread:close() The main downside to this method is that you will need to have Lua launch in Administrative mode for it to be able to write to the file. I've not found a way around this.

Edit the AHK script. Add this to the bottom. directory= C:\Users\YOUR-USERNAME\Documents\second-keyboard-master F24:: FileRead, Input, %directory%\LuaMacros\output.txt FileReadLine, Output, %directory%\AutoHotKey\translation_p.txt, Input+1 if (output!= "") SendInput {U+%Output%} return Replace YOUR-USERNAME with your username. This will read the file written by lua and using that index to read a specific line a translation_p.txt file.

Create a translation_p.txt file and populate its lines with unicode values for the characters you want those keys to type. Þ is 00D4. If you want you're first key to type Þ, put 00D4 on line 1 if you want your twenty-third key to type Þ put 00D4 on line 23.

Copy and paste this to the bottom of your AHK script: +F24:: FileRead, Input, %directory%\LuaMacros\output.txt FileReadLine, Output, %directory%\AutoHotKey\translation_s.txt, Input+1 if (output!= "") SendInput {U+%Output%} return This is exactly the same as above except it runs when you press a key while holding down shift. Repeat step 5, except creating a translation_s.txt file and populating it.

Repeat this process for ctrl (^F24::) and alt (!F24::) respectively.

That's where my setup is at. If you want to take it further, each modifier is actually a bit of information so you can have any of them depressed together _+^! for eight potential key options, sixty-four if you discriminate left-side mods from right-side mods which you can do, but that's overkill for normal people.

Follow this tutorial and you'll have a second auxilary keyboard that you can type anything into. If you ever want to remap keys it's as simple as changing the translation_*.txt files. ☭ Have Fun ☭.

I just encountered þe only person I've ever seen actually trying to bring back þe "þ" by using it casually.

I scrolled þeir blog for like 2 minutes before finding, like, antisemitic shit and oþer far-right-wing fuckery.

however, I really like "þ" as a letter, so in light of þis discovery and in an attempt to make þe list of people using "þ" be a list þat isn't 100% composed of alt-right fuckers, effective immediately I'm gonna start using "þ". if you pay close attention you might have already noticed þis.

let's all do þis. let's make it a queer þing. let's make it so þat if you see "þ" online you know þat person is gay as fuck.

maybe we can make it even funkier by using "ð" for ðe voiced version. ðat way we can use boþ. I þink ðat's neat

[peonypyxels]

slowly but surely the office is coming along 🌟

[magicman357]

hi guys rate my setup

(The background is animated but I can’t show you with the image)

(don’t be mean)

(don’t mind the scribbles (that’s just the void))

[denydestiny-doodles]

halfway thru bug fables and i wanted to draw something for the occasion

[todayiwrotenothing]

ARE YOU BUSY WHATCHA DOIN PAY ATTENTION TO ME I AM MORE IMPORTANT THAN BROKEN XML FILES

[lunnitae]

[pandamugger]

I wanna build a new pc SOOOOOO bad i want it to be CUTE but things are so EXPENSIVE❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

[yinyuedijun]

in other news I just ordered a new desk plus parts for a pc that my friend is going to help me build and hopefully after we do that I'll be able to make an ergonomic setup so I can eventually go back to writing without injuring my wrists 🥺