unperson [he/him]

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Cake day: July 28th, 2020

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  • I get the same pain for Windows issues, except that Linux is made to be understandable because, as a volunteer effort, it depends on being understandable to reproduce itself. So you find well-reasoned answers in a wiki or a mailing list or a stack overflow post instead of a bunch of clueless guesses to reboot and run sfc scannow.

    tldr use it in your desktop and it will become a lot easier on the server :)




  • In Linux there’s the “typing booster” IME that works almost exactly like this. As a side effect it handles diacritics and emoji.

    As an aside, I don’t like it. Without it, some uncommon words take more dexterity to type fast without assistance, but pinyin input has the same issue. And without it I get to do all the micro-choices on what my text looks like; it has a (not distinct but) deliberate style.

    All these ‘predict the next word’ technologies have a deep but insidious averaging impact on style, and the lack of practice produces dependence (de-skilling). The same thing has already happened to the 汉字 languages, though earlier because they’ve been using predictive technology from the beginning of computing: regional variants of characters are disappearing, and most people can’t write intelligibly by hand anymore.