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AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Same here. I get the nostalgia factor, and that tactile buttons can feel nice, but other than that I feel like it’s just a one-size-fits-all solution that doesn’t necessarily work well.

Instead of a quick tap, you have to actually press on each button, which slows down typing. You can’t resize, recolor, or reformat your keyboard to fit your needs better, there’s no split keyboard functionality for landscape mode, etc.

Plus it’s just more mechanical failure points and areas that dust and gunk can get stuck in.

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dublet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Never had any of my phones with keyboards have a mechanical failure. I can type blindly on a physical keyboard, not so with an OSD one. Does the tap register? Does it predict into the right word? Who knows.

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- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I can blindly type with an on screen keyboard, it’s not that hard. What’s wrong with your phone where taps aren’t registering? And poor text prediction would be the same on physical vs on screen KB.
  
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  - dublet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I can blindly type with an on screen keyboard, it’s not that hard
    
    You can type a full actual sentence on an OSD keyboard including punctuation without looking at it?
    
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    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah. It’s not that hard.
    
    I just did with that.
    
    Also what are you typing blindly where punctuation actually matters?
    
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Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Plus it’s just more mechanical failure points and areas that dust and gunk can get stuck in.

Good thing this has been solved for years now. It’s not like keyboards are a new invention.

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