The QWERTY layout is, I grant you, an illogical mess. I'm happy to hear your arguments that Dvorak is the one true way. Or that Colemak is several percent faster. But QWERTY is a standard now. Everyone uses it on their laptops and phones. It is used everywhere. Except, it turns out, streaming services. They [...]

I’ve written a blog post about the most important technological issue of our time - why every streaming service has its own weird keyboard.

  • @MacaDaMiAnut@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I really like how Kodi let’s you send text to the media centre from your phone keyboard using an app.

    Quite incredible that so many modern streaming interfaces are still using the horrid arrow keys to punch in letters like its a 1990s game console.

    • @edentOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Could be worse. Could be a Nokia T9 predictive text input!

      • SamEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Idk, those worked great when I was young. \o/