Comment on Chinese Keyboards

Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mortimer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t use Google. I deGoogled my life. Besides, if we just used Google for everything there would be no point communicating at all and thus no point in Lemmy. We could all just ask the Master Google questions, chat with it’s AI and stay locked in our bedrooms eating pizza sponsored by Google.

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  • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • mortimer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And the point is that I’d rather talk to a human.

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    • mortimer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just tried it on Ask Jeeves as you suggested. It wasn’t very helpful:

      uk.ask.com/web?q=chinese+keyboard

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We also get to discuss it as well

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• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which method are you talking about lol

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  • Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Method? Idk my roommate for like 6 years was Chinese and he had a keyboard that he could switch between American English and Chinese. He showed me how it worked and the key caps all had a few Chinese symbols next to each English letter and he could cycle between them as needed. He wasn’t as fast typing in Chinese, but it was the only way for him to communicate with certain family as they couldn’t speak or read English at all.

    When his mom visited her laptop also had a similar set up except on hers the English letters were smaller and the. Chinese symbols were bigger. I assume because she bought it in China or something.

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    • mortimer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      See, now I’ve learned something that I wouldn’t get from Google.

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    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know those types. Was he Chinese not Taiwanese? He might be older then? Parents generation use those methods typically. Not romanized

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