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chapotraphouse @hexbear.net Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him] @hexbear.net 4 mo. ago

What

The fuck? I've been holding down a finger and trying to scroll to the right spot (which usually fucks up when I release the hold) for years.

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hexbear boomers get wowed by obvious technological banalities
- Obvious? When did you learn this sorcery
  
  several years ago at least
- .... i'm a 90s kid....
Holy fuck THANK YOU you've removed a regular annoyance from my life
OH MY GOD THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Entirely depends what keyboard you're using, but usually, yeah.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Years of being frustrated with trying to get the cursor in the right place and I could have just been doing this??????????????????

Nshehisjehsbdhksoaorhsndh
Are these zoomer texting secrets that let those whippersnappers type so fast??
it works
Get thumb-keys.
- Oh gee you might as well ask me to use dvorak 😅
  
  Whaaa I foundit very easy to adopt
Gonna test this now

Bulltshit, on iOS it scrolls through predictive text suggestions
- You have to press and hold for a second
  
  just doesn't work for me, assumed it must be an android thing, weird
  
  edit:
  
  tried it again and it is working now
  
  IPhone doesn't need it because they have that magnifier thing above the cursor.
Holyyyyyyyy
It's nice but still usually a bit of a pain to move like exactly one character

AFAIK Lineage always had arrow keys in the bottom row next to the back/home/menu buttons which was super convenient
Doesn't work for me :( just brings up the change keyboard menu
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I just started using

Unexpected Keyboard (Lightweight and privacy-conscious virtual keyboard for Android.) https://f-droid.org/packages/juloo.keyboard2/

its pretty good, it has lots of useful shortcuts,including copy and paste
I'm testing this.

What the fuck?
Omg
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Doesn't work on Anysoft Keyboard.
- works on OpenBoard
There was a brief, glorious time when iPhone X and XS users could press firmly anywhere on the keyboard to switch to cursor control
- I think if you press on the spacebar and move around you can still do this on iPhone, I've definitely used one recently that you could move the cursor up, down, left & right by moving your held finger on the spacebar.
Idk I'm using Openboard, does not work.
Fuckin a! Cool tip.
Damn
Surprised by how many people don't know this. I guess thanks for making me feel young

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