It blows my mind that in many cases I can't use my voice to enter text in fucking 2025.
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The closest I got to hell recently is trying to get Australia Post's imbecilic voice 'recognition' software to understand an alphanumeric code over and over and over...
Hell is just real life but someone keeps eating nature valley bars in your bed.
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sport competition idea.
we randomly choose a bad text input method, see who can type the fastest, 3 errors and you're eliminated.
T9 keyboard, game controller, remote control, VR point and shoot...
T9 doesn't belong there. You need practice to be good with it but it can be pretty fast.
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And you never know if it will be qwerty or alphabetical.
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You have to open the option menu for capitalization
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Special characters are all in submenus under the letters
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There is no backspace
I once got a couple of Amazon Echo Dots as part of a promo. Little spherical devices with about a 3" round touchscreen. To set it up you had to enter your Amazon account info by tapping a keyboard on that tiny screen.
My password at the time was a random 80 character string, full of special characters. That would have been painful enough, but the password entry box would hide each character a second or so after typing, so it was nearly impossible to keep track of where I was, and whether I had skipped or double entered something.
I should have just binned them immediately at that point, but I spent probably an hour of typing passwords on those two fuckers--more out of stubbornness than anything else.
And the keyboard is randomized with every letter typed.
In Hell, you pay for a subscription to use your controller.
You can only communicate by typing messages in Xbox game chat. With no ai word finishing.
Lol, pah-leeeze
Games controller is no way near as bad as TV remote, the delay alone makes it so much more frustrating
TV remote, and it doesn't wrap around to the other side of the letter box.
And you can't get a clear line of sight on the sensor, you you have to hold your arm up at a weird angle to input it
And the batteries are weak, so it's only actually sending like 1/3 of the signals. Also there's no battery cover, so they fall out sometimes.
Typing with a controller really isn't that bad. That's more like a purgatory thing. Hell would be having to use a television remote.
With a different on screen keyboard everytime. Some QWERTY, some A-Z. Some with with a separate section with capital letters instead of a shift button.
I never understood why on screen keyboards are A-Z.
Everyone knows where letters are on a QWERTY keyboard, why even have something different?
Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.
In hell you have to use a TV remote while checking the password manager app on your phone to input 32 random characters, many of which are numbers and symbols that don't appear on the main keyboard, and there's no button to unhide what you've typed so you can never get it correct on the first attempt.
My tv remote is motion so that's not really too bad. Point and click.
I hate that function. It's imprecise and the cursor always shows up when I don't want it.
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Nah, in hell its answering Captchas that can't be answered:
"To get out of hell and go to heaven, simply click on the fruit pictured that has the same weight as mathmatics"
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A punishment that never gets old, a fresh mental wound daily as the emails and passwords become more nonsensical. 🤪🫠