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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Former "IT" coworker would do that too. He apparently didn't know how to type characters on tge number row, you know like & for example.

I called him out on him using caps lock instead of shift and he asked "what do yoy do, hold shift?" with a tone that implied I was the crazy one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I switched from Mac to PC a couple years ago, and learning to use the Windows key for those slightly-obscure special character shortcuts (e.g. em-dash, accents) took some angry rewiring of muscle memory.