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Who makes a laptop with a keypad????
A sane laptop manufacturer, that's who
Hello, yes I would like a massive chunk of peripheral used in terminal computing during the eighties, please
Hello, yes, I enter all my numbers via a vertical line and visual search to mock those who use a grid they just have to feel.
Keypads exist for a reason. Please do practice Chesterton's fence at least a little. We don't all use laptops the same way.
I just imagine walking up to an apartment building and having to enter a number code using a line of ten numbers 🤣
Hello? Is this the hotline for realizing that a keypad can be accessed without being its own dedicated set of keys for absolutely no reason except to give some post underground computer science aspirants a hipster moment for a computer relic of which even the last appropriate user has good reasons due to dementia
Are you a ragebot? Getting awfully worked up about a keypad.
I appreciate you fella, I am just a human provocateur and I could choose a much better hill to die on but the exchange was funny
big laptop requires big keyb
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I would love if my laptop had a numpad lol. The only downside is if it crowds the keyboard to be smaller than my hands.
Me too. It's unfortunate that it always with no exception does exactly that