• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
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      I think OP means that you can e.g. press the 1 button two times to type a B.

      A remote that could do this would be awesome. Using arrow keys to go through the letters is pain

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        I’ve got this setup on my car stereo (android based): Cheap numpad from alibaba with mechanical keys (around 10 Euros) T9 keyboard app from fdroid. Types in addresses into comaps way faster and safer than the screen keyboard and can navigate my mp3 folders easily to play music.

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        Yeah in my country where most people doesn’t speak English on the daily disabled the prediction and just typed like that on T9 dialpads. Can even text in class easily with a hand under the table

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          A lot less buttons; this here is a generic smart TV remote. A lot of streaming boxes have the bare minimum.

          It’d be disingenuous to say all remotes are like that, here’s a newer looking one with many buttons. A major “feature” of most new remotes are dedicated buttons to various streaming services, Netflix, Disney, Prime, etc.

          And here’s a pile of old remotes I found while looking for the first two pictures.

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            Yeah the first one makes me think that it’s at most for speakers.

            Weird.

            Thanks for teh information.

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        Lol they actually do make “universal” remotes with oodles of buttons that work with all the standard streaming boxes

        I picked up a used Sony TV (Android TV) and the standard remote is what you’d expect, but it didn’t come with it so I decided to see if there was one with buttons I could buy instead when I was looking for it’s replacement

        Imagine my surprise when there was lmao

        I also saw some for Rokus and firetvs

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    Kodi can do this with the number buttons on a TV remote.

    note that it can do it but whether it actually does or not depends on your individual install and if the CEC demons are cooperative.

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      I’m an older-millenial and when I was a kid, I thought cursive was just faster/more efficient. We were forced to use cursive throughout elementary school, but in middle school we could choose to use print. Peer pressure got me to switch to print cause nobody understood why I still chose to write in cursive (and shamed me, as kids be doing)

      So now my print still looks like a kindergartener (cause that’s when I was forced into “cursive-only”), and when I switched back to print in middle school, “typed reports” became standard

      And now I can’t really remember my cursive, and my print handwriting still looks like a kid. At least my cursive was legible and pretty when I was good at it… and faster. I’m not bitter lol

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    Come on, the good old times are over. I could use it immediately, the muscle memory still holds all the characters without thinking.

    We now have to put in passwords with the arrow/ok buttons. On a sadistically designed keyboard that is ordered alphabetically instead of the classic QWERT… layout everybody is used to. What a time to be alive

    Yes I’m looking at you Amazon!