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    • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 day ago

      meanwhile the giant touchpad is an actual complete waste of space. the thing you use for a few minutes every five months when you accidentally left your mouse when taking the laptop somewhere

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        22 hours ago

        I use a Framework and the trackpad is good enough that I rarely use a mouse. It’s not like a Thinkpad where the buttons for the nipple thing take up so much vertical space that the trackpad is actually frustrating to use (that plus Thinkpad trackpad surfaces tend to have more friction in my experience)

        Like I’m genuinely convinced the only reason Thinkpad people don’t like trackpads is because their experience of it is hampered by the presence of that other thing that they refuse to give up. The world has moved on, trackpads are actually good now

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      22 hours ago

      The buttons take up so much vertical space from the trackpad that it’s much harder to move the mouse with your thumb with your fingers resting on the keyboard. Not to mention that it decreases the amount of space on the trackpad where a click can register, since trackpads are hinged at the top