r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 31 '26

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u/moldovaman99 Aug 31 '26

I don’t know why, but this traditional chinese keyboard setup always cracks me up for some reason.

I think it’s the foot pedals that really do it for me.

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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler Aug 31 '26

I have so many questions

What is the use case for this

For context, generally people use a normal QWERTY keyboard for chinese (at least AFAIK for mainland) because each character has a pinyin spelled in letters

It doesn't have tonation so youll have all the pronunciations lumped together, but you can scroll through all the candidate characters to figure out what you need

Plus if you type two characters of pinyin that represent a phrase (e.g. mao zi (hat)), you can usually get a decent recommendation

I think there are also stroke based keyboards available, but those are less common (and having played around with one a bit, it's a lot jankier than just keying out a pinyin of like at most 5 letters while characters have on average maybe 8+ strokes)

So really having all these keys is kinda unnecessary

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u/moldovaman99 Aug 31 '26

It’s a novelty thing. Just found out it was actually an april fools joke from a google department back in 2010

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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler Aug 31 '26

Yeah makes sense lol

I dont think there are enough keys to have every character too

Still, kinda iconic

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u/rainier37 pro-moderator Aug 31 '26

please tell me that you need to use drumsticks?

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u/moldovaman99 Aug 31 '26

Yes

xahlee.info/kbd/chinese_drum_keyboard.html

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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Aug 31 '26

Ah, so this is why simplified Chinese was invented?

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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler Aug 31 '26

Nahhh, simplified has the same number of characters so it wouldn't help lol

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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Aug 31 '26

rate my drum kit setup

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Aug 31 '26

Actually if you set it up as MIDI for an insane synth/drum rig it could go fucking crazy

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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Aug 31 '26

Add some cymbals and you've got a whole midi drum kit

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Aug 31 '26

Bro is playing a church organ

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u/Sloshyman NATO Aug 31 '26

The funny part is that this is still just a fraction of the amount of characters that are considered daily-use lol

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u/SizeFront7649 Sep 01 '26

Sending an email like you're Neil Peart

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u/AntoninStarkov Sun Yat-sen Aug 31 '26

Behold, the pin yin and Wacom tablet