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Re:Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of f... by moritonal on Sunday November 12, 2023 @06:34PM (#38245247)
I'm sadly bearish on this kind of stuff. The Mac touch-panel showed that even a context-aware, reactive and fully integrated input struggled to break the flow gained by keyboard+mouse.

Even today some people are still on the fence about the new fangled mouse!

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Re:Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of f... by two_handfuls on Sunday November 12, 2023 @06:44PM (#38245341)
The Mac touch bar sucked, that why it didn’t gain traction.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of f... by moritonal on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:32AM (#38252052)
Likely valid, but can you say why it sucked? And why any other input wouldn't struggle with the same faults?
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Re:Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of f... by two_handfuls on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:31PM (#38258738)
It sucked for the following reasons:

- too easy to accidentally touch while reaching top-row keys.

- cannot be used by feel.

- replaces existing keys, removing functionality.

- turns off sometimes, so we have to tap once to wake it first.

- some common actions used to be 1 key, are now two taps (volume, brightness).

- does not always register my taps. No unambiguous indication that the tap was recognized.

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