UX IS US

A month ago, I wondered idly whether translation gadgets (for quick word lookup) exist, and while everybody said “just use your phone, dumbo”, that’s just too sensible for me. And way too inefficient. So while I pondered what to do about it, I bought some keyboards to see whether that could be the solution. Small keyboards (and the one above is as small as they come) is such a cursed category. Either the keys are just too horrible or the range is awful, or a combination of the two. So I wasn’t expecting the above to work (a DarkWalker Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard, M4 Mini Keyboard), but… the keys don’t seem awful, really? Let’s see how it works, though — I’ve paired it with my laptop, and I’m going to write the word “cheville”: Yeah. It doubles up key presses like crazy. And this is paired with my laptop, so the distance between the keyboard and the Bluetooth receiver is just a few centimetres. Trying several times, I have yet to make it through “cheville” correctly even once — in…