gankouskhan

Monopoly over me not paying for their stuff? I guess. Seems more like not supporting them to me. If they errode my choice then I make the only choice that gives me agency. I don’t give them my money.

I guess at a certain point I just stop using electronics.

bows thank you thank you. Glad about my efforts being well received, and even more so it got you out of bed! Cheers and may your day remain on the up.

Actually, after kinematic analysis of the required fingertip trajectories upheaves both of these arguments. If you calculate the aggregate spatial displacement across a standard 2D Euclidean plane for both input strings, the former macro sequence yields a significantly lower metric footprint than the latter.

For the sake of empirical demonstration, we can map this across a standard ANSI 100% layout using a normalized key pitch constraint where 1 U = 19.05 mm. By establishing a Home Row Idle-State Matrix as our behavioral anchor and tracking independent multi-finger vectors using the standard Pythagorean metric tensor—calculating the straight-line distance d = sqrt( delta_x^2 + delta_y^2 ) between consecutive keystroke coordinates—we arrive at the following quantitative breakdown:

Macro Sequence 1: sudo [shift] !! [enter]

• Single-Handed Vector String: 40.878 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 778.7 mm
• Dual-Handed Touch-Typing Matrix: 8.424 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 160.5 mm

Macro Sequence 2: [up] [home] sudo [space] [enter]

• Single-Handed Vector String: 40.989 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 780.8 mm
• Dual-Handed Touch-Typing Matrix: 21.728 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 413.9 mm

tl;dr

Fewer keystrokes != less work. Even though typing !! looks like more work, it isn’t because your finger travel distance is significantly shorter when executing those keys using two-handed touch typing on a standard ANSI QWERTY keyboard.