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> […] left of the alphabetic cluster would have forced the hand to move further away from the home row.

The Star left cluster are primarily operations that pair the left hand on the keys with the right hand on the mouse. This derives from Engelbart's Mother of All Demos with the left-side keyset paired with the right-side mouse.

> The Star left cluster are primarily operations that pair the left hand on the keys with the right hand on the mouse.

Sure (this is demonstrated in the linked video, for instance) but the ZXCV group is pretty similar in that respect. Even for operations which involve the mouse it's preferable to drag only one hand far away from its home position, rather than both of them. (Especially since the video evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q seems to suggest that Star users tended to move their left hand only after making the mouse selection, instead of prepositioning it.) And the Star's Undo key, which presumably doesn't require help from mouse input and is likely to be needed after a non-mouse action, isn't placed any more conveniently near the home row: it's simply in the right side-cluster rather than the left one.

>And every programming language uses a subset of these.

You might like https://juliamono.netlify.app/#fnref:zscode

Québec and federal governments.

The Extended Keyboard not-II had the words printed below they keys. https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Apple_M0115_top.jpg

Now that you're mentioning it, I seem to remember seeing or even owning Extended Keyboard IIs with the same print. I may be wrong, though.

Baskerville's fine. Bland, but fine.

> The poorest country I'm familiar with is Zambia, where about 90% of the population have a mobile subscription.

Only 85%¹ of the population are over the age of 4. Smart kids they've got.

¹ https://populationpyramids.org/zambia

I'm not in the US, but friends there tell me that Home Depot routinely delivers from the local store within a few hours.

(Here, unfortunately, their web site is useless crap.)

Walmart / Home Depot / Lowes / Kroger are generally going to beat Amazon on quickest delivery for most people for most items, if they want to, by virtue of their local brick and mortar footprint.

One reason I imagine Amazon pushed so hard for short delivery times was knowing eventually their legacy peers would leverage this against them.

Not to mention a long delivery time gives people more opportunity to simply go to the store and get something, while they’re out running other errands.

I live in a well populated suburban area. If I’m willing to actually leave my house, I can get most things much faster than Amazon can deliver them. This also helps keep those local businesses running, so shipping doesn’t become the only option in the future.

You don't. A laptop might still be a general-purpose computer under the owner's control, and we discourage those.

> Isn't there a workflow where you scan a QR code to confirm the pass key on your phone?

For people in this position, if they had their phone, they probably wouldn't be logging in on a computer anyway.

There are a lot of reasons why I might want to login on a computer I don't own to do something, rather than to use my phone. Having a keyboard is a major usability benefit for many types of work. Larger screen, printer. Software that is on the machine that can't run on my phone.

I agree with you; those are all reasons I only use my phone for on-the-go messaging or navigation. I'm against the idea that you should have to have a secure (against the owner) connected phone on your person at all times in order to sign in to a web service.

You don't have to with passkeys. I use passkeys every day, they rarely involve using my phone.

Thats still irrelevant to the example being discussed.