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  • For me it’s always my left arm’s fingers that get tired first, especially the pinky and the ones close to it.

    I have now resorted to using the right shift and rebinded my right alt to act as the control key on top of using it as a special modifier key for certain actions.

    While holding Right-Alt:

    h j k l = arrows,
    
    w b = word-jump (Ctrl-arrow),
    
    0 4 = Home / End,
    
    u d = PgUp / PgDn,
    
    ; =  esc
    
    x =  Delete
    
    Shift-x = Ctrl-Delete,
    
    Backspace = Ctrl-Backspace,
    
    Enter = left-click.
    
    All the other keys act as if I click Ctrl. Like RAlt +y = Ctrl + y...
    
    

    There’s also one more key near the Right-Alt that I don’t know what it’s called, but I rebinded it to be Ctrl + Shift. All of my terminals navigation commands are Ctrl + Shift.

    In neovim I even binded Space +w to click Ctrl +w cuz Right-Alt + w is word jump. And I use window navigation really often.

    I also have caps-lock binded to esc but don’t use it that much. 3 ways to press esc for me (4 in neovim cuz I have jj = esc). 😅

    This has helped me tremendously.









  • https://www.404media.co/google-maps-lake-america-lake-ontario-name-change/ more about this for those that live under a rock

    It was unclear in the days immediately following the order whether Google would respect the name change. MapQuest, the 1996 navigation service that still exists but most people stopped using in the early 2000s as Google Maps took over, went viral last week after posting a screenshot of Lake Ontario on X, saying “We’re not changing it.” MapQuest also launched a “Rename Lake Ontario” web toy.

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    Google follows the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which formally changed the name for ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ in the United States, according to Google’s announcement about the change, posted Saturday: “Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.”