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by FirmwareBurner 954 days ago
>I'm looking with horror to the day when you need to replace your car

Which car of yours did ever swap the positions and shapes of the 3 pedals or the steering wheel?

Every (manual) car I ever drove had left pedal always clutch, middle one brake, and right one was the loud pedal and steering wheel was always in front of me and somewhat round shaped.

So what's there to adapt to when changing cars? At least use some good analogies if you want to play this game.

>completely breaking the ability to work on the computer is the most retarded First World Problem

Where did I say it's completely breaking the ability to work on the computer?

It's not, but it's annoying enough to affect my productivity, kind of like a rock in my shoe, and enough for me to prefer to stick to my ISO layout wherever I can.

But you do you, and let me do me. Peace out.

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> Which car of yours did ever swap the positions and shapes of the 3 pedals or the steering wheel?

Every time I go from the UK or Ireland to continental Europe. The entire set of controls are on the other side of the vehicle, and some are mirrored (e.g. gear shift on the left or the right) and some aren't (e.g. the layout of the pedals). So I adapt.

Every time I switch from a manual to an automatic or back.

Works for keyboards, too.

When I type on PCs, the leftmost or rightmost key is Ctrl, the one next to the spacebar is Windows/Super, and the one in between them as Alt.

When I type on a Mac keyboard, I use the one next to the spacebar as Alt, the leftmost/rightmost as Cmd, and the one in between as Ctrl.

The key switch feel tells me which I'm typing on.

Switching between US and ISO layouts is similar.

This is not that hard.