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Lost another treasure of my youth... Make it stop!
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Very much missed, indeed! I will never forget her performance as The Acid Queen in "Tommy: A Rock Opera." May she be, at long last, at peace. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Will Rogers never met me.
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The ones getting "left out" are the ones who's questions even ChatGPT can't figure out (e.g. Q&A)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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And switched as many M and N keys as I could.
Some might say I'm a monster, but others will say nomster.
I'll get my coat and leave early too.
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Could have gotten really evil with it, and swapped out keycaps from other keyboards to give people a whole row of the same key. 
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Next time hit the Escape key when you're done and no one will ever know!
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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If you really wanted to be evil, you could use PowerToys Keyboard Manager[^] to remap the keys without changing the physical keyboard. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Reminds me of a (sort of) mystery short story I read long ago, in the days of the mechanical typewriter, about a long-lasting conflict between one guy and this blind author. After the author has won one battle, the other guy takes revenge by sneaking into the author's house and a tool kit for switching the hammers of the author's typewriter around, so that the text written would become completely garbled. (That was the conclusion and main highlight of the story.)
It is difficult to believe that a writer of short stories (in those days) never had seen a mechanical typewriter. I was a boy when I read the story and I laughed out loud. Every hammer has its unique angle between the head and the arm; the arm length also varies. You couldn't even switch two neighboring arms without the arms crossing, getting stuck. The story is completely impossible, the main point is outright silly!
Some fiction authors make me upset when they in their writing include stuff of which they don't have a clue (but I do!). And then, some fiction authors do extremely thorough background studies to ensure that their story is logical and consistent with realities. Often, I do internet searches to check, learning e.g. that that specific Leica lens was indeed released more than 50 years ago, exactly the year that the main character was eagerly ordering it, learning a lot more about lenses along the way 
I wrote to this author (Lars Mytting, "The sixteen trees of the Somme" - btw, I recommend the book to anyone loving wood!), asking him about the WW1 nerve gas that he writes about - I wasn't aware of any of that sort until WW2. He returned a quite lengthy reply, telling about what he had dug up of information about early chemical experiments, suggesting that the very first such nerve gas might have been used in WW1, although in very limited amount and probably not at all. In his novel, he took the freedom to use it in this one battle. It could have been the case (although there is no preserved evidence of it).
I was really impressed by the thoroughness of his background studies, and he expressed being pleased with readers attacking his books with that level of scrutiny
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Reminds me of a similar story/brain-teaser where someone was murdered.
They managed to type a message with their last breath, but they placed their fingers on the wrong home keys.
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Mo problen om ny conputer.
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I did learn touch typing in 8th grade in school, years before the first PC keyboards. When keyboards arrived, I was thinking that I still remembered touch, sort of, as long as the room was lit. Typing in darkness increased the error rate by a few magnitudes.
To teach myself a lesson (of touch), I flipped off all the keytops and put them back on in random order and position. It took me a few weeks, especially to get the punctuation marks right. (Those were the ones I had most problems with in the dark, too.) Now, I can do touch 'for real'. The only problem is when I move to a different keyboard with punctuation (and æøå) in different positions.
Today, you can buy keyboards with all black keytops. If I didn't love my current keyboard as much as I do, I would have bought myself one of those.
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My current laptop is about 5 or 6 years old. The letters are just printed on the keytops, and the letters W, E, R, T, I, O, P, A, S, D, F, G, L, C, V and N are completely blank. The laptop is teaching me not to look at the keys, starting with the ones I use the most. It's the nicest thing it's ever done for me. K and M are the next to disappear.
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This is particularly cruel to your dyslexic co-workers. Now they will start typing correctly and will think they have been miraculously cured.
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The double point angst of her majesty confused youths. (9)
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Teenagers
angst
er - her majesty
ee - double point
confused - anag
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, that was solved faster than I thought it would be. You're up tomorrow.
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Though far from being a youth, I am still a little confused by your clue. The solution given by pkfox makes perfect sense except for the bit about "her majesty" = "er". Could you perhaps enlighten me?
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ER = Her majesty, the late Queen Elizabeth the 2nd (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022). ER stood/stands for Elizabeth Regina (Regina is Latin for Queen).
<edit>Add 'Her majesty' into the explanation as it was part of the query
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Thank you. I am no longer confused - still far from being a youth though. 
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The answer could be "QUEENBEE", as "her majesty" could refer to a queen, and "double point" could refer to the letter "B" (which looks like two points stacked on top of each other). "Angst" could be an anagram indicator for "youths", which when rearranged spell out "BEE".
So, "The double point angst of her majesty confused youths (9)" could be a cryptic clue for "QUEENBEE".
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Queen Bee is two words and 8 letters
How does B look like two points ?
How is angst an anagram indicator for youths ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Did you try and solve this clue with ChatGPT? That looks like the type of answer it would give.
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