• Rimu@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    It grinds my gears that someone who can’t be fucked with capitalization has that much money and power. I get that using the shift key occasionally is an inconvenience but we do it to help the readers. A conversation is give and take.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

      You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

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        1 day ago

        i’ve disabled auto caps on my phone :o

        i generally type in all lower case anyways because it appears more casual, at least to me. it’s not exactly a rule i follow, so it’s never consistent, and i don’t mind capitalizing abbreviations and names and such anyways.

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          Same, but I generally only use all lowercase in IMs/other short form text media (so, not here), and when I’m writing German I do capitalize nouns. I’ve always had auto capitalization off since before I started this too since I’m used to pressing shift on the computer.

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        i am on a phone. i did not press any extra keys to make my phone not do caps - this is because i have changed my phone to this, because when you write about technical things, capitalisation is important - lower case everything is lower case everything. i’m not about to start hitting an extra key at random times when this is perfectly fine. i’ve never had an issue reading all lower case

        it’s not try-hard; it’s practical for people who work with tech

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            2 hours ago

            personally, no i don’t. perhaps it’s because i skim a lot of code and im just used to it? i’m not sure, but honest truth i find capitals mostly redundant. perhaps useful to add context (names, acronyms, etc)… i add them for uncommon acronyms, but common things that people know i tend to skip too

            you can say it’s lazy, and i’ll absolutely take that: it’s totally lazy… but there’s no weird effort or external image decision involved in it?

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        i disabled auto-capitalisation a decade ago on my phone and that change has persisted ever since, but yeah guess i’m a tryhard. yeesh, being a grammar “nazi” was uncool even back then on reddit, imagine still being hard up about it in 2025.

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      This is the Reason why Germans are angry all the Time.