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And you never know if it will be qwerty or alphabetical.
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You have to open the option menu for capitalization
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Special characters are all in submenus under the letters
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There is no backspace
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It blows my mind that in many cases I can’t use my voice to enter text in fucking 2025.
I’m pissed that it worked better in 2019 vs 2025. (At least for Google’s voice recognition)
I’m even more pissed that my old Motorola flip phone could dial by voice on the device, but my current pocket supercomputer running the latest Android can’t do it without recording my audio and sending it to a server somewhere to be processed in the “cloud,” and doesn’t even work if I’m standing somewhere with spotty data service.
Honestly, I kind of want the old assistant back. I don’t find Gemini any more useful for my use cases. It feels dumber sometimes.
as someone with an accent, may I beat you up with a 1997 modem for asking for more voice input?
those things are a nightmare.
Typing with a controller really isn’t that bad. That’s more like a purgatory thing. Hell would be having to use a television remote.
With a different on screen keyboard everytime. Some QWERTY, some A-Z. Some with with a separate section with capital letters instead of a shift button.
I never understood why on screen keyboards are A-Z.
Everyone knows where letters are on a QWERTY keyboard, why even have something different?
And there’s a lag…
Yes, changing between 1-4s
Lol, pah-leeeze
That calendar and the fan selector are cruel and hilarious.
Them as are amused by the fan directed cursor may also enjoy Bubble Ghost, which came out on several retro platforms including the Game Boy.
Lmao, I got to hall 28, it’s a bit ASMR when the volume is down low, except for the buzzer at the end sometimes. I like having to figure out how the ghost might get it.
TV remotes are worse often, they add a bit of delay, worse buttons, and a 50% chance of any given input not being registered
At least in a gamepad the directional buttons are consistent.
I have a STB where text input is solely via the D-pad plus color buttons for Shift/Num/Backspace/Confirm. Pretty normal except the number pad has the telephone-style alphabet printed, which I would very much prefer.
That’s the upper level. On the lower level you use a remote control, and there’s tons of input lag.
No, it is just endlessly looking up and trying to get a movie to play on Paramount+
AND ghost clicks. And just enough time of input lag to make you click again, just to see the key being pressed twice, and now you have to go to the backspace button
Aka a TV remote
And the onscreen keyboard is in reverse alphabetic order
Also the keys sometimes get stuck, and the keyboard closes without saving your input when you press up in the top row.
Oh wait, that’s just Android TV. :(
“@” and “.” need to be accessed by a separate punctuation page.
Also the passwords are in a key manager and are 30 random characters. You have to look at your phone and manually enter them one character at a time via the remote.
and its not the fancy bluetooth one on new TVs where you can point it anywhere, but good old infrared, aiming and all. All the while the batteries are half dead/not slotted correctly so you have to open it up and roll it around a bit to hit the g-spot so it works.
Don’t forget the endless TFA challenges, which will either never arrive, will arrive after the code is expired, or the code just won’t work.
Question: Do I have a choice on what controller I use?
For some reason, I imagined the controller scheme of a Wii and using the pointer controls to type each letter
Minimum 18 characters, must use caps, lower case, punctuation, numbers, and at least 4 special symbols.
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Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.
In hell you have to use a TV remote while checking the password manager app on your phone to input 32 random characters, many of which are numbers and symbols that don’t appear on the main keyboard, and there’s no button to unhide what you’ve typed so you can never get it correct on the first attempt.
My tv remote is motion so that’s not really too bad. Point and click.
I hate that function. It’s imprecise and the cursor always shows up when I don’t want it.
hey i also used to have a Wii
Nah, in hell its answering Captchas that can’t be answered:
“To get out of hell and go to heaven, simply click on the fruit pictured that has the same weight as mathmatics”
The worst circle of hell is just normal Captchas.
Click verify once no pictures of bicycles remain but there are always more bicycles, then after 30 days of that it starts again with crosswalks.
In hell you use a tv remote with a gyro pointer and on-screen keyboard. And it has a slight, but random, delay.
How do I know this is torture? My partner has one and because it feeds through multiple devices, it has a slight but random delay. And it’s the most frustrating experience of all time. Souls-like games on nightmare are likely less frustrating (and this comes from someone who can’t finish any of them on the lowest difficulty).
At least there are some remotes that use T9
One that sometimes lags and doesn’t type what you pressed… then catches up and double-types or omits part of it.
A punishment that never gets old, a fresh mental wound daily as the emails and passwords become more nonsensical. 🤪🫠
sport competition idea.
we randomly choose a bad text input method, see who can type the fastest, 3 errors and you’re eliminated.
T9 keyboard, game controller, remote control, VR point and shoot…
T9 doesn’t belong there. You need practice to be good with it but it can be pretty fast.
Digital Stockholm syndrome.
Depends whether we talkin predictive T9 or not
I forgot that was a thing. Since we are talking about passwords, predictive T9 would be truly evil.
On real world cases even predictive T9 beats typing with the arrow keys on a alphabetically order virtual keyboard with a remote’s arrow keys.
Me who already does this on PS5
“I thought hell would be worse.”
They’re new credentials every time and the passwords are 32char randomized strings that include equal amounts of lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and special characters.
and I/l and 0/O are nearly indistinguishable.
The keyboard is also neither ABC or QWERTY. It completely randomizes with every character selected and there is no backspace.
QWERTY except it randomly swaps two characters every time you get comfortable.
In Hell, you pay for a subscription to use your controller.
