The Bits: UI

bit 11 - Publishing from What? 何!？

A small bit of what is possible with a tablet, keyboard, mouse, and a magic combination of USB 3 and bluetooth.

2025-01-04 by thejikz

I am publishing from a tablet using a monitor, mouse and keyboard at this time. Devices are of separate ventures at times where I was gaming, new at office job stuff, ran a business, and was just really into tech thingies.

The Devices:

  • Samsung SM-T540 (Galaxy Tab Active Pro)
  • Logitech G513 Carbon (Tactile)
  • Logitech MX Master 2S (Bluetooth Capable)
  • Dell 27" Flat Panel Display - U2719DC

Your powers combined, I give you... A functional enough publishing workstation!

There was a bonus:

日本語 Character input support figured out!

I was not sure how the switch was going to work, but I am going to be cataloging characters, and want to learn more written Japanese as well.

bit 10 - bit 2? Shit.

Layouts for Box Drawing with ASCII

2025-01-02 by thejikz

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bit 5 - NO MOUSE

2024-12-29 by thejikz

No, Really, Try It!

I do not condone this for production. I would do this as a challenge for 2 to 5 minutes at a time, spread out. Which is how I did it.
I changed my settings in windows to be the numpad!
Now I can psuedomouse around. The Downclick and Upclick thing is going to take getting used to.

The click mechanism is just dragging functionality. Silly me! I have an article now: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer-9e0c72c8-b882-7918-8e7b-391fd62adf33

Go there, button maps work very well!