fossilesque@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tediouswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down132file-text
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minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up117arrow-down10·2 months ago Typing with long nails is the embodiment of “beauty is pain.” The pain is real, but the beauty is subjective.
minus-squareGormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82arrow-down7·2 months agoTo me long nails are ick The longer the more ick
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·2 months agoI will never forget when I had to help a coworker with her laptop, she had long nails that had worn grooves in her keyboard keys. She typed on her nails, the sound it made was terrible.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoEw. Most people I’ve seen w/ long nails type with the pads of their fingers, with absolutely terrible typing posture.
minus-squareSlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 months agoIt’ was a status thing. Those with manual labor jobs usually can’t have long nails, so long nails means they’re above manual labor. So the rich in the past did that, and now everybody wants to do that so and it becomes a beauty thing.
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The pain is real, but the beauty is subjective.
To me long nails are ick
The longer the more ick
I will never forget when I had to help a coworker with her laptop, she had long nails that had worn grooves in her keyboard keys.
She typed on her nails, the sound it made was terrible.
Ew. Most people I’ve seen w/ long nails type with the pads of their fingers, with absolutely terrible typing posture.
It’ was a status thing. Those with manual labor jobs usually can’t have long nails, so long nails means they’re above manual labor. So the rich in the past did that, and now everybody wants to do that so and it becomes a beauty thing.