For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.

Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.

    • haloduder@thelemmy.club
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      2 days ago

      It’s another thing we can blame greed and consumerism for.

      People only make thumbnails this way because ‘the data’ has shown it’s what makes channels more money.

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      25 days ago

      You may want to install DeArrow. It’s a browser extension that replaces them with an actual frame from the video

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          I just tried installing it, and apparently there’s some scummy winrar-esque licensing where we have to pay or ‘re-activate’ it every 6 hours.

          I’m so fucking tired of greed and consumerism.

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      25 days ago

      Because YouTube thumbnails are designed to generate clicks and engagement (including this conversation right here!), not to be correct or informative.