I never understood people complaining about "ATM machine": I mean, I get it. Everybody knows what an ATM is and we know it's a machine, so it is redundant.

But if I didn't have a japanese keyboard and family living in Japan since 30 years, I wouldn't necessarily know what:

"There was also the JIS keyboard"

would refer to.

While: "There was also the japanese JIS standard keyboard" is crystal clear.

Even if, technically, it's quite redundant.

Another pet peeve of mine: I hate it when articles are full of acronyms without at least the acronym being explained the first time it's used in TFA (The Fucking Article).

At times there are TFAs posted here with so many acronyms that you get comments saying: "I don't know what most of these acronyms mean".

And I regularly have to cut/paste sentences into Gemini and ask it: "Explain the acronyms".

So, even if it's a bit funny, please more "japanese JIS standard". Much more.

I don't think I've ever seen someone do this from both sides of the same abbreviation (eg. Automated ATM Machine) before now, that's quite amusing.

I don't see a clear advantage over the the ZXCV shortcut placement which the Macintosh team chose. (The original Finder had no specific Redo shortcut because it was single-undo and ⌘-Z performed both undo and redo.) Even well-placed dedicated keys on a Xerox-style (or later Sun-style) "fun cluster" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBiWtJJN5zk to the left of the alphabetic cluster would have forced the hand to move further away from the home row. Of course ZXCV is much less well-adapted to the left-handed, but that would probably be true of any dedicated keys as well, unless they were mirrored on both sides of the keyboard.

The Extended Keyboard II came with a plastic overlay for the function keys. It showed Cut/Copy/Paste for F2/F3/F4 respectively. See https://chrispeak.com/2022/04/08/apple-extended-ii for a photo.

Not sure if this was ever supported system-wide in any way, though.

Having seen laptops with dedicated copy/paste/undo/redo keys, I think Apple can be forgiven for not going down the function key rabbit hole: https://pomelo.shockfox.net/pub/img/powerlite.jpg

(Yes, they could have just replaced the "regular" function keys with copy/paste keys, but I feel like that would have gone over about as well as the various times they've, uh, tried to replace the function keys)

And there was already precedent:

https://deskauthority.saberkeebs.com/wiki.themk.org/index.ph...

https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=59173

Early Mac design was excellent overall, but decided not to include these keys (maybe they were leaning towards Smalltalk-like context menus?), and then seemed to go into more cryptic and power-user in-the-know keyboard direction (like with the 3-icon key including special support for flipping burgers):

https://unsung.aresluna.org/_media/key-symbols-we-lost-to-ti...

At least we get cmd and control as separate keys still, which makes copy/paste/… in a terminal a breeze, without either needing to sacrifice terminal control keys, or remember to use different c/p sequences in different scenarios.

Enter appropriated the same “arrow returning” symbol long ago, and the key is colloquially known more often as Enter these days.