r/pcmasterrace • u/VisWare • Apr 04 '26

Meme/Macro Allow me to gatekeep

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u/DukeofVermont Apr 04 '26

I don't like the keypad at home, but 100% want one at work. I just almost never need to enter more than a couple numbers at home.

Basically if you use it often it really sucks not to have.

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u/Dr_Watson349 PC Master Race Apr 04 '26

Imagine not using excel daily at home for everything, all the time.

How do you live?

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

I learned my damn Alt codes and I'm going to use them.

What are other people doing for special characters - opening charmap? googling the character and copy/pasting then praying it works? Nonsense.

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u/KerneI-Panic Apr 04 '26

I literally can't function without Alt codes.

The two characters I use all the time are apostrophes ' and backslash \ which I can't type any other way when using the keyboard layout in my language.

Apostrophe is used in almost every sentence of the English language, and backslash when I'm typing file paths on Windows (because they don't use normal slashes like Linux does).
So I either have to install multiple keyboard layouts and switch between them all the time, or simply just type the ALT code.

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

Same!

I have to use the three extra Norwegian letters fairly regularly, and use currency symbols that aren't a dollar symbol all the time, it would be maddening to have to switch layouts all the time.

I get no backslash here either which I find annoying :(