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Blender and calculators. I miss the numpad on this new laptop.
Get a bluetooth one. I use this one on my laptops (Mac and PC) for Blender and the Creative suite. $20 and the battery lasts forever.
I use it daily. Don't like the keys? Don't get a keyboard with them.
Please stop making this stupid thread
Typing numbers fast with a single hand
>He doesn't have wide hands with 10 fingers each
>ngmi
Data entry monkeys
Saved my ass a few times when other keys stop working properly. I use cursor keys a lot. Good for calculators, too, even though I don't use those very much these days.
Also, for those who remember, there are fun ALT+code sequences. Some even survive IQfy post-pruning. let's see if a few of these survive:
◘○◙‼¶§▬∟▲▼ !
Frick. A bunch of these do really fricky things with the browser ibnterface now. Hadn't played wit them for a year or so. Disappointing.
¤ bet you cant do those
If other keys "stop working properly", you should probably fix or replace your fricking keyboard in the first place.
>physical keyboard
fricking boomers.
yeah, my metaverse has a DIGITAL one
To make landwhales seethe.
No, it exists to make fat people upset.
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data entry, if you work with numbers. I got really good at it when I did tax prep work, clients would always been impressed
Me on the calculator.
me. im not a gay zoomer
i do cad and use it all the time
actually it's most of what i use on the keyboard when doing cad
believe it or not lots of things people use comptuers for involve entering numbers
I use mine all of the time.
I just wish they would put a Tab key on it. Maybe they could replace the /, *, - and + keys with a Tab and maybe some more advanced spreadsheet navigation keys.
But more importantly, when is Excel going to fix their scrolling? I want to scroll based on a certain number of pixels, not for it to always be three cells even when those cells are full of half of a page of text.
Some standalone numpads come with an additional tab key.
>I just wish they would put a Tab key on it.
This. I need my left hand to rest my head.
numpad is exceptionally useful for tasks like adding check totals, 0.01-isking in EvE Online, and remotely controlling thrusters and torque appliers in gmod.
If you have a keyboard layout where numbers of the top row are accessed with shift, it’s often faster to use the numpad.
Hell, even if you just want to enter a long-ish string of digits like a credit card number, the numpad is faster.
why do people get upset at it?
Zoomers are obsessed with removing things they don't deem as necessary.
It's weirdly upsetting to them to the point they'll pay more to not have something included.
Not quite sure why this is.
Making it easy to tell which laptops are facebook machines and which laptops are business machines
younger brother's gamepad
For typing in IP addresses. Me.
>Why does it exist?
Entering more than a few numbers. It's especially nice because you can touchtype on it efficiently with one hand, leaving the other hand free to mark your place in a column of numbers you're entering.
>Who benefits?
People with jobs.
>vimtroony with no numpad wants to enter number
>has to use both hands AND move them around
lol? The only purpose of the alphanumeric numbers is when you enter a single digit number, or for shortcuts. Otherwise you use the numpad.
It's a standardized programmable macropad that comes with most keyboards for free. Numpad keycodes are distinct from the rest: this means that every application can distinguish numpad keypresses and they can be safely used to bind actions to them. This applies to both the additional navigation cluster AND the number keys, meaning that you have DOUBLE the number of programmable keys that appear at first glance.
It also happens to be useful for fast numeric insertion, but that's a minor benefit in the grand scheme of things.
The space saved by smaller keyboards is nice and all, but ultimately not worth it in my opinion. If you really insist, get a TKL/75% plus a standalone numpad: you retain every key, but you also gain more flexibility in where to put it on your desk. But getting rid of it altogether is just worse in every way, layers are not an adequate solution since they make some key combinations impractical or impossible.
The only disadvantage is needing an additional USB port, but it's insignificant on a typical desktop PC nowadays, you can always use a hub if it ends up being an actual problem.
Millennials remove it and then compensate with QMK or some shit, which they wouldn't have needed in the first place if they just kept a keyboard with all the keys present on the standard IBM PC compatible keyboard.
I find it really bizarre that those who remove the numpad tend to be self-professed "keyboard-oriented" people. They don't actually know how to utilize a computer keyboard effectively and intentionally gimp the functionality of the very tool they worship.
On the other hand, I think numpads on laptop keyboards are silly and should not be built-in. They permanently move your typing position off-center, you're better off with a standalone numpad on a laptop if you happen to need it. But on desktops, you don't have this problem, since you can just move the keyboard itself.
I work in investment banking and use it all the time. I even use an external numpad for my macbook.
flying a plane in gta v
Exactly, and my arrow keys are too small to be comfortable.
Pretty much anybody who isn't a worthless NEET whose crowning glory is posting this thread every other day.
this
More convenient location for HOME and END. Good substitute for arrow keys in certain games.
Reminder this is going away literally because of phonegays.
how does this affect phonegays?
How so?
The only problem with the numpad is the location, which predates the widespread adoption of the mouse on desktop computers and favors right handed people.
In and of itself, the numpad is useful. Ideally, it should be detachable and not built in, though.
you can get standalone keypads
and of course keyboard without them, so you can right now do like your picture
This product shouldn't exist
why do you say that?
>using up a whole USB port for that
frick no
oh no, not a whole usb port
Does your shitpad not have ports?
you can get wireless ones as well for usblets
This product shouldn't exist
why not?
Bluetooth means batteries, more money to replace once they die, or having to recharge every so often which is a massive inconvenience, same issue with wireless mouse, it's already sat on the desk 24/7, just plug it in. Nobody is taking this thing outside with them and using it with a laptop, guaranteed, nobody is that sad
well i agree that most people will be better off with a usb one, which is why i posted that first
Whew, lad. All this effort to stop someone buying a $20 bluetooth number pad.
you shouldn't
usb hubs are still a thing as well
haven't needed one in so long that the last time i had one it was designed for usb 1.1
Oh, shut up. You sound like an butthole.
>jfif
To type numbers quickly.
Accountants or literally anyone that types numbers frequently.
those who have weird symbols in place of numbers ++ľščťžýáíé, to be used as a third set of arrowkeys in video games. basically it's extra keys it's useful.
Literally every single place I've worked at has everybody using it, and I'm the only guy who turns off the num lock
I guess I play a lot of vidya and got used to the numbers next to WASD
Its for macros
somtimes i hit the enter button with my thumb from my mouse
zoomer thread about numpad #23178127312
Roguelike enjoyers
Me. Now frick off and have a nice day.
Zoomer thread for dumb zoomies
b**mer pads make me literally sick
Adults who do work, child.
the numpad exists so zoomers can keep making this same bait thread for all eternity
Accounting
Counterpoint: What do people actually use that ~3" x 5" of space that is saved with a small keyboard for?
it's more accommodating to use a mouse with their narrow shoulders and emasculated frame
Every inch counts when you're sharing rent with 4 other zoomies
me
>Why does it exist? Who benefits?
Oh shit I hope you're not a israelite gaslighting us to remove numpads from all keyboards... I guess we gotta watch the tech headlines tomorrow lads...
use these strictly for work little boy
productivity, more keys, shortcuts, fricking neet
I've never ever used it
From back in the day when computers were built for one thing. Functionality. No one gave a shit about "meh flashy desktop" or "meh flashy case fans/leds". Was more about getting shit done by using it.
Numpads are amazing for something like autohotkey
Hitting the enter button when searching for things, playing Dwarf Fortress, typing in numbers.
>Who benefits?
roguelike players