• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

    You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

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      16 hours ago

      i’ve disabled auto caps on my phone :o

      i generally type in all lower case because it appears more casual, at least to me. it’s not exactly a rule i follow, so it’s never consistent, and i don’t mind capitalizing abbreviations and names and such anyways.

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        9 hours ago

        Same, but I generally only use all lowercase in IMs/other short form text media (so, not here), and when I’m writing German I do capitalize nouns. I’ve always had auto capitalization off since before I started this too since I’m used to pressing shift on the computer.

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      15 hours ago

      i am on a phone. i did not press any extra keys to make my phone not do caps - this is because i have changed my phone to this, because when you write about technical things, capitalisation is important - lower case everything is lower case everything. i’m not about to start hitting an extra key at random times when this is perfectly fine. i’ve never had an issue reading all lower case

      it’s not try-hard; it’s practical for people who work with tech

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      i disabled auto-capitalisation a decade ago on my phone and that change has persisted ever since, but yeah guess i’m a tryhard. yeesh, being a grammar “nazi” was uncool even back then on reddit, imagine still being hard up about it in 2025.