• tankplanker@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    2 days ago

    Clearly, its the tap dance feature within open source firmware, QMK, that is rising in popularity. People just want to be able to double tap and tap and hold for extra functionality on their keyboard and trackballs.

      • tankplanker@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 day ago

        Don’t forget the trackball!

        If they have vial compatible (qmk) firmware then you can configure the tap dance from the gui rather than having to customise and compile your own key map.

        Not to be confused with via, which doesn’t support tap dance.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      30
      ·
      2 days ago

      my niece and nephew, both less than 10, do tap.

      I think the nephew does it because he is the only boy in the group of about 30

      hehe that kid is gonna be a heartbreaker

        • Rakonat@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          Reasons I took choir in highschool. 100+ girls, maybe 20 guys. And facing a full length mirror the entire class.

          • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 day ago

            Ours was very mixed with boys and girls. It was the easiest required fine at credit to get in order to graduate. The art class at our School sucked. It was more like an art history class and you had to write more papers than English class.

      • Otter@lemmy.caOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 day ago

        That was really cool, worth a post of its own, thanks for sharing!

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      2 days ago

      Ah 0.0000something percent change on the scale. I love misleading graphs formats!

      Huh, desktop shows the y axis values but I don’t see them on mobile.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    2 days ago

    If he knows how to search for Google trends, he should know how to use Google Maps to locate local dance studios that teach tap dancing, which do indeed exist.

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 day ago

        And a dance studio is the place! I don’t think even back in the day they had places you could just walk in and tap dance without some sort of permission to use the space first.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    There’s the figure of speech “to tap-dance around (a topic)” meaning to make concerted effort avoid talking about a particular topic all the while talking about many things that are adjacent to that topic. It’s usually to avoid coming across as offensive or ignorant in some way.

    The underlying cause and/or whether a bit more knowledge on the part of the speaker could render the dance unnecessary is highly contextual (and mostly irrelevant here), but nevertheless, people tap-dance around topics all the time. (The previous sentence might even qualify as an instance.)

    So, the question is: How much contribution to this n-gram is people pointing out that someone is, or was, tap-dancing around a topic?