Since LLMs ruined em dashes, I will switch to 3-em dashes ⸻ enjoy.

@volpeon the pause in speaking those is three times as long. its logic!

@volpeon noice

@volpeon but what about.... hear me out.... 3-rem dashes?

@volpeon elongation of punctuation will continue until morale improves

@volpeon petitioning unicode to add a over nine thousand em dash

@volpeon aren’t those toxic and bioaccumulative

@volpeon Meanwhile, the humble en dash:

@volpeon ngl I actually just use two dashes-- because I'm far too lazy to find/memorize the unicode or compose key combo for it :'3

@anthropy I started doing them properly once I realized on Linux they’re simple to enter with Shift+Alt+- (also Alt+- for en dash).

@volpeon which desktop is that? for me it doesn't work (plasma, fedora 42). I think that requires compose keys to be on which I don't even have right now xD I tend to default to whatever is available the most widely; also on smartphones and other devices and (CLI) environments normal dashes are more accessible I guess.

But just because I'm curious, let's try turn on compose keys ­— .. no actually it's compose key + hit - a few times? which is intuitive but I don't always have this available ig

@anthropy GNOME, but I think I could do it before on other DEs. I never intentionally enabled anything fancy, I just went with the “de” keyboard layout in the installer and it just worked™

@anthropy Compose key is disabled, but there’s a setting to type alternate symbols with the right Alt key. That must be it since Alt(left)+- does nothing

@volpeon I just have this for the compose keys (I laughed at the names, like wtf is '3rd level of Capslock', is that like the ultimate boss you have to fight if you want to win a game of youtube comments?)

and second image is the main screen which is mainly just about selecting keyboard layouts (and there are no options inside those either)