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I wouldn't be able to type some of my passwords or URLs on this thing. I thought the Chromebook keyboards were bad enough.

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In the nexus presentation, they mentioned that a few symbol keys were moved up to soft keys to fit the keyboard while keeping a laptop-like distance between keys. So, it might not be super convenient, but you can likely still type your passwords.

I've switched to longer passwords but all lower-case - mainly to ease the pain of entering them on a phone.

On a proper keyboard it takes the same amount of time to type, it's easier on my brain and you can achieve the same entropy with just a few more characters.

(And then some f%£$ing website will tell me my 16 character password is insecure because it's all lower case.)

It looks like there's a new meta key "..." immediately to the left of the directional arrows. Perhaps there's a chording mechanism to bring back the symbols?

I've been surprised how well I've been able to adapt to the Chromebook keyboard; my daily-driver notebook is a Chromebook with crouton. I think I miss having delete the most. The loss of the windows key as a user-defineable meta key was offset by the fact that I never use caps-lock for anything...

Fair enough, but the keyboard is why I regret my Chromebook which I also use daily. I thought it would not be a big deal (and I did manage to remap Power to Del -- just don't hold it too long!). But missing F11/F12, home/end/pgup/pgdn, meta, insert, etc. annoys me constantly.

I think the presentation mentioned that the keyboard is extended by another row of keys on-screen. Not great, but that is how they intended to fix that.

Interesting, what other characters are in your password?

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