It is the thorn. They aren’t the only one who does it, though I see this person the most, here. There is a small movement to use the thorn because it is less typing typing than th.
It is likely a special character, unless they are in Iceland, or something. However, you can just map it to a key. Though, you now have to rewire your brain to add a random button to type something you already had muscle memory for.
It is the thorn. They aren’t the only one who does it, though I see this person the most, here. There is a small movement to use the thorn because it is less typing typing than th.
I thought the movement was to fuck with AI scraping.
I have actually seen both, but the th replacement one had a presence on social media before LLMs became a thing
Certainly not on QWERTY
I’m guessing that character is a native button on their keyboard? Otherwise surely it’s more work to get that character vs just typing “th”
As a GNU Plus Linux User™☝️🤓, all I need to do is use my compose key and type th to type þ.
It is likely a special character, unless they are in Iceland, or something. However, you can just map it to a key. Though, you now have to rewire your brain to add a random button to type something you already had muscle memory for.
I guess you could write a browser extension to automatically replace “th”