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Yeah maybe. Could be trying to make it clear it's not uploading to a cloud or something lol.

Or maybe it means "put it down" (as in record, not discard).

I did't know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn't know.

So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xkb; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).

• Default layer prints lowercase letters a-z and äöüß, numbers and the symbols in the lower-left of each key.
• Shift layer prints uppercase letters A-Z and ÄÖÜ and symbols at the top left of each key.
  • Caps Lock only affects letters.
• AltGr layer prints lower-right symbols, most of which are only populated in a later version of the layout.
• AltGr+Shift (Linux only) prints upper-right symbols.

As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size "2" and "n" are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.

By the way, Czech is more chaotic:

• we have lots more diacritics so the number row only prints numbers on its Shift layer (most people therefore use the numpad only)
• to print rare diacritics (ó, ď, ť, ň, and German ä, ö, ü), one has to first press the corresponding modifier key (´, ˇ, ˚, ¨) like on typewriters
  • an alternative for common capital diacritics (á, é, ě, í, ú, ů, ý, ž, š, č, ř) is to briefly turn on Caps Lock (advantage over typewriters)
  • pressing the ˚ key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)
• there is a bloody dedicated § key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown
• physical keyboards almost always reserve the right side of the keys for the English-US layout (very confusing for novices) so one has to type in the AltGr layer blind (except for €); it contains useful symbols ([]{}<>|\€$@#^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia Commons
• some lazy manufacturers combine the Czech/English and Slovak/English layouts, which are similar except ľ, ť and ô, leading to 5 (!) symbols per key, 3 of which are irrelevant unless you switch layouts
• Gboard for Android offers QWERTY for Czech, which looks normal (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů) and the unpopular QWERTZ-PC, which has all the physical keyboard's quirks, but its "Czech QWERTZ" is based off German QWERTZ, containing ú and ů but not the other diacritics for some reason. All other keyboard apps with Czech language layout get this right (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů)!

The "n" is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints "²" and AltGr+3 prints "³" in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print "n" in xkb though.

I mean, if the redundant Windows keys produce different codes, it could be worth a lot to macro enthusiasts. The model exists with an English QWERTY layout too:

The picture seems to be from 1998 so you'll likely need a passive DIN to mini-DIN adapter as well.

I mean I usually either play car games using the controller (BeamNG mostly), or I play 2d stuff (Terraria, Stardew Valley), and rarely FPS games (CS2)

4 years? My laptop is from 2018 (with only the battery in a shitty condition), my mom had a laptop from ~2004 in 2021 (until I embarrassingly fried the motherboard when replacing the hdd). Electronics last forever if you don't murder them.

You can possibly get real creative with developing different scratch styles. From intentional needle drawing to the plastic equivalent of stonewashing jeans.