In all seriousness. I’m kind of a jack of all trades, but I’m an excellent system and network administrator. I’ve been doing IT work professionally for more than a decade, and my childhood was filled with computers. I knew a lot going into college, got a diploma in network technology, achieved (at some point or another), Cisco certification, A+, various other vendor certifications. I’ve worked with everything from MS DOS, through Windows 9x, 2000/XP, and everything newer, Linux, mac OS, Cisco, Aruba, watchguard, sonicwall, mikrotik, juniper, ubiquiti, and way more. I’m currently doing mostly cloud support for virtual desktops, and server-less deployments, MS 365, and Azure. In my jack of all trades skillset, I’ve done woodworking, small appliances repair, HVAC stuff, automotive repair, electrical work, and I’ve dived head first into home automation. The list goes on.
It says “hot surface do not touch” in full, actually. Braille uses single characters to represent some common letter combinations (“touch” is “t” + “ou” + “ch”). The words “do” and “not” are each contracted to a single letter (“d” and “n” respectively).
Well, you can learn actual basic braille in like 15 minutes. The only important thing missing in it is ⠼ that denotes that following symbol is a a number. E.g. ⠁⠃⠉ is “abc” but ⠼⠁⠃⠉ is 123.
A neat trick is that it translates mostly phonetically across languages so, when traveling, you can get some idea and even practice a bit of reading of the local script by reading braille signs in elevators and buses. It is surprisingly difficult to find photos of those signs on the internet, even though they are literally everywhere, but, for example, this sign reads as KNOPKA V?ZOVA PERSONALA in braille, so you can infer that “КНОПКА” reads as “knopka” and not “khonka”, or that З thing is not a number but actually a letter for Z. The only uncommon letter here is Ы, but it is notoriously difficult one, and you can skip it in most words and people will still understand you. It might be even more helpful with wildly different script like hebrew, but I haven’t tried that myself yet.
Interesting question, I was really talking about the message in the image, but I don’t know about the title.
I knew someone who had a braille laptop once, so instead of a screen it had a tactile braille row in front of the keyboard. I assume if you gave it braille characters it could give them to the user, but I actually have no idea.
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