I learnt to “type” when I was at school, programming a Commodore Vic-20. I thought I was quite fast, but what I had really learnt was just the key combos for common words. It’s what most people who have never learnt properly before do, and it’s called “point and poke”. You don’t realise the extra effort you’re putting in, and the mistakes you’re making (overuse of the backspace key) and so on.
When I went to college at 16 (UK) to study computer science, we had the option of learning touch typing. We all thought we were pretty good at typing, but afterwards, we’d all doubled our typing speed (or more) and increased our accuracy by 10x. We learnt on proper electric golfball typewriters, and as we got better, we all noticed that code entry got a lot faster. The thing that is affected most, though, is typing up from notes or printed copy - because you don’t have to keep looking away from the source, back to the keyboard and screen, you can be much quicker. Also, typing your thoughts is much faster as you are not having to split your attention between the thoughts and the keyboard - what you think just appears on the screen without having to spend mental effort on typing.
Digital ads do not promote things I’m interested in buying. I do not see ads very often at all - I haven’t had a TV for 20+ years, I don’t go to cinemas, so I don’t even see those kinds of ads. Occasional ads on YT pop up, and I’ll skip them; if they are unskippable or too frequent, I’ll abandon the vid. I’m not on any commercial “social media”, so I don’t see ads on them either. I’ve just never liked social media - Lemmy and Mastodon are all I use these days.
Occasionally, very, very occasionally, I’ll see a meatspace ad that I pay attention to: there’s a local alternative music collective that wheatpaste ads around in a nearby town. I actually WANT to know about these events, and I will actually go to them, and I actually sought them out in the first place. I also see ads at my local community centre, for local events. Same kind of thing.
So how is this resistance futile?