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[-] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, typing randomly isn't actually as random as it could be, so a generator will do a better job.

However mashing the keyboard is absolutely better than literally just "4" lol

[-] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

What if the generator rolled a 4 though?

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

Then go buy a scratcher

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

first, what if i have my cat do it. second, why does it matter if a string is maximally random? is there a certain level that is random enough?

[-] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 4 points 3 days ago

Generators aren't intrinsically random either, the project that's closest to random is the lava light room at cloud flare. But a wall of lamalamps aren't random enough, so they add in a few parameters from the moon.

But ultimately, it's not truly random.

Most generators are magnitudes simpler than that and honestly mashing everything at random yourself does a pretty good job at it. Especially if you smash too many characters and then scrambles it before picking a sequence without thought. As the biggest issue with manual button smashing, is the same character either won't appear twice in a row ever or will always appear multiple in a row. Not to talk about special letters, which you likely wouldn't hit - although we could make larger keyboards for the lulz

Ultimately random generators is just a simpler/faster solution, but there's ways of doing something as randomly by hand

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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