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
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
What if the generator rolled a 4 though?
Then go buy a scratcher
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
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?