Let’s pray for the day that future generations will know that to be the Super key, but like the floppy disk icon for ‘Save’ they won’t know why it is what it is.
Tips for coping:
- Call it the Super key (actually the correct label I think)
- Bind window management related hotkeys to it
It actually in a good spot for window management key, I bind mine to move window around on KDE
So we have a new name for the copilot key now?
Since we already have super, maybe it can be the duper key?
I hate that shit so much. I don’t buy keyboards with the Windows key logo on it anymore.
I don’t know what I do to keyboards when I use them for a really long time, but I have the exact same laptop frame and keyboard and most modifier keys are unrecognizable and half of the WASD keys are rarely used keys because I fucked up the keycaps while cleaning and I got other keys off the keyboard in place of them. So anyways, my Windows key is abused beyond recognition and you can’t tell it was a Windows key.
Loos kinda dope, ngl
Holy smoke, that’s one well used laptop, I hope my laptop can last as long as yours
4 years and 3 months still going strong. I use the touchpad a ton too and that coating on it has come off too, but it’s perfectly usable. It also surprisingly lasted two pretty bad falls with just 1-2 minor cracks that I had to open the laptop up so that i can super glue the cracks just to ensure the cracks won’t spread from future vibrations.
Visual condition is pretty unappealing, even a bit bad: the erased keycaps, the lifted coat off the touchpad and one visible crack, but it runs just as it did the day I got it
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.
And soon, new laptops will have a second forced stupid Microsoft key. The copilot key.
Not even joking.
The super key
the meta key
the “window manager goes brrrrr” key
ah yes. the $Mod key
@ColdWater that and probably the Microsoft root certificate stored in your motherboard’s firmware
Also e.g. the lobbying around ACPI breaking suspend to ram sometimes. Funny little Bill Gates quote on that:
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
The antitrust war was in full effect when he said that. Gates is a good guy now, but he was a ruthless pos as head of MS.
Gates is a good guy now
gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.
it’s troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.
He is most certainly not a good guy.
You did see him praise trump at some kinda tech bro meeting in the white house the other day, right?
I mean, what is he supposed to do. The orange man threatened to put Zuckerberg in jail for the rest of his life if he doesn’t comply. I have not very much hope left for the upcoming testimonies regarding Steam, Twitch, Discord and Reddit.
If you have any power at all, complying with the blatant fascist is treason. You know what happens next. Think of all the people who have virtually no power, who can be beaten, imprisoned, deported, without consequence. Chuds like Zuckerberg and Gates pave the way for that. They have enough money and power to insulate themselves.
Even fucking Musk parted company with the ghoul emperor. Imagine having less spine than someone who bought a social media platform so people would stop making fun of him (didn’t work, obv).
I don’t think musk actually parted ways with Trump. Considering the Trump administration keeps giving his companies contracts, it was just theater.
For anyone interested, this is a tuxedo laptop
Why they use derpy Tux? or is it you choosing it I think they let you do that, but atleast it’s not a Windows logo
could just replace it, no? Unless your keyboard is weird, the size of window key is pretty standard right?
Not as easy on a laptop, like this is. Usually a pain in the ass to replace laptop chicklet keyboard keys, if you can even find a replacement without a windows icon
I used to have this really awesome early 2000’s transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn’t really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000’s, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.
Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.
edit: I can’t believe I found it! I’ve tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!
Do you know why the
3key has ann? I have a hunch:
This is clearly a tactical keyboard for use in military, aviation or maritime navigation systems! /s
I wish I could change the keycap of this key on every keyboard I own.
Just put a lil bit o’ tape over it. I’m actually insane and put tape over most of the logos around my house hahahah
Well it’s not like they paid you to display their logo. I think you’re just fiscally responsible and more people should do that.
heres a sticker if your really dedicated
