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.
His wife also left him because of Epstein connections…
passepartout@feddit.org
on 19 Sep 14:09
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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.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
on 19 Sep 14:15
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When was that threat made?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
on 19 Sep 14:24
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“We are watching him closely,” Mr Trump wrote in his new book, “and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison - as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
He wrote it in a book (or his writer lol), shortly before he got elected, about a year ago. Look for “Trump Zuckerberg jail threat”, I don’t know which source to cite here.
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).
passepartout@feddit.org
on 19 Sep 14:35
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You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.
Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn’t want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that’s not the whole story here.
No one rich enough to be in Trump’s vicinity actually believes any of the glazing they do to him. They’re all executing the very basic strat for dealing with a baby man: stroke his ego -> get what you want.
As far as interacting with other sociopaths goes, my guess is trump is refreshingly simple for them.
He wouldn’t be a billionaire if he were a good person.
But…to his credit, he did publicly say recently that he wants to have given away 99% of his wealth over the next 20y, and says he doesn’t want to die rich. I am ok with making that the bar for being remembered. Provided it’s not to his own foundation.
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.
I typed your symptoms into the computer and it says you may have “internet connectivity problems”?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
on 19 Sep 16:37
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The meta key is technically a separate button. The windows key is the super key.
juipeltje@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 13:33
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I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, after having used my razer for 8 years, and i was looking into different keycaps, but i ended up having a hard time finding a good keycap set that is of good quality, and that i also liked in terms of colors, and has a super key or something like that. The keycaps that i ended up settling on didn’t have a super key, so i just ended up putting the windows menu key on the super key, so that it atleast looks a bit more generic than the actual windows key. It’s too bad they’re hard to find, but i guess it makes sense since there is probably very little demand for it. Another idea is to maybe put a sticker on it or something.
I still don’t get this I don’t think I’ve ever accidentally pressed it while playing a game, and I am someone who constantly presses every wrong key while typing
I remember playing an FPS game… Heretic? Shadow Warrior? I would play it without a mouse. Alt would be a modifier on the arrow keys for strife (sidestepping). Spacebar to shoot, and you’re set for disaster.
Space Cadet Pinball was another one. It was nice playing with Ctrl, on the corner. But hit the Win key and you instantly lost focus of the window.
Unlix86@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 19 Sep 14:09
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I have both the windows key for meta and the apple key for alt on my keyboard which balances eachother out I think
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
on 19 Sep 14:10
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Hmm but it doesn’t force ads down your throat so can you really say it is part of Windows?
If I cared that much, I could have bought a blank keycap for an extra buck when I bought my keyboard and banished that thing forever. (I own a Unicomp New Model M 103-key, which only has one Windows key to begin with, and the manufacturer will happily sell you blank or custom-text keycaps. Unfortunately, while they do sell a set that includes Tux keycaps, they’re sized for a 104-key.)
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
on 19 Sep 14:55
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My Thinkpad has the Windows logo on the bottom bezel under the display, as well as this. Mostly doesn’t bother me, but it does feel a bit wrong for a laptop that all traces of Windows have otherwise been erased from.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
on 19 Sep 20:43
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I sort of like that on my ThinkPad though. It reminds me of the defiance shown in liberating the laptop from its grim past life.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space
on 19 Sep 15:18
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That should be easy to replace.
And if not, maybe take the money you saved on a Windows licence and treat yourself to a better keyboard. It’s worth spending a bit on your primary input device, the thing you use the most.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 19 Sep 15:26
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For anyone sadly stuck on Windows, please, please for fucks sake don’t pay full price for a license. Go grab an OEM key from an authorized reseller for like $20.
There’s some limitations on how many machines you can use it on simultaneously. That’s it. Otherwise it’s a full valid license at less than 1/4 of the price.
Even better, just use MASgrave and pay nothing. Yo ho ho.
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!
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
on 19 Sep 20:46
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Wow, that is pretty but also atrocious
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
on 20 Sep 03:03
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Wow, Win98 logo and media buttons? Truely between eras.
I actually like the context key above the arrow keys, another method of effectively right-click is nice. Those Win keys are crazy though, that’s the perfect place for extra function keys. Imagine having f13 & f14 that you can bind to anything without worry!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
on 20 Sep 10:30
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Do you know why the 3 key has an n? I have a hunch:
Now I gotta know the tactical reason for the 2 key to also have the 2 symbol?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
on 20 Sep 19:20
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I did’t know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn’t know.
So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xkb; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).
As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size “2” and “n” are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.
we have lots more diacritics so the number row only prints numbers on its Shift layer (most people therefore use the numpad only)
to print rare diacritics (ó, ď, ť, ň, and German ä, ö, ü), one has to first press the corresponding modifier key (´, ˇ, ˚, ¨) like on typewriters
an alternative for common capital diacritics (á, é, ě, í, ú, ů, ý, ž, š, č, ř) is to briefly turn on Caps Lock (advantage over typewriters)
pressing the ˚ key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)
there is a bloody dedicated § key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown
physical keyboards almost always reserve the right side of the keys for the English-US layout (very confusing for novices) so one has to type in the AltGr layer blind (except for €); it contains useful symbols ([]{}<>|\€$@#^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia Commons
some lazy manufacturers combine the Czech/English and Slovak/English layouts, which are similar except ľ, ť and ô, leading to 5 (!) symbols per key, 3 of which are irrelevant unless you switch layouts
Gboard for Android offers QWERTY for Czech, which looks normal (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů) and the unpopular QWERTZ-PC, which has all the physical keyboard’s quirks, but its “Czech QWERTZ” is based off German QWERTZ, containing ú and ů but not the other diacritics for some reason. All other keyboard apps with Czech language layout get this right (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů)!
Whoa, it’s beautiful. I’d be still using it with some usb adapter.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
on 20 Sep 19:54
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The “n” is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints “²” and AltGr+3 prints “³” in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print “n” in xkb though.
The logo is embedded on the keycap to let the light passthrough
redparadise@lemmygrad.ml
on 19 Sep 17:04
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Acetone should do the trick
EponymousBosh@awful.systems
on 19 Sep 17:52
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I’m petty enough to put stickers over mine.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
on 19 Sep 20:40
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I respect this.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 19 Sep 21:44
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If you want an alternative, lab label tape is a bit pricy but is super durable, comes in fun colors, doesn’t leave residue, and sticks for practically forever.
EponymousBosh@awful.systems
on 21 Sep 13:58
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The “sticker” is actually an off-cut from a laptop skin from my other laptop (which also runs Linux, and also has a sticker over its Windows key :P), so it’s held up pretty well
My keyboard came with both windows and Mac keycaps, so I put the mac one since it isn’t a corporate logo. Plus the symbol signifies a culturally significant sight in my country.
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 19 Sep 18:39
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
on 19 Sep 20:40
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Why is there a Win-Lock option? I get Caps Lock and Fn-Lock but is there any other reason besides saving a finger for the all-important Win-Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L shortcut to open LinkedIn? /s
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
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.
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.
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
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz
on 20 Sep 14:07
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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.
You can possibly get real creative with developing different scratch styles. From intentional needle drawing to the plastic equivalent of stonewashing jeans.
My bad, didn’t explain it well in my initial comment
I broke my A and S keys when cleaning: because the WASD keys on these keyboards are transparent, I could see all the hairs or dirt under them and once every 4 months let’s say, I was pulling them off
And one day they didn’t wanna reliably clip back in place anymore
So now I have Right Ctrl on A and Right FN on S to replace the keycaps
So, they’re basically newer keys in there, and also they are not transparent like A and S were
Jankatarch@lemmy.world
on 20 Sep 20:03
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Ah that one infinite bindings key.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
on 20 Sep 20:18
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I’ve put a GNU sticker over one, and a Tux sticker over another. I should see if there’s a Debian spiral sticker I can get (or even custom keycaps) for future keyboards.
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@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:
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.
You did see him praise trump at some kinda tech bro meeting in the white house the other day, right?
No, I didn’t. Wow…
In case you want to, here’s a link: youtu.be/sZcB4pD8gW4
He looks so sad, so I think Trump is blackmailing him or something. He normally didn’t show up to trump events.
His wife also left him because of Epstein connections…
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.
When was that threat made?
“We are watching him closely,” Mr Trump wrote in his new book, “and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison - as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
August 2024
He wrote it in a book (or his writer lol), shortly before he got elected, about a year ago. Look for “Trump Zuckerberg jail threat”, I don’t know which source to cite here.
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).
You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.
Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn’t want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that’s not the whole story here.
I don’t think musk actually parted ways with Trump. Considering the Trump administration keeps giving his companies contracts, it was just theater.
No one rich enough to be in Trump’s vicinity actually believes any of the glazing they do to him. They’re all executing the very basic strat for dealing with a baby man: stroke his ego -> get what you want.
As far as interacting with other sociopaths goes, my guess is trump is refreshingly simple for them.
Doesn’t make Gates a good person, even if that’s accurate.
He wouldn’t be a billionaire if he were a good person.
But…to his credit, he did publicly say recently that he wants to have given away 99% of his wealth over the next 20y, and says he doesn’t want to die rich. I am ok with making that the bar for being remembered. Provided it’s not to his own foundation.
I’m not ok with calling him one of the good ones, but one of the somewhat decent ones seems about right.
gates was never a good guy. he just paints this image.
Yeah, you’re right. I guess I bought the “good guy” image.
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.
Yes, this is on me. I unfortunately bought the bullshit.
no one is immune to propaganda and i suspect that a huge majority still thinks gates and other oligarchs have become good guy because of it.
Yeah, Gates never was a good guy, not then and not now. Evil is a spectrum and all that, but Bill Gates’s philanthropy is a scam, and Bill Gates fucked over the US Education system.
So yeah, nah, fuck Bill Gates.
Yeah, true. I believed the hype.
He is most certainly not a good guy.
The super key
the meta key
the “window manager goes brrrrr” key
ah yes. the $Mod key
$mainMod*yeah i renamed it and wasn’t sure what tge original was
Mine says ‘Code’ for some reason.
I typed your symptoms into the computer and it says you may have “internet connectivity problems”?
The meta key is technically a separate button. The windows key is the super key.
I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, after having used my razer for 8 years, and i was looking into different keycaps, but i ended up having a hard time finding a good keycap set that is of good quality, and that i also liked in terms of colors, and has a super key or something like that. The keycaps that i ended up settling on didn’t have a super key, so i just ended up putting the windows menu key on the super key, so that it atleast looks a bit more generic than the actual windows key. It’s too bad they’re hard to find, but i guess it makes sense since there is probably very little demand for it. Another idea is to maybe put a sticker on it or something.
True, I’ve been looking through AliExpress for a good Linux based keycaps but didn’t find anything, sticker is probably my only option
If I was living alone, I would buy blank keycaps.
You wouldn’t think it would be that rare, I’ve found there’s a huge overlap between keyboard nerds and linux users.
Doesn’t have to be
Throw away that key and get another one with a pinguin instead ;)
If it that easy ;_;
Ooh the key that wrecked video games for decades!
I still don’t get this I don’t think I’ve ever accidentally pressed it while playing a game, and I am someone who constantly presses every wrong key while typing
CTRL and ALT is used a lot in strategy games for example.
I remember playing an FPS game… Heretic? Shadow Warrior? I would play it without a mouse. Alt would be a modifier on the arrow keys for strife (sidestepping). Spacebar to shoot, and you’re set for disaster.
Space Cadet Pinball was another one. It was nice playing with Ctrl, on the corner. But hit the Win key and you instantly lost focus of the window.
I have both the windows key for meta and the apple key for alt on my keyboard which balances eachother out I think
Hmm but it doesn’t force ads down your throat so can you really say it is part of Windows?
If I cared that much, I could have bought a blank keycap for an extra buck when I bought my keyboard and banished that thing forever. (I own a Unicomp New Model M 103-key, which only has one Windows key to begin with, and the manufacturer will happily sell you blank or custom-text keycaps. Unfortunately, while they do sell a set that includes Tux keycaps, they’re sized for a 104-key.)
Windows G Enable
My Thinkpad has the Windows logo on the bottom bezel under the display, as well as this. Mostly doesn’t bother me, but it does feel a bit wrong for a laptop that all traces of Windows have otherwise been erased from.
I sort of like that on my ThinkPad though. It reminds me of the defiance shown in liberating the laptop from its grim past life.
That should be easy to replace.
And if not, maybe take the money you saved on a Windows licence and treat yourself to a better keyboard. It’s worth spending a bit on your primary input device, the thing you use the most.
For anyone sadly stuck on Windows, please, please for fucks sake don’t pay full price for a license. Go grab an OEM key from an authorized reseller for like $20.
There’s some limitations on how many machines you can use it on simultaneously. That’s it. Otherwise it’s a full valid license at less than 1/4 of the price.
Even better, just use MASgrave and pay nothing. Yo ho ho.
I used Masgrave before I migrated to Linux 2 years ago
Like what? I’m looking for a full keyboard (100%? With numpad) what are your suggestions?
Buy a unicomp. www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT
Shits built like a tank.
A lot of diehards like Unicomp for the typing feel, and I was very tempted since I used an IBM Model M for ages. But honestly they’re pretty ugly.
Now I run an older fullsize GMMK with Kailh switches (bronze) and it’s great. There are a zillion similar customizable KBs these days though.
Glorious is GOD. Loved the mouse but no layout for me :(
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!
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/39a3ba7e-76ac-473f-93e9-34767aeeff59.jpeg">
It reminds me of the Macally iKey
Wow, that is pretty but also atrocious
Wow, Win98 logo and media buttons? Truely between eras.
I actually like the context key above the arrow keys, another method of effectively right-click is nice. Those Win keys are crazy though, that’s the perfect place for extra function keys. Imagine having f13 & f14 that you can bind to anything without worry!
Do you know why the
3key has ann? I have a hunch:<img alt="" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/f45ae975-2257-497c-9634-07c7764e1955.jpeg">
This is clearly a tactical keyboard for use in military, aviation or maritime navigation systems! /s
Now I gotta know the tactical reason for the 2 key to also have the 2 symbol?
I did’t know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn’t know.
So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xkb; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).
<img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/KB_Germany.svg/800px-KB_Germany.svg.png">
As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size “2” and “n” are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.
By the way, Czech is more chaotic:
´,ˇ,˚,¨) like on typewriters˚key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)§key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown€); it contains useful symbols ([]{}<>|\€$@#^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia CommonsWhoa, it’s beautiful. I’d be still using it with some usb adapter.
The “n” is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints “²” and AltGr+3 prints “³” in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print “n” in xkb though.
I mean, if the redundant Windows keys produce different codes, it could be worth a lot to macro enthusiasts. The model exists with an English QWERTY layout too:
<img alt="" src="https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/981120/mac_12.jpg">
The picture seems to be from 1998 so you’ll likely need a passive DIN to mini-DIN adapter as well.
GET THE SANDPAPER
Not worth the microplastic. Just put a sticker over it.
The logo is embedded on the keycap to let the light passthrough
Acetone should do the trick
I’m petty enough to put stickers over mine.
I respect this.
If you want an alternative, lab label tape is a bit pricy but is super durable, comes in fun colors, doesn’t leave residue, and sticks for practically forever.
The “sticker” is actually an off-cut from a laptop skin from my other laptop (which also runs Linux, and also has a sticker over its Windows key :P), so it’s held up pretty well
Yeah that’s what I’m gonna do on mine
My keyboard came with both windows and Mac keycaps, so I put the mac one since it isn’t a corporate logo. Plus the symbol signifies a culturally significant sight in my country.
I don’t even have that. !modelm@lemmy.world users rise up!
For me its just the window key, with a window on it for the window manager
my kb came with mac keys too so i replaced win key with command, i hate it less
For anyone interested, this is a tuxedo laptop <img alt="" src="https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/a422ab0a-8096-428d-9129-fcf7313ec0dc.jpeg">
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
I’ve had this laptop for some years now and I don’t remember why it has the
derpycute Tux, but I think it’s the default one. tuxedocomputers.com/…/Individual-Keyboards.tuxedoYeah it’s cute but derpy cute XD
This is so cute *-*
Cast it into the fire!
And soon, new laptops will have a second forced stupid Microsoft key. The copilot key.
Not even joking.
They’re on some “AI” laptop for a while now
More things to ignore… #sigh
Keyboard ?
Found the real programmer
I hate that shit so much. I don’t buy keyboards with the Windows key logo on it anymore.
Ok now remove fast boot and TPM
Bootloader? Not sure my laptop support it
Why is there a Win-Lock option? I get Caps Lock and Fn-Lock but is there any other reason besides saving a finger for the all-important Win-Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L shortcut to open LinkedIn? /s
Yep, I have a Framework 16 that was ordered with no OS and yet it came with that key on the keyboard.
It seems that has since been updated to a Framework logo key, but I don’t see them selling the key cap alone.
same…. that stupid “copilot” button thing… i’m gonna turn it to a hotkey or something lol
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same…. and that stupid “copilot” button thing… (this is so useless)
i’m gonna turn it to a hotkey or something lol.
UPDATE: i turned the copilot button into a hotkey that opens gnome-characters which has emojis 💯
Super key? That’s not Window’s specfic, it’s just a logo.
Wow
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
Disabled mine a looong time ago
There are distro decals you can replace with :)
Tips for coping:
So we have a new name for the copilot key now?
Since we already have super, maybe it can be the duper key?
It actually in a good spot for window management key, I bind mine to move window around on KDE
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.
Save? It’s done automatically now. In the cloud!
I’ve noticed libreoffice has changed their save symbol. It’s a grey rectangle (taller than it is wide) with a darker grey arrow pointing down.
Download?
Yeah maybe. Could be trying to make it clear it’s not uploading to a cloud or something lol.
Or maybe it means “put it down” (as in record, not discard).
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.
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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.
Loos kinda dope, ngl
As dope as human scars are I guess
I might scratch mine now after seeing this. I prefer personalisation over most things honestly.
You can possibly get real creative with developing different scratch styles. From intentional needle drawing to the plastic equivalent of stonewashing jeans.
Triangle.
K. I. S. S.
Why are you going right so much more than left
I mean, if you think about it you tend to go right in 2d games, so I’m guessing he’s a fan
I mean I usually either play car games using the controller (BeamNG mostly), or I play 2d stuff (Terraria, Stardew Valley), and rarely FPS games (CS2)
My bad, didn’t explain it well in my initial comment
I broke my A and S keys when cleaning: because the WASD keys on these keyboards are transparent, I could see all the hairs or dirt under them and once every 4 months let’s say, I was pulling them off
And one day they didn’t wanna reliably clip back in place anymore
So now I have Right Ctrl on A and Right FN on S to replace the keycaps
So, they’re basically newer keys in there, and also they are not transparent like A and S were
Ah that one infinite bindings key.
I’ve put a GNU sticker over one, and a Tux sticker over another. I should see if there’s a Debian spiral sticker I can get (or even custom keycaps) for future keyboards.
A bit of acetone will fix that.