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[–] 65 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How about turning it into a macro that I can set?

Microsoft: if it can't be Copilot, you get nothing.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    That's nonsense. To do what it does, it sends a signal to the operating system. It's entirely within the operating system's power to do something different when it gets that signal

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I went searching for the article I read after posting my comment. Either I misread a headline, or misremembered details. Regardless, I was plain wrong and deleted my comment

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You probably saw something which said the key can't be remapped, which is likely to be true but only because windows won't let you, rather than being any kind of technical problem

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Supposedly the key sends weird signals that make it harder to use like any other key. Where a normal key would send KeyDown when pressed and KeyUp when released it sends a bunch of KeyDown and KeyUp when pressed and nothing when it's released.

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    [–] 33 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I want my context menu key back. Without having to press fn. Sure, usually you can right click, but there are enough times where the key is a better option, and you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard to use it.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    They created a keyboard bug. That is some high level dumbfuckery.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    this is maybe a great time to know about kmonad, then?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Can’t we just make the button bring up the calculate app?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I had to install whatever powertools/toys to remap it to do nothing. It was on the day I got that new company laptop.

    I was just hitting it by mistake, and as I'm in EU, I did uninstall all the copilot crap anyway.

    On my plus side, I got my calculator key mapped to the shrug emoji ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Could be the perfect opportunity to officially add compose support to Windows

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