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 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.
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?
There are distro decals you can replace with :)
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
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
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. https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Individual-Keyboards.tuxedoYeah it’s cute but derpy cute XD
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
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!
Wow, that is pretty but also atrocious
It reminds me of the Macally iKey
@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.
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: https://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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
He is most certainly not a good guy.
gates was never a good guy. he just paints this image.
Yeah, you’re right. I guess I bought the “good guy” image.
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.
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.
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
The meta key is technically a separate button. The windows key is the super key.
Mine says ‘Code’ for some reason.
I typed your symptoms into the computer and it says you may have “internet connectivity problems”?
Isn’t that ALT ?
I’m petty enough to put stickers over 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.
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.
Yeah that’s what I’m gonna do on mine
I respect this.
I hate that shit so much. I don’t buy keyboards with the Windows key logo on it anymore.
GET THE SANDPAPER
The logo is embedded on the keycap to let the light passthrough
Not worth the microplastic. Just put a sticker over 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
Its on gaming laptops so when you are playing, you dont accidentally open windows menu
Oh, so it does the reverse of what I thought
LMAO, I thought that was a windows app store icon.
Same lol
I wish I could change the keycap of this key on every keyboard I own.
heres a sticker if your really dedicated
“Cute little thing like that, yeah, I’ll grab 20, one for each keyboard in the house, a few at work, a few left over for harmless pranks SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS clooose tab”
I’m sure the quality is nice but I’m just gonna scribble Tux in with sharpie.Since it was $79 I assume you just typed 20 in the quantity, but if you do the multiple quantity discount for 10 stickers it’s half as much. $2 per is still a bit on the expensive side, but it’s not nearly as bad lol.
Did you click the wrong discount? $79 is the price for 100.
Interesting website; I did not know New Hampshire has a secessionist movement.
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.
You can but unless they’re easily swapped with a ready made key it’s usually not worth the time effort and cost.
Couldn’t you just place a sticker on top? I know that you’ll either not get the led light or it’s gonna look a bit funny in the dark if part of the windows logo shines through if the sticker is not thick enough, but you can place a tiny tux sticker there!
That’ll work, as long as you never touch it. Between skin oil and just the physical touching it wouldn’t last long.
One option is to pull the keycap off and paint over it. If you feel really crafty you can sand off the coating to make whole keycap translucent and use a stencil. Personally I don’t look my keyboard that much that it’d bother me and it’s made by microsoft anyways, their ergonomic keyboard is the best one I’ve used so far.
Disabled mine a looong time ago
