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minus-square@Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months agoIt’s innocent enough but this headline somehow just reads like it’s from the onion.
minus-squaremosiacmangolinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-23 months ago“Microsoft paid manufacturers to add another stupid key to laptops? Huh, okay then. Stupid key is now in linux. Map it up however you like yall.”
minus-square@rtxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months agoNot the glorious return of the Hyper key I expected, but I’ll take it.
minus-squareDa Bald EagullinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months agoI know right. I love me some more shortcut modifiers. In theory it is possible to map rctrl to another key either way, but the different glyph on it is nice to differentiate it from an actual control key.
minus-square@heavydust@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months ago“Linux developers find a use for stupid Copilot key that no one has ever pressed.”
It’s innocent enough but this headline somehow just reads like it’s from the onion.
“Microsoft paid manufacturers to add another stupid key to laptops? Huh, okay then. Stupid key is now in linux. Map it up however you like yall.”
More like extorted.
Not the glorious return of the Hyper key I expected, but I’ll take it.
I know right. I love me some more shortcut modifiers.
In theory it is possible to map rctrl to another key either way, but the different glyph on it is nice to differentiate it from an actual control key.
“Linux developers find a use for stupid Copilot key that no one has ever pressed.”
Linux users when they see the Copilot key:
emacs enjoyers: