Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That one is actually useful and I use it every day.

  Can we also talk about stupid keyboard manufacturers putting media functions and whatnot on the F keys, but then requiring me to hold Fn to use it as a regular F key? Nobody wants to go Fn+Alt+F4 to close a window. What the hell?

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s because executives don’t even know what the regular function keys are for, since the only program they ever use is Outlook. The media controls are much more useful to them.

    And as everyone knows, executives are the only people who buy laptops. So it makes sense to cater to them.

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  • camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s unacceptable. You can probably fix it in software but still unacceptable.

    On my mechanical keyboard, I mapped my most used programs to de F butttons, with the Ctrl+Alt+F key combination. At work we have a pretty good quality printer, so I printed the icons and taped it above the keys. It’s a little janky but it works really well.

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    • BaardFigur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can probably fix it in software

      You can generally fix it in BIOS

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  • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your keyboard lets you press Alt with function keys? That’s pretty nice.

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• feef@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Context menu key is really useful. :D

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  • mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would say it can be useful. 😹 I rarely used it and can always hit shift f10 now that it’s gone. I expect a similar experience with a copilot key.

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