The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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• ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m gonna hug my old ThinkPad when I get home today

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I do that all the time.

    There’s nothing weird about it, stop looking at me like that

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And they took the place of a useful key to put that

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• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did Microsoft demand vendors include such a button with those specs? If not, that sounds like a vendor issue, and I’d be looking at other vendors. Either way I’m happy to use keyboards/OSs without that “feature.”

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  • attero@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    copilotPC requirements

    It is/was required for vendors to use the AI PC / Copilot+ label and Microsoft “invented” the key-sequence.
    src: theverge.com/…/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copi…

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So to be clear, this key sequence is just how windows interpret the key, the hardware is exactly the same and any other OS can still use it as the context menu key?

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AI PC / Copilot+ label

      Okay that sounds solvable, at least. I mean, I hate it, but it seems that a person is getting what they pay for here. Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully there will be plenty of non-AI PC / Copilot+ computers.

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• probable_possum@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It’s worth taking a look in the BIOS/ UEFI setup - maybe the key can be remapped there? Once in there was a setting which defined the default F-key behaviour.

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My ThinkPad has one and it is just kinda there… despite it supposedly being remapable since Kernel 6.16 or so I can’t get it to properly remap.

  I’d love to put a shortcut to open LM Studio on it lol

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• QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just don’t buy an AI slop PC and get a Thinkpad, or a Framework laptop instead.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Pretty sure MS made this a “standard keyboard” button, which could mean it needs to be included for the OEM to be able to put windows on the machine.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    all new thinkpads have copilot buttons

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• PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never thought I’d say this… I’m considering a Mac as my next laptop.

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Base model Macbook Airs are very hard to beat for price:performance, especially now the new base model has 16gb of RAM. I’ve been to numerous local computer shops and felt and tried numerous Windows laptops that were around the same price and they all felt like flimsy plastic trash.

    The Mac Mini is also very good for its price and size. My dad is considering a base model Mini to replace his Windows office computer which is on 10 and reached EOL and he doesn’t want 11.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have an M1 Pro that’s still going strong without issues, even with 8GB RAM. They’re insanely durable (repair issues aside) and MacOS is wildly good at resource management.

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  • attero@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You might wanna start getting used to pressing command with your thumb, instead of ctrl with your pinkie then:

    • Windows: gist.github.com/…/e30321f33abc1eb1a481e83b1e79d5c… / kinto.sh
    • Linux: github.com/RedBearAK/toshy?tab=readme-ov-file#-qu…

    Here’s my rant about inconsistent keyboard shortcuts on non-macOS systems:
    mastodon.social/@attero/115771231064736124

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    • thejml@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I prefer it, however there are apps for Mac to remap it if you like. I use Karabiner to remap my Capslock to Escape. I have Capslock and moving the escape key there is much more ergonomic and where i have it on my custom mechanical keyboards.

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