Cool, another super key to map.
It will just replace the menu key. Just remap that.
I’m still annoyed my new laptop doesn’t have a menu key. I remapped the caps lock key to act as the menu key because it’s so dang useful.
The fuck is a menu key?
Like the Bixby-button I have on my phone, it will fail
It succeeds at being very annoying
Just like my Google Assistant key on the side of my phone that literally does nothing after disabling Google Assistant.
Here’s a tip that may come in handy. Microsoft makes an app called PowerToys that lets you remap keys without having to dink around in the registry: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
I’ve used it to put CTRL on that useless capslock key like god intended.
Some keyboards also come with software that lets you disable or remap keys. I turned Caps Lock into something more useful to me, for instance.
Yeah for sure. I have my mechanical keyboard super customized with several layers.
Introducing: Messaging PC
Requirements:
- WhatsApp key on the keyboard
- Network accelerator in the CPU
- Preinstalled with Windows and unremovable WhatsApp integration
Either it will be become an important key (“Windows/Super”) or it won’t (Context menu). Microsoft is being eye-rollingly cringey with the specific keyboard requirement, but I assume there are probably about a million more concerning things about “AI PCs” than the keyboard button.
Also, mech keyboards for the win. Nobody is forcing keyboard nerds to do shit with their keycaps. 😂
Context menu is indispensable for me. So many commands can be done mouseless because of this.
Replacing the Windows key. Calling it right now. You’ll be forced into using AI in future Windows versions by turning your, “Windows key + typing app you want to open,” to a hyper-active Cortana you help, “train” with your data.
why stop there, remove all settings and instead beg for the copilot to adjust them for you. Why, lets remove being able to have administrative rights on your own pc completely and leave that too for copilot.
Are we going back to a command line interface?
Not at all, we shall have Command Line Prompt™ where instead you tell copilot what you want to do.
I just set up an HP Laptop for someone and Windows setup is horrendous. Fuck you Microsoft.
There’s no way around using a Microsoft account, but when you enter an invalid login, you can proceed setting up a local account anyway. Then all the shit is set up to my disliking. And of course, Microsoft installs its own services adware and additional third-party adware you can’t uninstall, and then, HP does the same, installing more scamware. Disgusting.
Use no@thankyou.com as the email anything as the password and it’ll let you setup a local account.
As long as I can still find a halfway decent laptop to run Linux, I’m good.
Maybe add a Solopilot key too so I can use a local Windows account, and not have to uninstall adware or disable online-search when I search my PC.
I’m not surprised. Vendors do this for branded products all of the time.
