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281·1 month agoThere’s a common saying in Germany that applies.
Basically translates to: “Those Brits are crazy”, but the literal translation would be: “The Brits are spinning” (yarn).Obelix knows best.
Adblock is digital self defense against malware for your pc, as well as your mind.
https://xcancel.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1569083806224715776
111·2 months agothis isn’t properly remapped and depending on implementation of the key-up events by the keyboard vendor, requires an ugly time delay hack.
qed. https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#the-bad
You can get a 2020 M1 / 2022 M2 Macbook air for ~400€, that will mop the floor with all new hardware in that price range released even today (completely fanless/noiseless btw.). It also has decent linux support via asahi and Apple will still probably provide 5+ years of macOS updates anyway.
- geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16388159?baseline=16471197
- ebay.de sold macbooks: https://www.ebay.de/sch/111422/i.html?_fsrp=1&_udlo=150&rt=nc&_nkw=macbook+air+(m1%2Cm2)&_sacat=111422&_sop=13&LH_PrefLoc=3&LH_Sold=1&LH_ItemCondition=1000|2010|1500|2020|2030|2500|3000
- random lenovo: https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/lenovo+v15+g5+83gw00a7ge+820626
The simple trick to owning nice hardware is to never give vendors your money directly, let others burden the depreciation.
It’s arguably worse, because Samsung has full control over software, hardware, and firmware of their devices.
Even if MS would like to fix this mess, they can’t.
I’ve made an update edit: Some hardware vendors fucked up when to send the key-up-sequence apparently so now every keyboard can behave differently. I don’t know if this makes the situation better or worse.
Marketing said it has to be a dedicated key, engineers were stuck between a rock and a hard place.
2·2 months agoWho would’ve guessed radishes were so radical vegetables.
nah, they just ran out of options, because they already used the press all modifier keys (HYPER) hack for the physical office key(I’d have to check how it handles key-up events, but I’d bet it does it correctly / distinguishable --> I think I’m on to something https://www.makeuseof.com/remap-caps-lock-to-hyper-key-and-double-shortcuts/ )
Defining a new keycode would’ve gotten them in trouble with their hardware partners, because that would be hard and break backwards compatibility, so they took the easy / stupid way out to implement this awesome new button, just to appease the marketing / product department. (conjecture)
This is just a result of the banality of evil / incompetence.
You might wanna start getting used to pressing command with your thumb, instead of ctrl with your pinkie then:
- Windows: https://gist.github.com/apfelchips/e30321f33abc1eb1a481e83b1e79d5c5 / https://kinto.sh/
- Linux: https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy?tab=readme-ov-file#-quick-links
Here’s my rant about inconsistent keyboard shortcuts on non-macOS systems:
https://mastodon.social/@attero/115771231064736124
nope, the hardware / keyboard controller sends a complete key sequence instead of a distinguishable key-up and key-down event. The OS can interpret that sequence as it sees fit, but you loose the physical key-up signal when you release the key with your finger.
afaik: the complete sequence is triggered when when the copilot key is pressed. You’d intercept the F23-up immediately --> no way to detect when the physical key is released.
It is/was required for vendors to use the AI PC / Copilot+ label and Microsoft “invented” the key-sequence.
src: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112500/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copilot-key-requirements
Yes that’s how I understood it. You can’t fix a missing key-up signal on the OS/driver level.
This isn’t Microsoft’s first offense, btw: https://github.com/Rast1234/copilot_key_on_my_keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file#how-these-keys-work
There’s a better measure for teto: Birdbrain cover ranking by how powerful the first “Fuck” is. https://bsky.app/profile/nocallia.bsky.social/post/3lx3jjjvkrs2q
5·4 months agoFYI: You can use the new Collabora Desktop Version of LibreOffice with a streamlined interface if you want.
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/collabora-online-now-available-on-desktop/
131·5 months agoRedirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.
- make the youtube subscription feed the first thing you see / convert shorts without needing another addon
- fix stupid machine translated localizations of pages looking at you learn.microsoft.com or reddit does this too now
- overwrite / define custom duckduckgo search !bangs
- remove tracking parameters from urls
- etc…
Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples
This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.
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