[HN Gopher] I have no capslock and I must scream ___________________________________________________________________ I have no capslock and I must scream Author : mrzool Score : 41 points Date : 2022-02-21 22:17 UTC (42 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (memex.marginalia.nu) (TXT) w3m dump (memex.marginalia.nu) | akvadrako wrote: | The most useless button in the world. | ghaff wrote: | Especially given that, if you have some use case that requires | it on a regular basis, there are a number of ways to | programmatically simulate it. | Victerius wrote: | I still use it every time I have to type a capital letter. | veonik wrote: | same here, and as you can see, my capslock key is broken | msk-lywenn wrote: | Scroll Lock is feeling super happy right now. | reayn wrote: | It's actually one my favorites, just remap it to CTRL or | something similar and bam! You have one of the most | ergonomically accessible modifier keys, much better than | stretching your pinky all the time. | Diti wrote: | Have you ever played FPS games? Caps lock is usually used as a | switch for silent/stealth movement, probably because it is one | of the only buttons on Windows which keep state. | quacked wrote: | This is exactly how it feels with every iteration of my company's | new design. Let's disappear scroll bars! Let's hide the menu! | Let's order sub-menus by frequency of use, rather than by | alphabetical order! Let's get rid of border lines around text | entry boxes! Let's make clickable and non-clickable text the same | font, style, and color! Let's-- | | I _do not understand_ why designers are so insistent on making | tools so difficult and unpleasant to use. | gombosg wrote: | I mapped it to the ctrl key. Very convenient! | popotamonga wrote: | programing for 30+ years and never once used it, just hold shift | for the rare cases i need uppercase. | | Can it be disabled on windows? | tablespoon wrote: | > programing for 30+ years and never once used it, just hold | shift for the rare cases i need uppercase. | | The article is not really about the caps lock key. | int_19h wrote: | The link at the end that (I assume) prompted this write-up: | | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1687635 | | (Speaking as someone whose native language is non-Latin-based, I | think it was a very bad idea. Worse still is their attitude that | if some website becomes unusable, "just file a bug".) | roywiggins wrote: | Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA | upwardbound wrote: | The title is a reference to this story: | https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I... | samschooler wrote: | Relevant bash.org: http://www.bash.org/?835030 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-21 23:00 UTC)