[HN Gopher] I have no capslock and I must scream
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       I have no capslock and I must scream
        
       Author : mrzool
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2022-02-21 22:17 UTC (42 minutes ago)
        
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       | 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
        
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