My laptop had UEFI update that fixed the key-up thing and mentioned it allows holding the key in the changelog. So make sure to check for updates if you care
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I remaped it to screenshot on hyprland
Everything is remapable if you are good enough at soldering
why even buy that slop of hardware beforehand? if you dont want that feature, you might be happier with another brands laptop
Find me a good recent laptop without a cockpilot key
*Sry for the washed out colors. This was originally an HDR video.
Leave it in HDR next time. As someone who owns an HDR monitor and a phone with an HDR display, there is simply not enough content out there outside of movies and games.
My winter heating bill halved when I switched to HDR mode on my monitor.
I converted the original video to a GIF and that is sadly the outcome.
Yeah and I'm asking you to please don't lol

What do you mean? The human eye can't see more than 720p.
That's what they want you to believe 🤫
Its not immune from removal via knife
Noted. Do not buy used laptops with microslop cancer button.
A shame because they're all still good hardware. Just don't want to deal with the cursed button.
Yeah I've bought my last couple laptops from my company's asset disposal department, I've gotten pretty good deals and usually just need to replace the battery after a few years. Not looking forward to when their stock starts getting into the models with slop buttons.
Congrats Microsoft, you managed to enshittify a goddamn keyboard key.
Doesn't seem to be present on my keyboard. 😁


My eyes, my eyes!
Oh, wow. There it is. The keyboard of my dreams.
Using one of these while on acid does not seem advisable, though.
Why would you buy this garbage?
It is shocking difficult to buy a new laptop without one. Yes, I know about Framework, System 76, etc, but go to your local big box store and every laptop is covered in either Microsoft logos or Apple logos.
An embarrassing new low, even with the bars they've already set. And fitting, for this being the (egregiously multiply-) branded button to launch the shit show. Christ, this has been a fucking carnival lmao.
Microslop has now regressed to implementing "features" very closely resembling - in sophistication and effect - my own bumbling, desperate, ignorant attempts at similar ("making a button behave like a macro"), using AutoHotKey, somewhere between 15-20 years ago.
And do I understand that they both shipped that, on hardware, AND it's broken so badly it can't be easily remedied?
I don't know what to say. It's like all the geniuses of comedy who died too young are doing this, all of it.
(No shade whatsoever to AHK, it was, probably still is, awesome at its job!)
Edit: suddenly realized it's just on purpose, probably. Anyway, rant remains lol
The WHATNOW is impossible to properly remap?
Honestly X11 keystroke and modifier management is not that good. Because were it better, you could map any sequence to a different kind of action, possibly intercepting them. Instead you have keystrokes with modifiers, sometimes the keystroke is the modifier key alone. One can work around some things of this with, say, WM menus in FVWM called by one keystroke with modifier and then keybindings for menu items to have something like Emacs UX.
happy to be typing this comment on a framework laptop, where no such key is to be found.
interesting post, and thanks for the info. i cant believe the crap MS pulls. Linux is easier than ever. Join us.