@ColdWater that and probably the Microsoft root certificate stored in your motherboard’s firmware
Also e.g. the lobbying around ACPI breaking suspend to ram sometimes. Funny little Bill Gates quote on that:
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me. Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
The antitrust war was in full effect when he said that. Gates is a good guy now, but he was a ruthless pos as head of MS.
You did see him praise trump at some kinda tech bro meeting in the white house the other day, right?
No, I didn’t. Wow…
In case you want to, here’s a link: https://youtu.be/sZcB4pD8gW4
He looks so sad, so I think Trump is blackmailing him or something. He normally didn’t show up to trump events.
His wife also left him because of Epstein connections…
I mean, what is he supposed to do. The orange man threatened to put Zuckerberg in jail for the rest of his life if he doesn’t comply. I have not very much hope left for the upcoming testimonies regarding Steam, Twitch, Discord and Reddit.
If you have any power at all, complying with the blatant fascist is treason. You know what happens next. Think of all the people who have virtually no power, who can be beaten, imprisoned, deported, without consequence. Chuds like Zuckerberg and Gates pave the way for that. They have enough money and power to insulate themselves.
Even fucking Musk parted company with the ghoul emperor. Imagine having less spine than someone who bought a social media platform so people would stop making fun of him (didn’t work, obv).
You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.
Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn’t want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that’s not the whole story here.
No one rich enough to be in Trump’s vicinity actually believes any of the glazing they do to him. They’re all executing the very basic strat for dealing with a baby man: stroke his ego -> get what you want.
As far as interacting with other sociopaths goes, my guess is trump is refreshingly simple for them.
Doesn’t make Gates a good person, even if that’s accurate.
He wouldn’t be a billionaire if he were a good person.
But…to his credit, he did publicly say recently that he wants to have given away 99% of his wealth over the next 20y, and says he doesn’t want to die rich. I am ok with making that the bar for being remembered. Provided it’s not to his own foundation.
I’m not ok with calling him one of the good ones, but one of the somewhat decent ones seems about right.
gates was never a good guy. he just paints this image.
Yeah, you’re right. I guess I bought the “good guy” image.
He is most certainly not a good guy.
Gates is a good guy now
gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.
it’s troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.
Yes, this is on me. I unfortunately bought the bullshit.
no one is immune to propaganda and i suspect that a huge majority still thinks gates and other oligarchs have become good guy because of it.
I used to have this really awesome early 2000’s transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn’t really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000’s, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.
Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.
edit: I can’t believe I found it! I’ve tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!
Do you know why the
3key has ann? I have a hunch:
This is clearly a tactical keyboard for use in military, aviation or maritime navigation systems! /s
Whoa, it’s beautiful. I’d be still using it with some usb adapter.
The “n” is probably a misprint, AltGr+2 prints “²” and AltGr+3 prints “³” in the German layout; it can be customized to actually print “n” in xkb though.
I mean, if the redundant Windows keys produce different codes, it could be worth a lot to macro enthusiasts. The model exists with an English QWERTY layout too:
The picture seems to be from 1998 so you’ll likely need a passive DIN to mini-DIN adapter as well.
Now I gotta know the tactical reason for the 2 key to also have the 2 symbol?
I did’t know much about the German keyboard layout but I know the Czech one, which is derived from it (we both use QWERTZ) and was able to look up most of what I didn’t know.
So, the keyboard has 4 layers: default, Shift, AltGr, AltGr+Shift (the fourth one is not standard but is recognized by xinput; in Czech I use it for custom character mappings, in German it is standardized but Linux-only).
- Default layer prints lowercase letters a-z and äöüß, numbers and the symbols in the lower-left of each key.
- Shift layer prints uppercase letters A-Z and ÄÖÜ and symbols at the top left of each key.
- Caps Lock only affects letters.
- AltGr layer prints lower-right symbols, most of which are only populated in a later version of the layout.
- AltGr+Shift (Linux only) prints upper-right symbols.
As you can see, AltGr+2 produces ², and AltGr+3 produces ³. I think the full-size “2” and “n” are misprints. My old Czech keyboard has some errors too.
By the way, Czech is more chaotic:
- we have lots more diacritics so the number row only prints numbers on its Shift layer (most people therefore use the numpad only)
- to print rare diacritics (ó, ď, ť, ň, and German ä, ö, ü), one has to first press the corresponding modifier key (
´,ˇ,˚,¨) like on typewriters- an alternative for common capital diacritics (á, é, ě, í, ú, ů, ý, ž, š, č, ř) is to briefly turn on Caps Lock (advantage over typewriters)
- pressing the
˚key twice prints the degree sign (°) twice (Windows) or once (Linux)
- there is a bloody dedicated
§key but we need to press AltGr+7 twice, then backspace (or Alt+96) for a grave (`), which is part of ASCII and used in Markdown - physical keyboards almost always reserve the right side of the keys for the English-US layout (very confusing for novices) so one has to type in the AltGr layer blind (except for
€); it contains useful symbols ([]{}<>|\€$@#^&×÷`) as well as useless ones (Đđ – these are Slovene, why not the Slovak Ôô?), leading people to prefer Windows-only left-Alt+numpad codes (such as Alt+64 for @) that use the obsolete OEM-1252 codepage (the Unicode extension has to be enabled via registry and Alt+letters hex codes get passed to programs anyway, often defocusing the input element). I only found a Slovak one on Wikimedia Commons - some lazy manufacturers combine the Czech/English and Slovak/English layouts, which are similar except ľ, ť and ô, leading to 5 (!) symbols per key, 3 of which are confusing
- Gboard for Android offers QWERTY for Czech, which looks normal (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů) and the unpopular QWERTZ-PC, which has all the physical keyboard’s quirks, but its “Czech QWERTZ” is based off German QWERTZ, containing ú and ů but not the other diacritics for some reason. All other keyboard apps with Czech language layout get this right (hold for diacritics, potentially swipe for ě and ů)!
Wow, Win98 logo and media buttons? Truely between eras.
I actually like the context key above the arrow keys, another method of effectively right-click is nice. Those Win keys are crazy though, that’s the perfect place for extra function keys. Imagine having f13 & f14 that you can bind to anything without worry!
The super key
the meta key
the “window manager goes brrrrr” key
ah yes. the $Mod key
$mainMod*yeah i renamed it and wasn’t sure what tge original was
The meta key is technically a separate button. The windows key is the super key.
Isn’t that ALT ?
Let’s pray for the day that future generations will know that to be the Super key, but like the floppy disk icon for ‘Save’ they won’t know why it is what it is.
I wish I could change the keycap of this key on every keyboard I own.
You can but unless they’re easily swapped with a ready made key it’s usually not worth the time effort and cost.
Couldn’t you just place a sticker on top? I know that you’ll either not get the led light or it’s gonna look a bit funny in the dark if part of the windows logo shines through if the sticker is not thick enough, but you can place a tiny tux sticker there!
That’ll work, as long as you never touch it. Between skin oil and just the physical touching it wouldn’t last long.
One option is to pull the keycap off and paint over it. If you feel really crafty you can sand off the coating to make whole keycap translucent and use a stencil. Personally I don’t look my keyboard that much that it’d bother me and it’s made by microsoft anyways, their ergonomic keyboard is the best one I’ve used so far.
heres a sticker if your really dedicated
Interesting website; I did not know New Hampshire has a secessionist movement.
“Cute little thing like that, yeah, I’ll grab 20, one for each keyboard in the house, a few at work, a few left over for harmless pranks SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS clooose tab”
I’m sure the quality is nice but I’m just gonna scribble Tux in with sharpie.Did you click the wrong discount? $79 is the price for 100.
Just put a lil bit o’ tape over it. I’m actually insane and put tape over most of the logos around my house hahahah
same…. and that stupid “copilot” button thing… (this is so useless)
i’m gonna turn it to a hotkey or something lol.
my kb came with mac keys too so i replaced win key with command, i hate it less
There are distro decals you can replace with :)
Ok now remove fast boot and TPM
Bootloader? Not sure my laptop support it
I recently bought my first mechanical keyboard, after having used my razer for 8 years, and i was looking into different keycaps, but i ended up having a hard time finding a good keycap set that is of good quality, and that i also liked in terms of colors, and has a super key or something like that. The keycaps that i ended up settling on didn’t have a super key, so i just ended up putting the windows menu key on the super key, so that it atleast looks a bit more generic than the actual windows key. It’s too bad they’re hard to find, but i guess it makes sense since there is probably very little demand for it. Another idea is to maybe put a sticker on it or something.
True, I’ve been looking through AliExpress for a good Linux based keycaps but didn’t find anything, sticker is probably my only option
If I was living alone, I would buy blank keycaps.
You wouldn’t think it would be that rare, I’ve found there’s a huge overlap between keyboard nerds and linux users.
My Thinkpad has the Windows logo on the bottom bezel under the display, as well as this. Mostly doesn’t bother me, but it does feel a bit wrong for a laptop that all traces of Windows have otherwise been erased from.
Ooh the key that wrecked video games for decades!
I still don’t get this I don’t think I’ve ever accidentally pressed it while playing a game, and I am someone who constantly presses every wrong key while typing
Disabled mine a looong time ago
And soon, new laptops will have a second forced stupid Microsoft key. The copilot key.
Not even joking.
They’re on some “AI” laptop for a while now
For anyone interested, this is a tuxedo laptop
Why they use derpy Tux? or is it you choosing it I think they let you do that, but atleast it’s not a Windows logo
