Everything is remapable if you are good enough at soldering
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But if you slap Linux on it, it just does nothing then or is it mapped as old AltGr or whatever?
Neither, it will be as if you pressed all those keys in the list above, which will most of the time do nothing
Its not immune from removal via knife
I was able to remap it with Autohotkey on Windows.
Yeah, I used PowerToys and it's now Right Control again. It was probably easier than finding drivers for Linux.
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.
It's just a button that worse case scenario does nothing for you.
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.
You could always just take them apart and use the components
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
Doesn't seem to be present on my keyboard. 😁


Oh, wow. There it is. The keyboard of my dreams.
Using one of these while on acid does not seem advisable, though.
What's the keyboard? Always wanted to try an arisu/Alice/derivations.
Congrats Microsoft, you managed to enshittify a goddamn keyboard key.
The WHATNOW is impossible to properly remap?
That nuisance you pop off with a flathead screwdriver and throw in the trash can.
Note to self: start looking into building my own keyboards if it ever becomes standard, somehow.
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.
It's the Bixby Button all over again.
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.
This mess is by design. They pay the manufacturers (a pretty penny, I’m sure) to put it on there.
If this garbage is on my keyboard I will drill that motherfucker out no second thought
"tldr: AI took a perfectly working modifier key from you." - 'AI' ?? I can't see how this is anything but Microshit and Capitalism that 'takes away" anything..
*Sry for the washed out colors. This was originally an HDR video.