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minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·8 months agoNext thing you know they’ll put the Ctrl back in the right place.
minus-squareMP3Martin@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·8 months agoThankfully it can be swapped in bios
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·8 months agoI almost didn’t buy a ThinkPad back in the day before I leaned that you can swap it. Such a stupid design I also randomly saw today that framework has the opposite option in BIOS. For the people that migrate over
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoJust learning this now, I’m not sure if I should cry.
minus-squareaddie@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·8 months agoControl back in the right place… where you can press it with your left pinkie without taking your fingers off the home keys? Rather than where useless caps lock is just wasting space?
minus-squarestock@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agothis is actually wonderful ive been debating what to do with my caps lock thank you
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoEscape next to 1 is also underappreciated. It’s how vi was meant to be used.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoExactly. I use escape way more than control.
minus-squareely@mastodon.greenlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·8 months ago@Dultas An Fn key is dumb anyway since that is the goal of every key anyway. @germtm_
Next thing you know they’ll put the Ctrl back in the right place.
Thankfully it can be swapped in bios
I almost didn’t buy a ThinkPad back in the day before I leaned that you can swap it. Such a stupid design
I also randomly saw today that framework has the opposite option in BIOS. For the people that migrate over
Just learning this now, I’m not sure if I should cry.
Control back in the right place… where you can press it with your left pinkie without taking your fingers off the home keys? Rather than where useless caps lock is just wasting space?
this is actually wonderful ive been debating what to do with my caps lock thank you
Escape next to 1 is also underappreciated. It’s how vi was meant to be used.
Exactly. I use escape way more than control.
@Dultas
An Fn key is dumb anyway since that is the goal of every key anyway.
@germtm_