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10 points TravisPeacock | 2 comments | 29 Nov 24 15:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source

I was building a program that needed to allow a user to set a hotkey but the program lives in the taskbar so there's no UI. I decided what I would do is enable the caplock key when they click "Set Hotkey" and then they can disable the caplock key (or set it to its initial state, rather) to indicate they have finished.

That project is still going but I got sidetracked by the idea that I could just build a program to randomly enable the caplock key every once in a while.

This isn't a program designed to calculate child malnutrition or do anything to stop genocide etc but I was able to do it in a few hours and learn some new tricks.

I hope this isn't too stupid for HN.

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smitty1e ◴[07 Dec 24 00:14 UTC] No.42346020[source]▶
I hate the Caps Lock and want to nuke it from orbit.

And its little dog Number Lock, too.

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1. voxadam ◴[07 Dec 24 00:45 UTC] No.42346206[source]▶
I toggle Num Lock a few times in the rare event my workstation doesn't immediately respond, if the status light on my wired keyboard remains on things are likely good and borked. Though, I feel like this was more a more dependable test in the days of PS/2 (and PC/AT before that) than it is these days with USB because the former dumb serial interfaces were implemented at such a low level.

As far as Caps Lock is concerned I've had that mapped to Ctrl for as long as I can remember.

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2. smitty1e ◴[07 Dec 24 02:17 UTC] No.42346716[source]▶
Maybe I should just shop for a non-antiquated keyboard.