When was the last time you pressed this key?

An hour ago, so I guess it's been a bit.

when i was using my fat friend's thinkpad trying to press ctrl

Like 4 hours ago at work.

>>57462238
Maybe half an hour?

Can't remember

One week ago when I cleaned my keyboard

>>57462238
All the time actually. I have Fn and Ctrl switched using the BIOS setting because I don't like their placement on the T420

>>57462279
with intent to press it?

A few minutes ago so I could hit the "▶⏸" key on my keyboard to launch my media player.

>>57462289
Yes, because I suspected I had windows key and fn switched. So I tested the inputs by pressing the button intentionally.

About 3 minutes ago. Fn + F11/F12 = volume controls.

i use it to take screenshots, fn print screen

that's the only time I press it on purpose

>>57462407
Does this require Fn?

>>57462434

in mint cinnamon it does

>>57462457
What does the non-Fn PrtSc keypress do?

>>57462470

it's the 'end' key on this laptop which goes to the end. used exactly never

I set it to Fn lock when I installed Windows 2000, so maybe a month ago.

about a half hour ago

last night to change the brightness

>>57462238
I use it all the time on my laptop. What are you trying to say OP?

>>57462521

fn + f2 = f12

which i use quite often, for something, i can't recall

Frequently at work, Fn+Power for diagnostic boot on Dell laptops.

>>57462743
If I hit Fn+F2 it'd just be F2 because F2 is bound to brightness.

>>57462282
Same. It just makes more sense to have them switched.

>>57462499
>not using home/end/pgup/pgdn to navigate

my laptop has fn+f2 for screenlock and fn+f4 for sleep, so I use fn daily.
apart from those two cases, though, pretty much never.

a lot.

Fn + F2 to lock
Fn + PgUp for the thinklight
Fn + Home/End to change display brigtness
Fn + F9 to undock my laptop
Fn + arrow keys for Play/Pause/Previous/Next

so quite a lot, actually.

Usually by accident...I miss my old keyboard

Last night to turn on the thinklight.

Never

>>57462775
i use pgup pgdwn all the fuckin time, but home and end are in bfe top row danger zone between delete and f12 on this laptop

pgup and pgdwn are conveniently located on bottom of keyboard right by the arrows

would be faster to hold down pgup and wait than to try to find home button every time i wanted to go to top of page

but let's be real: it's easier and more fun to wheel click the page and autoscroll with the mouse

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>>57462238
When I disabled my touchpad.

>>57462238
I use it all the time with volume control.

10 minutes ago.

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Better question: When did you last use scroll lock?

>>57462945
I hit it on accident when I'm trying to quickly pause and unpause my street fighter script to type between roudns

oh and I had a keyboard where that button would activate the backlighting

>>57462945
My keyboard doesn't even have it

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>his keyboard still has static, non-dynamic function keys

>>57462984
>he keyboard has less than 104 keys
>his keycaps have things printed on this
>his keycaps are ABS
is there any way to spot a poser faster?

>>57462457
mint cinnamon and all i do is press prt scn

>>57462984
>his keys have close to zero travel

I press it all the time to turn change lighting modes on my keyboard

>>57462980
Just to the left of the w̶i̶n̶d̶o̶ meta key?

>>57462945
It's quite useful in Excel.

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Use it all the time on this little guy.

(With this keyset, it's located at caps lock and the right super key)

>>57462945
I don't actually know what that does

>>57462945
Wait... what does that key even do?

>>57462945
I press it at work all the time on my mates computer just to fuck with him.... work is boring

>>57462238
i avoid keyboards that stray from the ansi standard layout and replace keys with nonsense like that

>>57462945
My keyboard uses it to turn the LEDs on and off on Windows (CM Storm Devastator)

A few minutes ago. I use it a lot.

>>57462945
>what is CrashOnCtrlScroll

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>>57462238
I moved the esc keycap on the caps lock key and mapped it as such.
And then I moved the Fn keycap on the esc key because the led on the Fn key is on only when Fn function is default, regardless of if the other leds are on or not. So I can toggle the leds on and off without having one led blinding me.

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>>57462238
Probably around three minutes ago. Though it isn't the specific Fn key for me, it's the Caps Lock key that has been turned into a Fn key due to how important it is on a 60% keyboard.

Actually, I just used it since Fn + Backspace = Del on my keyboard. So a few seconds then.

>>57462238
last night to turn on the light at the top

>>57462238
about 30 minutes ago trying to copy and paste exhentai links at work

a few minutes ago.
i had to up my brightness looking at your mothers nudes.

>>57464101
>ISO physical layout

Ugh.

Yesterday I believe

about 11 seconds ago. I use it as part of key-binding combinations a lot...

>>57462457
in mint xfce it doesnt.

tldr: xfce master race

>>57462238
few minutes ago to unmute my sonic wallpaper

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Often

couple hours ago to pause spotify

>>57462967
>my street fighter script
your wat

>>57464859
my street fighter script

i need it because my keyboard has printscreen and home on the same key, and the windows calculator on f12

>>57464859
I play on keyboard and you can't rebind the keys by default

just a simple hotkey script to rebind and create additional macros like throw and trigger

>>57462238
A few hours ago when I adjusted the backlight to its lowest level.

>>57464893
sounds complicated as hell m8. how are you playing? you can rebind keys with mame and console emulators like snes9x

>>57462238
wen ur mom came over last nite

>>57462238
Two minutes ago.

I press it to adjust my keyboards light.

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>>57464951
it's set up exactly like a keyboard, the script only rebinds keys like [j::k] and [space::w] with a pause binding

not a difficult or complicated script at all

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I almost never use a physical keyboard

>>57462945
The ultimate question - have you ever used the SysRq button?

All the fucking time to adjust screen brightness and sound level

>>57465056
i use the remote version on an unstable server i use for spying on voip traffic

it gets overloaded sometimes and the system refuses to sync to disk (I've waited 2 weeks before, there was still i/o)


echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

so really, about a week ago

>>57462238
Around 5 minutes ago.

>>57462238
every fucking reboot because my ducky doesn't have memory to remember backlight settings.

>>57462238
Just now to turn up my brightness.

Fn + arrow up/down is brightness control.

Maybe 10 minutes ago to turn down my volume. Why?

>>57462293
lol. nice attempt

>>57463087
>>57463092
Underage detected

>>57462238
Less than a minute ago. I press it at least 100 times a day. Probably a lot more than that?

>not using the Fn key for a variety of functions

baka

Yesterday because I wanted to copy something on my colleague's memepad. Is it so hard to not switch fn and ctrl?

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>you mean your keyboard doesn't have a dedicated SysRq key, anon?

>>57462238
10 minutes ago to adjust the brightness of my display now I have walked out into the sun.

>>57462238
2 minutes ago?

>>57462264
Whoever thought of putting it there in the first place should be shot

I don't have one. I have an irregular keyboard from 1993.

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>>57462984
>his keyboard still has static, non-dynamic keys

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>>57469505
>his keyboard still has keys

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>>57469516
>he still has keyboard

>>57462238
>using anything but a full keyboard
Left mine in storage for about 7 years after I moved and I got it back a year ago. Good old thing is nearly 20 years old now but it is easily the comfiest keyboard I have ever used and still works like new.
The suspend, eject and sleep buttons don't seem to work on anything but 95/98 tho. Pity, I would love the sleep button.

>>57462238
That plus arrow keys controls volume on my machine.
That's pretty much it.

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when did /g/ give up trying?

>>57469879
>The suspend, eject and sleep buttons don't seem to work on anything but 95/98 tho. Pity, I would love the sleep button.
Why don't you just create a keybind for those?
Are all Windows users this tech illiterate?

>>57469935
I use loonix. Maybe because on loonix it is already fast enough to put to sleep. On wangblows it would be much longer and would annoy me greatly.

This thread has reminded me I could do the sleep button though, save me two key presses.

>>57462238
About 4 hours ago, when I wanted to make my laptop screen brighter.

>>57462945
Some computers in the university have the power button near print screen. Fuck them.

>>57469505
>Art. Lebedev
Tyoma is still trying to do his keyboard?

>>57462238
I'm using it as control so easily 2 minutes ago
I personally use the Fn to rename files

>>57469913
>using midnight commander

looks like you gave up first

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>>57462238
Like 40 minutes ago, in conjunction with f11/f12 to change volume. Pic related.

30 minutes ago

Yesterday, when I was trying to raise the volume on my laptop while in a game.

Is this an undercover Macfag touchbar shilling thread?

>>57468827
You can flip the Ctrl and Fn keys in BIOS you stupid faggot

>>57462945
I play Maplestory.

That sentence alone should tell you how frequent I press it.

>>57462238
On my Thinkpad I use it to adjust the brightness and skip tracks, so i use it quite a fair amount.

>>57462238
I was pressing it while scrolling down and reading your post

>>57469546
kek. We haven't made the nervegear yet. Silly anon.

>>57471178
not on older models

One minute ago. Mac keyboard has no useless buttons.

I remapped the Fn key to end and used a marker to write 'i' between 'F' and 'n'.

>When was the last time you pressed this key.
Less than a minute ago to go down this page.

With intent to press it? Never
Accidentely? Once every few days

>>57462238
I hold it often, for numpadding.

Refactor in Pycharm is shift+F6 so i use it often enough...

to change the brightess of the deisplay in my laptop
it even works in linux

>>57462238
i'm not gay

>>57471178
How? I've been trying to figure this out on my R500 for the past hour.

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>using laptop
>go to press F2 to rename a file
>WiFi turns off
who thought this was a good idea?

>>57476872

whoever it was needs to use a computer before they try and design another keyboard

>>57476872
>he doesn't disable fn in the BIOS
/g/ - Technology

>>57477855
>he has to disable fn to use his computer
/g/ - Technology

>>57476872
There's either a setting in BIOS to default it to the function keys instead, or there should be a "lock" icon on the esc key that will toggle it.

>>57477867
hp eh?

now i remember that

the lock was for the mac-meme-style led touch buttons though

>>57477879
Dell Precision, actually.

>>57477889
damn, never experienced.

although i will if apple keeps up with metastasizing

>>57477989
I'm super happy with it. It's a full powered workstation though, it's heavy as fuck. Great options on them though, can get 16 threaded xeons and the battery on mine lasts a solid 9-12 hours.
Only one 2.5" drive bay though. I'd recommend getting a PCIe SSD if you need extra storage.

T420-tier build quality too.

>>57462238
like 10 seconds ago

>>57462884
The end and home keys are pretty nice when navigating text. Especially doing ctrl-end/home or ctrl-shift-end/home

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>>57462238
Months. My keyboard doesn't have it.

A decade ago

>>57462238
A few seconds ago to raise the volume.

A few months back when I was trying to figure out what it did,

Still don't know what it does, I don't dare touch it

>>57462238
like 20 seconds ago
adjusted volume

Adjusting the brightness on my thinkpad.
doy

>>57462238
I never had that button.

I used it yesterday to start up the calculator

>>57462238
Legit question. The fuck is that?

>>57462238
5 minutes ago to adjusty volum4

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never knew it existed

>>57462238
1 minute ago.

>>57462238
last time i used my laptop, i guess a few days ago, to increase/decrease the brightness probably

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>>57463027
My keyboard doesn't have either.

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>>57462238
When was the last time you pressed this key?

>>57484263
Shift + insert works as middle mouse paste in X so all day every day
Also before you ask print screen activates the OSD on my KVM switch so that's being used quite a bit too

>>57465056
>>57468232
You can use SysRq to reboot Linux safely after an experimental, unstable driver freezes something, or simply when you have no monitor attached.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

SysRq-s (sync)
SysRq-u (remount everything read-only)
SysRq-b (reboot)

>>57462238
Hmm, let's see..

Fn + :
F1 - sleep
F2 - WLAN
F5-6-7 - brightness
F10-11-12 - volume
Arrow keys - music controls
(Num) Enter - Calculator
Space - power plan

Well, I use it all the time (:

>>57462264
this

only disgusting laptopfags use it.
They're just as bad as phoneposters

>>57462238
Atleast 40x while at work

>>57484456
I use it on desktop pc for media controls

>>57462238
Few minutes ago to open calculator

>>57462264
It's so true

>>57462945
Probably in the late 1980s with a 386. It's been a while...

>>57465056
Had a machine language driver for some hand made cards at work a while back, used the SysRq key to change directions of the hydraulics for some reason. If I find them, I'll make a thread, so watch for that I guess.

>>57484263
Every 12 seconds because the backspace key is too close to it and my fat fingers press them both at the same time

>>57462238
All time
>volume
>mute

>Fn
earlier this week, brightness adjustment
>Scroll Lock
months ago while attempting the delicate "mash keys at random to see if it responds to anything" procedure for recovery from system halt