ITT Worthless Keys

>>59873106
The backslash key. I've never ever used the Backslash, I only use it for the pipe sign. It sucks how most keyboards are really designed for use with DOS.

capslock, fuck that key
the only time I ever use it is when I accidently press it while typing and have to turn it back off again
I just take the key off my keyboards now, whoever thought it should exist needs to be castrated

>Not using Tenkeyless or 60%

Kek

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>>59873106
why this key is still around is beyond me.

>>59873132
>capslock, fuck that key
I remapped it to Esc. it's great if you use vim.

I'd remap it to Ctrl if I used Emacs.

>>59873132
Colemak has an extra backspace instead of it.

>>59873153
Some keyboards don't have that.

>>59873114
\ is used for escape characters in loads of languages though

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Windows Key = useless
Ins = useless
Pause = hahahaha... wtf is that shit??? USELSS
Prt Sc = useless
Scr Lk = useless
Caps Lk = useless

Also, why does pipe, |, require a shift key yet backslash \ doesn't??? Who the fuck was that genius? I think reverse would be a better choice since backslash is perhaps less often used.

>>59873290
>Who the fuck was that genius?
Likely because the common modern keyboard layout standard was made for a computer that primarily ran versions of DOS, which used the backslash as a directory separator.

>>59873290
>Windows Key = useless
>Ins = useless
what fucking operating system do you run

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its pic related

>>59873106
pause, scroll lock and that context menu shit next to the right ctrl are the only switches I never use

>>59873290
I use Prt Scr daily to take screenshots
I use windows+Pause to get to system info quickly on client's computers, but other than that i don't think it has a use

>>59874955
>Not using the menu key
Don't tell me you use a mouse

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i'm used to quickly switching caps lock on even when i type one uppercase letter and i hate that lincuccks has a stupid delay after switching it on so whenever i install lincuccks my profile password containing uppercase letters is fucked. windows doesn't have this problem.

>>59873114
You've never had to type a \n?

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>>59875048
>he doesnt use a mouse

>>59875156
What do you need a mouse for?

>>59873153
Good question. Especially considering that most people have no idea what it's used for, and seeing how there are perhaps 5 or 10 programs nowadays that could use it. And even if you're working constantly with Excel or some of the other few programs that use it, there are other ways to do what it does.

I feel oddly sad when I think of all these once-useful things being retired.

>>59875213
Arrow Keys killed Scroll Lock
There isn't really a point to a NumPad at all anymore tbqh famalam

>>59875272
>Arrow Keys killed Scroll Lock
True dat.
>There isn't really a point to a NumPad at all anymore
Naw man, the numpad is an awesome thing. It lets you type in numbers way faster and easier than using the line.

>>59875185
Quick, convenient, non-retarded navigation.

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Like 60% of them

>>59875330
>Not having Function Keys

>>59875321
Are you saying after typing with two hands taking a hand off to move the mouse isn't inconveinent?
Pressing Tab is much quicker

>>59875305
Get a keyboard without it, you will never look back

If you press insert in vim you cycle back and forth between Insert and Replace.

>>59875440
i was just going to say this

>>59875330
uncomfortable as fuck

>>59873132
I use it to switch languages.

>>59873290
>Windows
Modifier key for i3
Can be used for shortcuts in shit loads of things (on Windows, Win+1 will open the first program in your task bar for example)

>Insert
Switch between insert and edit mode?
Some terminal use Shift + Insert for pasting

>PrintScreen
For... Screenshot? It's made for this

>>59875330
that kb is pure cancer. ortho keys are garbage

I use pause to pause x264.

>>59873132
I've never understood this. What if you want to type MORE THAN ONE CAPITAL LETTER IN A ROW? Do you just switch shift keys after every letter like a spastic?

>>59873290
Windows = common modifier
Insert = typing over other shit
Print screen = Screenshots
Scroll lock = Auto scroll in FL studio
Caps lock = typing in caps

None of these keys are useless to me

>>59875603
No, just hold down the same shift key and type the rest of the sentence. It isn't that hard.

>>59875603
>what is holding down a key?

>60% board
>literally use all keys frequently

kek

>>59875383
>desired menu deeply nested
>pressing tab 200+ times
>accidently pressing one too many forces you to wrap around or have some prior configuration to backtrack
>faster than dragging over and clicking

Go stick your dick in your T440 and stop shit posting

>>59875627
they're all useless. and who the fuck types in caps??!?!

>>59875854
>T440
Fuck that chink shit. My T60 will live on forever.

>>59875854
What is shift tab

>>59875854
>What is arrow keys
Does your mommy know you are on a scandinavian woodcutting site?

>>59875954
Lawyers. Only lawyers. Fucking cunts make EULAs, ToSes and everything else look like letter vomit.

Also, the only key I legitimately hate is Insert key.
I have NEVER EVER in my entire life required to overwrite text.
It is such a fucking awful feature.
That's why I remapped Insert to various other functions. If I want Ins, I use the Win+Ins combo.
But I never have.

Pause I use to pause script execution of an AHK script I always have running idle.
Whenever I have it active and need to pause it, he's my man for the job.
I wrote various scripts for the numpad, accessible by numlock+/.
One I use most is numpad mouse, but I also have other things like a Thumbscript implementation, macro drawer. Rarely use them.
Scrolllock enables or disables the feature, the numlock switches between the feature and the settings for that feature. (like changing mouse move speed, acceleration, rotation)

Even this faggot key `, I use that.
Admittedly I only use shift+` to access various key macros.
I press that key combo then another key after it within 1.5 seconds or it "lets it go".
So no holding key after pressing it.
I did this mainly for use over VNC from devices lacking ctrl keys and other easily accessible and useful keys.
I have the usual keys hooked to it, like undo redo cut copy paste, s(ave), d(uplicate), home, end, back, forward, even left, right and middle click. (to get over imprecision in some devices / stylus when clicking)
I used to have a passive gesture system to do some of this, but it was more hassle than it was worth. Fun implementing it though.

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>>59875854
Nice shitpost

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>>59873106
I use SHIFT+INSERT to paste stuff into command line and bash windows because I don't like fiddling with right click and not knowing where stuff ends up

Some Logitech keyboards have a key for opening the calculator. Can't find a decent pic though.

>>59875603
Are you retarded?

>>59873106
insert to enter insert mode in vim.
shift insert to paste.

Numlock, just keep it on, why would you ever want to disable other keys

>>59873106
Pause break
Just what the fuck this thing does

>>59878614
>insert to enter insert mode in vim.
NO ONE fucking does that. Only retards do. I key is so much easier to press and your hand doesnt even move off the home row

>>59873153
Shit I haven't seen a scroll lock key since last century

>>59878982
>Just what the fuck this thing does
Nothing anymore. All these keys right of the return key are fucking worthless.

>>59873106
>tfw you are not a native English speaker and you have to choose between being able to type your language's shitty extra characters easily or being able to program without needing shift and AltGr for every relevant character

>>59880262
just get an ANSI keyboard. fuck your local one.

>>59880324
Yeah, and then When I need to type anything matching [äöüÄÖÜßẞ] I'm fucked.

And If I ever have to use anyone else's computer I'll have to go back anyway.

>>59873114
Dealing with files and directories made for Windows users.

cd ./I\ Am\ An\ A\*\*hole\/\ Loser

>>59873153
But how am I going to switch my KVM. That fucker is like 4ft from me

>>59880355
learn how to insert those by performing few keystrokes.

on OSX, that shit's dead simple and involves hitting Opt and some letters and takes few min to memorize. you can probably accomplish something similar on your OS.

My laptop has fn keys which are just windows shortcuts like win+p, alt+f4 (on the fucking f4 key) and some other

but no media keys

fucking geniuses

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ESC.

>>59875272
>Arrow Keys killed Scroll Lock
How?

>>59873153
Excel is pretty much the only widely used program that makes productive use of that key. Might as well map it to launch Calculator or play an audio file of a fart.

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The pizza key. Pic is not a shop. There was an early "Internet Appliance" device that came with a keyboard that had a dedicated key for ordering pizza.

>tfw you use every key on your keyboard

>>59880793
Sounds pretty useful to me.

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...the ANY key, as in "Press any key"

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>>59873106
That key with that muslim symbol.

>>59883453
kek

>>59874955
i had to search for it on keyboard

>>59883453
you have to go back, Pablo.

>>59883453
>press to detonate computer

>>59873290
>Windows key
>not calling it the super key

>>59873106
DELET

>>59884203
This

>>59874955
I remapped that shit to play/pause

Scroll lock, right alt, right super, that weird option key, and occasionally right control. I've had those mapped to various functions over time such as mute, play/pause media, next track, and such.

I use insert only for the shitty windows programs that use it for copy and paste with ctrl and shift. The two biggest gripes I have with the layout I use aside from lack of Alt Gr are that semicolon/colon are on my pinky and that + requires a space.

>>59880757
>Might as well map it to launch Calculator
Been doing this for about a decade now, incredibly useful especially for calculating webm bitrates.

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>needing to move your hands a kilometer to access arrow keys or a number block

>>59873132
>I just take the key off my keyboards now, whoever thought it should exist needs to be castrated
> not using Billy Mays Caps Lock to disable caps and have the sweet voice of billy speak to you

>>59884404
I can't even guess what some of those keys mean.

>>59873168
This, remapping it to Ctrl was a good decision. Using screen or tmux is a far better experience now

>>59884434
the ones surrounding the arrow keys are page up/down, page begin/end, escape, insert, backspace, delete, enter

>>59873106
It seems you don't use vi.

>>59873132
Lindybeige?

>>59884527
What do you use the insert key for in vi?

>>59873106
>from f9 onwards the function keys
>insert
>scroll lock
seriously, what is sroll lock even?

>>59873114
But how would you type '\n'?

>not remapping unused keys to useful macros

>>59875549
>>59876704
came here to say this
shift+insert for pasting
which I hate, its total bs
all keyboards, programs, browsers, shortcuts, hotkeys should comply with vi
p for pasting, y for yanking... normal, visual, insert mode, all that and a dime sack
I'm fucking sick and tired of booting back into wangblows to play some far cry blood dragon and be forced into ctrl+c and v and shit, fuck that unconventional cancer
vi keys is the only way to compute

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>>59873114
>backslash
>useless
I\ don't\ think\ so

>>59885057
Just use mouse 3 and 4

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>>59873106

>>59875131
And you missed all the uppercase letters in your text.
Caps lock is fucking useless to even you.

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>>59885157
unironically the most useful hotkey for linux/bsd

>>59885087
this

>>59873153
Scroll lock is how half of the most common shader suites toggle

That's why the apple wired keyboard replaces it with FN

Though it has 19 function keys instead. Why

>>59884613
For insert/replace mode. "I" key works only in vim.

>>59873114
B T F O\nB\nT\nF\nO

>>59873114
Jesus, can you try any harder? We get it, you are a leet linux user. Now branch out.

>>59875954
Cobol devs

itt: losers who don't even use DOS instead of Windows.

Do you even computer?

>>59885231
To launch W10 on WM I amarite :^)?

>>59873106
I remapped all "useless keys" to latex expressions.

I never use the numpad anyways so for example my 4 has become \mathcal B (X,Y), 7 \underset{}{} and so on.

>>59873132
>He doesn't capitalize with Caps Lock

kek

>>59875131

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg#Switching_state_immediately_when_Caps_Lock_is_pressed

no need to thank me

Scroll Lock, I don't even know what it actually does except turn on an led on my keyboard.

>>59875653
>>59875663
>>59876948

t. hunt and peck

>>59875954
Acronyms, const variables, emphasis.

>>59885414
Have you ever used vi before?

>>59873106
Print Screen?

>>59885087
wintoddler detected

>>59873106
Scroll lock. Never knew what it's for except I can force Windows into BSOD by pressing CTRL+ScrollLock x5.

>>59887300
>He doesn't know what escaping is.

>>59887325
there's no need to use escape seq if you name your files properly.

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>>59873106
What about totally useful nu-keys?

>Calculator
Can't fucking live without it. Also I suck at math.

>>59875048
>he doesn't know about Shift+F10

Try it.

Now.

>useless keys

Fucking rebind them. Holy shit

>>59873106
anything that theres 2x of. one key for a thing should be enough.

>>59873132
thats actually a usefull key. its much harder to hold shift and press multiple keys than enable caps lock.

>>59887357
man that keyboard looks like shit. even the legends are fucking glued-on stickers.

>>59887575
It's actually some kind of protective layer that prevents the paint from fading. They really last long.

But yeah, it's a shitty keyboard, the kind bundled with company desktop PCs.

>>59887616
yeah, it's the shitty membrane keyboard camouflaged to look like a mech keyboard. it's garbage. you must hate your hands when you use that shit.

>>59887616
my keyboard does not have that and the letters cant fade. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Fujitsu_Siemens_KBPC_S2

>>59876808
I got one of these at work and use it for the calculator every day

>>59887651
>>59887695
I don't really have a choice about my keyboard at my job anons. You do have a job?

>>59887742
only poorfags work today.

>>59875603
Anon, looks like you and I are the only ones who know how to type in this thread.

Caps lock had its places to be used. My unicomp has Ctrl and caps switched places. Much better.

>>59887742
>I don't really have a choice about my keyboard at my job anons. You do have a job?
wtf are you on about? your job forbids you from bringing in your own keyboard? what kind of a job is that?

>>59873153

It's how you lock screens in Synergy.

>>59887772
its useful for some programming things

haven't had the Delete key ever since i switched to Mac
now i'm not even sure why it exists on PCs desu

>>59887788
A job in a secure environment where you don't bring shit you plug into computers, aka "not a job in web development or meme technologies".

>>59880793
I have never seen this but I would press it more often than I press Caps Lock and Insert combined so it sounds useful. Maybe it should be pressed down for like 5 seconds to place the order though, to prevent accidents.

>>59887815
>never wants to delete text in front of the cursor

>>59887839
you can't ask your boss to ask purchasing dept to procure a better keyboard?

>>59887839
what he really means is that his job is filling excel tables and he does not know anything about computers.

>>59873106
Shift+Insert pastes. It's useful in places where you can't ctrl-v, such as PuTTY.

>>59888175
>PuTTY
retearded wintoddlers... kek

>>59873106

Are "worthless keys" new /g/ meme now brains.jpg is old?

There are four "worthless keys" threads in catalog.

>>59887339
>I should only name files by myself to be approved by /g/

>>59873114
babby that never has to escape

>>59888711
...PuTTY is FOSS and is for Linux too.

>>59889630
name one linux distro that doesn't name files properly.

>>59889724

https://www.gobolinux.org/ ?

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shift+numpad 0 = insert

>>59889940
lol

>>59888711
I work as a Linux systems engineer. My workstation has windows 10 installed on it, and I use it to connect on the servers I work on through mRemoteNG, and the shift+insert shortcut is of great use to me.

You most likely have a shit non-IT job. If you have any at all.

kys fag

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>pic related

>able to make some programs utilize some of the internet/application buttons for whatever purpose (primarily extra navigation buttons for mpc-hc)
>but not all of them

>can't get anything at all to use the 1-5 buttons by the favorites button

>even the "drivers" and extra software can't make them useful for anything

>>59885893
kek

>>59873168
I actually hate the key. It causes more annoyance than help.

>>59890476
Was my previous keyboard. I always hated the cockpit control room type keyboards, but that one just typed real comfy, so I bought one. Never used any of the extra keys except play/pause and next for music.

>Tried to customize the "special keys".
>Shit driver automatically adds 10 seconds loading time to whatever shit you link it too.
>Remove drivers

Still comfy for typing and it had a no nonsense layout for the regular keys. Shit keyboard in any other way though.

>>59880793
>>59887848
>fall asleep on keyboard after shitposting
>have a truckload of pizza delivered
y-you too

>>59891114
>Still comfy for typing and it had a no nonsense layout for the regular keys
Agreed. I bought mine somewhere around 2008-2009 and aside from the useless extra buttons it just werks. Never been given a real reason to replace it yet.

>>59891236
Now you're just giving more reasons to own one.

>>59883453
>he doesn't have his morning prayer notifier led on his keyboard
absolutely haram

>trackpoint killed vim layout and arrows
>advanced software killed accountants and their numpad
>andvanced GNU and OSX software killed F modifier keys from IBM terminal keyboards

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>>59875627
>FL Studio
My nigga.

>>59889724
>I should only use those files included in distro to be approved by /g/