Copilot key becomes a “whatever” key in latest Windows Insider Preview build.
  • katy ✨English
    22·
    9 days ago

    I can’t believe this came before Samsung letting you reprogram your Bixby key.

    • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      Shit, even Apple lets you reprogram the Action Button, insofar as you can program anything on iOS (which isn’t nothing, Shortcuts scripting can be pretty detailed).

      • flames5123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        I used to have my car commands (AC, location, seat heaters, etc) on a shortcut. It was stacked shortcuts calling APIs and passing tokens and storing these for later use to reuse the same token.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    8 days ago

    my favorite feature of copilot is that on top of being extremely stupid, it’s very easily offended. literally the only thing they made sure it would consistently get right is being fucking touchy.

    I used copilot like four times to test what it can do. it is so fucking bad. every “conversation” inevitably ends with me saying “you’re useless” and copilot getting offended and immediately ending the conversation with a passive aggressive message basically implying “I’m done with this. you can try again if you’re gonna be nicer next time”

    lol fucking dumb useless piece of code, can’t even ask it the simplest questions without it spitting some absolute nonsense, but also can’t take shit because it’s too precious and self respecting. fuck you, Microsoft.

  • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
    14·
    9 days ago

    All I care to know is what code it sends to the machine so I can submit a merge to Plasma to default that key to opening krunner.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 days ago

    What does the Key on its own do, what character does it send? Is it something standard or is it something custom?

    • georgemoody@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      standard, surprisingly enough, it’s essentially just a shortcut to the key combination ctrl+shift+f23. guess microsoft figured they couldn’t leave all the extra F keys unattended

    • qupada42@lemmy.nzEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      It’s something like win-ctrl-f23

      (Despite the physical buttons having been missing for a long time on regular keyboards, there are still scancodes for f13-f24)

      For what it’s worth too, the Windows “Powertoys” utilities have always been able to remap it.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Probably Ctrl + shift + win + alt + C, or something like that. The same modifiers + first letter of the program work for other services like word and linkedin

    • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      So you know the built-in keyboard shortcut on Windows that opens LinkedIn? (IIRC it’s Ctrl+Alt+Win+Shift+L)

      That’s because Microsoft sold keyboards for a while with “Office keys,” so you could hit Office+W for Word, Office+X for Excel, etc. All that key would do is send all those modifiers. There are plenty of unused modifier key codes they could use instead, but they did this.

      I’m guessing this key works the same.