Is caps lock a meme?

Is caps lock a meme?

Why did they bother making it in the first place?

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Is ur mum a meme?

THe woman who birthed me is not, but the phrase "ur mum" is.

I USE MY CAPS LOCK ALL THE TIME

the most useless key on the keyboard, yes.
especially bad because it's so big.

>holding shift all the time

I remapped it to ">"

now it's my dedicated shitposting button

>meme

Why do you type like this? Is this how you speak in person too?

yes

>he doesn't meme with his fellow memeboys
what a fag

Everyone uses the word meme in real life

Because capital letters, retard.
>inb4 shift

leave caps lock alone, i need it to toggle my walking/running

well, i saw that yt clip bout the guy who firstly removes CapsLock when he buys new keyboard,and it makes a lot of sense.
I alsFo can confirm that i wrote an wall or text bflre noticeing its all IN HUGE LETTERS COUPLE OF TIMES EVEN IF I DONT LOOK AT KEYBOARD 85% OF THE TIME.
THAT SHIT CAN BE HIGHLY ANNOYING,ESPECIALLY IF YYOU WANT TO MAKE SOME POINT AND AIM TO LOOK SMART.

NO YOU FUCKING RETARDED ITS REQUIRED AWESOME TO MAKE ALL YOUR POST MORE IMPORTANT AND STAND OUT SO EVERYONE SEES HOW RIGHT YOU ARE AND SOOPER LEETZ

I use caps lock instead of shift
I also prefer to toggle crouch in FPS games

Toggle crouch annoys me because of crouch jumps. However I use toggle sprint and toggle ADS.

>crouch toggle

this is the most disgusting thing ive read all year on Sup Forums

PHP super globals

>NOT USING CAPS
LMAO SON

i always type with caps lock on. this post was typed holding shift key down. it is easier to gain control of every key on the 'board.

WAIT WHAT... YOU CAN TURN THAT OFF?!

So I agree that capslock is a useless key. What do you rebind it to? Control? Escape? Something else? Are there any keyboards with another key in that slot out of the box, other than that HHKB meme?

People with jobs sometimes have to type in caps for awhile.

Escape is really useful even if you're not using something like Vim that depends heavily on it. Most programs map a quit/close function to it.
It's my most used key that isn't near the home row.

no it works great when remapped to super

>what is scroll lock

that's actually a good idea

scroll lock at least does something different than other keys. Caps lock just duplicates (a subset of) the functionality of shift.

>Is caps lock a meme?
>Why did they bother making it in the first place?

I love the control key there

They made it to make you talk royally.

HOW THE FUCK AM I MEANT TO EXPRESS STRONG EMOTIONS without holding down shift the entire time?

I think scroll lock is more useless. The need for caps lock might be niche, but at least it's still easy to see its use.

The original purpose of scroll lock, on the other hand, is almost entirely deprecated on modern machines. It's really only kept for rare legacy software (which doesn't even "scroll lock", but rather uses that key for some function)

>IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL A MEME
FAGGOTS DON'T KNOW AMIRITE

HELP GUYS I ACCIDENTALLY TURNED ON CAPS LOCK ON MY COMPUTER AND CAN'T TURN IT OFF ANYMORE. NOTHING I TRY STOPS IT.

I'VE TRIED RESTARTING THE COMPUTER A FEW TIMES AND THAT DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING EITHER.
PLEASE HELP ME REDDIT

Scroll lock doesn't take up prime real estate next to the home row though. I don't think anyone would object if caps lock was loaded onto a fn-whatever combination like scroll lock often is on smaller boards, and something more useful put in its former place.

this

remap caps lock to be control

Try reinstalling windows man

>that wasted space in the corner

Hhkb layout is perfect

It originates from typewriters. You used to write stuff like captions (duh) etc. in all caps, to make it more robust you just locked the typewriter in caps mode. The position occupied by caps lock since about three decades now was originally occupied by the control key (just one on the whole keyboard) until IBM changed it to what we are used to.

>actually buying a keyboard for a laptop

oh wait, your already a faggot for the MPB

What did he meanted by this

>What did he meme by this?

I LOVE MY CAPS KEY

having numbers both in numpad and above the letters is more wasteful imo

I always use it for work.
All mechanical drafts have to be in all caps, easier to read.

CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

>Alt Gr / Right Alt
>Right Ctrl
>Right Super
>Menu
All of these are pretty much useless
Bonus round for windows users:
>SysRq
>Pause
>Break

If you use Microsoft's operating systems:
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Enjoy your reasonably placed Ctrl key.

>what is CrashOnCtrlScroll

i have it set to ctrl
much more comfy

I'm using the usual control at the corner.

I had to remap capslock to that button because i lost my dedicated shitposting button when i went for a mechanical keyboard.

I use it at work (engineer) quite a bit.

I actually constantly leave it on and press SHIFT when I want lower-case characters.

Remap to escape. Literally the most useless key on the most prime spot in the keyboard

>You do realize when caps lock is on, you can hold down shift to make letters lower case, right?

>WHAT.
>NO.
>I DON'T USE CAPS LOCK. I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE A TRAINING KEY FOR RETARDS.

ARE YOU SOME KIND OF FAGGOT OR SOMETHING?

WHY DO YOU THINK THERE'S A CAPS LOCK?

CAPS LOCK IS THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

capital letters are a meme, i only see normies using them these days, the true redpill is realizing capitalization isn't important (and is even less important on an american image-posting board)

I used to have a crappy job where I entered a lot of data and had to use caps to type in acronyms endlessly.

It was nice then.

it exist solely for writing SQL queries/COBOL/setting bash variables

it's also why semicolon is available without any modificator keys.

FORTRAN

nice trips, fám

CAPS LOCK EXISTS SO YOU CAN LOOK LIKE YOU'RE YELLING

I WONDER WHY WE NATURALLY READ ANYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS AS YELLING

I dunno but with using Xmodmap, those kind of crufty keys aren't a big problem.

Why is there still a pause break key on keyboards?

mmm

This layout is better.
Still prefer Topre so I use it instead, as I don't need fast access to arrow keys that often.

w2c

>capital letters are a meme, i only see normies using them these days
yeah this, look at any Sup Forums screencap from pre-2008, 90% of people here didn't even know what a capital letter was

then the normie generation got on the internet and people started writing proper sentences because they want their stupid facebook updates to look good

you guys use IM right? notice how hardly anyone ever capitalizes anything on there? i know that a few do, but i've always blocked them after a single conversation because of how annoying and pretentious it is

Sup Forums is a lot like IM, except here I care even less about how my post is presented, 99% of the time the only people who read my posts are faggots anyway (you included)

For when you have to type large alpha-numeric sequences.

Or maybe all the retards on Sup Forums got a little older and stopped typing like retards.

I find myself using it from time to time.

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I just bought a HHKB but this is nice and cheap.
I would still have to replace the keycaps with thicc blanks unless the ones it comes with are thick.

or maybe the actual good posters left and we're left with the facebook generation?

>average sized window in rMBP display has higher resolution than your entire display

fegg

Most people on facebook have fucking awful grammar, can't spell, and capitalize as infrequently as you. The idea that typing in all lower case is somehow emblematic of being a oldfag is fucking dumb. You come off as a try-hard.

It's good for shitposting and to make your comment more serious.

It definitely has its uses. Take a look at COBOL and Fortran source code.

Goodbye shortcuts my old friend
I'll never get to use again
Because of autism softly creeping
Spilled spaghetti while I was sleeping
And the feeling, that it looks good still remains
In my brain
Within my room of silence

>You come off as a try-hard.
kek, sorry my one sentence reply offended you so much user

and yeah I know the type you mean, the literal retards who post on there from their dumbphones, who think that facebook is the internet, not really the type to come to Sup Forums

it's the ones who spend hours on there that's the problem

I HAVE A VERY SMALL PENIS.

》What is disabling the Caps Lock

>toggle crouch
fucking kill yourself

I rebind caps lock to escape for vim. Works great.

P.S. fuck this trend of calling everything a "meme."

hahahahahahah fucking faggot
>setxkbmap -option 'caps:ctrl'

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I would remap caps lock in a heartbeat if I could also disable the light

Right alt is a useless key and the alt right are useless members of society

No it is not useless, it allows you to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete with 1 hand

>AltGr
>right Ctrl
>Menu

>useless

(You)

But that's just for X.
What about TTYs?

>disable the light
A screw driver and some snips are all you need.

this, i know it's not Sup Forums but ffs didn't you guys ever play Doom?

How do i remap caps lock? I want meme arrows

! change CapsLock into Control
clear lock
clear control
keycode 66 = Control_L
add control = Control_L Control_R

.Xmodmap


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