• mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Tux is my copilot, and never tries to be a back-seat driver.

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      2 months ago

      I ended up un mapping my Netflix button on my shield TV remote because it was super annoying for accidental presses.

      Do the manufacturers even get a cut for promoting these services, or is this just what people want?

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        2 months ago

        How did you do that please?

        And heh, no cut, dummy. They get extorted. Netflix wouldn’t agree to allow the hi-res streaming to their devices otherwise.

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          Didn’t think about that, that makes so much sense.

          I use Buttons Remapper and set the Netflix button to do nothing and override system. You don’t need to pay for this but there is other stuff locked behind a pay wall.

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      2 months ago

      As much as I don’t like these buttons, working in tech support, I can tell you far too many people can’t figure out anything more complex than “push the giant button that says the thing you want on it”, and that is even difficult to get some people to understand.

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      I kinda see your point, but a huge number of people have a subscription to at least one streaming service, so those buttons are a useful feature for a lot of people.

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        Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.

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          Most consumers want their device to work right out of the box, mapping buttons isn’t something most of the population wants to deal with.

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            Don’t give them excuses, mate.

            Map them during initial setup.

            Please choose a service you would like to use and we will help you log in.

            You have x buttons that are available to use as a shortcut to the service. Please press the button you would like to use, or press enter to skip this step.

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              2 months ago

              But then you have to remember which one is which. The ones in your example are already labelled.

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                You work in their marketing department, don’t you?

                The scenario I mentioned would have the buttons simply labeled with a number/letter. 95% of the time I don’t even look on the remote to use a button. Also, if you hit the wrong button, no big deal, you just the other/s.

                Like I mentioned, stop giving them excuses.

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                  This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here’s a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!!<

                  I’ll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they’re easy to hit by accident you’re more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn’t mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.

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                  2 months ago

                  There’s a lot of people in this thread who’ve never had to be tech support for elderly relatives.

                  Grandma doesn’t know what a streaming is.

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        A huge number of people like pussy too, but that doesn’t mean I want a button for it

        (I’m gay af)

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        Yeah some TV’s these days come with streaming built in and have this kind of remote. Plus if you buy a set top streaming box like a Roku, they come with this kind of remote also. It’s stupid, but a real world thing.

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      2 months ago

      The screenshot for the article depicts the copilot key on the “context menu” key

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    Why Microsoft is so obsessed with the word “copilot”? There’s like 4 different things with the same name.

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      Microsoft will definitely have the power to bulldoze all other things named copilot, like Facebook did to meta. I’m still not over AI being a lame word now. I miss the time when it felt sci-fi and not like a corporate buzzword.

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        William Gibson made the metaverse, fuck FB for stealing that cool name for a 3D world and then botchering it so hard it will never ever even be a thing lol. I mean how hard can it be with those kind of budgets they have. Smh.

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      2 months 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).

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        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.

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    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.

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    2 months 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.

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    2 months ago

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

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      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

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      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.

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    why even make it in the first place? just use a keyboard shortcut or something.

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      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.