Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.
Crikey. I have to wonder what that ~2TB unit must have cost in 2016.
Interesting that the one has such large capacitors in it. I imagine that is as last-ditch effort to keep the board powered long enough to finish flushing all of its caches in the event of a power failure.
I don’t see how it would be a problem unless you reassigned it while caps lock was enabled, in which case you would have to reboot (or temporarily revert your remap) to turn it off.
I can think of precious little software that actually requires caps lock for anything, and otherwise for normal typist tasks you can just use shift. I never use caps lock for anything, personally. (Ditto with num lock. My keyboard has a full number pad and a full set of arrow/insert keys. There is no reason for my number pad to ever not be a number pad.)
The Microsoft PowerToys Keyboard Manager tool should allow you to do this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/keyboard-manager
You will probably need admin access to install it, however.
Edit: Actually, apparently you don’t? I just installed it on my work PC here, and did not get any UAC prompts or anything. It can indeed reassign your caps lock key – I just tested this, and it works. (I mapped it to left ctrl.)
Well, that shoots several of my theories.
Two stupid questions:
Are you accessing these shares by IP, or by name (WINS)? Edit: I can’t read.
What does your netmask look like? 255.255.255.0, or…?
Other forehead-smackers I would check:
We’re talking about opening the door, not starting the engine.
…Or if there were an alternative option that didn’t rely on software and electronics is my point.
Cars have had electronic remote keyless entry for decades. It’s not new. Some of them even have phone apps that duplicate that functionality. No one but Tesla has been stupid enough to remove the keyhole, though.
If it’s implemented correctly, a physical metal key does not require electricity or a functioning computer to work, either…
As if I needed yet another reason to never ever own a Tesla.
My car has this crazy technology in it: You can stick the key in the door and twist and it’ll unlock. Even if the network is down or the battery is dead. Arcane, right?
Yeah, they can fuck off. When their opening salvo was threats and legal bluster, I don’t see why anyone should trust an alleged olive branch now. The right thing to do was not to send this email second.
I have to work with Haier in my business now as well ever since they bought GE. They’re a shitty company that goes back on their word constantly (at least within the B2B space), and nobody should be giving them one thin dime.
As long as there is systemic abuse in the system and “good” cops don’t take down the bad cops, all cops are still bad cops.
Trying to launch a bootlicking oriented sub in overall left leaning and rationalist lemmyverse is probably not going to garner the reception you want. If I were you, I would pack this up and go home.
Some Lenovo laptops also have an “adaptive display brightness” setting hidden in the BIOS. Which in the case of my X1 Yoga, at least, is crap. If you leave it enabled it makes your screen brightness waver all over the place allegedly in response to whatever’s being displayed, but A) it lags behind screen updates for what feels like over a second, and B) even if you’re just displaying a static image it still waffles your screen brightness back and forth sometimes for no identifiable reason.
I have no clue whatsoever who thought this was a good idea.
Sane individuals will probably want to just turn this off. Note, however, that this has nothing to do with any kind of inactivity timeout as OP has described. That’s a separate thing. The adaptive brightness with happily turn your screen into a low-grade discotheque even while you’re actively using the machine.
^ This is the winner, right here. The crux, as it were.
Modern society always ultimately boils down, eventually, to might makes right… just with some extra steps.
It’s more comfortable after you lay’er down.
I can only conjecture it must have cost a mint.