Copilot key becomes a “whatever” key in latest Windows Insider Preview build.
  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
    29·
    3 个月前

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

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      8·
      3 个月前

      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.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 个月前

        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.

    • TheRealKuniEnglish
      9·
      3 个月前

      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·
        3 个月前

        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
    191·
    3 个月前

    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.

  • lengauEnglish
    14·
    3 个月前

    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·
    3 个月前

    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·
      3 个月前

      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
      41·
      3 个月前

      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.

  • Ansel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    81·
    3 个月前

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

    • lengauEnglish
      11·
      3 个月前

      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.