Happy international capslock day

[jandrese]

@anon39846808

It’s only fault is having a default PC layout.

Well, that and being hideously expensive.

[shaddack]

@DevinC

Astute observation: this vital keyboard real estate is valuable because it’s so useless people can reconfigure it to suit their own needs.

Sometimes the uselessness is the most useful feature of an object.
(Zen. I’m lovin’ it.)

[anon39846808]

Well. Ok. Yes, it is expensive, but it’s well made, doesn’t have volume production on its side and has a vastly better typing feel than a cheap keyboard. It’s also one of the main tools I use for work. I feel like it was worth it for me.

[Mister_Eppy]

Best. Speechwriting. Caps. Ever.

[mrfixit]

LEFT SHIFT FOREVER!

@mzed

Not sure what a “real” text editor is. Since I use emacs, I mapped capsLock to control.

Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

[timquinn]

I asked a lawyer once what the significance of all caps paragraphs are in contracts. He said it means nothing and it usually indicates that the paragraph was copied from an ancient document.

[newliminted]

I spent half my morning at work shouting that I was CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCK DAY! Coworkers were losing it.

[thadboyd]

When I first saw that the Chromebook keyboards didn’t have Caps Lock keys, I thought that was silly.

I have since come around. Thank you Google, you’re right, I wish EVERY keyboard was like that.

[shaddack]

Why don’t they have a Macro key instead? Keep the key, just remove the default capslock functionality. If possible, add some more user-defined keys. But removing a very useful key (after it gets redefined) is stupid, bordering with idiotic.