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Mechanical Keyboards

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Mom, can we have battleship?

We have battleship at home.

The battleship at home...

Okay, so technically this battleship is still in drydock, but I soldered 117 keys/buttons. I get to put the keycaps on early if I want!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I don't know yet. I just know I wanted a big dumb button.

There's so many normal dumb buttons on this one that I'm running out of ideas. You got any?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Launch a random retro game to the title screen.

Or any game that doesn't have a client/launcher like steam. No clicks. Button, controller, start.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you work from home, maybe something along the lines of: closing all work apps and opening steam (or youtube, or netflix, just what you're doing to decompress). I just imagine a glorious end-of-day button press meaning I'M DONE, TIME FOR SOME ME TIME!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've found that mapping a big dumb button to "Enter" works nicely for adding drama when invoking a big old batch script process.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just FYI, this is what I did. Maybe I'll change it later, but it fit the vibe for a big dumb button on a computer keyboard perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love it! Thanks for letting me know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is the kind of low hanging fruit I’m after. Why do two Enter keys when THREE Enter keys is 50% more?!?!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Open the system shutdown menu? Like restart, shutdown, log out, etc. Or maybe open a fullscreen browser window that navigates to your favourite white noise site, like a relaxation button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Exit to normal mode?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Triggers automated trap door or nerf gun by your desk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I do still have the 3D printed flywheel assembly I made last year...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The Cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It plays a sound that says, and displays a popup which reads: "Please do not press this button again. Thank you."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Minimize all windows and open a spreadsheet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was legitimately thinking Win+L to lock Windows or Kubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You could also have it type out, "$USER is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

It should launch the Hamster Dance page.