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I've always used Ctrl for that. I had my computer for 2 years before I discovered that Ctrl is the "wake from sleep" key, and no other keys would work anyway. (it's a thinkpad)
Am I the only one that just kind throws my hand on the keyboard and what happens happens?
I don't. I move the mouse.
I was very very very drunk.
My computer never gets the chance to sleep.
Right. Mouse. Button.
I will not be taking any questions.
I'm so surprised people have specific buttons? Is there a reason? I just mash my whole hand at the keyboard
Idk habbit I guess. IT just feels wrong pressing anything else.
Numlock. Let's me know if the hardware is locked up, powered off, or just slow to wake.
I just stare at it loathfully until it wakes up out of shame.
(Or maybe it's my enraged vibrations transferring to the mouse through the table and causing it to move, same difference.)
space, ctrl, or sometimes the entire numpad at once. it's just one big button :P
Been using spacebar but what I would like to do is set up a midi drum pad as an input device so I can wake my computer up by smacking it with a stick.
Shift, Escape and mouse wiggle, in that order.
Enter key or space bar
my computer doesnt go to sleep.
It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.
As nature intended
That's the way. Turning computers off isn't good for them anyway.
yep, thermal cycling from on and off is worse on the hardware than just leaving it on and idle.
There are some ancient hard drives that still spin purely because they have not had a chance to stop in the last decade. I have serviced some of them.
It was terrifying.
Depends the OS.
Windows its Space
On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces
In the first second I was taken aback by such a silly decision from the designers' part, but then I realised it was actually a cool idea; you don't have to wake up your computer. You just start typing immediately. How cool is that?
... Also, why the heck do you need to start with shift then? : )
Because years ago I made my PC password with Capslock on since a warning would show.
So genius 13 year old me said, "hey even if someone knew my password, they'd never know how it was inputted."
So my actual wake key is capslock.
Only my PC uses this old password method now, everything else is passphrase+uniquekey
Like google+lemmyworld
I slap the spacebar, often multiple times if I'm impatient
Mouse wiggles
Escape is kinda hardcoded as a safe button in my headspace and spacebar is just fun to press.
My machine is dual boot and boots so fast I don't sleep it. If booting to linux, after login it resumes my previous session exactly as it was anyway. No point sleeping it to me.
I don’t sleep my computer because I have more ram than is advisable to have if you are going to fully sleep the computer.
Mouse wiggles
That's just uncivilised.
It's optimal
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