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Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why Microsoft is so obsessed with the word "copilot"? There's like 4 different things with the same name.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Missed opportunity to re-brand clippy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Good. Clippy doesn't deserve to get treated like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What does the Key on its own do, what character does it send? Is it something standard or is it something custom?

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

by the small icon it must be opening the context menu at the currently focused place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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

Probably Ctrl + shift + win + alt + C, or something like that. The same modifiers + first letter of the program work for other services like word and linkedin

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

How nice of them....

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

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

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

part of the reason could be that this way users will always see the copilot icon

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I can't believe this came before Samsung letting you reprogram your Bixby key.

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

I have an app that does that on my S8, but it's definitely not official support.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Now they just need to allow me to actually uninstall it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't even know that was a thing...

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