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The Caps Lock button on MacBooks knows if you really want to press it. (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by Itchy_Ad_8173@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch
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Try to hit your CAPS Lock button as if it's a mistake and see what happens. Mine is reading my mind.

The difference between unintentional hit and an intentional one is very slight, but it knows :)

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[–] asombrated-@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yes it is like that by default. I've found it annoying that sometimes I press Caps Lock and it doesnt turn on, so I've found an app called CapsLockNoDelay which prevents this from happening. So every time I press Caps Lock soft or hard, it works.

[–] psaux_grep@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just remapped my caps to escape

[–] skipp_bayless@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

mines been on forward delete for years and years

[–] cavahoos@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Holy shit thank you for this. The caps lock delay has been the one thing that has continually pissed me off as a lifelong Windows user who switched to Mac 3 years ago.

I have developed the terrible habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key when I’m trying to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. Definitely not efficient but I can be bothered to undo a habit that I’ve had for over a decade. This is going to save me so much frustration

[–] BadPronunciation@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting

[–] ergzay@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Fun fact, caps lock lights on every keyboards is an OS thing, even off-brand plug in USB keyboards on Windows computers. The OS (or rather the keyboard driver somewhere) tells the keyboard to turn on the light.

[–] BadPronunciation@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting