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my computer doesnt go to sleep.

It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.

Depends the OS.

Windows its Space

On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces

Any key

I'm a mad man I click different shit every time.

I hit the "wake on lan" icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn't work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!

Escape is kinda hardcoded as a safe button in my headspace and spacebar is just fun to press.

Esc like 3-5 times (to also prompt the login input) or mouse wiggle

The power button. I've disabled usb-wake because my wireless mouse keeps waking up my computer

I have a BLE keyboard and a BLE trackball, so they lose connection when PC is sleeping. To wake it up I press the power button

I push the power button on the tower.

Caps lock because it doesn't do anything like enter or other keys might do and if I see the light blink then I know that the computer/keyboard is not frozen.

Left arrow up arrow right arrow. over and over and over again until the computer comes up

I plop my furry balls menacingly on the keyboard and inevitably hit at least half the keys

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.)

I press my whole hand into the keyboard hitting like 20 keys probably

Space. On my mechanical keyboard it makes a nice thunk. You really know you've pressed it.

i rapidly press as many keys as i can within a 1 second time frame

or i just slam the enter key a few times

My PC dual functions as a server so it never sleeps

My desktop pc doesn't wake up from keyboard inputs, so the power button. On my laptop I just open the lid.

I honestly just kind of flop my hand around on the keyboard

I smash the arrow keys like I’m playing a synthesizer.

Sleep? I run Linux. It's on. Or it's off. So power? I guess?

I always hit an arrow key. Just in case it's not actually asleep but just turned off the display, and I don't want to accidentally start typing into something without seeing the screen yet. It's like, 99% unsubstantiated paranoia, admittedly.

Backspace

If it's suspended I usually open my laptop. If its just locked/screen off I put in my password and press enter because GDM doesn't need to be first "woken up" before entering the password.

So it's "the first letter in my password" which is .....

Mouse click gang

Power. I'm weird like that, I guess.

Ctrl to wake the screen, system set to never sleep. Stupid Plex running on Windows addiction.