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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Obscure keyboard shortcuts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the one. My favorite was the alt-ctl-arrow to flip the monitor direction

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We did this so many times in elementary School on school computers. Teachers has no clue on how to fix it ๐Ÿ˜…. Great times

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Windows Shift S

[โ€“] seaQueue 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You'd like Linux, GNOME has some great obscure compose key shortcuts and Vim would keep you entertained for years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Vim is sorcery: you choose mystic incantations from your eldritch knowledge on the fly and suddenly your text is doing exactly what you want.

[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy 6 points 1 year ago

Vim user chiming in. I love it

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've used, administered and coded on Linux for a very long time. So yup

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I used to have vim-mappings for opening a browser with RickRoll triggered by a typo I used to make a lot. Fun times.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are on windows, try Ctrl+Windows+Shift+Alt+L ๐Ÿ˜‰ You won't regret it (spoiler: you will)

[โ€“] tomatillo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is the most ridiculous and random "shortcut" ever. I love it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's actually an office key + L, but the office key is only on a few keyboards and they mapped it to ctrl+alt+shift+win, so it works even without it. here is a hilarious discussion about implementing it in KDE Plasma on Linux.

[โ€“] MigratingtoLemmy 3 points 1 year ago

The emacs-type or the vim-like?