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Mechanical Keyboards

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Mom, can we have battleship?

We have battleship at home.

The battleship at home...

Okay, so technically this battleship is still in drydock, but I soldered 117 keys/buttons. I get to put the keycaps on early if I want!

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I don't know yet. I just know I wanted a big dumb button.

There's so many normal dumb buttons on this one that I'm running out of ideas. You got any?

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It plays a sound that says, and displays a popup which reads: "Please do not press this button again. Thank you."

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've found that mapping a big dumb button to "Enter" works nicely for adding drama when invoking a big old batch script process.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This is the kind of low hanging fruit I’m after. Why do two Enter keys when THREE Enter keys is 50% more?!?!!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just FYI, this is what I did. Maybe I'll change it later, but it fit the vibe for a big dumb button on a computer keyboard perfectly.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I love it! Thanks for letting me know.

[–] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Minimize all windows and open a spreadsheet

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was legitimately thinking Win+L to lock Windows or Kubuntu.

You could also have it type out, "$USER is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 points 2 years ago

It should launch the Hamster Dance page.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Triggers automated trap door or nerf gun by your desk.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I do still have the 3D printed flywheel assembly I made last year...

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] flicker@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The Cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves!

[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you work from home, maybe something along the lines of: closing all work apps and opening steam (or youtube, or netflix, just what you're doing to decompress). I just imagine a glorious end-of-day button press meaning I'M DONE, TIME FOR SOME ME TIME!

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Exit to normal mode?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Launch a random retro game to the title screen.

Or any game that doesn't have a client/launcher like steam. No clicks. Button, controller, start.

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Open the system shutdown menu? Like restart, shutdown, log out, etc. Or maybe open a fullscreen browser window that navigates to your favourite white noise site, like a relaxation button.