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The GPD Pocket ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd- ... -laptop--2 ) mini laptop with Ubuntu.
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I recently ordered one of those too. Mine arrives today!












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My hands are already cramping and my eyeballs are already squinting.
I love it but there's no way I could actually use one of those with my gorilla hands.
I love it but there's no way I could actually use one of those with my gorilla hands.

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A Power Macintosh G3 desktop. Fully loaded but currently not working (at least, that's what the eBay seller says, I don't have it yet).
If I can get it up and running it will be the perfect machine for making old Mac floppies!
If I can get it up and running it will be the perfect machine for making old Mac floppies!


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I'd just like to know why in God's name anybody puts the Caps Lock key on these little tiny micro-keyboards. NOBODY USES CAPS LOCK. ALL IT DOES IS GET IN THE WAY. And that goes double when it's on an already-cramped keyboard, the same size as and immediately adjacent to one of the most common letters in the alphabet.
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My PC-9821 is on the way via surface mail. I also bought 3 Japanese dreamcasts... they were super cheap!






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I mean, my sister uses caps lock for all capital letters, but because she doesn't know how shift works...












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I KNOW HOW TO USE CAPS LOCK TOO. FOR MANY YEARS I ONLY USED CAPSLOCK AS I DIDN'T LIKE SHIFT. I WOULD TAP CAPSLOCK ON AND OFF TO CAPITALIZE THE DAMN LETTERS. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO STILL DO THIS INCLUDING FORTRAN PROGRAMMERS.






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At the office I work at, I am genuinely amazed by how many people use Caps Lock on and off to get a capital letter instead of the Shift key...
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Trippynet wrote:At the office I work at, I am genuinely amazed by how many people use Caps Lock on and off to get a capital letter instead of the Shift key...
It is mind blowing. It takes longer and it is more error-prone, especially when you use crappy keyboards and can't tacitly sure whether the key has activated or not.


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commodorejohn wrote:I'd just like to know why in God's name anybody puts the Caps Lock key on these little tiny micro-keyboards.
In this case it's not tiny nor micro. Most of keys have standard sizes and positions. And the CapsLock can have a better use (one can use it as a Control/Ctrl key, for example)










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Hmm, I wonder if I should try to get mine to act as a better apostrophe key. Jirka will understand why...












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Re: your latest purchase
commodorejohn wrote:I'd just like to know why in God's name anybody puts the Caps Lock key on these little tiny micro-keyboards. NOBODY USES CAPS LOCK. ALL IT DOES IS GET IN THE WAY. And that goes double when it's on an already-cramped keyboard, the same size as and immediately adjacent to one of the most common letters in the alphabet.
A colleague of mine binds the caps lock key as the control key in EMACS.







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I'm pretty sure that in my entire computer career I've never once pushed the caps lock key down for any other reason than by accident... 

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Capslock to the left of the A? Always remapped to CTRL, as low in the software stack as I can manage it. (Chases kids off his lawn)
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