alt Hacker NewsI have a "Copilot" button on my new ThinkPad. I have yet to understand what it does that necessitates a dedicated button.
On Linux it does nothing, on Windows it tells me I need an Office 365 plan to use it.
Like... What the hell... They literally placed a paywalled Windows only physical button on my laptop.
What next, an always-on screen for ads next to the trackpad?
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I used https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd with ``` [ids] * [main] f23 = oneshot(control) [control] toggle(control) ``` To turn it back into a ctrl key
Good news: Office 365 has been renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
I'm serious. They dropped the Office branding and their office suite is now called Copilot.
This is good news because it means the Copilot button opens Copilot, which is exactly what you'd expect it to do.
It's equivalent to Win + Shift + F23 so you can map it to some useful action if you have a suitable utility at hand.