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!

    • @wjriiOP
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      2130 days ago

      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?

      • @[email protected]
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        2530 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        1730 days ago

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

        • @wjriiOP
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          730 days ago

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

        • @wjriiOP
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          226 days ago

          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.

        • @wjriiOP
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          330 days ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            430 days ago

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

          • flicker
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            330 days 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!

        • @wjriiOP
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          430 days ago

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

      • @CodeGameEat
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        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!

      • JaggedRobotPubes
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        330 days 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.

      • tuckerm
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        230 days ago

        A firmware macro with a 0.1% chance of sending a Slack message (or whatever you use at work) that says “screw it, I’m taking the rest of the day off.”