Image transcription: a meme that reads"I wish windows had a universal hotkey to open linkedin on my default browser ctrl + shift + alt + win + L:" below is an image of Mercy from Overwatch holding her hand out in a gesture that suggests offering aid. End transcription.

    • Unmarketable PlushieOP
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      681 year ago

      iirc Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win is an alias for the Office key found on some Surface Pro computers, which can be used to open LinkedIn with Office + L

      • @[email protected]
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        561 year ago

        Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

          • @[email protected]
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            181 year ago

            My personal machines are all on linux already. But unfortunately my work laptop isn’t and won’t be unless I find a different job.

          • Superb
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            71 year ago

            Dual boot? Disgusting. Windows doesn’t get the privilege of bare metal in my house. It must relegated to a virtual machine

            • Programmer Belch
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              31 year ago

              That’s good but some people use windows for rootkitsgames that need bare metal or a more difficult vm setup

              • Superb
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                41 year ago

                VM gaming was a lot easier to setup than I expected. Anything is possible with the Arch Wiki! Some anticheats will block you though, so super competitive games like Counterstrike or Apex Legends are out

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Ah, so that’s my ctrl+alt+shift+win opens the office app. I discovered that a couple of years ago and I couldn’t find it documented anywhere.

    • voxel
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      131 year ago

      it’s for a special ma keyboard with shortcuts for ms apps.
      somw keyboards have an Office key.

  • @mvirts
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    441 year ago

    It’s a key sequence by default: Win, l, i, n, k, e, d, i, n, Enter

  • @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    There’s more:

    • T: Teams
    • Y: Yammer (whatever that is)
    • O: Outlook
    • P: PowerPoint
    • D: OneDrive
    • L: LinkedIn
    • W: Word
    • X: Excel
    • N: OneNote
    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      Yammer (now/soon called viva engage) is a weird social media service for internal usage inside a company.

      I have no idea why it exists, but it does.

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    361 year ago

    I’m not going to install Windows just to try this

  • Smorty [she/her]
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    271 year ago

    Question though: Does it ACTUALLY pick YOUR default browser, or does it pick their favourite browser?

    • voxel
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      191 year ago

      it actually opens in the default browser

  • Pennomi
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    171 year ago

    My pet peeve is when companies add extra complexity to their products for very little benefit, or like this, actually make it worse. In this case they could have done nothing and the product would have been better for it.

    • @FierySpectre
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      151 year ago

      Well, it’s a ‘feature’ on that one line of laptop. Besides it’s not like shortcuts performance suffer because of this, it’s merely an obscure ‘fun to know’.

  • CEbbinghaus
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    121 year ago

    Wtf (you can do this with auto hotkey)

  • @uis
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    21 year ago

    Rage shortcut. Reminds me about emerge --rage -C .