Personally I press Ctrl
Usually space
Same here. Whenever I need to wake up my PC I send it on a suborbital spaceflight. The forces of launch and reentry move the mouse a lot and it wakes up once I recover it from the ocean.
I move the mouse.
Team mouse wiggle!
ESC
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far. Always Escape!
Space
The final frontier
I pick up the mouse, hold it to my mouth and say, "Computer…?”
Not there yet, doc :p
What does it say back?
Nothing yet :-)
I believe it’s another reference being made here
Space key. That way it won’t accidentally enter an actual letter or command that could be passed to the current active application.
That’s not really much of a problem anymore these days (serious issue in WinXP era), but it’s still the safe key, so I use it.
Edit: I totally botched this. I meant Shift key. Derp.
I like ctrl as well.
Less alarming and obtrusive. To the computer? For me?
I prefer left Ctrl, but will press the right ctrl if I’m feeling wild that day.
This is a great question.
I love them question.
I’m a left CTRL grill. It doesn’t press things that might input text or navigate. It’s a humble modification-key.
Shift because it can’t trigger an action on its own.
<Tinfoil hat>
Using space, enter, control, or alt can trigger functions in windows if another key is stuck for a weird reason.
</Tinfoil hat>Me too for same reason. Also I am shifting the computer out of being asleep (ok I made that up)
this is the way. or Ctrl.
Ctrl can run functions which it why it is in the list.
what list? ctrl is a modifier key
The list in my comment.
im not sifting through your comments to find this “list”. ctrl is a modifier key, doesn’t return anything and i’ve been using it for over a decade just fine.
O.o
Look at the top level comment for the list.
Idk man, I dont see a list either
Edit: ah, looks like boost is trying but failing to display the “HTML” you wrote lmao
are you not understanding that i don’t care about your list? im good.
A nice open palm slap on the middle of the keyboard does the trick for me
The “cat” method.
😹
Arrow keys
I press the down arrow key!
Left for me
Spacebar
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Space - The Final Frontier
These are the voyages…
Mouse wiggles
That’s just uncivilised.
It’s optimal
Shift.
They’re big enough I don’t have to aim. They’re located on both edges (at least on TKL). They do nothing on their own.
Yeah I really expected this to be the vast majority of answers, it just makes the most sense. Ctrl is too small and space will type a space into my password box that I’ll have to delete before I can unlock my screen
