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Is numlock key actually useful?
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I have literally removed the NumLock keycap from all of my keyboards to make sure I don't accidentally turn it off. Never missed it.
I have also removed the F1 keycap. Never use it.
Lol I also remove the Num Lock key! I find myself accidentally pressing it too much and I just never want to use that function anyway.
Scroll Lock is the one that comes to mind as a safe removal.
However, for me, the real useless AND inconvenient piece of shit I wish I could rebind as I want that space for something better is Caps Lock. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to do.
You should look into Kanata. It lets you remap the whole keyboard, same idea as QMK, except it's running on your computer instead of the keyboard itself.
It can be a bit tricky to set up if you're not used to that sort of thing, but I managed to figure it out so if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Use autohotkey! I have a very simple solution for this, where the caps lock key is mapped either as a backspace key, or it minimizes the current window.
I've set my computer so that holding caps lock lets me type in Greek
Swap caps lock and left control. It's the first thing I do on most of my computers, especially notebooks.
The newer versions of Windows Powertoys from Microsoft makes it easy on Windows.
Been easy on Mac and most Linux distros for years.