Linux 7.0 adding support for new keys on upcoming laptops for expanded AI agent interactions

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Internal-Cellist-920@reddit

Yeah, right after the standardized stop CD, eject CD, and "coffee" keys. Not even joking. All the better to standardize ways to remap 'em.

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odosaur@reddit

Is this the kind of thing you need so the copilot key stops being Ctrl shift F24 kind of thing? So it can be removed to just be super or Ctrl?

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torsten_dev@reddit

Nope.

USB-HID huttrr119 seems to have been approved.

Requester: Jingyuan Liang
Company: Google LLC
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Current Status: In Review
Priority: Normal
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Required Voter: Microsoft
Required Voter: Logitech
Required Voter: Apple
Voting Result: Approved (6-0)

So at leaat google, Microsoft, Apple and Logitech think this is a good idea.

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flying-sheep@reddit

Of course it is a good idea to support hardware that people have and use.

Linux maintainers don't control what stupid ideas laptop manufacturers have, they just deal with them.

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torsten_dev@reddit

It's potential future hardware. I hope the products die in thwir market research focus groups, but probably not.

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enchufadoo@reddit

Holy fuck, computer keyboards are about to have ~~Netflix~~ Copilot, ~~Hulu~~ Gemini, and ~~Prime~~ Claude keys.

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ang-p@reddit

Extremely proud to have not once purchased anything with a "Netflix" button.

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D0nkeyHS@reddit

I'm extremely proud to not care about whether or not I have something with a "Netflix" button.

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ang-p@reddit

with a

Turns out it is worse than that - 3 keys have been proposed...

Play the extras / behind the scenes / directors commentary on the currently paying movie Play a movie suggestion based on the currently playing movie Suggest a movie based on my history

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

I wish more movies on streaming platforms had behind the scenes in extras. Especially ones that are exclusive to the platform.

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ang-p@reddit

Especially ones that are exclusive to the platform.

Heck, why not go one step further and make it exclusive to the button - if you didn't press the branded button, the content is impossible to view...

Netflix - I'm patenting that idea - if you want to use it, I want cash upfront....

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D0nkeyHS@reddit

That has no bearing on my last comment nor your last comment, but sure, do this side picking thing and imagine I said something I didn't because I'm on that side 🙄

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RoddyUsher@reddit

Haven't bought a TV in the last 10 years?

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Sjoerd93@reddit

I literally haven’t, honestly don’t think it’s worth the upgrade. Especially now they no longer sell tvs without ” smart” functionality.

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RebTexas@reddit

Same, I'm not paying for w product that includes a permanent advertisement.

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Imaginary-Nail-9893@reddit

I personally love it. Reprogrammable keys

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ang-p@reddit

AL Action on Selection could be mapped to F1 since a whole shit-ton of users issues could be simply solved by pressing that goddamn key before posting for help...

Some of them really do need AI to open the help page....

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Natural_Night9957@reddit

It's too late guys. They've already won, they have the kernel in their hands and are rewriting it with Rust.

Time to look seriously at the GNU/Hurd.

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I don't think anyone's seriously going to attempt to rewrite the kernel in rest. Mostly because that would be an insanely large project for little benefit. There's a difference between rewriting individual subsystems that aren't even part of the kernel like core utilities, and trying to rewrite parts of the kernel itself.

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Sjoerd93@reddit

lol what does rust have to do with this particular thread?

Apart from the fact that Rust is a good idea anyway.

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Natural_Night9957@reddit

Rust is a good idea appreciated by some really bad people.

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TimChr78@reddit

If new keyboards are getting new keys Linux need to support them, even if the keys themselves are a bad idea.

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naturist_rune@reddit

Ew, those will get pried out and soldered over to be useless. Last thing I want to do is fat-finger a robot awake to tell me how to do my job incorrectly.

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

What robot? If there isn't one already installed on your system, it's not gonna do anything.

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VexingRaven@reddit

Then don't install and configure one?

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caligari87@reddit

You think the button controls the AI?

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naturist_rune@reddit

Not at all, it's keyboard equivalent of saying "hey siri" to someone's iphone if they don't have voice commands turned off.

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caligari87@reddit

So why would it do anything if you don't have an agent installed? Why boondoggle your hardware instead of just mapping the key to something else in software and putting a sticker on it?

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Jack_Lantern2000@reddit

Anyone else just f**king sick and tired of “news” like this? What crap.

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

I like seeing all these updates.

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sylvester_0@reddit

The question is: which keys are they going to remove or further shrink to add these silly keys?

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odsquad64@reddit

look what they took from us

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

I wanted those power and sleep buttons until I realized that I would totally accidentally hit them by mistake.

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sylvester_0@reddit

Nooope. Those "power" and "sleep" keys do not belong there!

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Ok-Winner-6589@reddit

You can make them bigger or moddify other Keys.

Spanish Keys have a Ñ and are still QWERTY. They just have a different layout for Keys like :;'"*@# and all these

But they are probably gona sell bigger keyboards

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Huge_Item3686@reddit

I'd remove spacebar, Ctrl and enter, just for lulz

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DrShocker@reddit

Why so we need any keys, so long as there is a microphone?

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ConsistentCat4353@reddit

Unfortunately it seems that this is a future. Voice-typing using AI while your "keyboard" consists of only couple of AI-related keys.

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shponglespore@reddit

Backspace. Who needs it when you can just have AI correct everything for you? /s

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sylvester_0@reddit

Only the weak make mistakes and need Backspace.

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Booty_Bumping@reddit

What exactly is the USB Implementers Forum smoking?

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Farados55@reddit

I want a button that auto prompts: “do it again but better”

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IkBenAnders@reddit

You mean a macro that presses up arrow, take you to the start of the line and adds Sudo?

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pdxbuckets@reddit

Alt-s in Fish

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Farados55@reddit

You’re hired. You start as CEO tomorrow.

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Cats7204@reddit

A whip button that plays a whipping sound and prompts "FASTER!" "WORK FASTER!" "WORK HARDER!" "FASTER!!"

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Ugly_Slut-Wannabe@reddit

"WORK IT HARDER"

"MAKE IT BETTER"

"DO IT FASTER"

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Hot-Employ-3399@reddit

In coding with qwen I say "add debug prints". My heart melts a little as it is able to do that and use print for debugging just like I do and it helps a lot as without prints it can't guess what happens.

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crazedizzled@reddit

Learn how to use a debugger, your life will be so much easier

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Hot-Employ-3399@reddit

You can pry print from my cold dead hands!

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tdammers@reddit

Learn to write properly structured code and good automated tests, you won't need a debugger 99.999% of the time anymore.

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Bl0CKDragon@reddit

Make no mistakes

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sylvester_0@reddit

Tell me your plan before doing anything

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tdammers@reddit

Isn't that what planning mode in Claude is?

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MarkSuckerZerg@reddit

This but we should make it like caps lock where I can leave the mistakes permanently turned off

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SharkBuildsBro@reddit

I can finally bind Neuro sama to a key on my keyboard

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RoomyRoots@reddit

That is great. More keys to use on Emacs!

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dddurd@reddit

but what would be the name. we already have ctrl, meta, super and hyper.

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RoomyRoots@reddit

Mega, Giga, Peta, Alpha, Larry, Omega, Extra

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natermer@reddit

More potential modifiers means more better.

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Ok-Winner-6589@reddit

And?

My keyboard has Keys to increase the volumen but it's Up to the DE/WM to Support the functionallity. The kernel just have to be able to detect the input, anything else is done by the Desktop. And GNOME and KDE aren't probably gona add Copilot integration

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