Try to hit your CAPS Lock button as if it’s a mistake and see what happens. Mine is reading my mind.

The difference between unintentional hit and an intentional one is very slight, but it knows :)

  • 00DEADBEEF@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership

  • aconijus@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well, it’s not reading my mind properly unfortunately… Any way to turn this off and make it behave just like a normal button?

  • elephantnut@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I install karabiner just to get rid of this delay. The delay just misses the caps lock press for me.

  • gabo2007@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My Caps Lock is keybound to ESC, which is maybe a holdover from my touchbar days but now that I’m used to it I love it.

  • mflboys@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yeah it’s a slight delay before it activates. Been on MacBooks since I got my first one in 2010.

    It’s one of those things like faceid where it just works without you ever having to think about it.

      • grandpa2390@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        there’s a setting so that you can have to “long press” caps lock before it activates. Sometimes, the computer comes with it on by default.

        I wonder if that’s what OP is talking about.

    • Pack-n-Label@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever had that experience with Face ID haha, but I get the sentiment. Never seems to work reliably for me.

      Touch ID, other the other hand, is just chefs kiss.

      • mellonsticker@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Face ID fails in bed…

        Wish I have Touch ID for those moments… or any moments of me not looking at the phone directly

        • MattARC@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          2 factors at play:

          1. How much of your face is being obscured by your pillow (if you’re lying on your side)

          2. Angle of phone-to-face. If the angle is too steep, Face ID will fail to detect.

  • asombrated-@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yes it is like that by default. I’ve found it annoying that sometimes I press Caps Lock and it doesnt turn on, so I’ve found an app called CapsLockNoDelay which prevents this from happening. So every time I press Caps Lock soft or hard, it works.

      • ergzay@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Fun fact, caps lock lights on every keyboards is an OS thing, even off-brand plug in USB keyboards on Windows computers. The OS (or rather the keyboard driver somewhere) tells the keyboard to turn on the light.

    • cavahoos@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Holy shit thank you for this. The caps lock delay has been the one thing that has continually pissed me off as a lifelong Windows user who switched to Mac 3 years ago.

      I have developed the terrible habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key when I’m trying to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. Definitely not efficient but I can be bothered to undo a habit that I’ve had for over a decade. This is going to save me so much frustration

  • berrymetal@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I use caps lock to switch my keyboard between Arabic and English, this little delay helps me differentiate between switching languages and actually turning on caps lock

  • nemesit@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    in multiple decades of using computers I have never ever had a need for caps lock, i probably cared most about that useless button in my vim/emacs years where it got remapped to esc until this day

  • 77ilham77@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yep, the key has a delay (and AFAIK it’s software delay, i.e. there’s a script that lets you turn off the delay).