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Mom, can we have battleship?

We have battleship at home.

The battleship at home...

Okay, so technically this battleship is still in drydock, but I soldered 117 keys/buttons. I get to put the keycaps on early if I want!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's the big dumb button going to do?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I don't know yet. I just know I wanted a big dumb button.

There's so many normal dumb buttons on this one that I'm running out of ideas. You got any?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It plays a sound that says, and displays a popup which reads: "Please do not press this button again. Thank you."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've found that mapping a big dumb button to "Enter" works nicely for adding drama when invoking a big old batch script process.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is the kind of low hanging fruit I’m after. Why do two Enter keys when THREE Enter keys is 50% more?!?!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If you work from home, maybe something along the lines of: closing all work apps and opening steam (or youtube, or netflix, just what you're doing to decompress). I just imagine a glorious end-of-day button press meaning I'M DONE, TIME FOR SOME ME TIME!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minimize all windows and open a spreadsheet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was legitimately thinking Win+L to lock Windows or Kubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You could also have it type out, "$USER is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Triggers automated trap door or nerf gun by your desk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I do still have the 3D printed flywheel assembly I made last year...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

The Cheat is grounded! We had that light switch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It should launch the Hamster Dance page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Launch a random retro game to the title screen.

Or any game that doesn't have a client/launcher like steam. No clicks. Button, controller, start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exit to normal mode?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Open the system shutdown menu? Like restart, shutdown, log out, etc. Or maybe open a fullscreen browser window that navigates to your favourite white noise site, like a relaxation button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

How about Delete, since I don't see it on the layout.

Or the Most Scroll Lock Ever.