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Escape key, siri button, densed keyboard keys, and unreasonably huge trackpad are the things that made me switch. I am in a meeting or listen to a youtube video
by yani 8y ago
Escape key, siri button, densed keyboard keys, and unreasonably huge trackpad are the things that made me switch.
I am in a meeting or listen to a youtube video... I press backspace ... Oh my bad I pressed siri button - everything goes silent for 30 seconds.
I disabled siri button... a few weeks later apple released an update and siri is back ... just before my important call. My anxienty level is to the roof.
- oellegaard 8y agoHow about you just disable Siri like everyone else? :-) I work with my macbook 12+ hours a day and this never, ever, happened to me.
- yani 8y agoYes, read the last sentence of my comment. Updates might re enable it. If your battery runs out, the same happens.
- jonhendry18 8y agoDid you remove the Siri button from the touch bar, or disable Siri altogether? Maybe try doing both.
- tedmiston 8y agoI removed it once. I may be mistaken here, but if I recall, removing it slightly shifted the layout of the other keys throwing off my muscle memory for the f keys. I'm interested in a solution. I probably hit that key unintentionally 10 times a day.
- jonhendry18 8y agoPerhaps you could replace the Siri button with a similar sized button if one is available, in order to keep the spacing. (I don't have a touchbar Macbook, so I don't really know what's available.)
- brazzledazzle 8y agoCheck out this post about customizing the touchbar that was on HN a little while ago: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/ http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
- zeitg3ist 8y agoI've removed the Siri button from the touchbar the day I got my MacBook, more than a year ago, and it never appeared again. Might be a problem on your system? Usually resetting the NVRAM/PRAM solves this kind of problems, but it's basically black magic.
- bengale 8y agoIf you don't use capslock you can set the keyboard to map that to escape.
- PascLeRasc 8y agoI think that's the de facto control key on Macbooks since they aren't in the bottom left corner. It'd be cool if we could configure a single caps lock keypress to Esc and holding it down to Control.
- brazzledazzle 8y agoI use mine for escape and hadn’t considered using it for control. Is it more comfortable?
- PascLeRasc 8y agoSince I'm just using it for ctrl+c in a terminal, it's much more comfortable.
- copperx 8y agoIt's indispensable because OS X has Emacs bindings in all standard controls. Control A, E, K, P, N, C, D. These keybindings are one of the only reasons I have stayed with OS X. I'm surprised that others use Cmd-arrow combinations instead.
- raihansaputra 8y agoThat is possible using Karabiner/Karabiner-Elements. I currently have Caps Lock mapped to Escape and Hyper (for vi like arrows)
- copperx 8y agoAnyone sane has already remapped it to control.