Personally I press Ctrl
Numlock. Let’s me know if the hardware is locked up, powered off, or just slow to wake.
Usually space
I spam escape but I usally disable sleep on all my machines and use hibernation instead. Too many issues with sleep. Randomly wakes up, USB devices aren’t recognized, a monitor stays black…
I wouldn’t hibernate on an m2ssd qlc degradation killed my samsung 980 pro. it got corrupt sectors so bad that the samsung magician software just gives up after scanning
That sucks but as another said that seemed to have been a firmware bug. I have hibernated thousands of times with 32GB RAM and had no SSD die on me yet.
Am I the only one that just kind throws my hand on the keyboard and what happens happens?
Shift, Escape and mouse wiggle, in that order.
I’m so surprised people have specific buttons? Is there a reason? I just mash my whole hand at the keyboard
Idk habbit I guess. IT just feels wrong pressing anything else.
I just stare at it loathfully until it wakes up out of shame.
(Or maybe it’s my enraged vibrations transferring to the mouse through the table and causing it to move, same difference.)
space, ctrl, or sometimes the entire numpad at once. it’s just one big button :P
Been using spacebar but what I would like to do is set up a midi drum pad as an input device so I can wake my computer up by smacking it with a stick.
I’ve always used Ctrl for that. I had my computer for 2 years before I discovered that Ctrl is the “wake from sleep” key, and no other keys would work anyway. (it’s a thinkpad)
I don’t. I move the mouse.
I was very very very drunk.
I stomp on my usb foot pedal
Uuu, nice. Always wanted one of those. What do you use yours for?
To wake the computer up from sleep.
I use mine for Star Power in Clone Hero (Guitar Hero-ish game)
Way back in the day I always wanted one to use as my push to talk key for Ventrilo… But these days with noise reduction algorithms, boom mics with cardioid sensitivity spaces, and adjustable activation threshold, I just leave my mic on auto activate.
I should probably find something else to use it for…
Space key. That way it won’t accidentally enter an actual letter or command that could be passed to the current active application.
That’s not really much of a problem anymore these days (serious issue in WinXP era), but it’s still the safe key, so I use it.
Edit: I totally botched this. I meant Shift key. Derp.
Space bar is “accept” in many interfaces. If the screen was off but not locked, and a dialog box was focused, hitting space will submit that in some OS.
Control, on the other hand, won’t.
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