[yani]

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.

[bengale]

If you don't use capslock you can set the keyboard to map that to escape.

[PascLeRasc]

I 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.

[raihansaputra]

That is possible using Karabiner/Karabiner-Elements. I currently have Caps Lock mapped to Escape and Hyper (for vi like arrows)

[brazzledazzle]

I use mine for escape and hadn’t considered using it for control. Is it more comfortable?

[copperx]

It'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.

[PascLeRasc]

Since I'm just using it for ctrl+c in a terminal, it's much more comfortable.

[copperx]

Anyone sane has already remapped it to control.

[oellegaard]

How 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]

Yes, read the last sentence of my comment. Updates might re enable it. If your battery runs out, the same happens.

[zeitg3ist]

I'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.

[jonhendry18]

Did you remove the Siri button from the touch bar, or disable Siri altogether? Maybe try doing both.

[tedmiston]

I 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.

[brazzledazzle]

Check out this post about customizing the touchbar that was on HN a little while ago: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/

[jonhendry18]

Perhaps 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.)