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by JacobSeated 920 days ago
Consider yourself lucky, because often Bloatware is not so innocuous. Very far from it.

It is a heinous intrusion on our devices. Take Lenovo, for instance, with its addition of utterly useless fn hotkey pop-ups that covers the screen when hitting caps lock!

And MacOS is no better, as they actually completely break the caps lock key by adding a maddening delay to it. E.g. You have to press and hold for it to activate.

1 comments

There are no delays with the caps lock key on macOS. What are you talking about?
Ok that's messed up. If i tap it numerous times in succession it stops toggling, every now and then briefly toggling on. Holding it down at any point in the many-tap sequence activates it as you expect in the first place.
There is a delay, I had to install this software to fix it: https://github.com/gkpln3/CapsLockNoDelay
I genuinely don't see any perceivable delay on a Macbook without any third party keyboard customization software installed. Typing caps lock and the letter "a" in quick succession results in an "A" for me.
I took mine to the Apple Store - I genuinely thought the keyboard was broken, never had this on any other computer.