Mastodawn

The fact that Windows has a fucking keyboard shortcut to open Linkedin is proof that we should all switch to Linux. Don't believe me? ctrl+win+alt+shift+L. Opens your default browser and takes you to Linkedin. Absolutely sociopathic. Shows who Windows is really made for.

Benjamin Sep 23, 2024

@abbistabbii I tried it and was like, "Phew, could you imagine if that was legit?"

But then I looked it up and found it is legit but a different hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L opens mother fking LinkedIn.

Benjamin Sep 23, 2024

@abbistabbii And like I fully expected it to work - they redirect you to Bing search when you're trying to find stuff in your search menu or you enter a typo in the Explorer address bar.

I just thought that was one less thing... oh how I was wrong.

ghorwood↙↙↙Sep 23, 2024

@abbistabbii just tried this on gentoo and it took me to stackoverflow

Ryan The Red 🖥️🚲🍺🏳️‍🌈Sep 23, 2024

@abbistabbii I'm not on LinkedIn, but is it really all that wrong? They're both Microsoft properties. So they made a hotkey. At least they respected your default browser. I'm not seeing a problem.

Alex Sep 23, 2024

@abbistabbii ewwwwwwwwwww but wonder if you could modify this to go to your own page? 🤔🤔🤔

Abbiistabbii Sep 23, 2024

@alex02 I can do that on KDE I think.

Marty Fouts Sep 23, 2024

@alex02 @abbistabbii Yes. It is different on 10 then 11 but you can use a tool to change hot key behavior. Power Toys on 11. https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-change-keyboard-shortcuts-in-windows-11

How to change keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11

Change keyboard shortcuts in Windows if the default ones don't work for you

Tom's Guide

Alex Sep 23, 2024

@MartyFouts @abbistabbii probably can do it programmatically as well. prolly winapi can be used with c++ or c#.

Ambient Sponge Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii I just tried this thinking it must be some sort of prank. Good God. 😡

selje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii
and github, and skype. They ruin every decent app out there. Microsoftize them.
Might as well be google.

ulutoh Sep 24, 2024

Gnome has a fucking keyboard shortcut to open the Gnome bug reporter. We should stop using Gnome.

Plasma has a fucking keyboard shortcut to send bug reports to KDE. We should stop using KDE.

Firefox has a fucking keyboard shortcut to search in Google. We should stop using Firefox.

Chromium and all Chromium-based browsers have a fucking keyboard shortcut to search directly against Google. We should stop using all Chromium browsers.

ulutoh Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii Android and its derivates like LineageOS have a shortcut that calls up Google Assistant. We should stop using Android.

Abbiistabbii Sep 24, 2024

@ulutoh again, at least the Google assistant is useful. LinkedIn isn't.

ulutoh Sep 26, 2024

So it's okay to have something call up an external service if it's "useful".

Nice double standards.

Abbiistabbii Sep 26, 2024

@ulutoh My sibling in sin, Keyboard Shortcuts are meant to be useful. That's why they exist. I know being useful may be foreign concept to you but I cannot think of one use for LinkedIn outside of interacting with the worst types of people in the worst types of ways.

Mister Dave Sep 24, 2024

@ulutoh i mean bug reports are one thing, but you may be on to something with the browsers

Abbiistabbii Sep 24, 2024

@ulutoh sending bug reports to KDE/Gnome with a keyboard, shortcut is useful. You can change the default search engine in Firefox (I have it set to DuckDuckGo). At least with Google you can search things. I can think of absolutely no reason that you would ever need a keyboard Shortcut for fucking LinkedIn.

Bill Zaumen Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii Was this something Microsoft wanted or did some of their software engineers want a short cut to LinkedIn so they could look for another job?

Once heard that an early MIT version of emacs had a command (bound to a keyboard shortcut) that would call the elevator. When working late, you could type this command, shut everything down, and have the elevator ready to go.

Abbiistabbii Sep 24, 2024

@bzdev That is actually really cool and useful. :)

James H Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii I mean, LinkedIn is a Microsoft property. You're surprised the company that tries to install Skype on you by default is trying to push you toward its products?

rastilin Sep 24, 2024

@quanin @abbistabbii

Not surprised, but disappointed. There's a reason people were trying to break Microsoft up something like 20 years ago.

On the scale of things, this is very small, but it's never just the one thing. It's this hotkey, and Skype, and OneDrive, and Office defaulting to OneDrive and auto Windows version updates, and the tracking settings defaulting back to on and, and, and. There's always one more thing.

Leminski Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii I wouldn't call that proof we should switch to Linux. Windows has gone to shit for sure and my hatred of LinkedIn is reaching a decade now, but it's very much the least of the worries of Windows. Actually while I'm here LinkedIn can die in several fires.

Recall on the other hand.

Alien software, human hardware Sep 24, 2024

@abbistabbii this is surely a " haha, made you push buttons! " type of situation. Right?

Right?

Fabian N. T.Sep 26, 2024

@abbistabbii ok, I had to do it…