⛧-440729 [sophie raven]grrrrr apparently its pc needed another reboot because today the e key was stuck (even when unplugging the keyboard, seems like the kernel driver just kept on spamming e)
Persephone
Mad Engineering@sophie @mindpersephone This is in fact how it works and I think it's onenod the more pants-on-head stupid aspects of computers. I'll post am explanation with a cw so those of you who already know can skip it.
@sophie @mindpersephone When a human presses a button on the keyboard, this triggers an interrupt, where the cpu is ordered to save its state, drop everything, and process the input right now. The interrupt procedure captures which specific key you pressed, and passes it to the regular program for further processing.
So yeah, it's literally "drop everything, the human pressed the e button. And we must handle this RIGHT NOW!!!"